Your favorite character.

[MColton84]

I wanted to see if other authors have a favorite character from their stories. I was thinking about this last last while I was creating an outline for my next story. I found myself getting excited about writing a specific character.

The characters name is Raven. Raven was a throw away character from my first story, but made another appearance in a different series and just captivated me.

So this brings me to my question; who of your characters would you call your favorite, and why?

 

[lovecraft68]

Abigail Lefay.

Introduced as a toss away character in a Halloween spin off of my Siblings With Benefits series.

She was portrayed a fun sexy witch who owned a fetish club, but she wouldn't get out of my head, then she merged with other inspirations I'd had and morphed into a dark dangerous witch prone to murderous rages.

I have published three novels featuring her and am struggling with the fourth, series is projected to be six books.

My favorite because that character was the bridge that led from my writing be strictly erotic(although somewhat dark at times) to crossing over into horror which I've been a huge fan of since I was old enough to know what it was.

her name is derived from the King Diamond Horror themed album Abigail I was obsessed with as a teenager and Abigail Arcane from the original 1970's swamp thing comic drawn by Bernie Wrightson.

A horror themed metal album and comics. My influences are hardly high brow.

 

[LexxRuthless]

I wanted to see if other authors have a favorite character from their stories. I was thinking about this last last while I was creating an outline for my next story. I found myself getting excited about writing a specific character.

The characters name is Raven. Raven was a throw away character from my first story, but made another appearance in a different series and just captivated me.

So this brings me to my question; who of your characters would you call your favorite, and why?

Was your Raven based on The Black Company character? When my friends and I read that series back in 1990, we ALL wanted to be Raven...

 

[MColton84]

Was your Raven based on The Black Company character? When my friends and I read that series back in 1990, we ALL wanted to be Raven...

Raven was based on a combination Seiryo Toji from Seven Days, Ranma from Ranma 1/2, and Christie Mack. I was trying to pick three different types to make something new. I failed to do so in my first story but nailed it in the Trap or Treat series. Raven is the only one of my characters that isn't a fictionalized version of someone I know.

 

[oggbashan]

Possibly Don, a minor character in my story Durante the Dog:

https://www.literotica.com/beta/s/durante-the-dog

I have met a couple of Don-type people. They brighten people's days with their willingness to help anyone.

 

[Omenainen]

Most of my characters are me in one way or another, and they all have some point to them but I'll go with Roxie and Brandon from Class Reunion (for which I still wish I would've come up with a real name, it doesn't even really feature a class reunion). I love them both and the dynamic between them.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I named one of my favorite characters Holly Sykes, and then I found out that there already is a Holly Sykes in David Mitchell's novel The Bone Clocks (2014). I swear, I thought of the name independently - I had never heard of Mitchell or his book before.

My Holly is, in 1976, a thirty-seven-year old divorcée who in lives in the Gramercy Park section of Manhattan. For one summer in that year she gets involved with a young part-time driver at a livery car service. (He goes to City College uptown.)

She graduated from Bryn Mawr and at the time of the stories she works at the Ford Foundation. Her daughter is thirteen and lives with Holly's sister in Connecticut to take advantage of the school system up there.

Holly is quite kinky and can be fierce in her femdom roles - although she usually drops that persona at the end of a session. See https://literotica.com/s/queen-of-diamonds-1. Her submissive side can be seen in https://literotica.com/s/protected-by-lentz-trucking. There are several other stories about her.

 

[PeytonMirabelle]

Probably Marie, my first-person narrator from It's Not Cheating If ... She's strong-willed and confident but has a lot of kindness and a certain level of vulnerability under the top layer.

 

[8letters]

Before I start writing a story, I'll have most of it worked out in my head. I'm basically haunted by the story. Then I'll write the story down and it's gone from head. I don't think about my published stories, as I have so many unwritten stories occupying my brain.

 

[RejectReality]

I can't choose any particular character. Almost the entire speaking cast of my Danica's World stories qualifies. A story that's up to 5 chapters and over 40k words right now is centered on a character from Lowborn who had about 3 lines of dialogue in the entire series. Lowborn sprang out of Blackhawk Hall, where Arilee started out as nothing more than a pair of eyes to introduce Christi and Mindblind, and ended up taking over the story.

Then there's Laresa. The MC from my VR DQ stories and the insane old man from same. Xantina and all her kin.

Not many characters from this pen name on the list, though. I enjoy them in the context of the stories they're in, but they're simply not inspirational enough for me to want to use them again in later stories, for the most part.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've thought and thought about this and can't come up with one. I think I agree with RubenR -- that my characters are projections of aspects of me, and I can't choose one. It's like choosing one aspect of myself over another. I don't have favorites.

 

[KeithD]

I think this is a good question, and it's good to consider it, but I find it frustrating to try to choose--even to resurface my more memorable characters--so I don't try to pin it down to even a dozen. I'd always be forgetting to include one I should.

 

[EddieTheMuse]

YES! My 2 main characters mostly but I did love my MC best friend too.

And I almost always used the same characters because my memory is shit and if I tried to change things up I promptly forgot who I was writing about.

But I loved my characters, they were like friends and I miss them when they aren't made alive by my writing.

 

[Bramblethorn]

So this brings me to my question; who of your characters would you call your favorite, and why?

I find it hard to pick a single favourite (in almost any area of life), but I'm very fond of Ashley Marchand from "The Floggings Will Continue". She's a piece of work, and I hope to bring her back some time.

 

[MColton84]

Most of my stories contain characters that are, one way or another, based on certain parts of me. Tweaking myself makes it easier to create realistic stories, and I often have empathy for those characters.

