Your Favorite Character

Who is your favorite character that you created. Describe him/her and tell why you like them so much.

Mine is girl named Sennal. She's from a fantasy story I'm in the process of writing.

Through all my characters she is the smartest and is the only one who can use magic. She fits most of the stereotypes of an elf: extremely prideful and thinks her race is better than any other and won't eat meat and lives for a long time, ect. She holds other races in disdain and even looks down on older elves she considers her intellectual inferiors.

Despite her infinite knowledge she has little experience in the real world and doesn't work well under stress. But her magic is as big as her ego so she's a valuable asset to my protagonist.

Over time she grows more humble ( but also grows a sarcastic streak) but is generally gentler and more understanding to others. The fact that no one treats her seriously when they first meet is a factor in this!

I like her because she was the first character I created when I first started writing. I made her into a rather unlikable character at first, but I put so much of myself in her that she mellowed out over time. She's ambitious and knowledge/power-hungry but tries to be helpful and learns to be trustworthy, loyal and is always hardworking. That's why I like her.

Your turn.

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I have to say my favorite is the character I'm currently developing. Her name is Annunziata Morita, her parent's were Italian mobsters and she was adopted by a Japanese-American monk. She's a retro-cognitive psychic and she works for the government.
She's pretty much married to her job and I can't honestly see her character being anything other than Asexual. She doesnt' connect well with others, but she's amazing at her job.
She's really snarky, so she's fun to write.

This is my first post. My favourite character is one that I've had for roughly five years, and who I've been improving as time has gone on.

His name is Jon Thomas [rare as regular names seem to be in teenage writing ]. He's currently 23 years old, but he was in his late teens when I first created him - he's been aging as the years have gone on, which provides me with interesting changes every time I use him, as I have to remember that he's gone through years of things between now and when he was created, and that he'd have matured through it.

Jon Thomas was born a cradle Catholic, but rejected all religious and spiritual pursuits at the age of thirteen. When going through school, he was a very average student - D's, C's and B's. When in year ten [sixteen], he dropped out of high school to pursue an engineering apprenticeship. He completed his apprenticeship and became qualified, but had a very small work ethic - he couldn't handle being a fully qualified engineer, as he was simply too lazy to keep up with his work load. He abandoned his career and began to work at Starbucks at the age of nineteen. Four years later, he's manager of that particular Starbucks store.

He lives in an average apartment with average furniture and two cats, brother and sister. His apartment is one-bedroom, with the kitchen, dining room and living room joining onto each other. His balcony looks out over Sydney, a city in Australia, facing away from the ocean. He isn't rich, but he isn't poor - he has no extremes in his living environment: a 30-inch 'fat' television, a leather couch that he inherited from his parents when he moved out of home, a pine dining table, et cetera.

Jon has a bit of a ritual - he has two bottles of beer with dinner every Friday night and a glass of cheap wine with dinner every Monday and Wednesday night. Despite living alone and thus having drinking rituals alone, he's a reasonably social person - he's decent at making new friends, and he's a genuinely open person. He always dresses well, so he comes across as a well-respected member of society, even if he's just the guy who runs the coffee shop. He's very near to asexuality, and so he has some struggles coping with the modern idea of dating. He has a good sense of humour and generally doesn't speak up when it isn't a good idea to keep silent.

He's not extreme in any respect - everything about him is average, unremarkable. That's one of the reasons that I love him, though - I roleplay with him quite a lot, and in a roleplay full of dramatic, extreme characters, he's a little bit of regularity to balance things out.

My favorite character would be the make believe daughter of director Tim Burton.

Her name is Katrina Alice Burton and she is twenty three years old, she lives in her apartment in LA, which she shares with her basset hound, Fred. She works as a special effects artist and make up artist on films, her latest film she worked on was a short film shot by Shane Valdés, which used some famous faces from the music industry. She did the make up and effects for the film, including making a half chopped up corpse that was seen in a fridge and a decapitated foot.

Even though she can work with such grotesq and gothic subject matters, Katrina is a very happy and bubbly person, with a fashion sense that only the daughter of Tim Burton could pull off.

She was brought up in a slightly religious household but never really took to the religion aspect of life, instead trying to find faith in what science has proven. If asked she says she is 'athiest but with some catholic views.'

