Favourite characters from your stories

[Brutal_One]

For writers what is your favourite character from either series you have written or amongst the numerous single stories. The rules are one single character so I know some writers have great series between two characters but pick just one of those.

The second part is what of your strengths, weaknesses, traits, foibles etc are in that character as you write them?

Final part do you like that character and why or the converse why not?

Brutal One

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

For writers what is your favourite character from either series you have written or amongst the numerous single stories. The rules are one single character so I know some writers have great series between two characters but pick just one of those.

The second part is what of your strengths, weaknesses, traits, foibles etc are in that character as you write them?

Final part do you like that character and why or the converse why not?

Brutal One

This sounds like a test question or homework assignment.

 

[ElectricBlue]

The Floating World - the Madelyn Chapters. Madelyn, because she's narcissistic, glamorous, intelligent - and a few of my trusted readers said, "Ooo, I don't like Madelyn, she's a bit nasty, she's not very nice." When a writer pulls that off with folk who know his work quite well, yes!

The background to that series is here (with a link to the first part):

https://www.literotica.com/beta/s/the-floating-world-madelyn-redux

I then re-purposed the original inspiration for Madelyn in The Hyacinth House, where she becomes Madeleine, and the story goes meta:

https://www.literotica.com/beta/s/the-hyacinth-house-pt-01

Am I in the character(s)? No. But my fantasies are.

 

[AlinaX]

Half my stories feature Ali[na] X- as the main character, and she's very much my fantasy self. Otherwise I guess my favourite character has to be Sam from Ship's Whore.

 

[MelissaBaby]

It’s constantly changing, based on what I am writing at the time.

Sometimes a minor character will have a deep background which endears them to me beyond the weight of their role in the stories (grandmother in My Fall and Rise, Stanley Pierce in Mary and Alvin)

Some characters are just more fun to write. Bonita, in Mary and Alvin, is definitely the most fun to write.

 

[gunhilltrain]

This sounds like a test question or homework assignment.

Yes, but has given us a great excuse for some shameless self-promotion.

I like Holly Sykes, the lonely but kinky Manhattan divorcée who seduces her young car service driver. It's also amusing how she gets her friend Tiffany Harris into the same game.

https://www.literotica.com/s/mrs-sykess-last-brooklyn-exit

https://www.literotica.com/s/queen-of-diamonds-1

https://www.literotica.com/s/protected-by-lentz-trucking

https://www.literotica.com/s/holly-s-ferry-terminal-escapade

I like her because she's witty and smart as well as being a bit weird, and she is very kind and affectionate when not playing at being a haughty bitch. (Unlike Mrs. Robinson, that aspect of her is completely an act.) She's very sexy too and has great taste in clothes.

She is also the mom of a thirteen-year-old daughter who lives with her aunt (Holly's sister) in Connecticut.

 

[yowser]

Intriguing question.

You are asking God who is his favorite human out of all creation? All that work and he has to pick one?

If it was a desert isle I was stuck on, I would prefer to have Sophia Eastern next to me (from An Infernal Folio, with spin-off stories Infernal Fornications [although told from her lover/adversary's POV] and Bound to Know.)

She's smart (but not quite smart enough to handle her desires and challenges), perceptive, erudite. We'd find plenty to talk about.

 

[Voboy]

Shannon Boyle; I write her better than I write anyone else. She's a teacher with weak sexual decisionmaking skills, a trillion flaws, a somewhat goofy demeanor, and excellent taste in music (meaning, MY taste in music).

Runner-up is Pixy Pfeiffer, but I just can't get into the constant grind of SF.

 

[jehoram]

OK, I'll bite.

I'll choose Liz from "A Very Private Beach" She's smart, sexually curious, loving, and very real in that she doesn't always orgasm when she fucks, and she has periods that she takes in stride. Even though it's the other MC that does most of the emotional growing, it's Liz that helps that along in her own quest to fit emotional commitment in with sex and exhibitionism and voyeurism, all of which she's exploring.

And she rides a motorcycle and knows karate. So she's no shrinking violet.

