Advent Calendar Day 12

[magaru]

Day 12: Your character type?

Do you find yourself drawn to a specific type of characters? Maybe there's a particular trait your favorite characters share? Is it physical, maybe you like blondes or scarred or muscular characters? Or maybe a personality trait, maybe your type is loud, social characters or do you prefer loners? Is this something about their role in the plot? Do you like idols, magical girls, knights, thieves, scientists, little sisters? Maybe the thing that makes you interested is a specific power they have? If you RP, what kind of characters ping you? Do you think there's a particular Scrabook theme that is missing?

For answering this, you can immediately take a choice card of a character who fits the type you described (please explain how they fit) and three random cards that I'll be passing out. You have until December 31st to answer this, just like all other Advent Calendar days!.

Comments

[worthwhile]

OH BOY CHARACTER TYPES. I could write about this forever so I might as well open the floodgates.

Of course, I'm easily sold on magical girls of most makes and models. I'm usually drawn to royalty and young-lady type characters, whether they're refined or bratty or a little bit of both. The ojou-sama trope was basically crafted for me.

Distance as characteristic is always really...alluring to me. Like, sixth ranger types who join the team late or villains who reform but are always a little detached from everything else. Non-human characters or otherwise alienated characters who have to learn certain things about humanity. I'm also drawn to the incredibly sympathetic and yet really horrible people, people who have reasons that make sense in light of their life for their actions, or even somewhat justifiable ones, and yet who just do really bad things that can't be brushed away and forgiven.

Characters for whom identity is an incredibly important part of their narrative are also really alluring to me. A lot of narratives are about identity, but I mean the ones for whom it's an integral point of development--questioning some important part of themselves or searching desperately to assert a purpose or place. And this is actually a trait I see kind of crossing over all of the alluring things I've listed above, usually!

Grabbing forward03 for this one; she has a villain ->> hero arc that is very much centered around her identity, and she is a very distant character who has a lot to learn about humanity.

[magaru]