Your favorite character.

[MColton84]

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.

I love me a creepy goth girl. When I was younger I was madly in love with Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams. Also, my brother had the tendency of calling people by their full first name. It used to piss me right off.

 

[PennameWombat]

One of my favourites is Janet, from City of Angels. Kind of odd, considering she’s a body stealing alien, utterly amoral in sucking out brains and hypnotising people to cause public orgies, with an especial taste for virgins. But she loves children and can’t understand racism because “all humans taste the same.” She’s disappointed that her daughter Asha is only a reluctant predator, without the same abandon in pursuit of prey.

And Sirena from A Christmas Miracle on Dewdrop, since she found depths through bravery and grief to drive a future for her people. Same with Vikrangia ‘Vicki’ Skyburster, another alien, but one who comes in peace and had to come out from the shadow of her mentor, Queen Anna, in Adrift in Space.

I mine settings that I know but for convenience. I can describe them to ground flights of fantasy in some reality. But beyond superficial aspects, my characters aren’t based on me or friends and/or lovers or ex-lovers.

Possibly the only real exception to that is a mid-1980s AM radio show host character named Bart Shell, with his show Shore to Shore AM, broadcasting from Pahrump, Nevada.

 

[SimonDoom]

This is a tough one. I think I have to pick two: the two main characters from my BDSM story In The Hallway, Tom and Janna. It's probably my most character-driven story.

The most fun character I wrote was the narrator of my ridiculous BTB/Mike Hammer detective satire, Sonny Biggs, in my story BTB Incorporated. It's by far my lowest-rated story. It will never sniff a "4" score, since I published it in Loving Wives. But it was a lot of fun to write.

 

[yowser]

This is a tough one. I think I have to pick two: the two main characters from my BDSM story In The Hallway, Tom and Janna. It's probably my most character-driven story.

The most fun character I wrote was the narrator of my ridiculous BTB/Mike Hammer detective satire, Sonny Biggs, in my story BTB Incorporated. It's by far my lowest-rated story. It will never sniff a "4" score, since I published it in Loving Wives. But it was a lot of fun to write.

SB was super. Both he and your splendid plotline did a mobius strip on the BTB trope. Unsurprisingly the humor inventory amongst LW readers is hardly robust. But Biggs was a hoot.

 

[SimonDoom]

SB was super. Both he and your splendid plotline did a mobius strip on the BTB trope. Unsurprisingly the humor inventory amongst LW readers is hardly robust. But Biggs was a hoot.

Well, thanks! That's really nice to hear. I had fun with it but that story was absolutely savaged by the LW BTB crowd. I was shell-shocked at first by the response. "Here, eat my condom" is a comment I remember well in particular. But since then I've learned to have a thick skin and I'm still pleased with that silly story.

 

[PennameWombat]

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Just curious; most of the reactions mentioned female characters, if I'm correct. Coincidence?

Not a coincidence for me. Of my males, Peter shares with me his CompSci major and the fact we both had a fellow student named Carole who was a horrible, horrible tease with zero interest in following through. But his Carole comes around, so to speak and otherwise his life isn't what mine was (I didn't/don't have a gangster brother and was never kidnapped by aliens and never fucked any of my high school teachers). And "my" Carole never moved past the tease stage before I managed to ignore her out of my life. Chris is another CompSci major (hmm, I'm stuck, but it's what I know) and we both play soccer but he's far cooler than I ever was.

But in a way they're not my favorites because of those tangential links to me, I guess.

I do like Jeremy and Lucia (and neither does or will study CompSci), but their story has so far been cute and engaging so I'm not totally sure of their depths yet

 

[Athalia]

My favorite character (as yet) is Emily from the Hot Tub series. She's the person I wish I had been when I was a young adult, so it was fun to write as a fantasy.

 

[CyranoJ]

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

Hana, the protagonist of "Strange Hunger," with an honorable mention for Nomi from the same story. Of all the characters in my Lit stories, they feel the most to me like actual people.

 

[careythomas]

Alex Mak, my first MC... followed closely by Lauren Calder.
I also relished writing Anastasia, the anatagonist in "Looking at the Sun"

 

[SamScribble]

From recent stories, I like Stanley, one of the minor characters in 'Vanessa: Architect of my Destiny'. Stanley is a minor character with presence.

 

[gordo12]

I have two favourites.

Rufus, a big gambolling German Shepherd in Fido. A story that readers over and over have called hilarious.

My other is Mama with her wicked right cross. You don't want to piss her off. She was in Following Laura's Footsteps, and the readers loved her.

 

[jehoram]

That's a tough one, but I guess Dick and Liz in the "Very Private Beach" series are two of my best-developed ones.

Also Hank and Cindy in "The Yearbook Girl"

And the un-named MC of "The Milkmaid's Tale"

Geez, it's like asking who your favorite child is!

 

[Trionyx]

Well, thanks! That's really nice to hear. I had fun with it but that story was absolutely savaged by the LW BTB crowd. I was shell-shocked at first by the response. "Here, eat my condom" is a comment I remember well in particular. But since then I've learned to have a thick skin and I'm still pleased with that silly story.

I went and read your story. Good story and I am constantly surprised at how venomous the BTB crowd can get. They take their dislike of the character out on the author. It would be nice to have two votes: one for story telling and quality and another vote for the characters.

