Favorite Characters You've Written And Why

[Flybynite1892]

Who are your favorite characters you've written here (or elsewhere) and why? For me at least - and it's true of non-erotic writing for me as well - my favorites are never the ones I thought they would be when I set out to write the story in the first place. It's always the ones who are maybe a little less defined initially and thus have a little more flexibility to do interesting things.

If there's a common thread, I'd say maybe I tend to really enjoy the characters who are rebels, but who really can't afford to be, and who thus wind up with a whole host of problems as a result. The tug-of-war that creates has always been interesting to me, but I don't think I realized that fully until recently.

 

[StillStunned]

Probably Avilia and Sligh. I like how the two of them have developed to be very different but nevertheless a perfect match. Of course, that seems to be standing in the way of finishing all my WIPs that feature them - the stories become about the characters, at the expense of the plot.

 

[Erozetta]

I have a few favorites.

Charity or "Cherry" from Cherry's Jubilee. She's a flirty redhead who takes her father's consideration of selling his bar to a former soldier new to town as a personal affront because he was supposed to give it to her when he retired. She makes it her mission to get the town on her side, but ultimately ends up in an extremely vulnerable position with the soldier. She's a bit of a teasing cunt, and I just like her.

Lena from How Much More. She's petrified to be herself in front of anyone. A people pleaser to the extreme, so she starts going to therapy and vows to never lie to her therapist in an effort to get better at setting boundaries. Instead, she starts eroding the boundaries of her therapist and pushes him to cross ethical lines. She's got the most "me" in her as far as characters go, but I like her anyways because she's much more assertive than I am in person.

Michaela or "Mickie" from How Villains are Made. A girl with a troubling past as she was at the house at the same time her mother was killed by a serial killer and her father has hounded her for years on the anniversary to try and remember more about the man she saw that day. She's extremely resilient even if troubled, but also extremely co-dependent on an officer who works for her father after the man who killed her mother comes back for her. She's just a complicated mess who tries and tries to do good but it goes to shit anyways.

Evan from Missed Connections: New Orleans. He's an artist who makes his subjects feel beautiful, and falls head over heels for an accidental model he gets to know on a 30-hour train ride from New York to New Orleans. He spends about four years looking for her, and when he finds her, he falls in love all over again. He's just a sweetheart who should be full of himself but isn't.

Ash from Cranky Moon. A silver-haired werewolf with an appetite for revenge and an abundance of grief over a mistake he made while getting said revenge. He's dorky but also has a strong side to him that I like.

Leon from Blood Wine. He's a charismatic Frenchman with wit, knowledge of the occult and is a bit of a faux Dom in that he puts on a good show for a girl he likes, but is incredibly gentle and loving behind closed doors. He's extremely protective of someone he sees as vulnerable and unaware of what had happened to her.

Both of my main characters from Bully's Birthday, Jessica and Gavin. Jess is the typical bullied high school senior with a secret life of playing roller derby. Gavin is a recovering bully who sees the fear he's instilled in Jess, which becomes much clearer after breaking up with his toxic girlfriend.and spending time with her at a company party their fathers made them both attend. Together they spend a great Halloween night with her teasing him without saying a word, and him trying to figure out who the siren crashing his party was, as she's the only one who brought him a gift. She's a secret wild child who wants to experiment and he's trying to rein in that aspect of himself. They were a fun play on the enemies to lovers trips for me. The bully who wants to reform himself because he finds he simply feels like shit when he's trying play up his manliness for his girlfriend and the bullied girl with a super secret kinky exhibitionist side to her.

Kate and Tommy from Purrfectly Playful are both adorkably awkward with each other, though he's a bit more confident than she is, particularly as their friend Jen goads them to hook up. Jen's a bit of a bitch, but she does slowly corral them together by her Halloween goal. They were fun to write. It was a nice dynamic and a sweet story without being sappy.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'm fond of Nadja from Loss Function because she's the most flawed romantic interest I've written here; at her worst she's the an insecure bully who hates apologising even when she knows she's in the wrong, but she's also striving to create a better version of herself.

And I'm fond of Dr. Marchand from The Floggings Will Continue because it's so satisfying to write a good villain.

 

[StillStunned]

I'll add another: not my favourite character, but I have a soft spot for her. Mircalla, from my chapter of our chain story: Lights, Camera, Blood: Ch. 02.

