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Elfleda
Maud
Sela
Leila
Lena
Alred
Egelric
Lathier
Ralf
Aia

For me, it's very hard to separate "favorite" from "favorite to write" so that's what you'll get. Egelric alone should take up the top four spots of my top ten list, he is just that complex and compelling. Even if he is a selfish, sullen bastard.

Here we go, probably no surprises here:

Egelric
Lar
Alred
Aelfden
Leofric
Sigefrith
Eirik
Matilda
Gwynn
Osh

For what it's worth, they're not exactly ranked, but that's the order in which they came to mind. If I attempted to sort them, my ranking probably would not be much different. Alred woud probably come before Lar.

Also, I had Imin as #10 until I remembered Osh. I suppose that overall Vash is probably more of a "favorite" to me than Osh, but Vash has never been as much fun to write as Osh. Osh is just so... internally luminous somehow. And at the same time internally shadowed. "Fun" probably isn't the best word to describe writing Osh either, but whatever. Meanwhile Vash is just cranky and angsty whenever we get into his head. Osh is a real pleasure to write and discover, whereas Vash... meh.

I expect Vash will soar up into the top 10 in 1086 however. There's surely as much or more to Vash as to Osh, but we haven't had the chance to see much of it yet. We've had some inklings of that in his pained interactions with Kraaia. Hopefully the trend will continue.

And if I had 11 spots I would have to put Finn...

I suspect Devin's interest in Ralf is of recent vintage and Aia-related.

I thought about including Dante myself. He's cool to write.. especially as Cian when he's being exasperated or pouty. But just how many spots would the likes of Dante or Araphel take up?

It's ALL ABOUT AELFDEN lately.

I considered putting Margaret as well. Ask me 6 months ago, I would have put Margaret instead of Gwynn. I don't love Meggie any less now, but lately I've been loving Gwynn even more.

Awww, Wynflaed's a sweetie. But there are so many other sweet and sharp and spicy characters that would have to go before her. What about Lady Eadgith? She's cool. Or even slightly dopey Young Sigefrith.

As we were saying yesterday, Magog has grown A LOT as a character recently. I do love writing the new, slightly laughable, yet ever more lovable Magog.

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I've always liked Ralf and his house. Though I like him more because he's a potential husband for my Aia and he's book smart .

It would be soooo easier if I just pick people from my bookmarks(there's just ten!). But they aren't really my favourite characters.. nope, not all.
And order.

x Cenwulf - after his death. snifsnif.
x Edris - silly Edris.
x Eirik - he has grown.
x Hedwig - silly Hetty.
x Kív - niaaaauts, I love every glance of him. That's not common! :'D
x Leofric - I didn't like him at first, but affairs with Matilda change everything.
x Young Malcolm - he has been always quite charismatic.
x Sigefrith - my very first "favourite character". Before him everything was just some.. mush.
x Young Sigefrith - that's treacherous. Like with my avatar: suddenly I realized that he's awesome.

And the last one iiiiis.. MYRDDIN! >D

Joke. Så, there's two women and seven men.. hmh.

Ah, there are so many men on my favorite list... either a cause or an effect of the dominance of male-related storylines in this story. I have a hard time thinking of good female-related episodes that don't have to do with either (1) a complicated romance (2) catty backstabbing drama (3) women making an impact in a men's world (Sigi, Matilda to some extent...). I can't just write chapters where ladies are sitting around cooing over their babies or something.

Obviously the problem is mine... I'm not saying there aren't other sorts of storylines (or that the above 3 aren't interesting), it's just that I have a harder time dreaming up and writing those. Maybe it's because I write too much about noble women, who have fairly drama-free lives unless they cook up their own.

At least there are the girls and their growing-up stories. And maybe I'll do something with Ffraid and Uallach next year. Both characters with problems outside of the 3 themes above. And someone else whom I won't mention yet, lest Devin immediately start with the scheming and the plotting and the matchmaking.

Oh, and Ogive!!! I probably couldn't fit her in my top 10 but she would likely be in the top 20. And she's just getting started.

Yay! A Kraaia fan!

The Old Man is an interesting choice too. Sensitive little fellow, but so painfully cuuuute! Especially in some of his earlier chapters, like the one where he cut his own hair, and advised his father that it probably wasn't worth a spanking. Or when he went to talk to Eadie under "false pretendses". ("That's what I said!" *growls*) Back in his "want to put ketchup on his head and eat him" days. But I do think he will grow up to be quite a fascinating young man...