 

[Omenainen]

All of mine are me so I don’t really know. I think Billy from “The Other Katie” is the archetype of what I’m writing. It’s also my purest story in a way that I wrote it to myself before ever considering publishing it here, so it’s definitely not affected by ideas of ratings or such.

I had the most fun writing Deborah in “Love Thy Neighbor”, but she’s not my favorite.

 

[KeithD]

Good questions and a good exercise for writers to go through. A bit into thinking about it, though, I've decided I don't want to pick favorites. That's just me, though.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Good questions and a good exercise for writers to go through. A bit into thinking about it, though, I've decided I don't want to pick favorites. That's just me, though.

I generally like all my characters, and when I don’t, it’s because I’ve gotten bored with them. That’s on me, and the cure is to find ways to make them more interesting.

 

[KeithD]

I generally like all my characters, and when I don’t, it’s because I’ve gotten bored with them. That’s on me, and the cure is to find ways to make them more interesting.

The characters that keep cropping up in my stories (I guess being a sign of competing for the "favorite" spot) are the complex, "good but badder" characters. I'll put one in a story and, in short order, they unintentionally become headliners in their own fashion houses. Three who spring to mind are figures who have major "the good guys" roles in the stories but are deeply captive to their own vices, sometimes the very "bad acts" they are fighting as the good guys. Characters such as the D.C. vice unit cop Hardesty, the CIA Candy Unit chief Sam Winterberry, and the NYPD detective Clint Folsom have gone from just a character in a story--and often not even the protagonist--to the star of whole book series. And in sexual terms, all three are very bad boys.

 

[Emirus]

All of them

I like them all, in one way or another, otherwise I wouldn’t have written about them.

 

[HeyAll]

Any of my female detective characters, and the one female mobster. I'm working on more female mobsters, detectives, and spies. I think they're underutilized in erotica. They're fun to write because there's a lot to work with and their dialogue is unique.

 

[dontcallme82]

In the middle of my first story at the moment so not many characters.

I enjoy writing the main character, Christine. She is a confident BBW ho has attracted a younger man. She is subtly controlling and very manipulative and just knows how to pull the main characters buttons and string him along.

Definitely wouldn't like her as a person and I don't think she has any of my characteristics. A true sociopath.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

Jeez

Why you gotta put me on blast like that?

I have a serious crush on Karen and Alexa, especially Karen, the older sister. In many ways, I idealized her. I'm okay with that.

From a comical point of view, I love Freja and Jeanie, because they're insane. Jeanie is an air-headed slut with a heart of gold, and Freja is a genius engineer and tinkerer whose moral compass is a roulette wheel.

I adore Becky from Time Rider for the same reason- she's a brilliant physics highschool teacher, but if you piss her off, you find out that she doesn't date much and gets her aggressions with Krav-Maga.

Nanu, Becky's 'new' sidekick, has me in tears laughing as I think of stuff for her because she is SO out of place. She's an ex-slave from the Roman province of Egypt, and here social mores are nothing at all like ours. And she's stuck here in the 21st century. Everything freaks her out, and her answer is to have sex with everything.

As for the guys, Karen's husband Mike speaks to me because he's such an idealist and meliorist.

Boldbator Tengger is another one, because he's a ruthless warlord. He thinks nothing of slaughtering, pillaging and raping, but he's also unusually thoughtful, and these things are not an end in themselves. He has the stars in his eyes.

Jerica, the goth girl from my one-shot story 'I Don't Get You' appeals to me because I'm so unlike her, and not just gender-wise.

Gahhhhhhhh. Overall, Karen. Regal, dignified, exceptionally intelligent, beautiful, and so very done with your shit. I'd end up picking her, ultimately.

 

[lovecraft68]

Most of my work here are stand alone stories and I don't get too attached to the characters in them.

So I'd go with Mark and Megan from SWB as it was a long series that took me 18 months to write and they lived in my head most of that time.

What I liked about them was, putting it bluntly, they were fucked up, both good looking and talented, but just brilliantly broken.

The series too them through hell and back, abuse, mental illness, drug addiction, rage issues, violence, both survivors of abuse.