She's trying so hard to be her own woman, but she's in over her head and I suspect she's going to come to a tragic end.

 

[RetroFan]

The two first person characters I enjoyed becoming while writing the stories were Cindy, the pretty cheerleader from 'Cindy's Close Encounter' and John Prentice from 'Bad Things Happen On April 15'.

Cindy I enjoyed because the story is set in the 1950s a time I would have loved to live in but never did (to quote the Pony Tails, a popular American girl group of this era, I was born too late) and its hard not to feel nostalgic for this era looking at old photos, listening to the music, seeing people wearing the fashions and watching old TV shows and movies. Plus Cindy, her boyfriend and their friends get to meet aliens and go aboard their flying saucer. Not very friendly aliens, but it would still be amazing. This is one story I would like to see brought to life on screen as a Blumhouse horror movie, or even expanded to be a sci-fi TV show.

John Prentice I enjoyed for the simple reason that the story is set on the Titanic, and I would love to travel back in time and see the long-lost ship with my own eyes. I wouldn't enjoy ending up in the freezing sea before managing to climb aboard an up-turned raft as John did, but getting to drift away back to 1912 and a completely different world from today as I wrote the story I really did like.

 

[PennyThompson]

I think my favorite character to write so far has been Mikayla Davis, my series MC's college roommate. She's an edgy art school drama goth, a bisexual vegan anarcho-syndicalist with a heart of gold and a chip on her shoulder.

She's a delightful foil to my more naive suburban white girl MC, always pushing her outside of her comfort zone, but also fiercely protective and supportive. I wish I had a Mikayla in my life, TBH

My second-favorite character is still unpublished, and might never fully see the light of day because they might just be too weird to find an audience... But we'll see how their 750-Word pilot episode is received

 

[karina_jayde]

Kind of hard to decide.

I'm really liking the main character from my current ongoing fantasy series: Knight of Lust

Caderyn is my take on the trope of a womanizing, degenerate nobleman (inspired by Hal from Shakespeare's plays). He will mature and get more responsible over the course of the series, but still is impulsive and horny. So he adapts and grows but still maintains vices, and that development has been fun to write.

I also had a lot of fun with Krajali, the futa warrior protag from my sword and sorcery series. Less growth and development for her (as befitting the genre) but when writing her she just seems to leap off the page, as a fully realized heroic character. More than any other she seems to have a life of her own, making her easy and fun to write for

 

[Rob_Royale]

There have been women I have known throughout my life that I have been wildly attracted to at some point and those lovely ladies have found their way into my stories. Those are always my favorite characters because they feel more real. I have memories of them. Most of them were older then me by a little or a lot, and they cemented my attraction for MILFs/Cougars before the terms were ever coined.
Angela in Getting Busy is based upon a saucy little minx in an open marriage that I worked for and was involved with for a while.
Tyra in MILF Cruise - Upgraded is based on a tall, full figured woman that was a software engineer at a company I worked for. We became close confidants, she had a cheating husband, but I was married and nothing came of it, but I did fantasize.
My Beautiful Debbie speaks for itself, as it's about how I lost my cherry.
Each of the women in From Famine to Feast are based on women I was involved with back when I was single.

 

[AchtungNight]

My favorite characters to write are all rebels, proud of it, and though they eventually settle down, remain rebellious at heart. Doug, Lisa, Erika, Cat, and most others I’ve written repeatedly are like this. I also enjoy characters with an unexpected twist to their development. Erika is religious, yeah, but she’s not a stick in the mud or a prig. Lisa is a simmering cauldron of emotions but usually in control of herself and explodes in a good way when she does. Doug is mild mannered but then calculating and brave when riled. Etc.

Why do I enjoy these characters? I see little of people like them in real life. Or they’re not as appreciated there.

 

[yowser]

I am unreasonably fond of the 750-word Curse-Creator, a spiritual descendant of 11th Century Bishop Ernulphus, who renders brutally frank judgement on Literotica writers.

 

[ronde]

My favorite characters are my private investigators. They're cynical and not at all politically correct. They will do anything to solve a case including stretching the law almost to the breaking point, but deep down, they have a soft spot for the underdogs of society.

 

[MrPixel]

I have two (technically, three) characters that are the MMC's female "sidekicks" who assist in driving my two polyamory stories. In my currently active series, Barstow, "Emily Foster" is the MMC's best friend and primary lover. She's super-smart, saucy, sexy, and independent to a fault. Drives him nuts, but he eats it up.

