So I was browsing the "How many Characters do you have?" topic, and I was amazed at the numbers some people have created!

With all of those characters, which ones stand out most in your mind? Which ones become your favourites and keep coming back on different rp sites, while others fall by the wayside?

As well, why do your favourites become your favourites?

Personally, I would have to say that one of my favourite charries was Talon Malignon for a Harry Potter rp site. I just loved his name, and I created a neat, Slytherin-based background for him. As well, I came up with my own little rhyming prophecy about his name that contributed greatly to dramatic and exciting plots. He was cool, suave, confident, but with some insecurities that added to character development. He was so much fun to rp!

My other favourite would be my girl, Kitari, who I rp with in Dragonriders of Pern. She honestly seems like the female charrie I would most want to be like, a piece of me that I don't necessarily show on the outside but that exists nonetheless. She is determined, fierce, and proud. I greatly enjoy rping her too!

My favorite characters are definitely the ones with attitudes. I'd think I'd have to say that my favorite was one of my girls, Ella. She hated just about everyone and had an extreme superiority complex. Her method of coping with other people's stupidity was usually silence, and her desperate hope that if she just stopped talking to people, they'd all go away was really fun to play. It was hard to get dialogue for her, but she had an inner monologue running practically nonstop, and it made for some absolutely hilarious lines.

I haven't reused a character in a long time, but I'm planning on translating 15 year old Ella into the body of an 80 year old for my new site xD

Up until now I mostly have played quite normal characters. You know, the good guys and girls.

But I created a character called Mei and I love her to death XD. She's not a good girl, she can be really annoying to others, she doesn't give a crap about others (well rarely), if she does she won't let the other notice. She's all about surviving, and she doesn't really care who she ends up hurting in the process. She has kicked out serveral kids out of the Tribe she is part of (she's a sort of sub leader), and those weren't just a kick in the rear, but a bit more... violent lol.

She's really something new for me, so I'm still discovering her, but I like to roleplay with her ^_^. Even though she's my newest character, she also one of my top three favourites.

Hehe, I can't decide. Mea, Alan and Del are my current mains, and I love them all for who they are. I've played Del the longest, there's a lot of attachment there, but I'm really starting to adore my 40-yo single father with a 'no ponies' policy. Never really played a good, honest bloke -- so Alan's a lot of fun.

And then, of course, if you want random violence and language barriers.. well, Mea's your kid. The way she manages to misunderstand almost everything is briliant.

Love them all, can't decide -- won't decide. They're like kids. You don't really have a favourite.

That's defiantly true Mousie, I currently have three characters I roleplay with, Mei, Veikko and Spring, they are all three really cool characters. If you guys don't know my RP, it's basically where a virus whiped out the adults so now the kids gotta survive (otherwise my characters seem weird or something XD).

Veikko is a loner really, he knows how to take care of himself, he can survive off nature what it provides him and has a lot of knowledge about what he can eat because he always went for walks and to the forest when he was a kid. Although he can be really caring about others, especially younger kids. His general trade is his knowledge about nature, and he trades this for food and shelter with other tribes.

Spring is the leader of a nature loving tribe, she is very caring of both animals and people. Her father owned a farm and thus her tribe has a lot of animals, cows, sheep, chickens, pigs and horses. She decided that the best way to encrease the survival chances of her tribe was to start farming and breeding with the animals. She is very protective of her tribe and they have their settlement far away from the big city, at the edge of the forest.

Owh well, I love all three of them, Mei at the moment is the most interesting, also because of the RP threads she's in.

Hard question to follow here, because it easily comes down to two characters.

Oddly they are a mother and son combo!

Juliette was my first ever character I created on a HP RPG, she went from being a anti-relationship, anything for fun yet kind of shy little Princess (actual Princess, not like a spoilt brat) to a more outgoing, self confident, witty girl who made the guy she wanted fall head over for her….When the board folded she lived on in my stories that are littered through computers, hard-drives, old notebooks. So five years on and she has had lived many interesting tales and I doubt they have come anywhere near finished, she has two children to children to continue to give life lessons to…
What I love most about Jules is that no matter how different the situation, she still is the same as what I pictured and had her like back then. She is still a seventeen year old at hear…regardless of being a mother and married.

