Well, recently I was on another site creating a character that I found especially hard. It was a character designed for that area specifically, but since RPG has the Multiverse and the Multiverse is all, I explained her entry into this place. I thought, when making her, that it would be a boredom character. Since I find it especially hard to bend my thinking to that of an animal.

So, to say... My favorite character is: Kumiho

Choosing a character that is my favorite is not something that I can confidently do in the long term, because I am fond of all of my creations, old and new, and find different characters fill different roles within my writing, so I cannot honestly say that I have a set, all time character that I class as the best. I most certainly have characters that work better than others, especially in the sort of settings provided by RPGateway; in chat, a successful character that is fun to play will be very different to one that is successful and enjoyable in private. Also, a character that brings a great deal of enjoyment; for example one that is fun to play, may not actually be classed as the most enjoyable; sometimes, it takes a piece of dark, or gritty writing to get that sense of accomplishment. As well as this, seeing as I often operate in a mature setting, and have characters with little taboo, the age restrictions play into which character is most rewarding to play, as a censored or down-played character never feels quite so satisfying as one that is allowed to truly be themselves in a private setting where all those involved are connecting towards less socially acceptable behavior.

However, amongst my characters there are several that stand out from the rest, typically because they have managed to evolve far more detail in their timelines and personalities than others, or sometimes because they are easy or especially challenging to write. The most obvious choice for me would be Max, however, I find that he meshes poorly with both the Multiverse and a PG13 setting, so in this case I cannot deem him my favorite. He is also very challenging to play and takes a great deal of medical, psychological and legal research to maintain, which is not always conductive to good, fast paced, PG13 RP.

Michael on the other hand, is a little different. He was created on my original account here, several years ago now, and on the spur of the moment. He was made to join an ongoing chat RP involving horses and their riders, and originally he had neither back-story nor personality. He was allowed to grow, and as it happened he found himself partnered by an aggressive, uncooperative character; hands down the best thing that ever happened to Michael. The negative interaction allowed Michael's flaws to develop alongside (if not before) his strengths, crafting him into a imperfect being.

Designed to play on cliché to an extent, his story developed into something quite vast over a number of years and is still ongoing now, although he has abandoned RP almost completely as a character and ventured into the realms of the novel; one day, I intend to turn his story into something, but I have yet to find the correct amount of research on horses and time in my busy schedule. Michael will wait, and I haven't lost my love for him over the years, even if he's been annexed to an old, hardly used account and severed out of RP.

I could share mine.. but it's not how often I RP a character that makes me like them so much. Just how much fun I have RPing them.

Skar = The homicidal manbear who went from a depressed homicidal bastard, into a maniacal mind-raping machine. He was power over food, after all, and so he creates the most bizarre creations ever. My favourite creations of his would have to be Charles, the giant floating olive with a British accent. Wears a top hat and a monocle. And then there's Beatrice.. the murderous lesbian pickle unicorn who turned into a busty lesbian mashed potato loli. Don't even ask.

The Merchant = Another character perfect for mind-raping. Sadly, the RP that he was in died, even though he was one of my favourite characters. Why was he one of my favourite characters? Well, he was these mind powers where he can project voices and sounds and images into people's minds and read their minds slightly.. and tear a gigantic hole in their mind. And he can also shape-shift.. and 'shadow-step'; essentially teleport. Anyone he judges as evil or rude and stuff, he smites with his mind powers. But, after he uses his powers on someone, he reverts to something that's the complete opposite of him; he turns into a super-happy wimpy pacifist of sorts, and can no longer turn into his true form; he becomes a human with lizard-like scales instead of a ghastly ghoul. He can't use his mind and shadow-stepping powers anymore, and doesn't have any memory of who he is. He reverts back to his original form after a while, yes, so you can't be friends with him for very long. I think he's just utterly badass and awesome.

And, as an honourable mention, I'm going to honour Bryant and Gawain. Gawain because it's a close representation of me but not really. I like crazy things. :3 Though Bryant is a sane cop character.. that dual-wields two two-handed swords which weigh 15 pounds more than the average two-handed weapon.

Oh, and Gerard, too. He's a Mary Sue bard who is nothing more than a comic relief character who breaks the fourth wall often and is a glutton for punishment. He's the most stereotypical bard one could ever make, and I play off of that for humour. He's coo'.

why are all my characters unrealistic and over-the-top and crazy?

Hands down would be my overpowered - intentionally! - villain, Plague.

I have and always will by most margins enjoy playing the villain, not the card carrying type who deems himself to be one, nor the ones with petty goals in mind but the truly sociopathic and apathetic villains who epitomise the word 'monster', the ones who opt to dive head first past the moral event horizon. The scary part about these are their lack of goals and motives, where the Lawful Evil villain has his own code to work by, the Chaotic Evil villain is often hell bent on his own goals and the deeds to reach them, or is merely out there for the fun of it... however the Neutral Evil, ho boy are they the worst.

