#for the full list of faves: a.gott (maybe ri.che) qif.rey wha yan.qing su.shang hsr cy xq yj yoi.miya yan.fei zl

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In both character design and personality, is there a type or pattern to the characters you get attached to?

tldr this feels a bit disappointing but quite literally anyone that falls into the category of little guys LOL. this encompasses both character design and personality i think. the rest are a smattering of different personalities

a lot of them have bright-eyed (or sopping wet) puppy energy of a decent high school guy idk. some variation of shorts/hoodie combo helps, messy and/or dark colored hair does too. otherwise, it's some old guy who usually exudes a majestic, knowledgeable or ancient air. or masc-leaning girls who are straightforward and kind of blunt but have good hearts (dark short hair still helps). also people who are whimsical and have interesting imaginations or perspectives on the world they inhabit

generally I think I like people who are peppy/outgoing, or just Normal People (mortals, no fateful encounters with the nonhuman world) who are getting through life one way or another. some of them are side characters with no particular trauma who i pretend are main characters, or side characters who have a generally complete character arc about dreams, modernity, or sense of self/purpose. the similarities end there lol

for the older characters that I like; manipulation, wisdom, and a degree of all-knowingness are nice.

then there are outliers Georg (pearl from steven universe, [redacted from redacted] and [redacted from redacted]) these ones all have trauma. 2nd character is extremely polarizing, probably had antisemitism written into him tbh :\, dark backstory, trauma, excessively mean with only a certain degree of reason, not young, arc is more impacted by the actions of other humans than by fate or whatever. the last one is pretty jaded and also subtly manipulative, among other things. he's also ancient and nonmortal; it's like if opposite/2p zhongli existed