Then there is:

Evan, aka, Evikins who is Juliette’s son, youngest of two. He is my pride and joy on Tallygarunga. Ev is just adorably awkward, he knows how to deal with formal atmosphere, has strict morals, doesn’t believe in lying, and is an overall gentleman. He transferred to a public school after being taught by scholars all his life so he slips into that ‘What do ordinary people do now?’ type thing. He has a Hero complex of sorts, now that I actually analysed him closer, being the only blood male aside from his father in his family, surrounded by his family members that are mostly female he has that overprotective streak in him which I, and his sister who I also RP, refer to as ‘Overprotective Puppy Evan’. He has commitment issues with a side of commitment phobia (Thanks for that Mousie answer!) has been known to faint when faced with any sort of emotional attachment aside from friendship, which is funny because he now is entering a relationship. Poor Evan is clueless as all hell and has resorted to reading self help books on dating and relationships in hope of some help.

What puts Evan up in the fave characters for me is because he is just so great to play around with, you can just put him into any situation and he’ll either say something or do something stupid with it being of the best intentions it will always be not the best timing or unknowingly make things worse. His just a overall sweet kid to play.

Ooh what a lovely question. I've played quite a few characters....

I am stuck between my first ever vampire creation and my only musician.

Alexiel Saignez was possibly the first character I made who was elegant, wise....she was that first jump between playing ass kicking girls to formidable women. She became my way of learning how to control a character's temper, how to actually think and not just act on impulse as my previous characters had been teens and here she was, a lady of the night with quite an intensive and long background lol. It was just...an awesome and interesting ride with her as she really developed from someone who was simply wealthy with a sad story hidden behind a very pretty smile (Angelina Jolie) and really grew, becoming more human and less...jaded? Yeah.

My other favorite character is more recent. Sano Kurogane is my favorite character to play -- so much that it makes me giggle thinking about it. I'm not playing him right now but on my site, he will appear later. His background is amazing and not because of what happened but how I wrote it. My writing takes a whole 'nother shape and gets a lot better as I'm free to simply say what's on my mind since he is that type of character. Quite popular with the ladies too and I never expected that as he was bisexual (my first) and was simply...the worst influence. He was everything you'd ask in a bad boy? But it wasn't over played -- and he was always comedy relief. Of course...I played him on...two rpgs? Yeah.

Just, really memorable things happened with him. As a tribute to Jimmi Hendrix, he smashed his guitar on stage and then set it flames. His guitar was named...well, a derogatory term. >_> *clears throat* He was just spontaneous. I plan to make him a little different from the last RPG he was on. He will be his true form this time!

But yeah, those are my two charries...

This is really easy for me because I've stuck to the same five or six for forever now. What made them my favorites was the fact that it was so easy to get inside their heads and post from their perspectives.

Oh definitely Ruaidhri. He went from being a fun-loving, energetic, sporty guy who was accepting of everyone in his profile to being sooooooo laidback that you could use him as a trampoline and he'd go on smiling. When he gets upset it means there is a serious problem because he just doesn't get upset by most things. He didn't even care when his friend broke his nose.

He's still really accepting of people and soo cruisy that it's just great to play him. I don't have to worry whether something will offend him or not, because it won't. It makes it way easier for me to just write and he's turned out to be quite a wit (as well as a guy who will flirt with anything that moves). He's very fun to play.

My current favorite is a woman named Ro who's incredibly fun to play. She's snobbish, opinionated and a traditionalist but she's also very loyal and passionate. A conflicted character, if you will.

My favorite characters are the resilient ones.

I have three characters in particular that I really love. One of them is in a Tribe RPG and the other two are from Star Wars RPGs. They are all characters with tragic histories who have overcome those histories through some sort of coping mechanism. For Tek, a kid whose parents died and who was later kidnapped by a gang of kids, he copes by being a smart ass and fighting back against his captors with wit. For Cannon, a Jedi who fell to the Dark Side, he came back to the Light Side and remains resilient despite the mistrust of others by relying on his new found religion. And then my other Star Wars character, Buen, was on the wrong side of a war and now deals with the fact that everyone he knows is dead while he hordes memories of the old Jedi Order for the benefit of future generations.

I like characters who can overcome.

My faves are the ones who have serious issues, but deal with (or ignore) them in unique ways. I think it's getting explore all of their complex facets that makes them so interesting.

