Tell me about your MC

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  1. Cave Troll

    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    Marckus is an ass that you love and hate. Carries a dated pistol given the time the story takes place in, and has crude military humor. He is also going through a midlife crisis, while dealing with his life of war, war, and more war. Also wears a gas mask to hide his burnt features, and the lenses can be switched from normal vision to night vision, and infrared. Likes to call the soldiers with him out on a mission 'children', and refers to combat as 'play time'. :p

    Graxis is a 7ft 2 reptilian alien that takes his rank and role seriously. He is an officer and a gentleman type of guy, as well as the kind of guy you can sit and chat with over an ale or two. Likes to utilize and hone his skills as a swordsman, and dual wields short swords when in combat.

    Mother Confessor/Corlixia is a bio-engineered female that is a sadistic interrogator, with extremely feminine features, two hearts, and four legs to name a few aspects. Insanely intelligent, the pale blue skinned female decides to join the service and works on becoming a medium Armor war-frame pilot. She also struggles with the echoes of her past as she tries to perform her duties as a Private and a medic.
     
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  2. Fighting Kentuckian

    Fighting Kentuckian New Member

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    Okay, consider me interested in your work. You had me at Wild West.

    To explain my current main character I'll give some insight into the theme. I am mixing my two favorite historical eras. The American Old West & the Ancient Roman Empire. It's basically a Spaghetti Western set in antiquity.
    My character has no name (real original, I know) but he is referred in text simply as 'the stranger'. He's a mix of Clint Eastwood & Lee Van Cleef, cold stares, few words. Tall, slender, wears a black straw hat (petasos) and a dirty cloak over worn leather armor. A sword hangs off his hip like a six gun. The typical Spaghetti Western hero.
     
  3. tristan.n

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    Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back...? I'm always curious about other people's stories--their plots, their characters, their struggles, their passions. I saw the "what are you writing" post, but people mostly talked about their plots. I was curious about people's characters, so I asked about them! :)

    These all sound like such rich, complex characters! Well... perhaps with the exception of the limping penis one... Lol

    Well, back to writing! :write:
     
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    Cole Thurston was born and raised in in Nek'Illian, a fortress monastery run by a group called Nerinites. The god that they worship is a lovecraftian old one with some connection to the sea and knowledge, the latter of which they seek out relentlessly. He wanted to be a scholar, or any of the roles that stayed at the monastery, but was instead judged to be better as a field researcher. When it comes to religion, he's rather tolerant, not wanting the rest of the world to know that he worships an eldritch abomination, but often dismisses other beliefs as inferior, but never saying so openly.
    He favours a spear, believing swords to be an inferior weapon, and guns to be crude, but effective. He still carries the latter, but only a pistol with a dozen shots at most. Because of his preference for close combat in a world that marches onwards with black powder weaponry, some of his colleagues believe him to have violent tendencies. While he would like to remain away from conflicts, he has a good heart and will often try to help, giving a sigh before hand.
     
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    She cannot be remembered. No one in the world knows who she is. When people meet her, they soon forget her. Having been erased from history, she lives a ghostlike existence in the background.

    But she refuses to let that stop her from living a meaningful life. She spends all of her time getting to know the people around her, bringing them together, building a community, and planting seeds in their minds that grow into ideas that lead them to greatness.
     
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  6. Feo Takahari

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    Since I tend to write shorter works, I've got a lot of characters to choose from, but I'm fond of Lewis Bell right now. I'm going to drop a giant ABUSE WARNING on this one.




    Once there was a little girl named Allie whose parents told her God loved her. They told her God wanted her to be good, and when she was bad, they did whatever they thought they had to in order to make her good again. It was so very easy to be bad--to drop a dish, to speak out of turn, sometimes just to look at them in the wrong way--but her faith never wavered, and she hoped that someday her parents would love her just as much as God did.

    One day, Allie found some books in her school library, mysteries starring a detective by the name of Lewis Bell. He was brave, honest, kind, and above all, insightful. He could make anything make sense, maybe even make sense of how Allie could become a good girl. Allie stole one of those books, then another, hiding them one by one in the hollow space on the underside of her bed. She read them over and over, wishing that Lewis would come to save her. And eventually, he did.

    He knew he wasn't the real Lewis Bell, of course. Bell was a learned man, but Lewis knew no more of French or classic literature than Allie did. Besides, what would an old-fashioned detective be doing inside a little girl's head? But whatever he was, he was there nonetheless, and he had the power to live in her place. When she couldn't take the pain, Lewis would take it instead, awake and aware while she slumbered somewhere within her own mind.

