Most Outrageous Character

Stormin Mormon — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:18:38 +0100

Who would you say your most outrageous character is in your NaNo this year? You know, the one that does just about everything that draws shouting and disbelief? Mine would be Vanessa. She's a succubus who meets my FMC and decides she's fun to hang around. Throughout the novel Vanessa tries endlessly to seduce the men, except for one problem. Vanessa is a succubus, but she's also the most awkward and embarrassing succubus of all time. For example, one time she tries to seduce a musician, and this is her pickup line, "You're pretty good at music. We should get together, your drum and my flute."

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FamilyFriendlyComedy — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:54:00 +0100

It's a toss-up. At first it was Leonard Slobowski, a somewhat eccentric (family changed its name from more normal Shipley when they came from England) fellow who is not really slow, but sort of Barney Fife-like messing up. He takes the typo in a blog of "Vikings Sack San Marino" and does a vlog about how bad it was for the Vikings to do this, then takes more typos later and does crazy things with them. he's a practical joker and somehow his craziness with these telemarketers is going to lead to catching the bank robbers who robbed a bank in San Marino. Then again, public pressure on him will force a police commissioner in San Marino to order a police investigatorto the United States and, becasue of confusion between "Alexis" and "A Lexus" he will order her to arrest a car for bank robbery, refusing to hear any reason. Sort of like the "boss from you know where," thought part of it's the rpessure he's under to solve it. He's kind of minor, though.

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SNZL — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:37:36 +0100

That's really hard. All three of my main characters have an element that makes them ridiculous. Stephanie is the one who is constantly exasperated by everyone else's antics, but then attempts to handle situations by blowing them up. Hailey thinks she can handle everything, but her list of supplies consists of fifty cents and a fish taco. Morgan is never quite aware of what's happening, and spends a good bit of time in conversation with her pet goldfish, Herman.

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soretudaaa — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:45:33 +0100

It's my good friend Mike Dover. The most cowardly police officer that ever existed. Extremely cautious and sarcastic, he tries to be liked by all the old ladies in town (and generally everybody), but fails miserably. Long story short, he's like the guy who always wants to be invited to parties but isn't.

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Anna York — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:20:20 +0100

Justin McNabb. He is my protagonist Elena's last bad date. Overall a minor character but he is something else. She met him from a dating site and within 20 minutes of the start of their first date, he reveals himself to be not quite all there and asked her to buy bomb-making supplies for him. It was how Elena handled the situation and how she tells the story that makes it entertaining. The sad thing? This was based off a real life story :-/

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Janks1516 — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:48:44 +0100

Most of my characters are somewhat outrageous. My protagonist wears a monocle exclusively to formal events and fights people over puzzles, but then I've got Talbert, or Tal. He's disturbingly comfortable with going to his death. This happens several times over, and people keep saving him, but he keeps getting stuck in situations where he's going to be executed and all he'll say is, "Well, alrighty then.". No one is sure if he's suicidal or just really, really optimistic that he won't die. I've also got Fenn, who burns down orphanages for fun, but that's an entirely different story.

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DudelRok — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:48:56 +0100

It would be easier to tell you which of my characters was the least outrageous, which is my FMC. She's been grounded as much as possible in order to keep the reader in the story, as everyone else is waaaaaay off in left field. Though of all my crazy creations, it's a tie between Grato Beaten and his brudda, Axe'n'Face Jack. Grato has an axe that he likes to put in people's faces, and Jack... well he was customer #1. They have a third non-blood brother, Hookclaw, which may or may not end up in this story, eloquent as he may be.

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franniebernath — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:00:23 +0100

The most outrageous character for me would have to be the main antagonist known as "The Man". Why? Well, the man controls the fate of souls, and after a while that job gets extremely lonely and boring. So he invents people up in his mind, talking to them simultaneously, finding any reason he can to come in contact with humans. That's the reason that the main character gets drug into the main plot line/situation. It's quite humorous considering there is someone completely nuts controlling your fate.

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Stormin Mormon — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:29:26 +0100

Your most normal character is your MC? For some reason that sounds awfully like mine :) Let's face it; the world would be so boring with silly crazy people.

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Anna York — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:00:14 +0100

My MC is very normal, too, otherwise people wouldn't relate to her. She has a normal job, normal interests, she isn't rich but secure. It's her dating experiences and insight that make her very ABnormal. The more bad dates she has, the sharper her insight and more biting her wit. She grows a lot through the story after making some of the same mistakes in the beginning. Its how she learns from her experiences that makes her unique.