For instance, my oldest remaining character (i.e. one of the ones who's been in my head the longest, but has yet to have her full story played out) has a tragic history that continues to weigh down on her years after the fact. But she's grown into this strong and intelligent young woman, despite it. I think it's because she still has all that baggage and is still constantly trying to overcome it that makes her among my favorites.

It also doesn't hurt when they have a dark/hidden side to their personality. That's another trait that the aforementioned girly has. :p It's so FUN to explore that side of her, too. ^^

My favorite character was a guy I played for over a year. I loved watching him grow and develop. Keeping a character for that long in an RP that actually had dynamic time was amazing. I had him from when he was 14-18 and I still have just so much love for the kid.

At first, he was just this fun-loving goofy kid, trying to stand out as the youngest of seven kids in an intellectually talented but financially lacking family. At the time I started playing him, I was also playing one of his older brothers and in the beginning the older brother was way more interesting to play. The younger character was slightly one dimensional- he made jokes, used puns and word play constantly, and generally tried to emphasize that he was different from the rest of his practically perfect bookworm brothers.

Then something happened and he became very real. I didn't even realize that I had been doing it until another character he was close to repeatedly called him out on it. He wasn't using his puns and word play just to be funny anymore. He was being manipulative. He could take anything anyone else said, twist its meaning, and throw it back in their face with an effectiveness I never planned on giving him (which sort of also made me realize that this was a skill that I had. I mean, probably not to the same extent, because I got time to think before choosing his words, but still). It just happened. It was what he had become through playing.

I had originally thought that I would make him a 'good' character, thorough and through. You know, a 'take the moral high road' kind of guy. But then he was stealing another guy's girlfriend, openly mocking classmates, undermining teachers...Mind you, he had also somehow become vastly popular. I mean, I had never had a popular character before because they're usually too much like me, lol. Prone to nerdiness and awkwardness. I thought he would be kind of like that, too, with his word play and puns- humor that generally not a lot of people appreciate. But a lot of people on the board appreciated it, lol.

It was weird because most people still thought he was this great guy (which, I mean, I know I've been playing up his bad side, but he was generally a good guy. He just had some intense flaws that no one seemed to notice). He was seen as 'cool' for publicly exposing a teacher's mistake, not underhanded. Some characters openly supported his girlfriend stealing (mind, he only did it once and truly cared for the girl- they stayed together until both of the were characters retired). I felt like he was straddling the line and one push the wrong way could have really made him a bad guy- but everyone was turning a blind eye! He had shouting matches with the people he cared most about. Everyone seemed to forget that he kissed a girl he hated to keep her quiet. It was like in other people's eyes he could do no wrong.

The ONLY person who seemed even remotely aware of the fact that he got his way with words whenever he wanted was his girlfriend. She was the only person who could tell when he was trying to manipulate her.

So I guess part of the reason why I really like him was that he got away with things I would never have imagined he'd get away with. Sometimes I wonder if it was because he never thought blatantly obvious thoughts like "I bet I can get this person person to hate my enemy by making fun of them." He just did it and it worked. Probably because he was seen as a nice guy, which I suppose I established when he was younger.

Part of me would love to see him as an adult. I don't know if I would have been able to let him go 'bad', but I like to think that if the perfect opportunity presented itself, I wouldn't have let my own feelings get in the way of what he realistically would have done.

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Little Mouse, I know what you mean. I tend to make characters like that--or at least, I did. Somehow all of mine end up showing all of their flaws, or acting off that dark side we all have--because I find playing well-balanced characters a wee bit boring. I RP for the melodrama!

I'd have to say I do have one favorite character/character type. He's more or less archetypical rogue. I've played him in different iterations (as a spoiled Prince, once, which was fun), but probably the most intense is François Villon (named for the amazing 15th century French poet, who was imprisoned numerous times, killed a priest in a bar fight, and managed to survive based on his skill at poetry and the king's favor.... but that's another story).

François Villon the character actually began with the poet. I wanted to make an absolute villain whose words and charm were nonetheless so compelling that people couldn't help but like him. Naturally, he was a liar, a womanizer, etc. However, I kept uncovering layers of depth with him. As it turned out, his sharp intellect pushed him to tell the truth, even though his amorality made him yearn to be a complete and utter liar. But as it turned out, the fact that he was really a philosopher, a lover of wisdom, turned him honest. At this point, the only thing he's really dishonest about is the fact that he's honest. He also states truths about himself ironically, to make people think they're untrue.