It was tough making this list but I think I narrowed it down. I will try and make some sort of order to it also but it might fall apart a bit in the end:

Leofric - so complex and so very, very phwoar
Brude/Araphel - everyone loves a tortured, fallen angel type (oh no wait... that's just me )
Magog - Who doesn't love a man who growls when he's kissing?
Young Malcom - He may move up the list if we get some more shirtless chapters (in the rain?) - seriously though. He has been a favourite since he was a little kid punching noses on baby's behalf
Hetty - Poor, dear sweet little Hetty. I can't not love her.
Mouse - Awesomeness in a tiny, red-booted format
Gunnie - In some ways the most hardly done by woman in Lothere (can't she please have some romance... with a cherry on top? Or an Egelric *snicker*.)
Meggie - she has such potential for awesomeness it is not even funny
Sigrid - I always thought she was slightly insipid but now she is a princess leia-bunned, sword wielding warrior maiden. With great non-plucked eyebrows. What's not to love?
Alred - He has to be there but he nearly wasn't. He better pull his finger out soon or he is going to be bumped of my list by someone else (shirtless K is a contender but only because he has a pornstar mustache and a kilt... personality is not really a factor when eclipsed by these sorts of things).

Thanks Cassie . It was a very nice place... so so beautiful. An amazingly gorgeous church on every corner.

When I started making the list I thought it was male dominated but more and more of the girls started making their way in. I am quite sure that at some stage I am going to go "oh yeah... I forgot *insert character here* they are more my favourite". We will see. Other characters have been my favourite at other times eg. I used to love Cat but I have gone off them. So I don't imagine this can be a fixed thing. My favourite characters are probably quite changeable. The most enduring is Leofric. He has done so many bad things and still I love him so I don't think that is going to change. I love him for his flaws.

Yeah, the favorites definitely do shift...a few months ago I never would have thought Gwynn would be on my top 10, but she's really been rising rapidly in the ranks of late.
But there are some really consistent ones, for sure. Alred will *always* make my list, as will Matilda, and most likely Eirik, Sigrid, and Lili. I'm a HUGE fan of all of them...the really difficult part came in naming characters after that.
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I'm romantic, literary, cynical, and a diehard Alred Sebright groupie.

I think I've gotten a little fed up with her naivete when it comes to sex and love, and her absolute refusal to let herself feel any kind of desire for Ethelmund (which I think she could, if she let herself.) I can't blame her for her idealism surrounding Egelric (I'm very much guilty of that with someone myself, so I can judge), but she seriously needs to grow up a little. She's almost forty years old, for heaven's sake.
I absolutely love that chapter, too. So beautiful, and I love the description of Egelric's hands...
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I'm romantic, literary, cynical, and a diehard Alred Sebright groupie.

It was really hard for me to choose ten characters, but I guess here are mine:

Eithne
Ogive
Eirik
Sir Malcolm
Lena
Cenwulf
Anson
Lar
Dunstan
Margaret

YEAH ANSON IS ON THE LIST. Even though he hasn't been in that many chapters, I am really intrigued by him.

Anyway, it was really hard to pick my favorite characters, because there's characters that I really like to read about, even though I might not necessarily like them very much. Like I love any chapter with Iylaine, even though I don't really like her. And I really like Conrad, in the chapters with Margaret. And Araphel too, and Cian. I'm pretty sure there's probably some characters I'm forgetting, though...

Ooh yes, another Anson fan And I agree about Ogive. She just seems to kick ass in every post. And I am really excited for when she will become Queen, since she seems very intelligent and knowledgeable about worldly affairs.

I have some terrible time with that last one seat in my list. O____O I haven't still decide it. Too many choices.

With underages, I have thought Emma, Gwynn, the Old Man, Cedric, Caedwulf, even Drage. Emma has been always, from her sickness at leats, one of my favourite kids in this story, even she hasn't many chapters. ;3 She's just so.. mesmerizing. :'D She already was in my list, but I dropped her. Gwynn is very sympathetic and she seems to have much potential, but after all she doesn't really make me yell, "yee, Gwynn" everytime I see her(some characters really make >D). Maybe after few years, or before. I want turning point! Old Man.. haha. I love his.. non-harmlessness. ;D Cedric is great, but secretly: his - father. When I start to think that he's own character, it's better. Same with Caed-boy. Drage.. umh. Like Emma, from very start. He could drown kitties and I just laugh.

With adults, there's more. Awws, Shósúdín. >D (With his apostrophes..) Now I can't pick. I thought Ósh, but njah, there's already Kív, and I thought Iylaine, but..
Or.. maybe I give up and just take my Sebright.