Even though you could call her rich, her apartment looks more like something you would see if you walked in to a junk shop at the back of an alley. Piles of old books are stacked up around her house, old fashioned toys are on shelves all around her lounge room, mismatched furniture and a kitchen table with three and a half legs (To keep it straight she has stacked more books under the broken leg) are all brought to a shocking conclusion when you walk in to the bedroom and find a huge bed made to look like a coffin.

Her favorite past times are doing Sodoku, reading and collecting random nick nacks to put around her house some more. A fine artist like her father, Katrina is always carrying a sketch book around with her in case she sees something she wants to sketch (her favorite sketch she has ever done was of the Panic! At The Disco drummer spinning a drum stick.) Katrina is a very huge fan of music and listens to a wide range of genres including musicals and hard rock, including a secret love of Aqua. She loves tv shows such as Bones, Come Dine With Me, Most Haunted, Paranormal State, Ghost Hunters and any animal shows on Animal Planet. Her favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe followed closely by Anne Rice, though her favorite book at the moment would have to be Les Miserables.

Katrina is planning to create her own gothic clothing line for young adults and teenagers, including dresses, pants, corsests and coats. She is also in the middle of writing her own script for a indie movie about a female vampire who falls in love with an elf, which is set in a world on one of the moons of Saturn.

I don't know why I love Katrina as much as I do, she just appeals to me and I love using her in role plays or chat plays. Out of all my characters, Katrina is the one you can rely on to bring drama and a little bit of fake blood in to a setting.

My favourite character I created so far is Jasmyn. I can, strangely enough, relate to her. The story was her mother got remarried, which meant uprooting her entire life to go live with this man and his son. Although the change is difficult, and she goes through some real difficulties with school, friends and her new home life she remains strong. Battling on regardless.

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H.L., because she is extremely witty, caring and compassionate towards all.
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Hm, my favorite character has to be Vanesha.

While I'm still working out the particulars of his race, he can be thought of in the meantime as a dark elf. The second son of a noble family that ruled their people's domain under allegiance to the Highland king, Vanesha spent his early years with little else to do but learn magic and elemental warfare, skills that serve him unexpectedly well when he finds himself stranded in post-apocalyptic Ireland with a Catholic priest, a runaway Highland princess, and her father's lover.

I think I'm so fond of Vanesha because over the years, I've poured so much of myself into him, the good and the bad. He's the literary incarnation of who I used to be, who I am and the person I hope to be someday.

He changes so much over the course of the story - from a drug addict, an assassin, a revolutionary, and a dealer in forbidden magic, to the noble and benevolent ruler of the land he once declared war upon...not to mention a loving husband and father, and a devoted friend.

Besides, I've given him a really cool leather outfit and awesome boots to wear, so he's very cute! I wanted to give him a rather non-traditional weapon (for elves at least), so he carries two Desert Eagles (not that you often need them when you can draw fire from the air and throw it at people). I think it's his snarky, sarcastic sense of humor that I like the most though...also his dogged perseverance, his strength of character, and the troubled but loving heart underneath it all.

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I love both the main characters of my book Summer for Change, Layla and Sean, who are both just down to earth, country people. They are definitely a reflection of myself and those I've grown up around.
But my recent favorite is actually one I hated when I first created him. He belongs to a story that's been in the making for all of like 9 years, though I completely forgot about it and didn't start writing it down until 4/5 years ago. Scott Stephens is an alcoholic and becomes an abusive husband after he loses his job. But his wife had become a Christian when their daughter was born and does not give up on him. It's long and complex, and God has definitely been teaching me a lot through writing it. But as I've created more and more of Scott's background and come to understand him fully, I really love his character, so real and full of flaws. He has so many insecurities, some of which he and I have in common. And though he makes poor choices, I still feel for him. But he's on the road to recovery, if I can ever finish their story.

Mine would have to be a character I call Alphonse Eberhart. He was adopted by a Russian scientist during the Russian Revolution. As a young boy, he was a test subject. A guinea pig, if that's a better term. He would be used to various fight in wars, as his adoptive father made him have the body of a 19 year old. He also made Alphonse immortal. During the 2nd World War, he made a bad descision by trying to free Jewish people from a small concentration camp, and he would be kept in a dungeon in Poland for 4 or 5 years.
That's all I have for his back story, but I think it's okay.