He's also intensely immature and needy, which is a lot of fun to watch him struggle to contain and justify. Essentially, he has to feel that he's perfectly correct in everything he does... but generally he has petty, selfish reasons for his actions. He also has an explosive temper, and in the current character history he killed someone in a fight over a girl he didn't even love by cheating--drawing a weapon in an unarmed fight. Cheating is another thing he does a great deal, since he doesn't think rules apply to him; he thinks he's superior and needn't be measured by any man's moral yardstick.

He's also an atheist and an epileptic. The epilepsy (temporal lobe epilepsy) was at first just interesting to RP, but it's become a weakness he's really paranoid about, since he hates lack of control. Then there's his alcoholism, the purpose of which is generally self-forgetfulness and an excuse to relax his ridiculously high standards for himself. It's also just old-fashioned self-destructiveness.

In the end, he's a completely anchorless personality. He has no real moral compass; he hates himself; he has no idea why other people like him (or, God forbid--love him), though in fact he does his best to make them like him. It's amazing to RP him with his three-year-old son (whom he cares about more than almost anyone in the world--certainly more than he cares about himself), because he has to struggle with the evil side of himself and the good, and his lover, because she continues to love him despite his behavior. This makes him crazy, because he doesn't even love himself...

Right, he's really a bit of a wreck of a person, but I love him. I suppose his history is insanely dramatic, and he's not really a sympathetic character (unless you like odd-looking, sensitive, immature, arrogant sorts), but there's something fundamentally very human about him to me.

I have two favorites right now. One is one that I had played for three years on several forums *most of them died and I moved him over to someplace else* called Severus. Yes, the Severus Snape. It was funny because even if people are like 'what the hell is with this player?' when I played Sev on their forum, it still worked and I actually turned out making him really canon even before the seventh book was released - which was probably just bizarre coincidence on my part. For the past few months he has broken away from his character shell and remains now as a muse - so I have two god muses running almost non-stop in my head. When the board that I was mainly on and roleplayed as Sev (among a few other characters) was closed recently, it was official. I can still make a post with him, but it just isn't right any more for me to try because he isn't a character now, he's a muse.

My second favorite is sadly one that I wanted to get more time with. I had about eight months with him. 16-17 years old (his birthday was recent) and I had a wonderful time seeing him transforming into something almost completely different from how he started... right before my eyes. It's sad, though, because I don't see many boards wanting to accept him due to certain parts of him others might not agree with. I wish to play him again, but... god, I can't find a good place to play him. Not a good one - not one that would accept him. I miss him so much and it's only been a few says since the (ONLY) board he was on closed. So, now, instead of roleplaying with him, until I can find a good board to play him at, I am just writing stories for him. I have started on my first... this should be fun!

Wow, this sounds just like one of my characters. He is my absolute favorite and I love the way he's evolving. At first he was just supposed to be a nerdy guy who happens to be a werewolf. I loved that dichotomy -- he's bigger on the inside than he is on the outside. I loved it when people would take him for a boring little man, not realizing the werewolf lurking within.

Then I hooked up with someone, and she had some ideas for her character and wanted my guy to act them out for her. At first I was resistant -- I felt like my character was being hijacked and made to do things I didn't necessarily see him doing. But after a while I began to see ways where I could fit in what she wanted for her character with mine. We've been happily rping for a while now, and I hope it doesn't end any time soon.

I have three werewolves in play and I love all of them. They're all so special to me because I love the way they interact with each other and with other people (yes, I'm one of those weird people who rps with myself). I have other characters that I really like, but my werewolves are where it's at for me -- one in particular.

Probably my favorite character would be the first one I ever made on an actual RP site. And probably because he's the first I ever made. I still RP with him. <3

Then my pirate queen. She's surprisingly emotional (just because very little is ever serious with me.) and she's also mean and rather bratty.

Yep, those are my two favoritest charries. But I love them all, obviously.

