Are Your Characters Real?

of course they are.
they are as real to me as you.
even the fan fic ones. They are so real.
I talk to them, I hold them, I help them.
we are best friends and enemies.

I just am so in love with some of them, and angered at others.
I talk to them a lot, especially, Sheikah.
I try to bond with them and keep their secrets.
I'm like a mother, in all cases. They aren't any different than children.

When I am writing, I turn into Calayah, so rebellious , and has such an attitude. When I created her, I based her off my friend Jewel :tehe: When I am writing alot of the times I will talk to one of them, I kind of get my chapter ideas that way :)

I carved my characters' initials into this fence at school. I was bored.

Yes, actually, they are. And most of them get quite pissed off with all the crap I put them through

But, basically, I have all these characters in my head and it's quite funny, actually, because someone said (I can't remember who) "Writing is the socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

Most of mine never shut up. A few of them don't talk much, to stay on my good side, but Liam, for instance.... Dude, shut up! Stop criticizing me and making sarcastic remarks about everything you see/I say.

At some point or another, they all end up talking with my friend. Our Imaginaries (including characters) talk a lot between us.

Mine run through my mind all the time, telling me what to make them do next... They keep me moving.

I used to make Facebook accounts for my characters.

Melly Belly.:

I sometimes pretend I am my character.

So have I... It's so much fun though.

fool's paradise:

I used to make Facebook accounts for my characters.

A friend and I made MySpaces for ours. It was so much fun.

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My characters are real, in the literal and figurative, since I write a good bit of fanfiction.

When I'm pissed, I turn into Ashley.
When I'm upset, I turn into Louis.
When I'm debating with someone, I turn into Andrew.
When I'm writing or drawing, I turn into Richie.

and etc. I am also fully convinced that Poppy's Spring was a real place.
The people there are real, only in modern reincarnation.

At least, they are to me.

My characters are more real to me than real people are.

My OC, Kiyoshi Kawasaki, is my alter ego. He's the person I see myself as when I'm alone and I don't have to identify as female. ;3
But I've adjusted him for my writing. He's a lot more easy going off the page, a bit of a goofball, enjoys dancing and messing around, etc. In my writing, his darker, cynical side comes out. Oh and he slays vampires Which of course I, as Kiyo, don't do.

Then, for my fanfiction, all the different versions of Die, Toshiya, Kaoru, Kyo and sometimes Shinya that I've created live in my head. And they are all very loud and want me to write about them. Die has the most incarnations and he just happens to be the chattiest member. My poor brain.

Each main character in my story has a bit of me in them, so I'd say to some extent they are real. And if they don't have a bit of me in them, they have a ton of my friends in them.

When I was writing the final stretch of I Can't Hang, the New York accents I had to write kind of seeped over into my normal speaking patterns and I turned into Brady for a few words like "dog" and "car."

When I sing in the car, I turn into Andy, and that also happens when I draw, because I make all sorts of derpy faces.

There are so many scenarios I think up in my head where my characters interact but it just doesn't make it into the actual story; it's still super fun to flesh them out like that, though.

For me, though, the characters that most stem from me are Ren, Chuck, Oshie, Soria, Ethan, and even Doug, to an extent. (I like to think I'm like Andy, but I'm just not that talented.) They've always felt the most real to me, even if they seem stupid to others.

I often daydream about my characters, but that's about as close as I get.