Memorable Characters:

[Pure]

Most of us have read hundreds of porn/erotica stories at Lit.

Name a character that has stuck in your mind. Tell why. Give a link. The genre seems to have generated so few.

the sub and mistress in nessus 'famous blue raincoat' are a couple of the exceptions. it's their intense humanity, reflective of the feelings that pervade the whole story.

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=20270

 

[drksideofthemoon]

Most of us have read hundreds of porn/erotica stories at Lit.

Name a character that has stuck in your mind. Tell why. Give a link. The genre seems to have generated so few.

the sub and mistress in nessus 'famous blue raincoat' are a couple of the exceptions. it's their intense humanity, reflective of the feelings that pervade the whole story.

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=20270

I think the reason for this is that most of the stories on Lit are too short for characters to be developed to the point where they stand out in our minds.

 

[Carnevil9]

I think the reason for this is that most of the stories on Lit are too short for characters to be developed to the point where they stand out in our minds.

This is true in general, but some of the multi-part stories allow for sufficient scope for character development. I attempted it once (won't claim success) in an eleven-story arc about a girl going from shy-and-poor to successful sex merchant.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

This is true in general, but some of the multi-part stories allow for sufficient scope for character development. I attempted it once (won't claim success) in an eleven-story arc about a girl going from shy-and-poor to successful sex merchant.

Yes, I did the same in a 16 part, 300,000 word piece. It was successful, but I don't know if the characters stood out in the readers minds. I do know that one character has stood out in my mind, and occassionaly, I will even quote him.

 

[Penelope Street]

Of the characters that at once come to my mind, most are memorable for reasons beyond their sexuality- so maybe Darkside has a point, though Natalie's story shows it's possible to write a brief, sexy tale with rich characters.

I don't know that I can pick just one.

How about...

Lacy and Cupid in Zoot's "The Pretender"
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=184251
What woman hasn't wanted to do that!!!

Chris in Carson's "Spark"
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=170308
For me, this story is sad rather than sexy, a meloncholy reminder of the helplessness that so often accompanies desire.

Laura and Charles in the Unsung Muse's "Obstinate Stain"
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=232748
What an amazing amount of angst conveyed in so few words.

Danielle's friend in Patricia51's "Without a Clue"
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=149306
Could be sad too, if it was just a little more serious. Good thing it isn't!

Amber and Tatyana in Colleen's "Fire"
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=41478
I was searching for another story with the same name and opened this one by accident.
Several years later, I don't remember a thing about the tale I meant to read instead, go figure!

Unfortunately, I don't think any of the following stories are still on our site, but I also remember: Black Tulip's Egyptian priestess, Rob's loathsome vampire, and Selena's homeless woman at Christmas, Rumpie's mother who watched her son arrested in the middle of the night just because of the color of his skin, and Charley's domme for hire and her cheap furniture. lol. Can furniture be a memorable character?

 

[Pure]

thanks penny,

for reminding me,

colleen's stories often had memorable characters, i remember one about a young woman sniper for the Russian army, against the Nazis.

also a young woman who was riding boxcars. and a pistol packing cowboy who turned out to be a woman.

 

[Penelope Street]

... colleen's stories often had memorable characters, i remember one about a young woman sniper for the Russian army, against the Nazis.

also a young woman who was riding boxcars. and a pistol packing cowboy who turned out to be a woman.

She created quite a few women with masculine tendencies. I wonder if writers are more inclined to create protagonists like themselves, or protagonists they find attractive?

 

[drksideofthemoon]

She created quite a few women with masculine tendencies. I wonder if writers are more inclined to create protagonists like themselves, or protagonists they find attractive?

I think you're on to something there. I know it's true in my own writing.

 

[NanashiKuro]

Any author is usually drawn to make characters that are paralells of themselves first off, and of people that they know after that.
It's a really good excercise in writing to make a character that's really out of your usual.
I know I struggle with it.

 

[Penelope Street]

I wonder if writers are more inclined to create protagonists like themselves, or protagonists they find attractive?

I know it's true in my own writing.

So which is it? Or both? For instance, did you really see yourself dropping everything to go dig shiny rocks out of the tundra?

Any author is usually drawn to make characters that are parallels of themselves first off, and of people that they know after that.

Well, we are supposed to write what we know, are we not? After quick peek at a few of my tales, it seems a fair number of my protagonist's romantic interests are based not on persons I know, but on persons I'd like to know.

 

[onthink]

I am writing something similar too. Try to be more imaginative and wide.

 

[Penelope Street]

I am writing something similar too. Try to be more imaginative and wide.

I think I'm wide enough already.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

So which is it? Or both? For instance, did you really see yourself dropping everything to go dig shiny rocks out of the tundra?

You remembered "the cheechako", I feel quite honored. He may not be like me, but a lot of my other characters are or were. I feel more comfortable now in creating characters that share less and less of my traitis.