I have only ever played three characters, and they are all very close to my heart in different ways. They all developed over time and I came to love them. Ha, this post is so pointless except to say that I just don't think I could pick one of my lovelies over the others. :)

So hard to choose!

For surely my most favorite is actually a character I killed off. Wotwot. She was a werewolf, but not the usual kind. I had some serious fun times with her. It was great. She was completely insane, walked around naked most of the time, found some semblance of humanity only to be betrayed. It was GREAT. She then slept with a guy, got pregnant, dropped the kid off with the woman who her mate had betrayed her with, and then went off to die, (of course there is more to the story than that, but yeah). Technically, she ascended to become a god, but you know, you just can't play gods. Too easy to kill everyone. Which what she was good at - happened when you're made expressly for that purpose -, and so very much loved to do.

Mmmm. Second.. I think would be Paije, who I've been playing for several years now on the same game - though its changed -. She's now almost 35, and I love her more than ever. She's one of those closed off, shut down, total ice queen bitches. And I adore her. She has her odd moments of tenderness, but those are generally reserved for her familiar and a dead guy, haha. She's definitely very in control of herself, until recently. I may kill her off too. Wheee, but not until she becomes Minister of Magic (go only HP game I've ever played!). So she will go from neglected child -> drug addicted -> uni student -> ministry worked -> World Domination! For the win!

And then Blu! Male fella, from Wales, and the same game as above. Wizard and werewolf with some serious brooding issues. Own Flourish & Blotts and drives all the ladies crazy (or mainly their players, buwahahahaha, just ask Panda).

Oh! And Azule. Werewolf W:oD style. Egyptian. Totally wicked. I think he died too? Or not? His story never got finished. But he was seriously awesome, and hot, and awesome.

Too many too count! I love all of them. [stops self from continuing]

I have four, the first three come from a HP site, and the fourth from an original fantasy.

Emmeline Vance- Because she's such a fiery girl. I just love her spirit and how outspoken she is. She's a real joy to play, especially up against those she absolutely hates. She's crazy in the sense she goes out in blizzards to practice Quidditch and thinks nothing of it. Em has her downfalls, but she reminds me of the personality I so desperately wish I had.

Benjy Fenwick- He's so stinkin' cute, and so dedicated to what he stands for. I just can't help but to love a kid who will allow Lucius Malfoy to use the Cruciatus curse on him and use it to his benefit. The kid's got guts.

Apollo Avery- He's pretty, and he's love-sick for his fiance, who does not love him back. I love him so much, I've already thought up a super tragic way for him to die. Such a good character can't not go out with a bang. I've got a lot planned for him between now and then, though.

Marlow MacPherson- She is the only character who has 80% of my personality. She's an eighteen-year-old OCD sailor who is commonly mistaken for a fifteen-year-old. She's fairly new to me right now, but I've already fallen in love with her.

Hmm. Yeah that's pretty much it right now.

It's interesting how for some people, the answer to this question is obvious and immediately recognizable. For some it seems a bit harder to answer. Just find that interesting. For me, it's an easy question and I come back to the same three over and over.

I'd have to say the #1 charrie is Sasha Schlagenweit and he's a character who's passed the test of time. I first created him about 17 years ago as a WWII spy character and have adapted him the HP, X-Men and Old West forums. He's this scrawny, prick of kid who initially comes across as rather shy and wimpy. When he learns to trust someone, though, he's loyal almost to a fault. For those of you familiar with Jack HIggins' Eagle Has Landed, there's a German soldier who bird watched in the book. That's the closest to a inspiration for the character I can remember. I've lived with the kid in my head for 17 years now and there's little i don't know about him and few situations he hasn't faced. And, yes, it probably sounds crazy, but I have several CDs in my collection that I attribute to being his and are his style of music (british pop by the way, while I am usually rather a folky)

The second is Tulojow Nagde (the namesake here, yes) and she's this spunky old lady with a fun and just this mixture of humility and cockiness. It's hard to describe, really, but I aspire to being her some times. I've adapted her a fair bit as well to different sites and she adapts easily. She's, usually, Chippewa in heritage and is based off the mythical Trickster figure. So, is a fine balance of mischievousness, role model and spunk.

