What Kind Of Characters Do You Like??

Answer 1

Characters with, well, character. I find myself drawn to what you might call the "comic relief" a lot. Characters that make me laugh. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, characters that have human flaws. Complex people dealing with basic human emotions. (Othello, Hamlet, R + J are all good examples) Also characters who seem to notice that which is invisible to other people (The protagonist of Fahrenheit 451 for example).

Answer 2

I like origional characters, but only if you can portray them well. It matters not what the character is if it is poorly written.

I hate nothing more than a flat character. The character needs to seem real, and needs real reasons for doing things. And by real reasons I do not mean "I need them to go to Bob's house so they can find out his secret" because they would not think "hmmm... today I'll go over bob's and find out his secret!" they would need a real reason like "I'll go over Bob's to get my CD that he borrowed." They need to have real motivations. And don't make them a stereotypical character with no depth, for example a ditzy rich blonde girl who is always dumb and only feels shallow emotions. She is a cardboard character.

So any character that is not like that, I will usually like.
this is a list of traits that help make a character sympathetic (someone we relate to, feel sympathy for)
http://www.deannacarlyle.com/articles/springboard.html

Answer 3

Characters that are strong in some ways and weak in others. Dynamic characters with flaws, but who won't stop and weep about how bad they've got it every two pages. If they are unaware of how they are flawed, even better. It opens up the possibility that they'll become aware of it at the worst possible moment.

Answer 4

I like characters who are well rounded, compassionate, and who "grow" during the course of the story - learning something along the way from their experiences. I also tend to write characters who are somewhat "smart aleky" and have an off beat sense of humor. Hope that helps. C.

Answer 5

Charaters like Johnny Cade from The Outsiders. I almost cried when he died. It was like, even though he murdered someone you felt bad for him because he had lived such a rough life. He hadn't been loved or cared for. And then he put all that behind him to save the little kids in the fire. You just felt so sorry for him and so connected to him. Plus I loved that letter he wrote at the end.

Answer 6

Traitors are always interesting...especially if the main character doesn't know it and you do (yea dramatic irony!). It's always fascinates me how just like in real life, people can be really convincing one way but actually have very different motives for why they act the way they do.

Answer 7

Mysterious, Intriguing.

Answer 8

funny ones like he for heha

Answer 9

minnie mouse... this that what u mean?