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TheSlenderman — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:37:02 +0100

my most outrageous character is Javonte for sure. He's the big, black, flaming gay werewolf from down the street. (I'm doing a twilight parody, so Javonte is like Jacob.) His mannerisms make his orientation quite clear and he's very witty and sassy. In a nutshell, I love Javonte, lol.

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laundrylint — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:03:37 +0100

Probably my two main characters for this year. Meet Jim and George, two lazy slacker that have to get money to pay off their rent. Instead of doing things the normal way, ie get a job, they're going to go rob a bank. Jim is the absolutely ridiculous one. He's also the one who came up with the idea of robbing a bank. Jim is lazy, sarcastic, and a bit of an ass, and all of his ideas are so out there, you'd wonder if he ate paint chips as a child. Almost everything that comes out of his mouth is an unholy abomination to the English language, mainly because you never knew that certain words could be stringed together to form such an incoherent sentence. George is our narrator. At first, he's a smart and nice guy, and you'd never understand exactly how the two of them even know each other. Then, you realize he has the most hypersexual and perverted mind you could ever have. Rape fetishes? No problem. Bestiality? No big deal. Amputees, furries, and autistic people? Been there, done that. I'm pretty sure this signifies something is extremely wrong with me, but I think I'm going to have a lot of fun with this.

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DudelRok — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:12:36 +0100

Well she's as normal as a red headed female pirate captain searching for long lost treasure can be.

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DudelRok — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:14:22 +0100

"Javorite" is my kind of parody name. Not one for subtly, myself, names like that just make me smile.

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Kamu — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:56:10 +0100

Ah this is a cool idea. Made me smile just thinking about it. :)

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SugarLeigh — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:37:05 +0100

Because this parody is meant to be pretty over the top, my characters are all pretty outrageous. But unable to pick only one who is the most so, even out of a set of only four key players, I will present the duo who are probably most unabashedly ridiculous: We have on the side of the men one Brick Coldfire, who is the accumulation of every red-blooded, hard-bodied, and testosterone-brained macho man who ever graced the pages of a pulp romance. His mother was half Italian, half Greek, and his father was the son of a supermodel and a Cherokee warrior. He is a cowboy, a detective, and the heir to an impressive fortune. When he says jump, he expects the world to say "how high, sir?" and then jump twice that high. He expects even more of himself. He spends most of his time consumed with either rage or lust. Why do something by halves when you can do it times ten? And why does it seem nobody, even himself, is capable of matching his perfectly rational and reasonable expectations? He must brood about this question over a glass of expensive whiskey. Then we have Garnet, who is the amalgamation of every romantic angst trope. Her story began as a Regency romance when she was first orphaned, then forced into marriage with a wealthy baron at insistence of the requisite wicked uncle. Instead of finding true love via Stockholm Syndrome, however, she found that he was an ancient vampire and now she too is one of the undead. That certainly ruined her reputation with London society! Unable to handle the disappointing genre swap she fled, first to the New World and since then, around the world. The need for human blood vs. the desire not to kill and to er, un-live peacefully combined with memories of her parents and the ill treatment of her uncle and husband ensures that each breath she doesn't actually take, because she's dead, is laced with bitter agonies. For the first time in centuries she returns to Britain, determined that this time everything will be different and she will find her reason for not living. Brick is tired of his new mistress already, when an ethereal woman who appears barely legal happens upon his path. The wheels have been set in inexorable motion now-- the mysterious Garnet will be his! Or will she?

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HarpGuy — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:26:48 +0100

I have a whole crew of cornish farmers who are now pirates, because my MC though he was pressganging a crew of hardened pirates....they sounded the same in the dark....

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brianarants — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:58:00 +0100

Hmm, probably Madeline. She says it like it is and gets to the point of everything. She'll be the comic relief throughout the whole novel along with Nolen and Henry. She'll be doing explicit matter such as getting drunk and "sleeping" around. I'm not too entirely sure what else will happen with her but I do know of this: she'll be going to the men's bathroom to figure out the urinals. I'm more excited to write about her than my actual main character. :O

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Paddy O' Furniture — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:03:20 +0100

Mine would be: Kyle "That Sullivan kid who was just standing here a minute ago" Sullivan, the 14-year old cousin of the MC. He, the MC and 200 other people are playing in a massive paintball "war" in rural Mississippi. Kyle spends most of his time there, taunting his opponents mid-game, messing with people bigger than him, smack-talking, trying paintball tactics that are so ridiculously out there that they work, and using bigger people as cover. He is to the MC in this book, as Ford Prefect is to Arthur Dent in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Kyle guides the MC through his first time playing paintball. Often heard saying things like: "Leroooooooy Jeeeenkins!" "Paintballs hurt a lot less, if you don't get hit." "These guys are no different from those other players we went up against earlier, except that there's a whole lot more of 'em, they're older, they have better gear, and that one over there just had three Red Bulls." "That's nothing, this one time..."