The third is one of those *ever so popular* related to a canon characters / Voldie spawn. I admit I created her before I realized how faux pas that was on most rp sites but it was a bit too late. I'd fallen in love with her and now just generally go begging for sites that will take her. I'd always enjoyed doing espionage roles and loved playing with balances of light / dark especially in one person. I spent my college career studying what makes people do things they wouldn't normally do and have been left intrigued with that balance. Máiread O'Farrell, Voldemort's daughter though in order to keep her identity secret as an infant she was swapped with the child of an auror/muggle household. Sort of like those magpies that lay their eggs in another birds nest and tricks the bird into raising their kid. So, there's exposure to two different sides of the coin, two different lifestyles and yes, I have learned it's a less than popular thing to do but I learned that after growing attached to the character.

So, yeah there are others but those are by far the favorites.

Heh. Those werewolves are where it's at, aren't they? ^_^

My three werewolves were born in the same litter but are decidedly not triplets. They're all very different. Stuart (my favorite) is nerdy, quiet and reserved (unless you piss him off and then he explodes), Zippy is outgoing, fun and quick to anger, and Philippe is smooth and suave, and a real user. Love them all.

I'd like to get them involved in other rps but I haven't seen anything in the rpg advertisement thread. Most rps that allow werewolves (at least what I've seen) are vampire vs. werewolves affairs, very serious. I can't see my three in that kind of situation at all. I'm going to check out the character auditions thread -- maybe I'll find something there.

Werewolves are totally the love. And vampires are so last century. ^^ I had to go to freewebs to get my werewolf fix, where it's just werewolves (well, and people and hunters).

My Azule was based of Werewolf: the Apocalypse. So he was a warrior of Gaia, whom he was very disillusioned with, etc. To add a twist, he got stuck with a druid-like woman, who he HAD to protect. So he couldn't leave her behind, couldn't dispose of her, and was stuck, stuck, stuck. It was so fun. He was just amazing, totally manly, even though he spent most of his time running around in a dress kilt. And the fact he got the crap kicked out of him by a pack of dog. o_O But they were big mean dogs! I would say one of my best male characters to date.

I have a favorite character. No, two. :] But I don't really RP with them anymore. I use them just for writing so I can have them all to myself. <3

Oh, make that three characters.

Ha! That's great. I love it!

Well, having been into RPing for as long as I have been, I've had loads of characters to play. However, there are a couple that stand out in my mind.

One is Nemesis Silverblade, a devout knight of a religious order who rose through the ranks and eventually watched his superiors die. I've used him as an NPC a few times and wound up having to kill him off as part of a plot. Considering there's a ressurrect spell out there though, he could make a comeback.

The next is Haydn Quinn, a Toreador vampire (Vampire The Masquerade). He was raised in Japan and studied as a samurai. He's a very calm, cool, level-headed chap but when that blade of his starts flashing, other vampies hide. He has a dog called Thorne that's a bleedin' nasty sod and has to be muzzled when Haydn isn't around. He owns a motel chain and makes sure he has a few rooms for "special clients" with needs similar to his own. He tends to be a mentor type figure, picking up newly embraced vampies and teaching them the traditions. He also has a thing for drug users and helps them clean up their act by giving them the money they need for counselling and giving them a job in one of his motels. These are the type of people that he needs around him, those that understand his secret.

Another is an NPC I created called Wildcard. He's physically blind but compensates for this with fantastic spatial awareness and a few other little helping hands. He is considered, by some people, to be the best of the best. If only they knew what his character sheet said and realised just how vulnerable he really is.

I could go on and on about this topic but I think I'd run out of posting space so I'll leave it there for now.

Cheers,

Baz

My Favorite? She was your cliche "bitch" kinda character... except she was over 700 years old, a demon, lieutenant in the army and interrestingly enough she fell in love with an angel who was basically the polar opposite of herself. They had a half-angel, half-demon child later. It was fun! Anyway, I want to play her somewhere but all the new style RPGs with angels and demon are so cliched, she just wouldn't be the same if it was just angel v demon.

Otherwise, probably my darling little singer/song writer who flirts with everyone. He's been around 40 at times and ggoes around flirting with teenagers. Hetero males tend to avoid playing with him *shrug* but I love him.

My favorite is also the one I've had the longest... to think, that I've soon known my Rhett Morgan for 2 years. His mind is a bit twisted, he loves blades and blood, he loves killing pirates, but he also loves women. I love my twisted villains, although he's not so much a villain anymore, but still a bit nuts.

