What Draws You To Your Character?

[eightfoldfiend]

Hey, it's a not-meme.

One thing I always find fascinating in this hobby is what draws people to the characters they play so this is me asking you that.

What drew you to your characters? What do you find fun about them? What aspects of them do you find easy or difficult?

For OCs, talk about how you came up with the idea for them and why you wanted to give them a spin in this hobby.

Read, converse, ask questions!

You can answer in list form, prose form, whatever form you're most comfortable with and with as much or as little detail as you want.

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Tsuna and Din

[theskyaccepts]

Tsuna

So, basically, way back when KHR was big, I dabbed with picking up Tsuna. But I wasn't exactly prepared to pick up a Shonen Protag at the time and kind of fell off the KHR train (mostly because I'm bad at keeping up with scanlations). Fast forward to I guess about a year ago? (what is time even?) I'm watching the KHR anime (all 203 episodes of it), and decide to re-read the manga and actually finish it this time, and Tsuna came back.

I love shonen, and there's something about Tsuna that just delights me. He's not super gung-ho about his lot in life, he's a weenie, and the perpetual straight-man to the chaos that he faces. But there's still an undercurrent of leadership and a willingness to protect his friends that people react to and that I love. I like characters who have those layered facets that show up when the chips are down, and Tsuna's one of those.

And also just the fact that KHR started as a gag manga which means I'm allowed to play with the ridiculous, which is another thing that I love. One day we'll touch on more of the serious aspects.

Din

And we go from Shonen Protag to Very Tired Adult. And the fact that I like dudes in armour (thanks RvB). But seriously, the fact that Din is able to contrast Tsuna so well is nice and gives me a fun balance.

The Mandalorian kind of re-ignited my love of Star Wars and there's just something really fascinating about this loner character who ends up looking after a kid and wandering the galaxy having adventures and making friends/allies along the way. I like how he's begrudgingly helpful, can basically make friends with anyone because of that, and just gives off this aura of really needing a nap but still going to continue on. I didn't really intend for him to show up as a muse, but there he was and he's been fun to play.

It's a little difficult since he's a cagey character who doesn't take off his armour and is reluctant to give out a lot of information about himself, but hopefully I'm able to get across the little details. One day, someone will learn his name.