Writers - who's your best character?

[chromewarriorXIII]

This is just something quick I wrote up after having a surge of imagination. I hope you like the characters, which I purposefully left nameless.

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He stood, staring in shock as the body of his best friend fell to the ground. He wanted to move, to run, as fast as he could, but his feet were rooted to the ground. He saw his attacker look up from the crumpled bodies of his sister and friend and stare deep into his eyes. Frozen, he could do nothing but stare back. The eyes were glazed over and filled with emptiness. He started to shake as the gun rose up and he stared, straight down the barrel. He could see the man's finger slowly pressing the trigger in. He could have sworn he saw his sister's hand move, but it was already over.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

This is just something quick I wrote up after having a surge of imagination. I hope you like the characters, which I purposefully left nameless.

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He stood, staring in shock as the body of his best friend fell to the ground. He wanted to move, to run, as fast as he could, but his feet were rooted to the ground. He saw his attack look up from the crumpled bodies of his sister and friend and stare deep into his eyes. Frozen, he could do nothing but stare back. The eyes were glazed over and filled with emptiness. He started to shake as the gun rose up and he stared, straight down the barrel. He could see the man's finger slowly pressing the trigger in. He could have sworn he saw his sister's hand move, but it was already over.

Curse you and your surge of imagination! Mine are like a very slow convection current.

 

[ThatCanadianDude]

Man, so many characters, it's hard to pick one. I guess that's what you get when you let about 50 ideas pile up in the back of your mind.

I'd have to go with James 'Jim Cognito' Cogson. He is an Englishman, living in Toronto, Ontario. His most distinguishing feature is the fact that his face is completely covered in bandages. He almost always wears a grey fedora, a grey and white striped dress shirt, a pair of jeans, and black dress shoes.

He changes the outfit and removes the bandages, however, whenever he takes a job; Jim Cognito is a master-of-disguise-for-hire. His face is surgically implanted with a layer of rubber, allowing him to alter his facial features on a whim. A special coolant he had created allows him to freeze his current facial appearance for 24 hours, during which he does his job. He guarantees all his acts will be finished within 24 hours or it's free. He's taken acting lessons and voice changing lessons for most of his life, allowing him to blend in whenever the need be, and be noticed when required.

James himself is a relatively quiet man, living out a normal life when not out doing 'jobs'. He reads the paper, he shops for groceries, he smokes the occasional Import A out behind the bar. Despite his bandaged appearance, he's always managed to stay inconspicuous due to his unimposing stature and manner of dress. He finds time, from time to time, to adopt a persona for his own benefit, and often adopts the persona 'Marlon Karlov' when, for his own enjoyment, he performs in local plays. He has adopted others, such as the time he had a whirlwind romance with a rich socialite as 'Harold S. Guttenburg', before 'Harold' mysteriously vanished in a freak yachting accident.

James himself does allow himself to be hired for assassinations, but only on the grounds that the person he is hired to kill is involved in some immoral acts, such as theft. His general view towards humanity is as an experiment by whatever force put them there. While not officially religious, he does believe in a higher power, though what that power is, he cannot say. He believes that by slaying those who attempt to avoid the darker side of human nature, even if they don't completely succeed, he will alter the results of the experiment in a bad way. By allowing himself to slay those who embrace the darker side, which he notices is getting larger, he hopes to keep the experiments balance. He does not, however, attempt to justify murder, or any of the other things he does, including theft, espionage, and sabotage.

James has never truly loved any woman, or anything for that manner, and regards no one as a 'friend', save one, a man named Albert whom works at a coffee shop not far from his penthouse apartment, whom James works through and receives his jobs. James is asexual, and feels no attraction to anyone.

Basically, that's James in a nutshell. Man, imagine if I went into detail.

 

[barryween]

I have an idea for a comic involving a YOUNG man named NEIL (If you get how that relates to Scott Pilgrim, you can haz a cookie) who is killed, well, struck by a car.

He then makes a deal with the grim reaper to become his "hit man" and destroy 8 evil spirits/creatures. He does this because Grim promises to let him return to life if he does this. He agrees, only because he wants to see this girl (named Naomi) that he was friends with, and never got to tell her how he truly felt (he loves her).

He goes from looking happy go lucky with shaggy black hair to having white hair and hollow, blank eyes, taking on a ghostly Gothic look. But his slacker personality and happy disposition remain. And he still only get's serious when a situation starts to stir.

Another twist is that once he returns to living he loses all of his powers but ghosts/spirits can still attack him.
Tell me what you think

 

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[RebelRising]

I've recently come up with a concept that I would love to draw or animate, if i had any sort of talent in that. Anyways, this is it:

A pair of Russian bums leave their Motherland to find fame and fortune in the West, encountering a number of trials and tribulations along the way, including a Germany that has been wiped of any memory of the Nazis or World War II and a Hungary hellbent on the return of a Fascist state. Chernov Tartanovich is the cartoonishly tall and skinny one, whose defining traits are naivete and and overconfidence. Vlad Sergeyev is the cartoonishly short and fat one, and he is mistakenly convinced of his savvy with other cultures, especially in the ways of pop culture, and he tends to be much more opportunistic. The names are still in working.

