How do you view your characters in your fiction?

[Ral_062]

I view my MC as someone i wanted to be, that i can't be in IRL.
My side characters however are like my children, proud at the chaos, love, and flaws each one have.


How about you?

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

I view my MC as someone i wanted to be, that i can't be in IRL.
My side characters however are like my children, proud at the chaos, love, and flaws each one have.


How about you?

I'm a method writer. I am what I write, so his thoughts when confronted with certain situations are 'authentically human.'

 

[Wamba2K]

Thoughts given form. Most of my characters exist to serve ideas I want to get across.

 

[JayMark]

My characters allow me to observe a little bit of their world through their eyes, and for that I am grateful.

 

[Iamnotabot]

Lust, they are to be conduits of my lust turn into words.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Varies by story. But most are something I either would like to be or like to meet or thought I would be at some point, but then twisted sideways...

 

[Omarfaruq]

I view my MC as someone i wanted to be, that i can't be in IRL. My side characters however are like my children, proud at the chaos, love, and flaws each one have. How about you?

I view my mc as a guy who just wants to study in peace but he can't do it ?

 

[Corty]

 

[Eldoria]

I view my mc as a guy who just wants to study in peace but he can't do it ?

Your MMC vibe is similar to my FMC, but my FMC is darker and more tragic.

 

[Omarfaruq]

Your MMC vibe is similar to my FMC, but my FMC is darker and more tragic.

I know your fiction has a tragic background.

 

[Bald-san]

I view my MC as someone i wanted to be, that i can't be in IRL.
My side characters however are like my children, proud at the chaos, love, and flaws each one have.


How about you?

My first book's MC is someone I want to be academically, a genius. The sequel MC is someone I don't want to be, a prisoner of her fate that she can never fight against. The sequel's not publsihed, but I not particularly popular, so it's fine if I reveal them

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

I view my MC as someone i wanted to be, that i can't be in IRL.
My side characters however are like my children, proud at the chaos, love, and flaws each one have.


How about you?

I'm basically just a fly on the wall. I view my characters as snoop material.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

I experience things so I know what to write about later. The baby-making was the easy part. The baby-having is much harder.

 

[VanVeleca]

Sometimes they are my precious little kittens and puppies and other times they are like squeaky toys to chew on.

 

[CinnaSloth]

Friends, bff's, and acquaintances. --> fictional people I can talk to about insecurities, problems, or just talk nonsense to, but at the same time, people who piss me off, having to ask "wtf are you doing?", and needing to send other fictional characters to slap them around a bit for them to settle down, and talk it out.

 

[Rachel_Leia_Cole]

My characters are a conglomeration of my experiences. Not physically, lord I have never been in a fantasy battle ? but emotionally. The king enduring for those he loves, the goblins having hope even when things look bleak. Those are things I leaned over time, and I carried it over to my characters.

 

[AnEmberOfSundown]

My MC like a daughter I couldn’t protect but am indescribably proud of.

The supporting cast is the friends I would have wanted her to have.

 

[Nolff]

I'm on Hans side, sometimes. But for my upcoming novel? An idea and a want that I once tried but never succeeded at mastering it.

 

[TinaMigarlo]

in my *opinion*
most of the responders here, have a little to a lot of "self insert" into their MC
its actually quite a popular thing for authors to do.
---an idealized version of yourself
---a fantasy of what you always day-dreamed of being as a young person
---one claimed saying things they want to say, or get across.

the self insert, or portion that is a self-insert...
you are inadvertently telling the reader things about yourself, and you don't realize it.

I know, deep, right?

think of it this way.
when I see yet another "OP MC".
that just "curb stomps" any and all antagonists.
then "aura farms" and everyone fawns over how cool they are.
that's the author telling me, they have a child-like personality and understanding of the world.
they feel powerless and weak in their real life.
they still have the child-like view of the world...
aw man, if I was just big and strong and good looking and cool?
I could have anything I wanted, and everyone would have to like me, and no one could say and do those things to me.

the MC with the more mature, deeper, nuanced view of things... a philosophical take on their world.
that signals a vastly different sort of author, in my mind.

food for thought.
I bet we all didn't know how much we are telling the world about ourselves.

or?
maybe I really am just bat-sh!t crazy.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

in my *opinion*
most of the responders here, have a little to a lot of "self insert" into their MC
its actually quite a popular thing for authors to do.
---an idealized version of yourself
---a fantasy of what you always day-dreamed of being as a young person
---one claimed saying things they want to say, or get across.

Alternate versions of myself from parallel dimensions who want their stories told.