What Kind of Characters do you Gravitate Towards?

[KuruKinaar]

I find that when I start writing a story, I tend to make the main characters, or focused characters, very similar to one another. Their personalities or quirks/likes are similar or exactly the same. Does everyone else do this in their own writing where they make character personalities similar in each of their creation? And is it reflective on yourself or a particular person you know?

 

[AYM]

Fellow daoist, similar characters are permitted, but I must caution you to not write every character identically. The Persona Echo Illusory Formations can disrupt the Reading Dao, generating unnecessary confusion in action and dialogue.

A cultivator worth his spirit stones travels his path, and his path alone. This is in accordance with the Great Dao. If five others can walk his same path, they are either his dao incarnations, or this is not his road.

Some characters reflect this one, which is why I write characters who are attractive, one-in-ten-thousand-years geniuses, heaven-defying, and of a wealthy, noble lineage. Obviously, none of these characters are as great as I, their creator (humble).

 

[Aader]

Quiet competent ones, funnily enough the character I hate the most, Sasuke Uchiha, can and often is described that way.

 

[AYM]

Quiet competent ones, funnily enough the character I hate the most, Sasuke Uchiha, can and often is described that way.

 

[TsumiHokiro]

Does everyone else do this in their own writing, where they make character personalities similar in each of their creation? And is it reflective on yourself or a particular person you know?

In a novel, all characters are the writer, since no character can be more than a writer imagine it. Consequently, a character can also not be less than what a writer imagine...
However, you should be careful to not place yourself too much into them and not make them too much alike, else there is nothing interesting in the novel to be found.

 

[Rhaps]

you should be careful to not place yourself too much into them

You can see @TheMonotonePuppet for the result of this.

Anyhow, 100% maximum no chill is my favorite type of character. No bullshit, no going around, going in a straight line.

 

[BigBadBoi]

Characters that are literally me frfr no cap

 

[BenJepheneT]

it's an extreme for me. for one, i fucking adore unhinged characters that literally drive the story wherever they desire. see Onizuka from GTO. everything in the story goes according to his will and he throws as many curveballs as the story throws at him. a one-man show with the world as his unwilling participants. that's some chad shit right there.

the opposite would be passive observers who are still a factor to the main tale. I like them less for who they are and more for their potential to showcase a kickass setting. someone like Killy from Blame! is an example. their actions are as effective as kicking a pebble down the Everest, but the world reacts like the Butterfly Effect and the mountain comes crumbling down. it breathes life to the setting no amount of Tolkien-describing-trees-esque prose could do.

hot take but I believe Luffy from OP (yes, even Gear 5) and Guts from Berserk fall under the latter category. the world is LEAGUES bigger than them and no matter how powerful they are, it can't compare to the sheer scale of the setting. yet, it reacts accordingly.

Luffy can have a Nagasaki tier explosive ability but he still can't cross oceans without his boat/crew, yet some random HQs miles away would react, or some other pirates would use his antics as motivation to wreck shit and lay foundations that would become plot points for future arcs. Guts is quite literally powerless aside from his retard strength seeing as his foes are pseudo SCP gods but his antics from killing key figures/reputation as a maniac with nothing but rage-powered brute force builds a mystique around the character which, honestly, supercedes himself at times. it's not that these mfs are a favourite of mine because they're so powerful, it's because of their character and personality are so potent that they warrant a respect from the world they inhabit that translates to my fascination for them in real life.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Does everyone else do this in their own writing where they make character personalities similar in each of their creation?

No.

And is it reflective on yourself or a particular person you know?

Huh? What does this mean?
I can't write about what I don't know, so everything I write is reflective of myself or someone I know. I don't know how you could write something you don't know, because as soon as you write it, you know it.

 

[HungrySheep]

I really like cheerful, optimistic characters who are kinda klutzy.

 

[Kuropon]

The ones with the biggest oppai.

 

[SailusGebel]

Milfs

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

Quiet competent ones, funnily enough the character I hate the most, Sasuke Uchiha, can and often is described that way.

That guy was competent? What manga were you reading?

 

[SailusGebel]

That guy was competent? What manga were you reading?

I assume the point is that other characters and fans call him competent.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

I assume the point is that other characters and fans call him competent.

And North Korea calls itself a People's Republic. He is stubborn for sure, but competent?

 

[SailusGebel]

And North Korea calls itself a People's Republic.

And there are people who will believe it, since they didn't learn history, don't watch news, or simply are not educated enough. Bruh, what's with extreme example?

He is stubborn for sure, but competent?

I won't call him competent, you won't call him competent. Yet fans might call him competent, other characters will call him competent.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

And there are people who will believe it, since they didn't learn history, don't watch news, or simply are not educated enough. Bruh, what's with extreme example?

I won't call him competent, you won't call him competent. Yet fans might call him competent, other characters will call him competent.

Bruh, what is with this nonsensical relativism? Does its extremity make the statement any less true?

 

[SailusGebel]

Does its extremity make the statement any less true?

Yes.

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

You can see @TheMonotonePuppet for the result of this.

Anyhow, 100% maximum no chill is my favorite type of character. No bullshit, no going around, going in a straight line.

Hey, hey, hey! Why are you bringing me into this?!

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

Yes.

Doubtful proposition.