Character Crushes

[Theylo_Bleu]

Here's a fun one - anyone out there ever have a legit crush on one of their characters? Or maybe on they read in someone else's story?

 

[SimonDoom]

Sort of. My two Lisa stories are based very loosely on a woman I interacted with online that I had something of a crush on for a while (she gave permission for the stories and told me she liked them). So in a way I have a crush on my Lisa character.

 

[MrPixel]

How can you not love your characters? Especially when writing romances, albeit with a lot of sex.

Walter Mitty-esque, I'll freely admit to wanting to be surrounded by the FCs in both of my novel-length stories, all wonderful ladies.

 

[Euphony]

All you smut peddlers living in SIN!

If you wrote it than you should've put a ring on it!

 

[MrPixel]

All you smut peddlers living in SIN!

If you wrote it than you should've put a ring on it!

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Well, in both of my stories the MMC would love to, but polygamy isn't legal in most places!

 

[Theylo_Bleu]

Sort of. My two Lisa stories are based very loosely on a woman I interacted with online that I had something of a crush on for a while (she gave permission for the stories and told me she liked them). So in a way I have a crush on my Lisa character.

That makes a lot of sense. Basing them off of people, for sure.

Makes me wonder how often any of us fully make up a person out of thin air. I feel like many have some basis in reality. I base some of mine off of online content creators. Loosely or for the physical description. But it sometimes bleeds into a sense of who is my character and who is the actually person (their online persona anyways).

 

[Theylo_Bleu]

How can you not love your characters? Especially when writing romances, albeit with a lot of sex.

Walter Mitty-esque, I'll freely admit to wanting to be surrounded by the FCs in both of my novel-length stories, all wonderful ladies.

Write what you love they say. I definitely struggle to write any character in a scene that I don't in some way love or at least want to spend time with. In person or the page, the social tax is real!

 

[Theylo_Bleu]

All you smut peddlers living in SIN!

If you wrote it than you should've put a ring on it!

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I literally thought about marrying one of my characters while taking the dog out one time. Haha

 

[madelinemasoch]

Easy answer: Eleanor from Cuckold Camp and my WIP (same person).

 

[Theylo_Bleu]

Easy answer: Eleanor from Cuckold Camp and my WIP (same person).

By name and sited sources, I love it

 

[Rob_Royale]

Yes. Tyra from MILF Cruise - Upgraded, is based on a tall, beautiful plus-sized woman that I worked around several years ago. She would get my heart racing every time I saw her. She was the lead software developer for a couple of satellite projects I was assigned to and I loved every second. She was an amazing combination of intelligence and beauty, with a great sense of humor and a boatload of blonde va-va-voom.

Tyra is her and I totally crushed while writing the story.

 

[Theylo_Bleu]

Yes. Tyra from MILF Cruise - Upgraded, is based on a tall, beautiful plus-sized woman that I worked around several years ago. She would get my heart racing every time I saw her. She was the lead software developer for a couple of satellite projects I was assigned to and I loved every second. She was an amazing combination of intelligence and beauty, with a great sense of humor and a boatload of blonde va-va-voom.

Tyra is her and I totally crushed while writing the story.

I feel it! Love that. I like to think (and hope) that bringing a real crush to life in your story world is a pretty good form of honoring someone. Impressions being flattery type thing.

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

Yes there have been a few I have based on various real ladies I have known or would like to have known better. One or two became composites and I found them quite easy to write, not having to make up character traits or physical descriptions. I still see some of them occasionally and wonder what they would think if they knew. Probably want me arrested, knowing my luck.

My biggest challenge in that area has been trying to write a fantasy about my very real and very overwhelming crush on a cousin some four years older than me starting when I was fourteen. Obviously Lit rules preclude describing my teenage lust and angst in any detail, so it is proving to be a difficult tale to tell. I know how I want to tell it, but I am not allowed under the house rules. There's also a bit of a guilt thing in sexualising her for kicks a long time afterwards, so this one is destined to just stay in my WIP folder.

 

[burgwad]

Lily -- mute but funny and affectionate, youngest of three, White brunette, likes to wear lilac and mint green
Naz -- manipulative but good-hearted, oldest of three, Persian 1st gen (= American-born) with dark curls, likes how bright whites look on her
Ingrid -- prodigiously talented but deeply insecure, younger of two, White blonde, likes to wear whatever maximizes her Zen for the day

 

[AchtungNight]

My work is full of character crushes. It happens naturally when your author avatar gets way more action than you do in real life.

Seriously, though, I’d gladly enjoy fun times with any of the women from my stories. Including the evil ones, if I too was a bad guy. Or a good guy handing them their just reward at the appropriate time. I hope ladies and dudes who swing that way will enjoy time with the guys too. And ladies into ladies will enjoy the ladies also, of course.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Lol, naw.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Character Crushes​

I’ll rule out my FMCs who are me, lightly disguised versions of me, or my id and super-ego separated into two entities.

I’ll also rule out the RL people I have RL crushes on, yet who still appear in my stories.