    When Allie's parents found the books, they concluded they couldn't help her anymore. They sent her to another couple, what you might call specialists in making bad little boys and girls good again. That couple did something to Lewis, something even he couldn't handle, and he fled. He let Allie take it all in his place.

    When he woke, she was gone, and this time, she didn't come back. So far as he could find, there was no trace of Allie left in their head. For the first time in his new existence, Lewis Bell was alone.

    The police might have suspected what caused the fire that night. At the very least, they must have found it suspicious that the kid in the house was the only one who woke up. But no one likes to press charges when the lone survivor is a bruised and battered eight-year-old with visible ribs and a patchwork of scars. "Allie" went back into the foster system, and she found a new set of parents who loved her like her own daughter.

    Lewis is sixteen years old now, physically speaking. After all this time, he still tries to talk like Allie, act like Allie, be like Allie, in the hopes that someday, she'll wake up again and his act of cowardice will be undone. But he's not Allie, and the act hasn't exactly done wonders for his mental state. Lewis is bitter, angry, deeply alone even around people who care for him, and apathetic about his own continued existence to a point that verges on suicidal.

    And then monsters showed up and started eating his classmates, and a girl from another world told him that Allie might be the prophesied hero who could stop the monsters and save the universe. Lewis isn't the type to start believing in prophesies, and he knows that Allie isn't around to save anyone. But if he's probably going to get eaten anyway, why not die at least attempting to do something useful in the world?

    From an out-of-universe view, Lewis is one of the more out-of-place characters in the story. In a plotline centered around the positive and negative aspects of religious faith, Lewis is one of two major figures who do not have and never really gain any religious faith whatsoever. But there's a lot of magical thinking and irrational hatred worked into his thought patterns, and in order to grow as a person, he needs to recognize all the ways his supposedly "rationalist" worldview comes up short. He also needs to recognize that he is a person, and that even if Allie never comes back, there's still value in him continuing to exist.
     
  7. zoupskim

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    Convict has no name, no beginning, only a future she must reach on a path paved with the bodies of her enemies. Her parents were researchers, but she is a murderer and a traitor. Her memory was erased as punishment for her crimes, the red triangle stitched to her clothes a reminder to all that she is merely a fragment of a once whole human being. In an advanced army of augmented soldiers capable and willing to burn down a whole city to save their people, she does not even know the designation of the weapon she was issued.

    But since her disposal into the city she has killed two invaders; unarmed ghosts that fight with autonomous machines, projecting their will into dangerous, unfeeling constructs of metal and plastic. They are everywhere. They are nowhere. One she killed with the mysterious weapon she named Knight, the other she strangled with her bare hands. She will kill again to reassert her rights and regain her memories. The soldiers fighting around her have pulled her to their side, calling her mascot, Straft, or Fuzz. They reach out and strike the enemy from beyond her sight, but she sees them die around her as the enemy strikes back, always unseen, always behind a wall of their machines. She will learn to fight as her new allies do: Observing, marking, and striking.

    In ten days the gate will close. She will learn the ways of war, and kill as many enemies as she can. Her salvation depends on it.
     
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    Boris Petrov is a 12-year-old genius on the search for his father. When he overhears his mother grumbling about how difficult it is to look after him on her own, he leaves home, completes his father's work in stealth technology and builds a suit capable of rendering himself invisible.

    He takes on the alter-ego of the "Teslageist", naming himself after one of the greatest minds of the 19th and 20th centuries and looks through his father's notes. Talk of a man who can create "violet wormholes" is his biggest clue. One day he hears mention of the wormholes on the news and traces the source to June, a girl about his age. She's looking for her mentor, who went missing around the same time as his father.

    The two of them team up, track down the killer and discover the murderer - a colleague of both of the missing men. In a bid to cheat death, the old man built a machine capable of digitising memories and running them on a computer. This kills the original human body, but allows the mind to live on in the internet.
    Poised to take over the world, the evil doctor is thwarted by the children, but up until now June was the main character.

    Four days later, in his first story as the main character, Boris has traced the core of the doctor's network to Athens, where he must gain the trust of the world's richest man. But while Boris plans on finding a new ally, so too has the doctor.

    Will Boris be able to fend off a swarm of new enemies, save his father AND be home in time for Christmas? That last condition just killed the mood, but find out in "Teslageist: Amber Wasp".
     
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  9. Sileas

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    Tell you about my MC? I'll go one better---there's a flippin video of him on YouTube: Leo Sets The Pencil Down.



    If you look closely at the end, you can see him leaning forward. Don't think that's Matt in there with him, though. It was an odd job.

