Who is the character you like the most and who is the character you hate the most in your novel?

[Eldoria]

Who is the character you like the most, and who is the character you hate the most in your novel?

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

In My F-Grade Reincarnation, I would say Not-Cloud is my most hated...my favorite is Jesus =)

my other work The Deity Entertainment Network...probably the Sitri's when the MC is in DxD...as for favorite, Alec, the host of DEN, though there are a few names I could list off I really like.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

My favorites tend to be the support characters - Battle Mother Beydara in Between Earth and Pyrroth, or Jonesy, the character who keeps having to make new Travelers in Digital Cowboy Dane - though these characters also tend to suffer a lot.
I also really like the crazy old dragon Domelius (again, Between Earth and Pyrroth) and Pickles the Cat (same).
As for hated characters, I tend to like all of them - but try to MAKE some of them truly hated and detestable. The siblings who are the Demonblade in True Blue. and the villain who isn't a villain yet (but ultimately kills Indigo... oops spoiler?)... Dalrinjian in Between Earth and Pyrroth (though he's more an obsessed jerk than a true villain). Rodney in Strange Awakening. I rather like most of the villains there, really, especially the long-suffering Hellhound.
The only character I've created that I really hated was a dark and twisted almost self-insert (more a "there but for the grace of God go I" type than a true insert) in a lost horror novella, Hunter's Moon - the character is a writer, driven by his own darkness to write about the monstrous things he WANTS to do, and who found the perfect woman because she encourages him to write those things and even acts some of them out with him, right up to the death scenes, to help him keep it real (and because doing so turns her on)... Killing him off was really a weight off of my shoulders. Wish I still had those files.

 

[DaelyxLenAuphydas]

Oh Celestia how would I pick... I adore a lot of my characters honestly. More than I think most writers do, based on what I hear. Alunya would be the most obvious pick but, I think I'm going to have to say Saoirse Starshot? I don't know if I'd say they're my best character but, they're fun to write. A servant who is close friends with two aristocrats they were raised alongside, with an ego vastly outsizing their social status combined with a reckless nature, compensated for by the fact they are actually as talented as they believe they are. I have a thing for prideful characters, and Saoirse definitely fits that bill, but has a decent amount of depth too, along with a very complicated relationship with their two best friends, given that they hate the aristocracy but also have aristocrats as their main friends. Honestly though there's a lot I could say, I kinda adore most of my protagonists in general. I suppose I'm just as prideful as the characters I like in my own way, ha.

As far as most hated... Hrm. There's quite a few I could immediately go to because they're obviously loathsome and evil, but it feels almost too easy. Kuzir, or Tanith, or Elias Rosewine... A few wannabe rapists, or in Kuzir's case just an incredibly vulgar and chauvinistic piece of living filth. But it just feels too easy, I couldn't properly hate them because that would require seeing them as worthy of that much attention.

Oh wait what am I saying I write fanfiction it's obviously going to be Shining Armor I fucking hate Shining Armor. I hate Shining Armor so much that I routinely go by the alias of No. 01 Shining Armor Hater. Celestia but I hate Shining Armor...

That feels like cheating though since I didn't make the character, thats just in fanfiction. I'd say the one I most actively dislike that is of my own creation would have to be the unnamed parents of Torrent and Roisin, who try to sell one of their kids to pay off their gambling debts.

I dunno. It's kind of hard to actively dislike a character of mine own creation. If I made a character I actively loathe, I generally will end up killing them off. Knowing a character is mostly there just to be awful doesn't really inspire a lot of direct emotion, the emotion tends to be more focused on the more likeable characters having to deal with it. I suppose I could angle it more as 'what character do I find most unpleasant to write', but I don't really think any of my characters are particularly bad to write, just a few are standout as particularly enjoyable.

Maybe most disappointing character? As of right now that would be Glyndwr the Gryphon. I don't actively dislike them, but I have had a bit of a slow start with them, and I feel I've failed to make them particularly engaging. So that's more of a personal failing but, thats the closest I can think of. Not that I've given up on the character, mind; I still have every intention to flesh them out into a more interesting character and hopefully actually get to do something with them. Just, hasn't happened yet.

 

[ChrisLensman]

I don't think you can ever truly hate a character you created. Even if they're the most heinous villain you have ever thought up, the fact that you made them this way will make you like them. If they're irredeemably evil and all your readers hate them then that's just proof that you've done your job right. The only way you can hate one of your own characters is if you let them grow organically and the end result disgusts you.

What I mean by that is that there's two ways of writing a subplot. One is to keep the reins firmly in hand and write with a clear direction in mind. The other is to let things go where they may, have the characters act like how you would think they would act and accept the outcome. And it is only characters you allow to grow like this that you can ever truly hate. And even then I think it's less about hating the character and more about hating having to write yourself out of the corner this character has meandered into.

A favorite character, on the other hand, is perfectly natural and perfectly fine so long as you don't bend your story to make that character the center of the universe.

As for me, I don't know, if you're considering creating merchandise of a character it should be safe to say that's your favorite, right?

 

[Worthy39]

The character I hate the most is probably a guy named Seiji, the guy has barely any personality. I want to give him character development, but there hasn't been a good chance in the story to do that yet, so... he sucks for now. As for my favorite, probably a guy named Ryou. I don't know if he's necessarily my favorite character, but he was my favorite to write, at least. I had a ton of fun writing his dialog.

