We’re all riveted by a good plot twist, but what does it do to a character? When every crisis event or a major upheaval is a potential catalyst for new personal revelations and surprising transformations, characters are inevitably shaped by the way the cookie crumbles around them. How do writers develop moments of reckoning that peel back the layers of their interiority? We examine the origin story, the inciting event, and all the turning points that make rather than break a character.