    My MC changes every few years. I keep coming up with a new one every few years who fascinates me. (despite the video, this one really is in the fantasy category. he only does a fab impersonation of a human.)

    ...oh, alright. I s'pose. Um...it is a fantasy fiction thing in a contemporary setting, though I suppose some might even call it science fiction, but I doubt it. He's one of about a dozen....I guess we gave them the name "aspects"...that came here hoping to beat off an attack from some baddies that came here. There ultimately was a happy ending, but the attack did come about 50-75 years sooner than expected. There are a number of different types of aspects, but the four major types that came here were pathfinders, guardians, timewalkers, and healers. A couple of them were hybrids. They are shapeshifters but it's not what defines their existence. All of them took human form but most of them were hermits. The three hybrids were able to blend openly into society, because they have the necessary complexity by virtue of their hybrid nature. One of them, a pathfinder guardian, er....well. See video above. As a human, this one was a little bit charismatic, a little bit reserved/private/shy, an incredible wit, and does not like a lot of attention--he tends to want to hide if that happens.

    gonna stop now before I go nuts and post 50k words.


    edit---I didn't necessarily mean to clutter the joint up with an actual embedded video. Is this legal? I woulda been just as happy with making people copy and paste a link.
     
  10. Imaginarily

    Imaginarily Disparu en Mer Contributor

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    Isn't this what the novel is for? :rofl:

    Read ze story. You will find out about my MC. *smugface*
     
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  11. Seraph751

    Seraph751 If I fell down the rabbit hole... Contributor

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    Cherry Bane

    Nickname: “Black” Cherry

    Gender: Female

    Position: Daughter of the Solanum Clan Leaders, Nox & Amara Bane, also known as one of the 7 Poison Clans.

    Species: Layethnadur

    Called the Nadors for short

    “We are Layethnador!”

    Pronunciation: Lay-ith-na-door

    Na-door

    Race: Ala Noctis

    Description:

    Height & Build: 5’5” tall, slender build, almost waif-like in appearance; bone structure is strong, but hollow, allowing for flight

    Eye Color: Slanted almond-shaped Crimson eyes, oval pupils

    Hair Color: Black-purple down her back to right above her tail

    Skin: Pale-Skinned

    Species Traits:

    Wings: Black; leathery; In terms of height they are about 5” taller than she when she holds her wings behind her and have a wingspan of 8’. Upon the highest arch on each rest 2 hooked talons- one is smaller (hallow and almost unbreakable they are prized in trade). Pulse with red vein-like markings when threatened or intimidating

    Face: Cherry’s incisors are slightly longer and sharper than a human’s and her lips are black

    General Body: A slightly effervescent smattering of black-green freckles appears on the back of her neck, across the top of her shoulders, and from there, down her back in a v pattern which goes just outside of where her wings are to the lower part of her back to right above the tail and on her hips and inner thighs. The freckles condense along her spine to form a solid line all the way down to her tail.

    *These freckles are a defense mechanism, if willed, due to this species having wings they developed the smattering of ‘freckles’ to help protect themselves from being held down or onto as they can secrete their own individual toxin through the freckles.

    Arms & Hands: She has the smattering of freckles on her hands that condense to the solid black-green on her fingers and with orange-red tipped claws

    Feet: She has the smattering of freckles on her ankles that condense to the solid black-green on her orange-red tipped claws that are as hard as the talons on her wings and hands.

    Tail: At the end of Cherry’s 3’ black colored tail there is a 4" black-green blade-like porous bone that she can use to cause devastating gashes with and simultaneously deliver her poison through.

    Family: Nox Bane (Father; copper eyes & black purple hair; name is based off of S. Nigrum or Black Nightshade), Amara Bane (Mother; modeled after Woody Nightshade; bright red hair and amethyst eyes

    Ability: Her poison, atropine, which she is able to use at will. Effective in liquid, vapor, or solid form, while it is quite deadly as it attacks the nervous system it is also used to heal in small doses. When she exhales atropine in vapor form she can light a match causing the vapor to ignite, creating a fire-breathing effect.

    Weapons: Matches (lol), Extendable Staff; poison dipped throwing knives for long range

    Personality: Honorable (very black & white most of the time); honest to a fault; Yes I did that what of it' attitude

    Wears: Has leather bracers, the bracer on her right arm has a notch on it for the stone Cherry uses to strike her matches against; A halter top that has long ties that go down between her wings so she can secure the bottom portions of her shirt and shorts to expose her freckles.


    *Her family has kept her in seclusion from others of her kind, due to her crimson gaze.
     