I think he's my favorite because he feels everything so strongly. With Rhett, there's never something in between. He either love you or hate you. And he's always very determined - if he wants something, he wants it. Meaning he'll go through whatever he has to, to get what he wants. He doesn't give up, and he can be very manipulative and persuasive if he has to be. And then that fascination with blood, and the fact that it makes him feel 'high' to kill, just gives him that lovely twisted bit that... yeah, makes me love him :lol:

oh yeah, and the fact that he looks like Gerard Butler, doesn't help me not loving him... lol

I have a few favorites. There isn't really a specific archetype or anything other than that they're my deepest characters. I know them better than my others even though they aren't necessarily the ones that have been around the longest.

Amadeus Faulkner: Easily my number one favorite character of all time. He was originally a vampire, but when I moved him over to Wydan University, an HP university RPG, to be the Vice Chancellor he completely reinvented himself. He's a snobbish pureblood, but he's getting old (well... 49... not that old) and sick of upholding something that, deep down, he doesn't really believe in. The real problem is that he's too proud to admit that he's wrong... and that's just the tip of the iceburg. I could write a freaking novel about that guy :p

Patrick P. Powers: Has a funny name. Another HP professor, but a muggleborn this time. He's geeky in every sense of the word and hasn't had sex since the eighties :D (well... since he in his late twenties. He's forty seven now... pretty sure that's the eighties). He's less of a jerk than Amadeus is. Very much the lovable, very awkward ubergeek, but all grown up.

(And yes... my niche seems to be middle aged men. Don't ask me why, as I am neither middle-aged nor a man. I don't get it either.)

I like Am and Pat too. And Aur. And Erik. And Dor. :p

Anyway, this is about MY characters. So.

Verona Abbotsleigh: When Verona was first conceived, she was a blonde who wanted to be a rocker. She played guitar, amongst other things, and had a more traditional rock/pop voice. When I brought her over to Wydan, she grew about five inches, turned into a redhead, became less intelligent (academically), lost the guitar-playing and developed an operatic voice instead.

The thing I love about her is the fact that she is never afraid to speak her mind. She's loud with a mouth like a sailor and doesn't balk at the idea of speaking the truth. If she has a problem with something/someone she lets everyone know. She is also very good at reading people, spotting the things that other people would rather hide.


Camilla Owain: When Cam was first conceived, she was a curvaceous brunette with a love of potions and a detest for Muggles and Muggleborns (she was a Canadian pureblood). She was involved with a secret organisation that had ties to a potions company that liked to test things on Muggles. Camilla acted as bait for subjects. She was wild and fantastical, and very aware of the fact she wanted to be untouchable. Wild and flirty.

After a brief stint as a human-hating Mutant, Camilla reappeared at Wydan very different from her former selves. Now a skinny, curveless brunette, she lacked the zest for potions her former self had, as well as her Pureblood status. Now she harbours a lot of issues because she is one generation away from being Pureblooded - she's almost good enough. Almost. She has retained the fanatical devotion that her former selves also had, and she's very much like a human House Elf in a lot of ways.


Magdalena Labeau: Magda started life off as an idea expressed in a single sentence. "I need a slut character". Of course, I could never be satisfied with a 2D character, and Magda quickly developed into something more. Sexually-liberated and having experienced the consequences of growing up too fast, Magda acts a little older than she actually is. She also makes a point of wanting to prove herself as being more than just a pretty face (or in her case, a nice body) and works hard to gain her degree.

I love her sense of humour, her confidence, but also her softer side. She's actually one of my most maternal characters, which is very odd indeed.


Regina Randall: Regina was my very first character. She started off as being based on my 16 year old self (but less messed up) but quickly branched off into something more original. She's fun to play, and despite being shy and awkward has some of the most interesting plotlines sometimes. Right now? Her best friend is a ghost.

I think from my characters i was really taken by Willow Moon and Seth Bache, i don't know what made me like them, it was probably because they weren't likable charcaters, and they were usually seen alone. You know? Loners, Really cruel characters. Even turning to Adultry and Murder on some sites.

Gawh. This is hard... I can't decide one for certain. So, I have like... five that I consider favorites?

