# Preset personas

> Offer players a ready-made role to play opposite your character.

Source: https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/preset-personas
Language: en

Most characters define a relationship with the player — "you are old friends who have not seen each other in years". A **preset persona** goes further: it hands the player a whole role to step into, so they can start a specific story in one tap instead of inventing a background first.

They live on the **Character Description** tab, folded behind **Multiple player roles · advanced**.

## What a preset holds \[#what-a-preset-holds]

| Field                              | Limit                  | Notes                                                                                                        |
| ---------------------------------- | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Name**                           | 1–100 characters       | What the player picks from the list, e.g. "The new transfer student"                                         |
| **Who the player is**              | Up to 2,000 characters | Background, personality, what they want                                                                      |
| **Relationship with this persona** | Up to 2,000 characters | Overrides **Relationship with Player** for anyone using this role. Leave it blank to inherit the general one |
| **Use as character default**       | —                      | One preset can carry this flag                                                                               |

You can ship up to **5** presets per character. Add them with **Add persona**.

## How a player gets one \[#how-a-player-gets-one]

A player adopts a preset from the character page or the persona dropdown in a chat. Adopting it **copies** the preset into their own personas — it does not link to yours.

That copy is the point. Edit a preset later and you will not silently rewrite a story someone already started with it; delete one and their copy keeps working, it only loses its source.

## Which persona a new chat starts with \[#which-persona-a-new-chat-starts-with]

| Situation                                                              | What is used                                    |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| The player has set a personal default persona                          | Their default                                   |
| No personal default, and you flagged a preset as the character default | Your character default                          |
| Neither                                                                | No persona                                      |
| Group chat                                                             | Never auto-applies a single character's default |

Existing chats keep whatever they were started with, including no persona at all. The persona dropdown labels where each option came from — **Creator preset**, **Character default**, **My default** — and keeps showing the source after adoption.

## Writing them \[#writing-them]

* Make each preset a **different story**, not a different name. "The new transfer student", "her estranged brother" and "the detective assigned to her case" open three characters; three variations on "a friend" open one.
* Fill the per-persona relationship whenever the role changes the dynamic. That is the field that makes a preset feel authored rather than cosmetic.
* Keep the general **Relationship with Player** usable on its own. Presets are optional, and plenty of players will never open the list.
* Presets are written from the player's side. Second person reads best: "You transferred in three weeks ago and still eat lunch alone."

> Preset personas are a creator feature. Players can also write their own
> personas from scratch and carry them between characters — see
> [personas](https://reverie.im/en/docs/chatting/personas).

## Related \[#related]

* [Writing a character](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/writing-tips)
* [Advanced settings](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/advanced-settings)
* [Personas](https://reverie.im/en/docs/chatting/personas)
* [Scenarios](https://reverie.im/en/docs/chatting/scenarios)
* [Character quick start](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/quick-start)