Do you like your Characters?

[SEVERUSMAX]

Not unless you just happen to be one of the seven princes of hell

If hell had princes, I wouldn't mind being one of them. I'd make sure that Fred Phelps got what he has coming to him. And since my birthday's Halloween, it fits.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

If hell had princes, I wouldn't mind being one of them. I'd make sure that Fred Phelps got what he has coming to him. And since my birthday's Halloween, it fits.

Amen to that.

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[SamScribble]

I generally like at least one character in every story I write. I figure that there has to be someone for whom the reader can cheer. Of course, the character doesn't necessarily start off being likeable; but by the end ... yes.

 

[nomoretears00]

Eeek! Sorry! Wasn't refering to anyone, lol. I couldn't get the stupid quote thing to work, so wanted you to know I was responding to ya.

I'm sorry about that! Yeah, the charater is from the story, lol.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Eeek! Sorry! Wasn't refering to anyone, lol. I couldn't get the stupid quote thing to work, so wanted you to know I was responding to ya.

I'm sorry about that! Yeah, the charater is from the story, lol.

Yeah, that was my fault, too. I jumped to conclusions.

 

[nomoretears00]

*Grin* hey, no problem. Trust me, I'm one of the least confrontational folks around, lol.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

If it's okay to make an on-topic comment between the pissing match ... (geez guys, get a room and blow each other already, okay?)

It took me a while to get behind my villians, until it occurred to me that villians don't know they're villians. Oh, they might accept the label, but I don't think they embrace it. I think they just have a different world view.

In my erotic writing, most of my characters are right out of central casting - they're "everyman." Hopefully just this side of being a stereotype. That's a flaw that comes from believing the t-shirt, "Yes, you're unique - just like everyone else."

Back when I maintained a livejournal, I had a widely followed story where the main character was slightly hard of hearing. I did it on a whim. The story opened with him being caught while peeping on a neighbor and I needed to explain away why he didn't hear the other person sneaking up on him.

In general, my characters tend to start off as slightly marred versions of the generic figure dolls artists will use. As the story evolves, I learn about them. Some are deeper than others.

 

[lovecraft68]

Anton Levey would not be impressed.

Hmmm maybe only because anything that's a waste of time is counter productive, but in general Levay never had any issues with amusing one's self which is what I'm doing here.

Indulgence over Abstinence. I could roll my eyes like everyone else and say our compulsive lying disorder friend is not worth the text, or I could indulge myself and mock him at every turn.

Personally, I like to indulge. Anton would be happy.

 

[sr71plt]

Oh, Pleeezze. You're just being a warehouse wimp jackass--jealous because I actually get published without having to publish myself. You've found me on the Internet (as have a few other people here), so we both know what a jackass you're being (as do a few others). (We both know you found me, because you started to identity me on this board in drabs--until Laurel deleted your posts. The fun thing is that I actually have a persona worth having coverage on the Internet, which is more than you'll ever have.)

You're still, after over a year, bent out of shape because I told you exactly how stupid your publishing decisions were--and I was proved to be right.

You're just finding that there isn't a really big market for your personal fantasies of torturing and fucking your sister as told from the limited horizons of a warehouse worker blowhard moron.

I don't often respond to your swiftboating because it's so pathetic. You and your wifey are substrata yokels pretending to have a life (talk about making stories up to pump yourself up . . .). In your case your horizons seem to be to become "king of Literotica." You don't seem to be doing all that well in that, though--you are entirely too judgmental, hypocritical, and both small- and mean-minded.

And damned straight that I've been places, done things, and been somebody that you haven't got a prayer of going/doing/being yourself. And you know it--and are jealous. Which is your problem. I'm not the one who puffs himself up on this board. That would be you.

And you and your little playmates are the ones tearing the AH up--not me.

 

[PennLady]

It took me a while to get behind my villians, until it occurred to me that villians don't know they're villians. Oh, they might accept the label, but I don't think they embrace it. I think they just have a different world view.

I think that's a good point. The "bad guys" in my were stories are often motivated by a desire for power, money, whatever, and they don't care about the usual norms. They feel they are above the usual standards or rules.

When I ratchet it down for the romances, rarely is anyone out and out 'evil.' They are more just people with issues and trying to get their way. But they can still be sympathetic.

 

[sr71plt]

I think that's a good point. The "bad guys" in my were stories are often motivated by a desire for power, money, whatever, and they don't care about the usual norms. They feel they are above the usual standards or rules.

When I ratchet it down for the romances, rarely is anyone out and out 'evil.' They are more just people with issues and trying to get their way. But they can still be sympathetic.

My villains tend to just want to dominate and to be "it's all for me." I have characters who are clueless or shortsighted too--but I don't really consider them to be villains.

 

[PennLady]

My villains tend to just want to dominate and to be "it's all for me." I have characters who are clueless or shortsighted too--but I don't really consider them to be villains.

Yeah, there are villains, and there are antagonists, but antagonists aren't always villains. Some of them are just jerks, or oblivious to the reactions of the other characters around them.

 

[sr71plt]

Yeah, there are villains, and there are antagonists, but antagonists aren't always villains. Some of them are just jerks, or oblivious to the reactions of the other characters around them.

I've several times put the devil in my stories. I try to make him very attractive--but he's a villain.

 

[LaRascasse]

I don't exactly love Monica from An Unlikely Romance but she does scare me a little bit.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

I love my characters. I think they appeal to my secret dark side.

Aleitheia is somewhere between 18 and 21, about five foot five, with dark hair just past her shoulders. She's very intelligent, keeps to herself for the most part, lives alone, and sells sweets in the marketplace.

Amina is 29, deeply bronzed, long dark hair, dark eyes, tall, muscular, and terrifying. By today's standards, she's probably somewhat mentally unstable, swinging from kind and calm to raging and beating her slaves in a matter of seconds. I like her. Half the things she does I don't even realize are going to happen until they're on the page.

Both women are a little spontaneous. I think they're great.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

My all-time favorite villian has to be Dr. Horrible from "Doctor Horrible's Sing-a-Blog" fame. He's not a bad guy. He just wants to fix the world. And in his mind, the best way to do that is by ruling the world.

Dr. Horrible: ...You're treating a symptom while the disease rages on, consumes the human race. The fish rots from the head, so they say. So I'm thinking, why not cut off the head?
Penny: [pause] Of the human race?
Dr. Horrible: It's not a... perfect metaphor.

 

[bashfullyshameless]

I generally have to like my characters in order to write for them.

The exception is, of course, my villains, but even then, there has to be something I like about them as villains to include them.