UM YES
I hardly want any children, real or fictional 
So I see my characters as strangers I'm just documenting the lives of.
Particularly when it comes to the love interests I write, I inject them with qualities that I find attractive and/or base them off celebrities I have crushes on.
So the character currently in the cross-hairs of my heart eyes
is Valon from my webnovel, based off my old man crush Stephen Lang.