The Neutral Evil villains are the most sadistic kind, the ones who have the largest mystery factor, their motives are usually unclear and they are often the type to do extreme acts to perform small deeds, such as culling an entire species to stem a potential uprising of a small group. Neutral Evil characters are the ones who enjoy making you squirm, and like to toy with people before the kill. They could be the key villain or merely his servant, regardless they tend to be the biggest problem heroes can encounter.

Arguably it can be broken down to this:

Lawful Evil – The Egomaniac
Neutral Evil – The true Sociopath
Chaotic Evil – The true Psychopath

Commonly it will be the Neutral Evil character type who recognises he is evil - the chaotic evil character couldn't care and the lawful evil character would attempt to justify himself. The scary part of this is it makes it all the worse, he knows he is evil and thus knows he can and is willing to do acts that would disgust the most steely stomached of people. He will commonly perpetrate acts of 'evil' or anything in reality to further himself as the Neutral Evil character is commonly only interested in his own net gain as a result of the actions, towards whatever obscure motive, goal or result he is after.

With all that said, Plague is that. Netural Evil, he is also a massive plot device character, he is there to make do-gooders crap their pants and crawl away while he systematically chunks out parts of the Universe during an intergalactic game of pool. He was designed to make sure things were always moving during the roleplays and stories he was set upon and always act as the looming threat and is never really used outside of such circumstances - in one such circumstance there was much discussion of wiping out the multiverse to start over and Plague was going to be the harbinger of the event.

One of my enjoyable acts with him is the ability to adapt his origin story from plot to plot and by doing so I have expanded by own repertoire of knowledge in regards to the format, writing and clarification of things like educational degrees, militaristic and governmental rosters and psychological profiles which I have painstakingly made for the character.

Thought I would post her to past the time and such. I do have a favorite character of my from on older RP I used to be part of. His name is Patches/Patrick. He started out in an Original RP and then got adapted to a Silent Hill RP. He is so damaged and I love him. Not sure why I like the damaged ones. I guess because they need love. Here's a link to his profile on DA: http://demonicneko.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=patches#/d388rdp

Hmm. Probably Embry and Loraine from a play-by-post that ran for a few years - a few years ago. Lol. It was my most successful roleplay to date, and also the only roleplay that ever lasted long enough to have character development. Embry made friends, fought a war, had a mortal nemesis, fell in love, all the good stuff. Loraine started out as a villain that became a little less evil and fell in love with a henchman. Good times. It felt like they lived in a real and vibrant world, which is always what you aim for in an Rp, but it only becomes possible when you're surrounded by a good crew and the roleplay lasts for a while.

I've had a few characters I've grown attached to over the years. A few people here may be familiar with Cryoface, who I ported over from a previous site on joining and managed to have an interesting relationship with a few of Ryand-Smith's characters, and I've also put some serious effort into developing Tobias Malari from a back-street brawler to a functioning member of society. Lately, however, there's a new one.

Last year, BBClock and I launched a tab RP called Pokemon: Breaking the Chains. Sadly, it was a dismal failure, but I put a lot of effort into making my character for that RP, a female gearhead named Titania. (Steel-type Elite Four member, herp derp.) After that RP fell flat, BB and I got to roleplaying in the chat with our BTC characters after the events of that story, and it was here BB taught me a very important lesson: Bad things not only CAN happen to good people, but they MUST. It was in the resulting sequences of dealing with all sorts of scum and villainy that I really fell in love with her blue-collar attitude, so much so that when BBClock said he was going to remake the RP, I was compelled to reprise my original role with the same character.

There is one character I just can't get enough of- He's the one who I use when some website wants me to fill out personal information I don't want to give, and he donated the last name of one of my pending Characters on this website. Carison "Cari" Rodriguez was a college Psych major in a murder-thriller/survivor RP I played, and a character I played with enough vigor to change the outcome of the RP. (Actually, the event that changed my character's outcome was an event I had no control over, but shhhh)

He started on the island as the whipped boyfriend of his dominating and demanding girlfriend, who usually treated him poorly despite the fact they actually did care for each other. He had a temper that he was usually in control of, but when she cheated on him, he finally broke up with her and began to rekindle a relationship with an ex who had been on the island-the same ex who was on a killing spree.

Unfortunately, I never got to see where my character ended up, although I was happy to learn with the new storyline involving the new relationship I survived all iterations of the final version. Either, I didn't find out about the murders and I went and got married to the psychotic ex, or I did (through the process of a psychoanalysis I was about to present to the other characters before the game failed) and I ended up getting back together with my cheating girlfriend and we left the island together with one other girl.