I actually have an entire concept in my head in which they attempt stand-up comedy, but it quickly devolves into poorly-worded stereotypes, complaining about thin women who can't cook, and making fun of Rosie O'Donnel.

I know it sucks; I wish I had the willpower to develop it further, but I've been disappointed by my ideas before.

 

[Animated Rope]

(I'm an aspiring writer and have done some concept work on novels.)

His name is Lars and are 35 years old.

He lives in a moderately populated (non-city)area close to the Swedish forest. And he is certainly not alone around there to be an outdoors man at heart and lifestyle with a do-it-yourself mentality, even if he's not doing it for a living. He he is a tad more heavily built than some office-guy, but not extremely fit or muscular.

I intend to include him in a horror/thriller novel without supernatural events.

 

[Rahheemme]

In most of my stories, there are two characters that usually either show up or are revealed to be main characters: The Patriarch of Order and The Patriarch of Chaos.
These two characters show up during times of turmoil to personify a the balance between order and chaos in the universe, usually tasked to restore an equilibrium. They are characterized by a higher level of consciousness and have no Fourth Wall. No matter what, they always meet each other at some point in their lives, either as enemies or friends.

There's that, then there's Deck. Deck is a superhuman with the conscious and nearly omnipotent control over matter. However, he has multiple personality syndrome. Each personality controls different aspects of his power. Though he has hundreds of personalities, there are only three that manifest themselves: A cynical, world-weary personality with a great deal of common sense, an self-righteous, avenging angel personality that wants to work for good, and a psychotic sadist who will often do things like disembowl his victim, but keep his heart beating so that he will bleed out in agony.

*phew*

 

[Motti]

Complete bastards, I find, are always the most fun to write.

Spoiler: read on, and I shall elaborate

There was this one character I am in the process of writing. His name is Kage because I couldn't think of anything better and he's an assassin because he's got nothing else to do. He likes his job, perhaps a little too much, and has nothing but contempt for the soldiers and knights he evades when he can't be bothered to kill them. Occasionally he responds to the call to protect the kingdom he lives in simply because he is smart enough to realise that the current state of things is a lot easier for him than a state of war.
He's a lot of fun.

My best (as in the most fleshed-out) character is a guerilla named Captain Klashnikov, although he's not Russian and that isn't his real name. He leads a group called the pack who answer to the American government for blacker-than-black operations. He's short, getting old and unassuming, but tough and with more experience than the rest of the pack put together. He is the sort of person who you instinctively don't want to mess with. As the name suggests, he always favours an AK-47.

 

[dstryfe]

Alright...this is set in a fairly generic fantasy world, where innate magic is all but unheard of, and only through intense study can you use it. That, or you can murder many and pledge yourself to a dark god in a ritual involving said murders. Those who take that pledge are simply called 'dark mages' and lose whatever was left of their minds. It is accepted as fact that the terrible power drives them mad.

Karas is a 'fist,' one who is above the law and disposes of threats to the kingdom. He was sent to eliminate a cabal of dark mages. Always power hungry, Karas joined them, pledging himself to their foul god and gaining their powers. Unlike the others, however, he retained his sanity and destroyed them and their temple. He never kept this a secret, and was no longer trusted by his coworkers, though he still continued on like nothing happened.

Over the course of the story he's in, he saves the king's youngest daughter, who falls in love with him, and finds a way to gain even more power. He uses her to this end, turning the main characters against each other and having her kill her eldest sister. He gains the power and becomes all but omnipotent, but failed to foresee him loving her back, and dies saving her life. Which I thought was too bad, since he was a much more fun chanracter than she was.

 

[Amnestic]

My characters, Bella Swan and Edward Cullen.

[small]I don't like the things you people say about my books on here. >:|[/small]

I lol'd. Very good.

Favourite? Andrew Pearce for Nukey's RP a while back. I could turn that into a story all on its own really if I had the time and inclination.

 

[Artemis923]

I'd have to name Garth of Greenway as my favorite created character. I only wrote a couple paragraphs about him pulling off an assassination, but that was all I needed.

 

[Queen Michael]

Lord Kramdiphon, ruler of the vast land of Aghramar.

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Just kidding!

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Lord Thodin]

In the process of writing... well, vampires are a subject. Not sparkly vampires.

Just another twist on the gimmick of what vampires are weakened by. Vampires are weakened by what they had an aversion too in life (allergic to garlic, weakened by garlic, sun, etc).

One of the side characters is a vampire and had a wool allergy in life, so he doesn't wear clothes and avoids people in an ancient forest. Because he thinks it's the 1500's from his extended seclusion, he doesn't know cotton or polyester exists, and doesn't eat people because he thinks they have wool clothes.