 

[galaxygoddess]

Elunara

Over on my story "For the Whored" Elunara is a no holds barred lunatic who took her obsession with sex and made it profitable. Originally meant to be a super short story with an excuse to put together a night elf and an orc, it turned into this super LONG damned story I often can't put down. She wasn't supposed to fall in love with her target, I don't know at what point I even started writing it like that, it just happened. Now she's married to three men and a woman. haha

I wish I was as bold and crazy as Elunara... *sigh*

 

[BiscuitHammer]

Oh, jeeeeez...

That's an awful question to ask me.

I'm in love with Karen. She's regal, sophisticated, brilliant, very ideal.

Alexa is a joyous goddess of celebration.

Nanu, the former Egyptian slave-girl is ridiculous because she doesn't understand the modern world and has the morals of an alley-cat. She's unintentionally funny as Hell.

Jeanie, my lovely bimbo with a heart of gold. Sex is all she's good at, and it's a good thing she's cute, because if she was any dumber, she'd have to be watered twice a week. Her malapropisms are the stuff of legend.

Becky, the young physics teacher who becomes a T-Rex when you piss her off and she breaks out the Krav-Maga.

But... overall, I'd end up saying Mike, because he's my avatar in my stories. Not to get all Moorcockian, but he's like the Eternal Champion, showing up across at least six of my series (which I call 'The Hammerverse) as a giant blond man of good intentions and character. He's always got my bent sense of humour and my sex drive, so if I had to pick, there's really no other choice.

I love all my characters, but Mike is me, and me is Mike. And I tend to like me a lot.

Yeah. Mike.

 

[RichardWark]

With only six stories and counting, it's not really difficult.
Probably my favorite character, fictionally, is Janie from "I Want to Dance With You Forever." I actually created her in a couple of stories years ago, basing her, like many of us do, on a woman I knew years ago. But, then, every time I put her in a different story, she became more distinguishable from the real life Janie. None of the stories I had written used her in a sexual way. Then when I started forming IWTDWYF she became an integral part and I knew she finally had to get laid.
I also like my narrator from "Northern Lights," Rich, because I feel I was able to give him just the right amount of awkwardness without making him a "loser." Shy about being naked in front of two girls, having moments of self-doubt when losing his virginity, etc., but not being too withdrawn and nerdy - I mean there has to be something to attract girls to him without something miraculous.
Finally, I like Dan from "Aphrodite." He's been hit in the gut a couple of times, is ruminating on the absence of love in his life, and is pretty devastated at the end. But the story, maybe a little too downbeat and possibly in a misplaced category, kind of sank here. I'm proud of it, though.

Richard Wark
Writing as Wark2002
www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=5430653&page=submissions

 

[jomar]

Yeah, I’m with the interesting question but hard to answer crowd.

But I guess first on the list would be Marion, from that series. She’s loosely based on a late 20s woman who I had an affair with in my early 20s. What was going to be a simple strapon stroker (not part of our affair) took a sudden and surprising gentle femdom crossdressing turn out of the blue and wouldn’t be denied. I ran with it, it did well, so a lather-rinse-repeat experiment was conducted with fairly positive results.

Probably my second favorite is the unnamed main character from my White Trash series. He’s a down on his luck guy in an essentially a free-wheeeling stroker with a hint of a plot thanks to an old AH “revenge is best served cold” contest...the reason there’s a year between chapters 2 and 3. Was a hoot to write and parts still make me laugh. And tiny Tina still stirs me.

 

[MelissaBaby]

It changes, based on who I've written recently. Currently, my favorite is probably Clover, the veteran stripper in The Gold Dollar Girls, because of stuff like this:

As they walked toward their cars, a dark SUV pulled into the parking lot and slowed to a crawl. The drivers window came down and a balding middle aged man stared out at them.

“Look at this douchebag,” Clover said, “He thinks we are on the stroll.”

“Well, maybe if you wore a skirt that covered your whole ass…”

“Bitch, look at you. Those pants are about two sizes too small. Joe Camel called and wants his fucking toe back.”

The sedan made a circle around the lot. Clover glared at the driver. “Go the fuck home,” she shouted. “Shit, your wife won’t fuck you, and that dumb bitch loves your ass. Why would we?”

The car kicked up gravel as it pulled away. Roxanne laughed. “How do you go through life and not get your ass kicked on a regular basis?” she asked.

“Honey, my ass has been kicked so much that I don’t even notice anymore.”

 

[Ian_Snow]

From my Literotica offerings, Jessica Nakamura from my series Fantasy Man is an easy favorite. I like a good redemptive storyline and her struggle to heal from problems she's caused resonated with me.

From all my work, I wrote a collection called "Neighbors" for Kindle with a story titled "Coming Home." The male protagonist, Elias, is a former actor returning to his small town after taking a beating by the media. It turned into one of the best stories I've written, kind of a take on the billionaire fantasy trope but with really flawed characters coming together to help each other move forward. He's definitely a favorite.

 

[stickygirl]

My muse at present is Hannah Turner, but she only sprang to life from reading another author's work. We ended up writing 'Transgendence' together but Hannah had her own story to tell beyond that. It's been a joy to watch her character develop and given me a lot of fun, as well as being a mouthpiece for topics I wanted to set down on paper.

Through Hannah I then found Karolina, who has her own quirks and humour. I'm not sure which of the two will take the lead next so I'll see where the words take me.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

So difficult to decide, but choice is what makes life worth living.

So, for male, it would be J.L. Townes from Love Long Gone. He’s patient, strong, self-reliant, a good lover and willing to commit totally. Female? I guess I had the most fun writing Trixellion, the elf from Santa Baby. Quirky, wicked sense of humour, sexy.