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nilchance11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
I think that I don't necessarily have a 'least favorite' character to write, because if I didn't engage with them on some level, I wouldn't be writing them. There are characters that are harbingers of trouble, and/or who make me cringe with the things that come out of their mouths, but I don't necessarily think of them as unfavorites.
A good example of this would be Marisa in AKB. Man, she is sometimes a stone cold bitch who I don't necessarily like, but writing her means that on some level I have to see a consistent reason behind her behavior. She's destructive, yes, and she's manipulative as hell, but I made her and I know why she acts that way even if I don't agree with it and I can see the damage she does. I know her genetic code, so to speak, even if I don't necessarily include all of it in the story itself.
Another example of a character that's technically challenging would be Legion in the raven-verse. Legion is like the trope of the Starfish Alien; it isn't human, its ways and means and reasons aren't human reasons. Trying to get it across in writing is a pain in my ass, but hell, I made it up. The challenge is the high, so to speak. (Even if it makes me read Lovecraft. Fucking Lovecraft.)
As for favorite characters, that varies by the day. Right now, because I'm grooving on AKB, Jeremy is my favorite. He's funny and smart and strong and, well, inside his defenses, he's a fucking mess. He's interesting to me. I can write like 5 Happily Ever Afters for him that aren't the "canon" ones. Even when his scenes take me forever to write because they hurt, I love doing it.
I think that I don't necessarily have a 'least favorite' character to write, because if I didn't engage with them on some level, I wouldn't be writing them. There are characters that are harbingers of trouble, and/or who make me cringe with the things that come out of their mouths, but I don't necessarily think of them as unfavorites.
A good example of this would be Marisa in AKB. Man, she is sometimes a stone cold bitch who I don't necessarily like, but writing her means that on some level I have to see a consistent reason behind her behavior. She's destructive, yes, and she's manipulative as hell, but I made her and I know why she acts that way even if I don't agree with it and I can see the damage she does. I know her genetic code, so to speak, even if I don't necessarily include all of it in the story itself.
Another example of a character that's technically challenging would be Legion in the raven-verse. Legion is like the trope of the Starfish Alien; it isn't human, its ways and means and reasons aren't human reasons. Trying to get it across in writing is a pain in my ass, but hell, I made it up. The challenge is the high, so to speak. (Even if it makes me read Lovecraft. Fucking Lovecraft.)
As for favorite characters, that varies by the day. Right now, because I'm grooving on AKB, Jeremy is my favorite. He's funny and smart and strong and, well, inside his defenses, he's a fucking mess. He's interesting to me. I can write like 5 Happily Ever Afters for him that aren't the "canon" ones. Even when his scenes take me forever to write because they hurt, I love doing it.