For girls, Eden Baker is the obvious choice. She has a little of me in her, but is mostly her own character. I also quite liked Miss Shapiro from Heaven & Hole.

For guys, Tommy in the same story is a supporting character, but I’m as fond of him as my two FMCs are.

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Other authors? Well I guess I’d have to say Jenna and Cozbi by the lovely and talented @Djmac1031 .

Em

 

[Djmac1031]

@EmilyMiller and I apparently have mutual crushes on several characters lol.

Jenna, from my series The Jenna Arrangement, remains near and dear to me. I crushed on her from chapter one and she's grown with each chapter.

I love Emily's Angels & Demons saga featuring the hot sexy duo of Emma and Lily. The perfect combo of naughty and nice but still naughty.

 

[Theylo_Bleu]

Yes there have been a few I have based on various real ladies I have known or would like to have known better. One or two became composites and I found them quite easy to write, not having to make up character traits or physical descriptions. I still see some of them occasionally and wonder what they would think if they knew. Probably want me arrested, knowing my luck.

My biggest challenge in that area has been trying to write a fantasy about my very real and very overwhelming crush on a cousin some four years older than me starting when I was fourteen. Obviously Lit rules preclude describing my teenage lust and angst in any detail, so it is proving to be a difficult tale to tell. I know how I want to tell it, but I am not allowed under the house rules. There's also a bit of a guilt thing in sexualising her for kicks a long time afterwards, so this one is destined to just stay in my WIP folder.

ouch, I hear that. Its so interesting trying to articulate young, consensual love but having to make sure that ages are stated as such. I don't think it helps that in modern media, the best/only way to tell stories in high school settings is to cast adult adults. Makes it feel like it's a really approachable setting but then not feeling like you can really go there.

Also yeah. Consent for being in a story is a tricky thing. I can understand that

 

[Theylo_Bleu]

Lily -- mute but funny and affectionate, youngest of three, White brunette, likes to wear lilac and mint green
Naz -- manipulative but good-hearted, oldest of three, Persian 1st gen (= American-born) with dark curls, likes how bright whites look on her
Ingrid -- prodigiously talented but deeply insecure, younger of two, White blonde, likes to wear whatever maximizes her Zen for the day

I feel it.

 

[Theylo_Bleu]

My work is full of character crushes. It happens naturally when your author avatar gets way more action than you do in real life.

Seriously, though, I’d gladly enjoy fun times with any of the women from my stories. Including the evil ones, if I too was a bad guy. Or a good guy handing them their just reward at the appropriate time. I hope ladies and dudes who swing that way will enjoy time with the guys too. And ladies into ladies will enjoy the ladies also, of course.

Oo you bring up a good point. Writing characters that others can crush on... Well that's a feeling of success on the writers part I'd say. For myself anyhow

 

[Theylo_Bleu]

I’ll rule out my FMCs who are me, lightly disguised versions of me, or my id and super-ego separated into two entities.

I’ll also rule out the RL people I have RL crushes on, yet who still appear in my stories.

For girls, Eden Baker is the obvious choice. She has a little of me in her, but is mostly her own character. I also quite liked Miss Shapiro from Heaven & Hole.

For guys, Tommy in the same story is a supporting character, but I’m as fond of him as my two FMCs are.

—

Other authors? Well I guess I’d have to say Jenna and Cozbi by the lovely and talented @Djmac1031 .

Em

We ALL have a crush on Eden Baker.

 

[Theylo_Bleu]

@EmilyMiller and I apparently have mutual crushes on several characters lol.

Jenna, from my series The Jenna Arrangement, remains near and dear to me. I crushed on her from chapter one and she's grown with each chapter.

I love Emily's Angels & Demons saga featuring the hot sexy duo of Emma and Lily. The perfect combo of naughty and nice but still naughty.

@EmilyMiller appreciation post activated!

 

[Theylo_Bleu]

I’ll rule out my FMCs who are me, lightly disguised versions of me, or my id and super-ego separated into two entities.

I’ll also rule out the RL people I have RL crushes on, yet who still appear in my stories.

For girls, Eden Baker is the obvious choice. She has a little of me in her, but is mostly her own character. I also quite liked Miss Shapiro from Heaven & Hole.

For guys, Tommy in the same story is a supporting character, but I’m as fond of him as my two FMCs are.

—

Other authors? Well I guess I’d have to say Jenna and Cozbi by the lovely and talented @Djmac1031 .

Em

I've mildly imagined my character Charlie Vey and Eden coexisting. When I was creating her and entering into the written universe of self-empowered exhibitionisty femme folk, I could see the "support group" they'd attend being the same, hahaha!

 

[mpeters]

I have often found myself wishing that the female lead characters in two of my series were real and I could have the same relationship that my “alter ego” lead male character has with them, is that close enough?

I actually feel envious of my lead character sometimes because he’s already managed a higher body count in the seven stories I’ve written so far (and it’s going to go up) plus he’s had way better overall experiences, too… it’s like I live vicariously through my own creation. Weird, innit?