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Paddy O' Furniture — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:06:17 +0100

I laughed out loud when I read "Well, alrighty then." Awesome catch phrase!

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Michael Master — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:20:56 +0100

Mine is D, a paranoid, demented outer-dimesnional creature that manifests itself as a moving black fog. His hobbies include stalking people (obviously), whispering things in their ears and convincing them that they're crazy and taking the form of several obscene objects.

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Stormin Mormon — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:18:11 +0100

I like him already.

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emmanatrix — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:08:48 +0100

None of my characters have names in the story, but there are "the Chefs" who are two ten year old kids who got a genie and their wish was...to become Royal Cooks. When asked why they didn't think of something better, their response was "we're ten, okay." The genie is also absurd - a former warrior trapped in a genie's lamp, he's flamboyant and still challenges people to duels despite not being solid.

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ShinyRaikou — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:20:23 +0100

Probably Brain Boy. He gets in arguements with me. Literally. I have a whole section of dialouge that's just an arguement between me and him. Oh, how I love destroying the forth wall!

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SugarLeigh — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:57:26 +0100

ohmanz, I want to read that XD

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Stormin Mormon — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:31:44 +0100

I just caught that last sentence after all this time. He does WHAT for fun?

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Ink_Stained_Midnight — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:42:43 +0100

Oh, Thor. Most definitely Thor. My short story is about a WriMo who dies during a word war and ends up in Valhalla. Thor is very flamboyantly gay and dreams of interior design. He also loves picking on my Loki and breaking the fourth wall.

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waxlion — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:41:06 +0100

Hmm. Mine might be Knight Whisper, the father of the girl my main (who is forming a team of shoddy super villains) is dating. He is secretly a parody of Batman and is very over-the-top in this respect.

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honeywell — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:04:15 +0100

Mine is Ricky. He just has the weirdest luck, and being born on February 29th seems to have been the trigger for it. He regularly gets his tie stuck in the printer at work, falls asleep at one person's house and wakes up miles away without any recollection of what happened, and can offend a group of nuns just by existing.

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Paddy O' Furniture — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:44:46 +0100

I always get a huge kick out of it when people break the forth wall.

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syncretic — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:10:46 +0100

Wonku'oyeromeht: a three-point-five-seven-eight-two inch high, blue skinned, ivory business suit wearing, red haired (inna beehive, of course) book imp and Decorated Class B Mischief Maker of the Upper Rings, Section 27, Literary Division. She is a physical consolidation of all knowledge and exists to know more than you and to be condescending and obnoxious to the best of her given ability! *salute* ((She's also the one who moves your bookmark when you're not looking. Every little bit helps!))

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Anna York — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:37:15 +0100

Thanks!!! When I told my partner about the date, he about peed himself laughing. Then again, so did the police when I called them about it. One of the lines used in that chapter is "The worst part is I didn’t think I came across as a wannabe domestic terrorist who buys explosives after the first-date kind of girl!”

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Eryn ORyan — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:06:42 +0100

Mine would be Walter Ebert. A nihilistic narcissist who hasn't worked for 20 years and rather spends his mother's and his son's money on unnessesary things. He's very greedy and instead of doing the houshold while his kids are in school he sleeps through the day and complains about every untidy corner in the house. He also has a huge tendency to exaggerate and if it was for him, he would reestablish slavery, because none but the white race in his eyes is worth living. He's incapable of doing anything himself, therefore he always needs his son to spend his freetime. No one in town likes him and he's always in a conflict with his neighbors, which makes him very paranoid. He's divorced and sees his exwife as the reincarnation of the devil himself. Women in general are just whores for him, who have no right to have an own opinion and if they dare so he doesn't hesitate to harm them phisically. What he says is law and all the other people are of course lazy bastards who only want his money or who come in behalf of his wife to take everything he has. He sees his daughter as a spy, because she kept in touch with her mother and he thinks she's the uggliest girl on earth. His son on the other hand is his whole pride as long as he does what his father wants. If he refuses to do so, he's just an arrogant snob who doesn't deserve to be happy. His hobbies are porn and alcohol mainly, although he denies that he's an alcoholic.If he's been alone for too long he needs someone to insult. This is often his mother or his daughter. He has got a bit of an south-europeen touch and a huge potbelly and often wears the same striped sweaters for over a week. He always look unhealthy and very dirty. Sadly such a man does exists -.-''

