What's your (character) type?

[NickRowler]

I tend to write characters that are poor. I don't know why, I like drawing their tiny houses.

I also seem to be drawn to characters with mixed families. Be it from adoption or having a biracial character. This is mostly just based off my own family.

Also awkward people with anxiety.

[Vanesalisa]

watching t.v series helps with the types of people I like

[craicin]

my cringey characters are based on me. i am openly an embarrassment to my loved ones.

to be clear, im not intentionally embarrassing i have just came to terms with it being a feature personality trait.

[TheThoughtfulBoxful]

what type of character do you seem to always be writing?

the kind, thoughtful types with one or more insecurities. i love it when they realize they're awesome just the way they are.. makes me happy.

i really like snarky characters also. something bout that dry humor.. gets me every time.

[Pinwheel]

Bastards mostly, I think I keep trying to mimic Ash from Evil Dead.

[akemikae]

Super sarcastic, clumsy, and often reserved in a way. I also like to write quiet and blunt characters.

I realized recently that my type I write, is also the type of characters that I ship. Wtf me.

[Kirara312]

Characters with dark pasts. Also characters that are not normal I have some with cat ears, one with cat like eyes, and some characters with blunt personalities that are hiding something.

[gateofselidor]

Grumpy characters who show a softer side if you can earn their trust. It’s fun writing them coming out of their prickly shells.

[Kann]

I write a lot of dorks. Most of time they act dorky to hide their insecurities, sadness or dark past. Or they are just simply a comic relief characters.

[Wishjacked]

I like writing siblings who are really close and difficult parent/adult child relationships, hahaha.

Also, prissy jerks who are obsessed with something and try to get everyone they know to also enjoy that one thing, despite the fact that everyone they know is about 100% fed up with their prissy jerkiness. So like, in Crow Summer I've got a prissy jerk who loves the theater and tries to get all the neighborhood kids to also enjoy the theater. There's one of those in just about all my stories hahahaha

[rahnyjae]

Protectors and nurturers. Protectors fighting, nurturers healing. This dynamic is just about in all of my WIPs from high fantasy to crime drama. Sometimes, there are dependents between the two, either children or someone childlike. I'm really into Found Family, too, and orphaned siblings (typically more than two so they can all fill some familial role.)

[Ulta]

I don't think I have an actual type to gravitate towards. Probably because I really want my characters to be varied. Though a good 90% percent of them all have a fear of loneliness so...maybe that's it?

But again, I like my characters to be varied. It also helps when they all have at least SOME part of myself. Makes them easier to put in character AND keeps them diverse.

[Jenny-Toons]

It also helps when they all have at least SOME part of myself.

I can totally relate to that. Earlier, I had said I liked making characters with maternal-like traits, and I feel a lot of that comes from my own maternal traits ^^ I really like helping people and try my best to be support and nurturing. So a little part of that goes into my own characters

[Wumbl]

I obviously write a huge range of characters but... The ones I get really obsessed with are the ones who dedicate themselves to a cause out of lack of direction...

Foreas in my comic decides to help the hero purely because he is the only person he cares about at the time and he hates his normal life... and he is also one of my favourites. Then there's Neptune who travelled the world and learned to fight purely to distract herself while she ran away from her mistakes. (no spoilers here)

I've also got a character in the works who becomes a contract killer purely because he is uncomfortable living a normal life after events of his past. He even adopts a kid purely because he thinks "Well, someone's gotta be his dad."

Hell, I've got a character who formed a mercenary group just to do some soul-searching after her dad died.

I have a type... yeah.

[GalacticPotato]

Haha, mine would be the lone detective, common in noir, mystery and cop stories, what can i say? I just love those kinds of stories

[advertisingmerc]

Whiny babies who eventually turn mature.

I love me some character progression.

[jpnakashima]

Is this still rolling?

I tend to write characters centered on the feelings of guilt and shame. I find that many of my protagonists and villains have some kind of relationship with one or both of those feelings. Alienation and wanting to run away might creep in as well. That said, my stories usually end up being about getting past those negative feelings. I like to write characters who never give up, maybe because I feel I give up too easily.

(I'm boring I know)

I also feel the antagonists I usually create (and the ones I love the most) are those disproportionally lashing out against the world because they feel hurt by it. I also love and am gravitating, these times, around villains who feel the world owe then something and use that as an excuse to be douches.

[keii4ii]

Lawful-aligned.

I'm very Lawful myself, and I find it hard to come across stories centered around lawful characters. It annoys me when the only lawful characters in a story are portrayed as the Perpetually Boring. Lawful people CAN have fun. Lawful people CAN change. Lawful people can even be diverse!!! Gasp!

I don't exactly make it a priority to tell that message, but I think I naturally end up doing that by writing what I want to read.

[joannekwan]

Ehehehehehe

Um … I write a lot of slightly older (than me) men who are usually unhappy with some aspect of their lives and more often than not are disgruntled or depressed about it. Some hide it better than others.

[ashriott]

Most of my characters are often weighed by their demons. Throughout the story, they seek some sort of change or reform, whether it is for best or for worse. They are goal-orientated and usually driven by conscience. They are both appreciative and hateful of the values which they have gained within their lifetimes.

I suppose that's how I would summarise it? Most of my main characters and villains are like this... ^^;