My other series, Off Campus, is on temporary hiatus, but will resume soon. "Ally (Allison) Abercrombie" is another Emily, the MMC's primary squeeze (of many). She's a little less independent than Emily, but she has her wild streaks that the MMC is happy to indulge. Another character I can't seem to live without is "Cheyenne Morris", a high-powered lawyer that is the MMC's foil and another bestie, and she, too, is super-smart, constantly matching wits with the MMC in a mutually-supporting way. If there was one of the MMC's loves that wants to "own" him, it's Cheyenne.

One character in both series is Cyan, the MMC's wife who is roughly based on my own. Mature, model-beautiful, sexy, experienced, and just a rock the MMC leans on.

But that said, all my characters are my favorites. This is like asking a mother which of her children is her favorite.

 

[AlexIce]

Even though I haven't finished the series, Penelope Forrester from my Touch Of Magic series is probably my favorite. In fact, it's one of the reasons why I've been taking my time with the third entry in the series because I want to do her character justice

Like many mind control stories, Penelope is a high school outcast who has no friends. She is physically weak and underdeveloped due to childhood cancer that has somewhat stunned her development. She gets her powers one night after a bad day at school through a magical spell book that's given to her. Along the way, she also gets a magical sidekick named Percival, who is the "spirit" of the book so takes the form of a Southern United States Gentleman from the 19th century.

What sets her apart from other protagonists in the MCU genre is that she doesn't go on a power trip like I've seen in so many stories. The spells she cast cause her to experience fatigue and she has somewhat of a moral compass. There's also actual consequences for some of her actions and that is by design.

I've gotten more than a few emails asking me where Volume 3 of the series is, so I know that it's not just me who loves the character.

 

[Duleigh]

My favorite by far is Lanh Nguyen-Campbell. She's been in a ton of stories and has appeared in all three of my larger sagas but her life started with her unfortunate end in The Original Version of A Krissmas Karole. I wrote that story as a contest piece, and as I waited for the Winter Holiday Contest to open I began writing the backstories of Don and Lanh Campbell and I fell madly in love with them. Lanh is sweet and smart. SHe was born with everything going against her. She was a preemie, her sister treated her as a toy, her family was busy and ignored her, and then they moved to a town in the middle of nowhere. She met Don, who was a teenage wreck himself and together they built a life to be proud of. They're not my first characters to appear in a long-form story (That's Josh and Veronica Gravely) but they're the ones I created entirely from scratch. They're not based on anyone or anything but bits of my imagination.

I couldn't publish the original version of the story, the end was too shattering for me, so I re-wrote it for Lanh's sake and published it with the beginning and end completely changed and I never regretted it for a moment. Lanh has starred in the series We're a Wonderful Wife, she's made cameo appearances in Stormwatch, and Friend Zoned, and is going to make a cameo appearance in Chapter 20 of All Aboard Andi's Dream. She also has an annual series of 750 word stories to celebrate Lunar New Year every year. Together those series and stories are over 1.4 million words.

 

[TiberiusPrime]

My favorite by far is Tom and Mary. I just love how he/she developed. That 2-parter just came together so effortlessly.

Though I also really love Ashley in my most recent story (The Good Neighbor).

 

[Kumquatqueen]

The more I write about various characters and flesh out their lives, the more I love them.

Which can be a problem when I know exactly what they mean but unless I write it carefully, people who haven't read all the previous stories with the same characters and memorised them won't know that - as a beta reader recently pointed out. So I have to remember to put in a quick summary description of who they are and where they're at, in subsequent stories.

I'm particularly fond of Rachel and Laura (they meet in Meaningless Kisses) - neither are me, but I can't deny there's similarities. A number of readers have told me they love Adrian but are a bit in love with Dan (Smoking Hot and sequels). Then there's various minor characters - Nigel the judge in Image Nine Point Four, lairy Janice in the last chapter of Smoking Hot, Tanya the criminal defence solicitor in Interviewed About Indecency, etc. And the elderly Prof Snow in Wheelchair Bound?, only he was a real guy, not my creation.

 

[Flybynite1892]

The more I write about various characters and flesh out their lives, the more I love them.