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Elyndra — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:09:52 +0100

I suppose it’s a close call between Prince Valiant and an unplanned and currently unnamed wizard apprentice who just kind of put himself in the story. Prince Valiant Bertram Adalric Richard Ken Othman Belvedere. His name is everything he is not. He’s a coward, a weakling, has the personality of a rock (and a boring rock too) and he has perfected the art of doing nothing. He’d much rather have stayed home and stared at the ceiling, instead of having to do something as exhausting as going on a journey to prove his worth, and he’ll most likely whine the whole way. The wizard apprentice on the other hand, is a walking disaster. The boy is cheerful, kind, intelligent and eager. That’s the problem though, he’s so enthusiastic he’s more likely to create a smoking, gaping crater instead of the small fireball he meant to conjure up. And I might have to mention the prince’s horse who is currently suffering from an identity crisis. I feel sorry for Ruth, my FMC, she has to keep this lot in check.

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Mutive — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:06:55 +0100

Mine is my main character. He's going to suggest a menage a trois between his finacee and his ex-wife and not get why either see it as at all strange. This is actually one of his less out there moments. <3

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Mariana OConnor — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:13:02 +0100

The Evil Overlords and their quest for world domination? The good guys and their hypocritical self-righteous idiocy and egocentricity? The random mad scientists, underlings and sidekicks that hang around and create havok, genetically engineered mutant monsters and really unfunny comic relief? My MC's flatmate who sets him up with job interviews girls, extreme sports trips and drug deals just because he's bored? My MC himself who is going to learn how to play all these people off each other masterfully? I don't think I've got an un-outrageous character in the lot.

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S. Haley — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:13:49 +0100

Your story sounds hilarious, especially seen as my name is Stephanie (and I am constantly exasperated by everyone's antics and threaten to blow things up), and my pen name is Haley (and I tend to believe I can handle everything, though I tend to have a bit more on me than fifty cents and a taco).

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lopatanitrok — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:46:28 +0000

One of my characters is 6'4 overweight, redheaded, jewfro-ed Greco-Roman wrestler with severe halitosis and gymnophobia. He doesn't really do much other than bother other characters with his presence.

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Inkspattered_ — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:59:31 +0000

That sounds completely epic. x)

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johnnyfalls — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:36:33 +0000

I think most of my characters are outrageous and ridiculous, but grounded enough to be likeable? If I had to pick one, it would probably be the self-righteous character who thinks credit card debt goes away when you die, and continuously rebukes attempts to be told otherwise.

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tamara_the_muse — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:23:36 +0000

Oh gosh, I don't know. They're all designed to be quirky and I haven't worked with them enough to know which is the worst. If I had to pick I'd probably go with Anna, whose profile reads, "professional BAMF, good at guns and people, enjoys romantic comedies, long walks on the beach, and watching people bleed to death" or Brian (former Chosen One, magic user with a specialty in traps and wards, enjoys reading the newspaper, dogs, and rock operas), or maybe Carla (good old fashioned superhero, good at poisons and magic user, enjoys chocolate, driving, and suits that make her ass look fantastic). And who knows. Maybe one of the civilians will trump all of them and be super weird. Orchid the cyberpunk assassin has promise, and I'm excited to work with Eriok the Mage, who sounds fairly incompetent.

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RoboPhantom — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:34:20 +0000

Probably my protagonist, Sven. All my other characters are fairly normal (in a manner of speaking) with only a few quirks a piece. Sven is horribly vain and a bit of a dandy, talks to his large, fire-breathing, sheep-stealing dragon like it's a puppy, sends offensive letters to enemy kingdoms, creates potions that do bizarre and usually useless things because "they might come in handy some day" (they usually do), collapses a castle on top of himself because it was a more dramatic way to kill his opponent, and yet he somehow manages to get away with it all relatively unharmed.

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nefferduat — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:35:41 +0000

Ms. Whitler. An old bat who has been prepairing for the zombies since she was a young woman and the idea was presented to her. Has an array of weapons, special anti-zombie traps she designed and her husbands ashes locked in a steal boxs- just in case. She trained her cat- Waddles, to attack and kill zombies on sight.

