Favorite Characters You've Written And Why

[CyranoJ]

Hana and Nomi from Strange Hunger are personal favorites. I think they're the most well-realized and closest to being realistic characters in any of my stories currently on Lit. Hana's crazy brother Chris is more popular with readers than I expected him to be, and I'm really not interested in him beyond his function in that story, but admittedly he serves that purpose well.

I'm also fond of the various female characters in The Ballad of Little Bird. I think the published version of that story is much too compressed for most of them to come across as anything more than brief sketches, saving perhaps Cailin (who is admittedly my favorite). I have thoughts of writing a Lit-specific version of that story that gives them, and the narrative generally, more breathing room. I think a lot of my personal context for them wound up on the proverbial cutting-room floor in the quest to meet a word-count limit.

The characters in the Space Princess novellas -- which started life here -- are pretty much just as silly as the porno-Star Trek premise, but I'm still fond of them. Particularly Captain Titania Hollander, Commander Oona, and Doctor Bell who are essentially porno-bikini-girl parodies of Kirk, Spock and McCoy.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I do like it when a character puts their (in my case, nearly always her) hooks in. Ruby in my two "Garter Belts and..." stories did that, so much so that I took her back to forties LA and gave her a leading role in my Mickey Spillane story.

Jenny, from We Deliver all Things started out as a side character in the first chapter, then got two chapters of her own.

A real Maddy who I met in the street became Madelyn, and I liked her so much that I went all meta and had her recognise herself in the story, and gets in touch with the author, becoming Madeleine.

 

[PennyThompson]

Last time I posted on this thread, I said I had a character who maybe wasn't going to work out...

But that turned out to be Blue, the (to paraphrase @THBGato) Catfishing Alien Starfish with Bad Grammar She's naïve, impulsive, but highly intelligent and enthusiastically horny, which is a kind of character that I love very much

I've also got quite a soft spot for Junebug, the sad wistful werewolf who hasn't quite gotten over her ex and needs one last full moon visit before they can both get some closure

 

[Areala-chan]

Sasha from Dead Space: Kendra. She is an unreliable narrator, not because she's being deliberately deceptive, but because she's naïve and doesn't have a lot of worldly experience, which was a fun tightrope to walk. I don't know if she's my best character per se, but she was an entirely new try for that kind of perspective on storytelling and I had a blast writing her.

 

[THBGato]

Mine has to be Samantha, the neurodivergent lead from Love is a Place. Such a challenge to write, but so fun and rewarding too.

Plus she's a total scene stealer when she crops up in Eve & Lucy.

 

[stickygirl]

Choose between my children?! Impossible. If there was one I'd most like to sleep with right now, it would be my Polish friend, Karolina. She slays me with her accent and I totally understand why Hannah fell for her too. She comes to Hannah's rescue when things turn sour on a yacht in Under the Sky, then they later get back together in Under Her Breath.