Which can be a problem when I know exactly what they mean but unless I write it carefully, people who haven't read all the previous stories with the same characters and memorised them won't know that - as a beta reader recently pointed out. So I have to remember to put in a quick summary description of who they are and where they're at, in subsequent stories.

I'm particularly fond of Rachel and Laura (they meet in Meaningless Kisses) - neither are me, but I can't deny there's similarities. A number of readers have told me they love Adrian but are a bit in love with Dan (Smoking Hot and sequels). Then there's various minor characters - Nigel the judge in Image Nine Point Four, lairy Janice in the last chapter of Smoking Hot, Tanya the criminal defence solicitor in Interviewed About Indecency, etc. And the elderly Prof Snow in Wheelchair Bound?, only he was a real guy, not my creation.

God, this is so true about knowing what your characters mean, but it not necessarily translating to the reader. I've totally had that happen to me.

What's interesting, too, is when readers latch onto a character I didn't think they would. Like they're raving about someone who I thought was kind of run of the mill, or something. It just emphasizes the point that this isn't really an exact science - we're kind of just throwing stuff into test tubes and seeing what explodes, I guess.

 

[LIDiver]

Suuuch a small pool to draw from but Tory!
The surprises emerging from that night were so easy to capture, record, and even embellish. She was absolutely delightful to write.
https://literotica.com/s/torys-emergence

 

[calmlikeabomb]

No erotic: wrote a character whose whole deal was that he would only speak five words or less. It was a writing challenge I gave myself and it turned out pretty well.

Erotic: wrote this white knight saviour priest guy who was a pious and respectable man by day, and an animal with his widowed maid at knight. Very cliched, but really helped me find my voice.

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

I loved writing about Henry and Jackie because Henry is based off a love I have for a sexy friend...

https://www.literotica.com/s/sexxy-texxy

 

[jehoram]

I'd have to say Dick from A Very Private Beach. I like the way he develops as he finds the right woman for him.

https://www.literotica.com/series/se/31833

 

[YmaOHyd]

I really enjoyed writing the unnamed FMC in Whatever It Takes, which was a 750-word story about a not-sexy morally dubious blowjob. There's more going on in that character's head than ended up on the page, I think, a lot more.

I wouldn't say any of the characters from April's Fool are favorite characters, but I had a lot of fun writing April and Corrine together, and I'm looking forward to bringing Corrine back. Something about the two of them together, with Evan as this kind of bemused onlooker, just felt like it clicked. I hope she'll still have her affectionately abusive mode of speech when she comes back, and I hope the MMC can close the emotional distance that Evan kept between them, when and if it happens.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I'm really enamored with Sadie, my protagonist in my latest, What a Cougar Wants. She's a widow who had a good sex like with her husband, who is now unapologetically sexual with her young male boarders. No quilt, no doubt, she is totally in the moment and loving every one. Someday she might want to fall in love again, but not today. Lust is enough and she revels in the rumors and gossip going on about it.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

I think my favorite character I’ve written is one of the main villains of my two series, Victor “Vex” Romano. I started out treating him like a bit of a caricature, basing him off Don Barzini in the Godfather, and I didn’t know how big a role he was going to play other than as the puppet master behind all the bad things happening to the MC.

In my second series, I started to write him more expansively, making him less a “big bad guy” motivated by your typical evil villain motivations and making him a multifaceted character who was an opponent of the MC and his family, but not someone with no redeeming features. I did my best to soften him so that he had a side that was at least understandable, because the evil villain trope is played out and I always try to remember the old adage “nobody thinks they’re the villain in their own story.” I even managed to do a sex scene with him and his wife, which one of my commenters laughed about saying he couldn’t believe he got turned on reading about a seventy year old getting laid.

Now I’m starting my third series and he’s continued to evolve in ways I hadn’t anticipated when I started the series, and will make him positively sympathetic. He’s evolved so much my mental image of him has shifted too, less Don Barzini and more Tywin Lannister, although I don’t intend to have him die on the toilet, although that would be poetic, given his issues with his kids that are similar but to a lesser extent than ole’ Tywin.

I don’t think I’ve written any character that has changed as much from my original concept than Vex - although his daughter Eva comes close, lol. She was originally intended to be one of the secondary big bad guys, and she’s ended up being the MCs second major love interest and a MC in her own right. But even that wasn’t as big a shift as Vex.

I can see how we authors can be enamored of our own creations, sometimes. The people we write can just end up being so damn interesting, lol.