 

[VanVeleca]

On my socials I make it pretty obvious, my favorite is definitly Lucia~ with my least favorite being Ichigo (but I hate her in a loving way)

As for the side characters, my favorite would be Rosa and my least favorite...probably Katie or Xaiden?

 

[DireBadger]

My favorites and least favorites are pretty much determined by the amount of extra work they cost me each time I have to write them :P

 

[VanVeleca]

My favorites and least favorites are pretty much determined by the amount of extra work they cost me each time I have to write them :P

extra work? what do you mean by that?

 

[DireBadger]

extra work? what do you mean by that?

research, characterization, background building, personality work, motivation tasking. You know, all the work you HAVE to do on a character, enemy or friend, that appears in your book. I mean, sure, you can have nameless hordes, but if they are important enough to have a name, they are important enough to have a personality, background, and goals of some sort that you use to determine their personality and interactions... and the more interesting and deep you make their character, the more work you HAVE to put in.
You do that, right? Every author does?

 

[Sylver]

For my story: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/...onicles-book--kulikuli-the-nekomata-cat-girl/

It would be Norowa Reta, the Wolf without a Home. She's a foreigner banished from her home due to her lycanthropy, her perspective and experience serves as the gap between monster and humanoid. She's fun to write for many reasons, like her subtle accent, the occasional Japanese vocabulary she defaults to, her knowledge/teachings and her loyalty to her friends.

 

[VanVeleca]

research, characterization, background building, personality work, motivation tasking. You know, all the work you HAVE to do on a character, enemy or friend, that appears in your book. I mean, sure, you can have nameless hordes, but if they are important enough to have a name, they are important enough to have a personality, background, and goals of some sort that you use to determine their personality and interactions... and the more interesting and deep you make their character, the more work you HAVE to put in.
You do that, right? Every author does?

Lmao for me that's not really extra work, that's the biggest part I have fun with

 

[DireBadger]

Lmao for me that's not really extra work, that's the biggest part I have fun with

Sure, me too, but it's like cooking. I love cooking, but it's still a hell of a lot of work.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

research, characterization, background building, personality work, motivation tasking. You know, all the work you HAVE to do on a character, enemy or friend, that appears in your book. I mean, sure, you can have nameless hordes, but if they are important enough to have a name, they are important enough to have a personality, background, and goals of some sort that you use to determine their personality and interactions... and the more interesting and deep you make their character, the more work you HAVE to put in.
You do that, right? Every author does?

That's what every planner does, sure. But pantsers don't bother with that effort, just toss stuff out and revise when it doesn't work. And Plantsers like me ... do some of that but go with the flow for the rest.

 

[DireBadger]

That's what every planner does, sure. But pantsers don't bother with that effort, just toss stuff out and revise when it doesn't work. And Plantsers like me ... do some of that but go with the flow for the rest.

I'm a pantser too, to an extent, but my planning starts when I introduce a character. I need a character for the way the plot is going, to fill a certain role, and then a take time out to flesh them out and make a bunch of notes while I am deciding on what role to write them into.

At the very least, it saves me a bunch of rewrites. I may not know until chapter ten who's going to be the romance interest, but once they are there, it's time to build their reality.

I guess it's a lot like running a D&D game. I don't know what character is going to do until I introduce them, but once I do, it's time to build their character sheet so I don't screw things up later, and a lot of that building leads to story and subplots. I have this gigantic file full of character sheets (Not in any particular game system, as that tends to bleed through) That's just characters that have been introduced and might be useful later.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I guess it's a lot like running a D&D game. I don't know what character is going to do until I introduce them, but once I do, it's time to build their character sheet so I don't screw things up later, and a lot of that building leads to story and subplots.

I learned Pantsing from a friend who ran D&D that way - he would have a map, one monster written out, and one or two treasures, maybe a trap. Note that he didn't always even PLACE the treasures, trap or monster, just wrote them out. Then did the rest in his head.

I figure I finally learned his lessons when I wound up doing that for Champions (4th Edition) ... twice.

 

[Deleted member 222160]

i love all my babies, including the NPCs and assholes.

 

[Bartun]

I love them all, but the one I like the most is my MC, Nina. ?

 

[DireBadger]

I learned Pantsing from a friend who ran D&D that way - he would have a map, one monster written out, and one or two treasures, maybe a trap. Note that he didn't always even PLACE the treasures, trap or monster, just wrote them out. Then did the rest in his head.

I figure I finally learned his lessons when I wound up doing that for Champions (4th Edition) ... twice.

heh. I used to play champions, but after ten years, I finally admitted that all we ever did was argue over the rules and trash-talk each other :)

But it is still a magnificent way to get used to creating adventures for writing. I thoroughly recommend it. ESPECIALLY for creating characters you love and love to hate.

 

[Sylver]

I missed the question about who do I hate the most in my novel, oops.

I don't really hate or dislike my characters per say ? if I hated a character, I would look into changing them in some form, not as a reader but as a writer, if that makes sense.

But like a character in my novel that I wouldn't like in person? It would be Yohan and his two men, Larson and William. Their role is brief, but their presence creates an eerie atmosphere that makes any woman's skin crawl. They are predatory, aggressive, perverse and controlling. The funny part is they are just lackeys, goons that follow orders under the main antagonist of the story. But they represent the type of followers attracted to the main antagonist. They are not nice people to be with.