if you were to write any fictional character, which would choose

[Jo Zebedee]

Me, I'm thinking Huck Finn, maybe, with his distinctive voice. Or scarlett, ditto. Or Heathcliff, just to create an enduring monster.

SFF: Paul Atreides, about the only one I haven't been accused of copying, but he's in there - although I've had a fair few dune comments.

Or Nanny Ogg, I'd loved to have created Nanny Ogg...

Actually, I'll stop with Nanny Ogg, the acme of SFF creation...

Ps, do people know what acme is, I use it all the time and people made roadrunner comments...

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Second. Nanny Ogg.

Acme means "the best", which is why it was used as a company name in roadrunner cartoons. Obviously, if disaster strikes time and again when the products are the best, then the coyote using them must be the worst...

Acme also means "the highest point", which is what the coyote always falls off...

 

[Jennifer Cthulus]

Valentine Michael Smith (from Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land), for his, er, unique perspective and idiosyncratic nature.

Ps, do people know what acme is, I use it all the time and people made roadrunner comments...

Same as "zenith" or "paragon". I doubt I would have even thought of the cartoon if you hadn't mentioned it. Maybe you should hang out with writers more?

 

[reiver33]

Wile E. Coyote rocks!

Actually I'd like to have created him, given that he counts as a fictional character. My fav. episode features the ACME rocket sled...

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I would love to have created Miles Vorkosigan, but I could never do him justice.

Or maybe Mycroft Holmes -- the computer, not the detective's brother.

Bernie Rhodenbarr is right up my alley, too. (Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who...)

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Dr Who and Captain Jack Harkness (as in first two series of Torchwood, and not since).

To be honest I am incredibly proud of some of my own characters and I am not sure I'd want to write someone else's. I have the emotional connection with them that I can't have with others. The Doctor is different and so is Captain Jack because they go through so many changes I can make them mine. Also I have written them in a fan fiction. Captain Jack was pregnant and had been kidnapped by the Kandy Man.

 

[Mouse]

I've been thinking and thinking and thinking and I don't think there is one. Not one. How bad is that?!

I'm happy to read about other people's characters and write my own.

 

[Menion]

I would have loved to have been the person who created Druss the Legend. Because David Gemmell's books and characters have meant so much to me over the years. Druss himself is a great inspiration. I just wish I could have met D.G and thanked him for writing books that I like to think helped me become the kind of person I am today.

 

[James Coote]

There are times when I think "damn, that character is spot on! I know someone exactly like that". Not having one of those times right now...

There are characters that I like, but I don't think I'd be a good judge of whether a character is well written or not

 

[Jammill Khursheed]

Woodcarver from Vernor Vinge's 'A Fire Upon The Deep'... pretty much any of the tines actually, not only are they cool characters, the very idea behind them is even cooler...


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