So don't hate me just cause you're the best I can do

[impersona]

day 11: character you're proudest of

Deon and Galen, I cannot pick. 

Galen because he feels like the first character I made who was good enough to really hold his own against other talented writers.  Once upon a time, I used to stalk games like Sailor Myth and Missing Shard and eventually Angels, but I really wasn't convinced that I could make characters good enough for the players there.  I worked extremely hard on Galen's app, and when I submitted it, I was actually extremely proud of him already.  There were parts of his app I was going to be unwilling to compromise with if the review came back bad - but fortunately, he was the first char I ever had who was a pure accept.   I talk about Galen all the time, still.  He is forever my baby, and I honestly hope to write novels about him one day.

Deon's success is kinda funny because I really made him in a hurry, only two hours put into his app.  I am not a person who often gets full-formed characters sprouting out in my head, and I think Deon is really my only successful case of that.  Deon and Warren tie for the best dialogue I can get out of my characters, and I've had many fics that I HAD to finish just because Deon said something so funny.   It is so bizarre but the most touching compliment I've ever gotten about how I write Deon was from Pixie, when she said that she could imagine Deon's voice and nuances sounding like Jack Nicholson from Easy Rider.  I was floored.  I don't know if you realized how deep of a compliment that was XD  

I feel like one of the measures of a good character is how well other people can pick up the character and use them in other stories, and I have not seen one person in that game do Deon wrong.  In fact, it's happened a lot where someone writes a fic that features him, then I read the fic and I'm like "HOLY DAMN, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HE WOULD DO/THINK/SAY IN THAT SITUATION"  (Kol's hit on some really wonderful ones that I can't quite remember at the moment).