B&A: Character archetype questions :3?

1) What kind of hero and heroine archetypes do you prefer?



* For me, I like really complex and conflicted hero's. I like hero's that have a deep sense of honor and purpose, but find those at odds with the status quo. I like the struggle of keeping true to their honor, but having to deal with circumstances forces him to make hard choices. They may even make decisions that are wrong or cost them their life, but it's their struggle that makes them interesting.



* For heroines, I like anything but Mary Sues. I like ordinary heroines, who may or may not be beautiful, but use their brains to get what they want. They may be kind or ruthless, but they are very balanced with good and bad character traits. I do NOT like perfect characters or female Rambo's though (female warriors fine, but not where they are the best at everything, and basically just lack male anatomy). They set my teeth on edge.





2) What kind of flaws do you like in characters?



* Hero's: arrogance/pride, scars/battered appearance, may not be highly/formally educated (but has street smarts/is still highly intelligent), loner/doesn't get along with others, clumsy (but not stupidly clumsy)



* Heroine: plain or beautiful (but has something to balance it), voice that may not be dulcet, arrogance/pride, emotionally scarred, manipulative or it's opposite naive, etc..





3) What type of narrative mode do you prefer?

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_m… )



* For the most part, 3rd person, but I've read some really good 1st person as well. :)



4) Who's your favorite antihero? (From any media)

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-hero )



* Kratos from God of War

* Raziel from Legacy of Kain

* Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean

* Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly/Serenity (sigh....... ? ? ?)





BQ: What's your fave genre?



* Fantasy and Romance



BQ2: What's your fave children's book?



* The Velveteen Rabbit



BQ3: What's your fave movie(s)/TV series adapted from a book?



* The Princess Bride

* LOTR

* The Neverending Story

* The Last Unicorn

* The Little Mermaid / Beauty %26amp; the Beast

* True Blood

* Game of ThronesB%26amp;A: Character archetype questions :3?
1/ I actually don't know. Any developed character is fine, no matter the archetype.

2/ In my writings many characters are insensitive, arrogant, cruel and/or selfish. I love all these flaws. Also none of my characters have much of an education. Eibhlinn dropped out of school at 17. Mary and Aias finished school at 15 and schools in their world are very basic. Kess is the only college graduate I have ever written. Kinda weird. I'm a college graduate and went on to PhD even though I dropped out of it eventually. And in terms of physical flaws, I just write scars when and where they've been hurt. Other than that I just say they're average looking or not attractive. I don't describe people as ugly because I have never seen any truly ugly people. Just people who could look better with a bit of "work" shall we say? Plus when you love someone they always look charming to you and I love all my characters.



3/ I do whatever suits the story best although I mostly have third person limited, with either one or several POV. I have a couple of works in 1st person.



4/ Plenty. I love anti hero. All my characters are never really heroes or antagonists. They're usually capable of the best and the worst. Aias would be the one exception. He's a good guy, though he did a couple of bad stuff too.



BQ: I write anything but always with a strong romance element. As a reader I love classics most of all, but I do enjoy YA fantasy.

BQ2: Le Petite Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Best thing about it is it only gets better as you grow older.

BQ3: I could make a list longer than Yahoo allows me to post. I love all those you have mentioned except Neverending story and Game of Thrones because I haven't seen them. I think The Social Network is one of the rare adaptations to be better than the book and I have to say most great movies are adapted from books. I could cite Interview with the Vampire, Let the Right One In (and the remake Let Me In, which was fantastic), Million Dollar Baby, Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Battoru Rowaiaru, American Psycho, and many many many many more. I'm a movie addict. I own over 1100 DVDs, so I could really cite half of them here.B%26amp;A: Character archetype questions :3?
1) What kind of hero and heroine archetypes do you prefer?

~Pure archetypes are boring; that's why no one writes them. Archetypal characters tend to be unconflicted and flat. I like my people round and troubled.



2) What kind of flaws do you like in characters?

~That depends entirely on the character. What works for one doesn't necessarily work for another. I tend to like characters with emotional problems as well as physical ones, but the problems are rarely the same for two characters.



3) What type of narrative mode do you prefer?

~I don't care. If it's well-written, the narrative voice doesn't matter. You don't even notice it most of the time.



4) Who's your favorite antihero? (From any media)

~Oh, I don't know. I like Jack Sparrow like you. I liked the four brothers in Four Brothers (you can't go wrong with Mark Wahlberg and Tyrese) but really I like almost any antihero. They're just cool people.





BQ: What's your fave genre?

To read - Realistic fiction. To write - speculative fiction



BQ2: What's your fave children's book?

The Unicorn who Lost Her Horn (I think that's what it's called.)



BQ3: What's your fave movie(s)/TV series adapted from a book?

I just found out that Bones was a book series before hitting the TV, so it's probably that. I also like pretty much any adaptation of any fairy tale, and especially Alice in Wonderland.B%26amp;A: Character archetype questions :3?
1. Hero - I love the coming-of-age story. There's nothing more interesting to me than watching the young, inexperienced hero grow up and become powerful in his own right. (However, he has to actually work for it...no mysterious superpowers that make him invincible or anything like that.) That being said, the jaded and rebellious hero is also intriguing. I like the hero who starts off the story by wishing he were anywhere else, doing anything else, but who grows into a sense of honor over the course of the tale.



2. Heroine - I like my girls to be a little on the bizarre side, if that makes sense. They can be tough, feminine, princessy, intellectual...whatever. But I love a girl who doesn't think like anybody else, who doesn't exactly look like anybody else, and who has her own way of fixing things and solving problems. My best examples would be Luna Lovegood and Hermione, Princess Leia, Jo March from Little Women, and Amy Pond from Doctor Who.



3. Third person, limited.



4. Totally agree with you on Mal from Fireflly/Serenity! %26lt;3 Also,

-John Constantine (comic version, not movie Keanu version)

-Dr. Horrible from Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blogs

-Alucard from Hellsing



BQ: I love fantasy of almost any kind, although I stay away from high fantasy for the most part.



BQ2: Witch of Blackbird Pond. Okay, not a real 'kids' book but it's the book I remember reading most when I was young.



BQ3: I like

-LOTR (of course)

-Beauty and the Beast

-Meet the Robinsons (even though it's a very loose adaptation).

-Ever After (based on the Cinderella story)