I've thought and thought about this and can't come up with one. I think I agree with RubenR -- that my characters are projections of aspects of me, and I can't choose one. It's like choosing one aspect of myself over another. I don't have favorites.

I find it hard to pick a single favourite (in almost any area of life), but I'm very fond of Ashley Marchand from "The Floggings Will Continue". She's a piece of work, and I hope to bring her back some time.

Most of my characters are based off of people I know, or aspects of myself. The one that I posted to choose as my favorite, is the exception to that rule. I initially created the character has someone interesting in the background while the cool characters got to have fun. However, in later works I found that he had grown more interesting and became a pivotal figure in other stories.

 

[Phantom300]

My favorite character of my own creation is probably Aimee from I Didn't Do Anything Wrong I did not really develop her as much as I could have, mainly stemming from this line

"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. But I needed you last night. I was frustrated, and upset, and crying, and felt alone. I needed a warm, safe embrace. I needed to feel caring hands that wouldn't ever hurt me, no matter what. And you didn't hurt me Stevie. You didn't do anything wrong. I might be fucked up in a lot of ways, but none of them are your fault. You didn't do anything wrong.

In retrospect, I left a lot of meat on that bone. But alas, my ability to develop characters is still..... developing.

 

[MColton84]

My favorite character of my own creation is probably Aimee from I Didn't Do Anything Wrong I did not really develop her as much as I could have, mainly stemming from this line

In retrospect, I left a lot of meat on that bone. But alas, my ability to develop characters is still..... developing.

Well I don't think that's a problem. One of the cool things about creating characters and writing them, is that they get to grow as you grow and vice versa.

 

[YDB95]

Definitely Elizabeth, of the series that bears her name. The first of her stories was the reason why I decided to join Lit in the first place, as I just had to share it. That story was originally intended as the only one, but I was just too much in love with her to stop. I really feel like I got to know her and her friends quite well, and even knew what they were going to do before I wrote the next paragraph.

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

I obviously have a soft spot for all my participating characters otherwise I would not be able to write them. If I had to choose, I would have to go with Beth from my 'Beth's Summer Break' series. She is an amalgam of a few girls I have known and some I never will and is just my idea of perfection.

I have written a few fantasy/sci-fi stories and Beth is usually the template for the sexy alien/elf girl.

And apart from being a very naughty girl, she plays bass guitar...

As for 'non-participating' characters, I can look no further than Miss Martha in 'We'll Get Through This Together.' When I started writing four years ago, I never thought I would be capable of creating a ninety-year-old former actress from Savannah, Georgia who would inspire one of my leading ladies and make me cry into the bargain.

Apologies to the rest of my girls and boys - I love you all really.

 

[EddieTheMuse]

So I said earlier that I love both of my usual MC but that's probably because my main MC is sort of me. Like she's me glorified, or something like that.

Friends have said she's one of my personalities and her BF is another one, I can see that.

Reading over the replies it seems like a couple other people are the same.

 

[MColton84]

Definitely Elizabeth, of the series that bears her name. The first of her stories was the reason why I decided to join Lit in the first place, as I just had to share it. That story was originally intended as the only one, but I was just too much in love with her to stop. I really feel like I got to know her and her friends quite well, and even knew what they were going to do before I wrote the next paragraph.

I love when a character takes on a life of their own. It's like meeting a new friend.

 

[mfan2112]

In a piece I am working on, I took the four main characters from my Story Dakota's Surprise and used them to name a litter of puppies.

Of course, we had to name them, and we decided to name them in honor of some of our old friends, now long gone. There was Dakota, Hailey, Cody and Rose.​

I hope a few of my followers will get a chuckle at that.

 

[Wifetheif]

I wanted to see if other authors have a favorite character from their stories. I was thinking about this last last while I was creating an outline for my next story. I found myself getting excited about writing a specific character.

The characters name is Raven. Raven was a throw away character from my first story, but made another appearance in a different series and just captivated me.

So this brings me to my question; who of your characters would you call your favorite, and why?

I would have to say that it is a toss-up between two: Anne Cheng the heroine of my 14 part opus "Mrs. Cheng Pays the Debt" She is based upon a Chinese girlfriend I had once. She has her personality, charm, and looks. She is the one that got away and it still hurts. She stopped seeing me because she feared that her boss, a very conservative Chinese man who lost his wife to a white American would find an excuse to fire her if he found out she was dating (and sleeping) with a white guy! Talk about a painful burn!
My other favorite character is Luz, the heroine of "Barbarian Bait". Physically, Luz resembles my ex-wife but has a much more ebullient personality and is way more independent. She also loves sex, something my ex-wife doled out as if it were radioactive.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Many of my characters are basically me or a partner of mine. I find my favourite characters to re-read are the ones who aren't - Atif in Gas Station Guy, Adrian and Dan and Laura in my Smoking Hot series, probably because they got fleshed out into really interesting characters over 120,000 words.

More recently Ali and Becca, the women in my Valentine's story who I now want to write more about to get to know them better.

 

[PoisonPen33]

I like all my characters, even the antagonists, but if I had to pick one, probably Evelyn Ballion from Come As You Are, the creepy Goth girl from high school who grew up to be the alluring Goth young woman just returned to town.

She was meant to be a supporting character, but she took on a life of her own - soft words, never using contractions, insisting on using everyone's full first name, and a unique way of cutting the Gordian Knot of social interactions.

I'm actually writing a kind of "Chapter Zero" story right now that might lead into a full series with her as the quasi-lead.