Types of Characters You Love

The kind that are real and you see it.

The ones I could tell the authors adored themselves. Not as in a Mary Sue or self-insert type of way, but you could tell the character means something and is alive to them.

Painters and heroin addicts.

and zombies.

Odd, artistic types. Ones that drink a lot of coffee and are kooky and weird and have only a couple of friends and have tragic lives.

And feminist women who have guts.

Characters that grow emotionally and mentally through the course of a story.

Quirky characters. Those ones that have lots of spunk and artistic value.
Hipster characters. Especially in a setting that doesn't clash with them.
Street-smart characters. Not necessarily tough... just aware and NOT timid.

Characters who often have good intentions but often get them wrong. People like Remus Lupin - who think they know what's for the best even though they sometimes get it wrong.

Characters that are like me. Or I can relate to them. It makes the story so believable to me :)

Nerdy characters who are proud of their nerdiness and do nerdy things and make nerdy references and watch nerdy TV shows and are just generally pretty uncool.

Rory Williams:

Nerdy characters who are proud of their nerdiness and do nerdy things and make nerdy references and watch nerdy TV shows and are just generally pretty uncool.

Yes.

ninja alex:

I like sarcastic characters. The ones with the biting remarks but they actually have some reason for acting that way.

It kinda hits home.

The Way:

The ones I could tell the authors adored themselves. Not as in a Mary Sue or self-insert type of way, but you could tell the character means something and is alive to them.

Rory Williams:

Nerdy characters who are proud of their nerdiness and do nerdy things and make nerdy references and watch nerdy TV shows and are just generally pretty uncool.

All of that.

Rory Williams:

Nerdy characters who are proud of their nerdiness and do nerdy things and make nerdy references and watch nerdy TV shows and are just generally pretty uncool.

Me in real life

Characters in the Mafia.
And characters with meaningful tattoos and/or are tattoo artists.

I love those characters that you should hate but you can't help but love.
The ones that are so terrible and yet it's realistic, the kind where you go "no one could ever act like that!" but you know that yes, they could.

Guy virgins.



Especially the ones who are perverted and you wouldn't guess would be a virgin... but then the moment comes and he's like '0.o'

Those characters that seem really shallow and two-dimensional but by the end of the story are more complex and interesting than any of the others.

And characters that are quietly self-deprecating. Not the ones who don't stop going on about how ugly and worthless they are, the ones who genuinely have no self-esteem and express it in tiny gestures and throwaway comments. When it's subtle like that, I just want to hug them so much.

this beautiful thief:

Those characters that seem really shallow and two-dimensional but by the end of the story are more complex and interesting than any of the others.

This is exactly why I love James Maslow's character on Big Time Rush They make him so shallow, but I feel like there's more to him than that.

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Completely awkward, adorkable characters

I love characters with layers to their problems.
The initial layering can be interesting, make you care about them.
Then, the layering runs deeper and you think "Holy shit, that makes sense."

My characters sort of tend to end up like this. In my one series of stories, the MC, Charlie, in the first book just seems to be obnoxious and hated by his peers. Then, he sort of explains how his secret longing for a decent relationship with his mom is behind it.
Then, in the second book, you see that he was bulled a lot when he was younger and it changed him to be a more selective person, to shut people out for his own protection for all those years.

Just those little pieces and things that make me think, "Oh damn, I just wanna hug you right now."

i like characters who are often romanticist (like girls that often dream of romantic things to do with their boyfriends) and when they actually go to do it, they fail cutely at it! XD If they're written right, I find them adorable. XD

i saw sparks:

Completely awkward, adorkable characters

This is legitimately my favourite type of character ever.

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I have a massive soft spot for assholish characters who are kind of mean without being made completely evil.

Characters I can relate to--artistic/creative people, people with little self esteem, often the shy but quite complex and thoughtful ones

Also I like the characters who come across as being a little bit strange and don't fit in to any stereotype, whether that's strange as in quirky or strange as in bordering on insane

And the ones who have good intentions or justifiable reasons for doing things, but the things they do often go wrong and turn out badly.