Hah! I like that. It has the right balance of bizarre and believable. Very Discworldly (and that is a GOOD thing)

That sounds hilarious. id read that. By the by, what was the deal with discworld. i used to own it but was too young to understand any of it

 

[Lord Thodin]

My favorite would be a guy named Aauron Stents. Hes a man who dies at the ripe age of 21 and becomes a ghost. He ends of living as a ghost for a generous amount of time, and loves it. Loves the no limitations. What he doesn't know is that after a certain amount of time, people must be "recycled". So you go back to Earth as a new person not knowing anything about your past lives. Well Aaruon remembers EVERYTHING and he knows EVERYTHING about this new body hes been given. He learns that this man will get cancer at an old age, that his mother will die at this date, and that his wife ends up getting hit by a car and so on and so forth. So this guy whos a 6 foot tall, dark haired, well built, testosterone fueled machine must put aside vanities, and wishes to connect with his own family from a past life in order to save this mans family before he dies..........i like this guy. Hes witty, obnoxious at times just for the sake of it, and when he gets an idea he will stick to it regardless of consequences.

 

[Lord George]

Mr. Grey, a little old man in a little worn grey suit and a little grey hat. He sometimes carries a balloon.

He appears in many of my stories often as a deus ex machina or as a way to get a plot rolling.

 

[Hotfoottfox]

I love writing, but I'm by no means an offical writer.

My favorite character would have to be Epona, an elf/Phoenix type thing. Her mother's dead, her father abandoned her mother before she was born, and the aunt she was living with died when she was fourteen. She's currently seventeen, 5'4. She has green eyes and bronze hair (sort of a reddish brown). The top of her right ear is pierced and she always wears a gold pendant a friend of hers gave her a long time ago. I made her up almost three years ago. She's sort of the steriotypical action girl, but as she makes new friends, she moves away from that. She used it as her safety net before, and doesn't know if she can give that up.

So, yeah. Constructive critisism is welcome... and stuff.

 

[walls of cetepedes]

It would have to be Spuddy Goldberg. 17th in line to the title of Duke, right after cousin Bubba from the mountains. He has 2 livers, and dies at the end of the story.

I'll elaborate a bit. The govenment kills him for knowing that they are going to kill Emporer Jimmy. He is a blackmailer.

I'm not an Emperor...I'm Cap'in Bassatti!
OT: I wrote a few stories...my characters never had depth... usually just some guy who fucked everyone up and never died or got hurt :S

Wait... your called Jimmy, and yet you're not an Emperor?

 

[Chipperz]

My current favourite characters are two rivals in the same universe (for most of the rest of this to make sense, I'll give you a few facts - it's a post-apocalyptic England after an alien invasion that was defeated after a hundred years by reverse-engineered alien technology, America has been destroyed as a result of the mass of pro-American propaganda produced just before the invasion and the rest of the world lives in small pockets of less irradiated "Clean Zones". These are also two leaders of factions in a game that I am currently designing)

KarnEvil - Carston Edwin Ville was an eminent psychologist before the invasion. One of his patients had a psychotic episode in a garage and ended up crushing every bone in his body with a pneumatic platform, but he was saved by having his body replaced with a cybernetic suit. When the aliens invaded, he was recalled by the government along with every other cyborg and refitted with a battlesuit and told to scavenge alien technology so they could reverse-engineer it. As a man of strict morals, he believed that he was stealing, and therefore a criminal, and his cybernetically-enhanced brain began to fracture into a "good" and "evil" side. Over the course of the war, the evil side of his personality took on it's own persona, drawing from a deep-rooted phobia of clowns to create KarnEvil, a psychotic clown that Carston saw as everything wrong with society. When he was hit by an EMP blast that forced his battlesuit to reset, this allowed KarnEvil to become the dominant personality, and now Carston's original personality is locked away in his programming where it constantly analyses KarnEvil's psyche, and has come to the conclusion that the real world doesn't exist, and that he is living in a construct of his own imagination, the only escape from which is following the government's last orders, despite the fact that the war ended almost five years ago. He now leads a faction known as the Trojans, a mixture of techno-pirates and traders who use various means to get the best technology in the world.

Silva D'Acier - The American people were given a fair warning that they were going to be destroyed - the U.S.A. was the first country to be hit, but this was preceeded by an alien craft landing in the geographical centre of the country. Many, many, many Americans saw this as a bad sign and got the hell out, with a large contingent seeking asylum in England where they were put into H-MERCs (His Majesty's Emergency Refugee Centres). One of these was in Margate, Kent, and was the only one to not be destroyed in the war. Born a decade before the war ended, Silva is fifteen years old and has, through a mixture of ruthlessness, intelligence and uncommon amounts of drive, become the President of the Eagles, the remnants of the U.S.A. and, as far as they know, the last Americans in the world. Silva was brought up on American propaganda, and genuinely believes in the American Dream as it was shown in the movies. She believes that she has been chosen by god to bring the American Dream to the shattered remnants of humanity and to create a new U.S.A. from the ashes of England. Her and KarnEvil's groups frequently clash in territory disputes and in attempting to influence smaller groups to working for them. She has no idea she's actually Canadian.