Characters and POV

The Characters view is a workspace for the people in your story — their point of view, their profiles, and the scenes they appear in. Everything you tag here feeds the Scene Board, so you can see your cast across the whole manuscript.

Evolving during the alpha

The Characters workspace and point-of-view tools are actively being developed. The ideas here are stable; specific controls may change between alpha builds.

The Characters workspace

Open Characters from the editor’s view switcher to see your cast in one place. From here you can add a new character, open a character’s profile, and see how each one moves through the manuscript. Each character carries its own color and status, shared everywhere it appears.

Point of view

Mark the point-of-view character for a scene and MUSE can show POV across your manuscript — useful for checking the balance of a multi-POV novel or making sure a chapter doesn’t drift between heads. POV is tracked as scene metadata, so you can filter and group by it on the Scene Board and in the Outliner.

Character profiles

A character can be linked to a profile document in your binder — a character bible holding appearance, voice, history, and anything else you keep. When a character has a profile, MUSE surfaces a banner so you can jump straight to it; when one doesn’t yet, it prompts you to create one. Start from a built-in template like Character Profile or Deep Character Profile (see Templates & guidance).

Scene participation

For any scene you can record which characters appear in it, and optionally the role each one plays. That participation drives the Characters lens on the Scene Board, so you can answer questions like “which scenes is this character actually in?” or “where do these two finally meet?” at a glance.