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    Kar Heradin is a 27-year-old musketeer from a city of Bogidien. Aged badly, his face looks pretty worn and tired - to finalize his "too old for his age" -look, his hair is a black ponytail with short sidecut.

    He loves peace and beautiful views of nature, especially from the towers of Cair Golmen; a group of islands surrounded with bright blue sea and in the distance, the shore of Tahl-Ulrun that presumably is filled with wild animals and mutated creatures.

    Kar Heradin's favourite place to hangout is the biggest tavern in the city of Bogidien; Roaring Bison. Sitting in the side table, he enjoys his beverages and stares the too-beautiful servant named Selphie...
     
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    This is about my MC from my fiction series blog, "The Changing Ocean Saga". This is the gist of her story:

    Arum is a girl brought up in the peaceful comfort of her palace. Her father, mother, brother and sister are her world. Until one fateful day, she loses them all. With her family dead, she is forced to abandon her palace alone to survive.

    This is her personality:

    She is scared and soft hearted when sheltered under her family, but when put to test, her true personality shines through. She is fiercely protective of her loved ones. However, she is foolish enough to fight for what she believes in even when she doesn't have the skill to do it, which often gets her into trouble.
     
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    For the story I am working now it's Nathan Hasley. A detatched 18 year old man in with the early stages of an undiagnosed mental illness (need to do some proper research to name it but thats a second draft fix). Everything seems unjust to him, his parents apparent weakness, his neighbourhood falling apart and the lack of prospects. Basically everything but his 13 year old Claire. She is the most important person in his life.
     
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    John Ethan Helmsley. He's 15, a sophomore, and one of my few straight characters in the story. When he was 9, his father, John Sr, killed himself, causing his depression. He lives with his mom, Vi, and her girlfriend (and later wife), Mona, in a small apartment in a poor part of the city. The neighborhood is kind of dangerous, but the neighbors are nice to the Helmsleys after John Sr died, so they never moved away. At the beginning of the story, he finds out that Vi and Mona are dating and now engaged (never told because they didn't know how he'd react), and he joins the LGBT club that the other 5 main characters are a part of. I haven't given him much of a plot for the rest of the story, though. I think he'd be best friends with Alba Hyder.

    Oh, his name. John didn't really come from anything. I got Ethan because it sounds kind of like Johnathan (his father's name), and I got Helmsley from the Helmsley Building, while I based the city it takes place in on New York City (but now it's more like Fort Lauderdale).
     
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    Anastasia Windell, or Anya for short. She's just turned 18 years old at the beginning of the novel, and she's first in line to the throne along with her twin brother. She's the joint eldest of six children, and lives the typical royal life of luxury, being waited on hand and foot, and being carted around everywhere on official visits etc. She hates living life as a princess because it doesn't give her the freedom she wants. She feels as if she was born into the wrong family in the wrong part of the world, which she realises is a foolish thing to think and feel because of how lucky she is. She grins and bears it most of the time. Anya enjoys challenging the norms of a princess, particularly where her father is concerned. Anya and her father have a tumultuous relationship, as she feels that he focuses too much on her twin brother and doesn't get the recognition she feels she deserves.

    She yearns for freedom and to be able to do what she wants, and is constantly looking for a way out, if there ever will be one!
     
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    Jaraley mistrusts doors. He has been in the army ten years, and has led his team of special forces commandos for the last six. His squad is getting jobs which need to be done, but are either too dangerous or too questionable to be handed to the average unit. Yet he is content with his life - his squad makes a difference. And as long as he has his mates, he knows who is left standing at each day's end.

    But when he reads the parameters of the new mission, he has to face it: Personal happiness is not in for him. The target is one which opens old wounds, and will place him in conflict with his mates, his orders, and his conscience; not to mention that he will have to decide where his loyalty truly lies. Jaraley is not a coward, but he wants to run - and can't. Fuckin' orders.

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    The past can never be remade. When Thryaleos comes face-to-face with Jaraley as a part of the battalion he is expected to command, reality hits hard. The boy he'd been unable to forget had changed to a killer. Of course, Thryaleos is not the man he'd once been, either.

    Thryaleos does not deceive himself: His command team does not trust him, operational knowledge of the enemy forces is lacking, and he has to turn the strategy around to have any chance to succeed in this peculiarly planned war. And then there is Jaraley - who quite clearly has never forgotten him either. Thryaleos cannot change what happened, but understanding is not the same as acceptance. Together, united in a joint command they could stand against any challenge. Yet he can't afford another mistake, nor misplaced trust. Never mind dreams.
     
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