But their strengths were their weaknesses, its what made them real, and not card board cut outs or Mary Sue type characters.

 

[yukonnights]

It's really not possible to make a firm choice on this question. But I'm going to nominate a character from the third story I published here in 2009. It's also one of my stories that never cracked the magic 4.50 glass.

James MacManus, the protagonist in Mountain Man. A young lad who's dream was to be a trapper and explorer — a true Mountain Man.

The story was an early attempt at a tribute to transgender humans, a subject I had been trying to learn more about at the time. I read it again several months ago — I cringed in some places and thought; "Dayum! That's pretty good", in others.

There's parts of myself in most of my characters in all my stories, and Jamie is no different. Probably the strongest resemblance would simply be the love of nature, a strong spiritual compass and a respect (and empathy) for marginalized humans such as Native Americans and Transgender people.

(warning to anyone thinking about reading this; Transgender category with gay sex scenes )

 

[Phantom300]

For writers what is your favourite character from either series you have written or amongst the numerous single stories. The rules are one single character so I know some writers have great series between two characters but pick just one of those.

The second part is what of your strengths, weaknesses, traits, foibles etc are in that character as you write them?

Final part do you like that character and why or the converse why not?

Brutal One

Tough choice between two characters from the same story.

Aimee from I Didn't Do Anything Wrong

Aimee is the wild child, pretty much the polar opposite of myself. She ran away from home, got pierced & tattooed, partied hard, and you know has seen and done a lot more things we just don't hear about in the story.

I wish I had the skill as a writer to really expand on her emotional scarring. As she says to the other lead character:

I won't overwhelm you with details, but I've been in a really, really bad place lately. To be blunt, I'm fucked up, in too many ways to describe.

Because I think there is opportunity there to tell a much more in depth story, but I don't have the ability or creativity to really delve into it. She acts out because of it in a subtlety I could never properly convey.

 

[vanmyers86]

I love 'em all. But I will always have a soft spot for Andy in The Minister Takes a Break, probably because he spent so much time in my head before I finally finished writing that story.
Gary from So Many Kinds of Love is a close second.

How are they like me? Both are introspective, creative, smart, musical, and yearning to love and be loved.

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

Gotta be Bethany Hamilton

For me it would have to be Beth - Bethany Hamilton from my 'Beth's Summer Break' series.

Most of my other female characters have a definitive real-life counterpart, either known to me or someone I love looking at - for example Thea in 'Girl on a Hot Tin Roof is a thinly disguised British pornstar. Trinity in 'Transformers' is an amalgam of two barmaids who used to work in bars I frequent. There are a lot of lovely women roaming this toxic little globe of ours not knowing or probably caring they have been immortalised in my ramblings.

But Beth is like no-one I have ever seen or met. To me, she is perfection, whilst being a little lost and alienated. She's feisty, plays bass guitar, fucks like an angel and is funny, intelligent and a sheer force of nature. Her tattoos are tasteful, her hair is long and I want to be lead guitarist in her crappy little 'heavy folk' band. I want to be in a threesome with her and Gina Harcourt.

I envy Sam Atkins even though I created him as well.

The bastard got my girl...

 

[gunhilltrain]

I generally like all my characters, and when I don’t, it’s because I’ve gotten bored with them. That’s on me, and the cure is to find ways to make them more interesting.

I've had maybe three characters I really didn't like but, yes, I do get your point about making them more interesting.

I haven't published this yet, but I decided to do just that with Nora Meara, the full-time student, part-time campus hooker. She was originally a nasty piece-of-work. I decided to make her more interesting by making her more complex, which also makes her more sympathetic. That led to doing a whole series on her (still in the works). She is changing from one of my least favorite characters to one I like the most.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I've had maybe three characters I really didn't like but, yes, I do get your point about making them more interesting.

With respect, you haven't done 35 chapters with the same characters.

 

[YDB95]

I love all my heroes and hate all my villains, but if I had to pick one, I think Sally from Beware the Quiet One was my finest hour in terms of getting exactly what I imagined down on paper and getting the point across. The comments make it clear that the readers got just the point I wanted them to get, about Sally herself and about her relationship with her friends.