Aberforth Dumbledore: Yeah, he's a canon, but I've come to really adore playing him. He's bitter and stand-offish, and yet he's got a philanthropic streak. And has a little bit of a soft spot for the underdog. He's stubborn, though, and he doesn't have close friends - or anyone that he opens up to. Well, not any other played character... Abe comes with a seven-piece set of Goat NPC's. Esther, Obadiah, Methuselah, Jahel, Bernice, Rhoda, Cornelia. I just decided I wanted ridiculously antiquidated names for them (He's also got awful middle names. Aberforth Wilford Eustace Dumbledore. Mwahaha). But they're his babies and he'll let them get away with anything. Everybody's kind of caught on to the goats, too, and it makes for really fun stuff. "The black one ate my sleeve!" "Obadiah's just being affectionate. Doesn't do that to everyone." He's greaaat.

George Llewellyn: Is the fall guy. Short, and really young looking for his age (He's 18 and 5'5") and he always seems to get the short end of the stick. He had a near-drowning experience as a 10 year old, which left him severely aquaphobic. And he's been bullied for that, though he tries to keep it on the down-low. And so, being the evil I am, what did I do? Oh, he just fell through that thin ice. Oops. George is a bit bitter and sarcastic, but he's not exactly all that intimidating. He's almost kind of cute when he gets upset. He's also one of the very few that are actually in a romantic relationship. He's got a best friend that'll eventually turn out with, who's all of 4'8". And her player is wunderful. ^^ It's so much fun.

Baiye Whitehawk (& Gidget): I haven't played Baiye in a while, but she stands out quite a bit. She's a sci-fi kind of character, and a specialist in android-type robotics. Otherwise, she's rather normal, though she kind of gets embarrassed easily. Baiye's a lot of fun becuase she's also got a "Tandem" character. A 'cainoid' she created, Gidget, a fully-functional dog android (based of a Cardigan Welsh Corgi) with a load of personality. He's got abilities such as being able to "sync" with computers (basically get plugged in) and likes to surf the web for trashy fan-fiction. Gid's so much fun and a bit of a foil to Baiye, but they have a bit of a brother-sister relationship. On the other hand, Baiye can hold threats over him like turning off his wireless access or whatever.

Coyote: Based loosely off the Coyote of Native American Legend, played him in a "God" game. Coyote was unique in his actual status. He was on the evil side, but was really a good person. He was a prankster and wanted to have fun over anything else, but he was serious when it came down to it. The game was set in a place where the Gods weren't being worshiped and it affected them in such a way that they needed to find worshippers, but there were different methods. Coyote was desperate in that he lost his following a lot later than the others (they being Native Americans) and so was a lot more desperate than those like my 'older' characters like Skuld and Hekate that lost followers centuries earlier. So he went with the 'evil' side, even though he's good. It made for a really cool dynamic. And I eventually planned to 'convert' him to good, before the site died. I can't play him anymore, but I still lub him.

Camille (Cami) Petit: My furball. Teehee. She's a Harry Potter styled werewolf, but was raised in a wolf-family, by heritage (though her father was an "accident, her mother's family's been werewolves for generations) and they're good people, living in isolation in the Gevaudan region of France. As a child, she had basically no contact with people outside her family (parents and maternal grandparents) and as such has a very problematic social disorder. She's got literally no restraint, and simply barrels through anything. She's pretty selfish, though she likes people, even though she's interally afraid of rejection, being a werewolf an' all. She's also really curious and tends to stalk people; though there's none so strange as Cami. She tends to kidnap people's shoes and chew/destroy them, has a raven for a pet instead of an owl (More like real-life symbiotic wolf/raven relationships), chews rawhide, and has been known to pounce and lick people. She's infectious. And I adore her. ^^

There's a bunch more that I really love, though. Like my "Swearing Tomboy Cockney Chemistry Genius". But I'm going to restrain myself.

I totally agree with Mousie on this one; watching the characters grow and reveal who they are as their storylines progress - it's like watching your children growing up and discovering themselves. Each one of them has their own unique quirks and flaws and talents, you can't quantify that with a ranking system.

I love them all, each for their own reasons.

(then again, this reflects my personality ^_^ - I don't really have a favorite anything, and I don't like being forced into choosing just one when I can see the good merits that everything else has.)