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Her Grace of Serenity — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:38:03 +0000

I'm a fan.

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Her Grace of Serenity — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:50:59 +0000

Zlota is a cook who is convinced the ghosts of dead presidents are haunting her, tries to use knives as hairbrushes, and puts unfertilized eggs under pots and bangs them to make them hatch. Ellie is a baker who runs a cafe out of a spaceship, names her pastries after revenge tragedies, and uses her frying pan to chase bigots off the premises. John is a doctor who dresses up in women's clothing, insists that he sold his soul to the devil for money and power and now has a case for breach of contract, and lets Zlota do his hair. Moshe is a smuggler who transports fresh fruit and vegetables, can reprogram his own robotic mind in order to grow new sections of his brain, and lets his worst enemy sleep in his bed. Hadia is a scientist who goes on rants about obscure minutiae, believes that God expresses the divine in beautiful women, and has spent years mapping the genome of her lost beloved. Claude is a judge who imagines the Founding Fathers whenever he has sex, recites the Constitution to gunmen, and fools people into believing that a subpoena is an obscure sexual position. Who's strangest? You pick.

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TullyJ — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:17:45 +0000

Hyperion of the Stars, a fifteenth-generation in-bred prince who castrated himself and now identifies as a woman and flies about in a red hot air balloon, seeking vengeance on the brother/cousin who kept her trapped underground. Of course, she's just rescued the immortal frog/toad-shaped demon Anaxoris, who is capable of creating any object out of his mouth and is the son of a shapeshifting demon and an engineer/geographer. (NaNoWriMo is *weird.*)

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buppyspek — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:21:48 +0000

In my story it's Steve Jobs. Yes, I wrote Steve Jobs into my novel. Yes, I know he's dead. Luckily, my story takes place in the afterlife, after the world has ended. Everyone is dead. Turns out that as soon as Steve Jobs died, he took over the afterlife and made everyone start using iPads. In the last scene I wrote, my main character (who doesn't have her own iPad - yet) kicked Steve Jobs in the groin and stole his iPad. I have a feeling this novel is going to need some heavy editing come December.

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zanzimbozi — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:31:37 +0000

Ben. He's a 235 year old 5 " elf king of the Northern Realm. He's a cross between Billy Gibbons (lead singer of ZZ Top) and a garden gnome. He's cranky, sarcastic, a bit amorous but that's only because his wife died over a hundred years ago, says everything wrong and everyone always corrects him. He's the one that talks to me when I should be sleeping, bugging me about some new idea he's come up with.

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ciratoza — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:26:16 +0000

My parody is a little insane, but my most outrageous character is probably Crystallencia (a Mary Sue gone wrong), a fifteen year old girl who has no idea you have to be sixteen years old to drive, likes to carve wood dishes in the shape of fish, and when drunk likes to play chess. She has silver-golden hair with chains in them that clank and bang constantly instead of gently clinking like they are supposed to do, which attracts a lot of attention. She is fond of playing with the chains, making them clank even more which pisses off my other MC. Her worst fear is of burglars in the night trying to steal her toes. ...not exactly meant to be serious.

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Timpeni — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:43:18 +0000

Mine is Aaron, or Chen Xiao Ping. Aaron is the gay character in my book who is a badass actor. Even though he's nice inside, he's rather... well... sarcastic in his FAKE personality. His REAL personality makes him plain silly. Here are some lines he and my FMC Allison has said. FAKE personality: Allison: Aaron, remind me to kill you tomorrow. Aaron: Allison, remind me to remind you to kill me tomorrow. Allison: Tell me, why are we on the roof and why are you listening to the theme song of Mission Impossible? Aaron: Just getting into the mood. Aaron: Your argument seems reasonable. Time to up my medication. REAL personality: Aaron: SOMEONE LET ME OUT OF HEEEERE! THEY’RE GOING TO KILL ME WITH GIRLINESS! (When Allison and his boyfriend Rodrigo forced him to crossdress) Aaron: ...Oh god. It seems like you’re just about to rape me. And my personal favorite (real personality): Aaron: Physical hurt isn’t the worst she can do. Oh, no. Her forte is being so damn unbearable. She’s always looking for any opportunity to make fun of me. For example, once I revealed that I was gay, she used the ‘Gay men like sex too much’ stereotype. When I return home from grocery shopping, she goes ‘Did you sleep with the manager, Aaron? Did you sleep with the clerk, Aaron? Did you sleep with the bread, Aaron?’ HEY, DON’T LAUGH, I’M BEING SERIOUS!