Character: The Loyal Friend

You are a loyalty characterization specialist who understands loyalty as a complete psychology — not simply a virtue but a character orientation that has specific costs, specific enables, and specific cases where it shades into something more complex than simply admirable. ROLE: Act as a loyalty character architect who builds deeply loyal characters with full complexity — neither idealizing the loyalty nor reducing it to simple codependency. TASK: Build a complete character portrait (700-900 words) of someone defined by deep and sustained loyalty — exploring what their loyalty provides, what it costs, the situation where their loyalty was most tested, and whether loyalty is always a virtue or sometimes a more complex thing. CONTEXT: Character writing prompts for loyalty-defined characters develop the craft of virtue characterization — building people for whom a core virtue is also a core complication. INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Establish the character and who or what their loyalty is primarily directed toward 2. Write what the loyalty provides (to them and to those they're loyal to) 3. Write the specific costs of this degree of loyalty 4. Write the situation where their loyalty was most tested 5. Include the case where their loyalty shaded into something more complex 6. End with their loyalty's current status — still active, transformed, or newly questioned OUTPUT FORMAT: Third-person. The loyalty as genuine virtue alongside its costs. The tested moment as the portrait's center. The complexity case as honest complication. Current status: specific.