the gamer from hale!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rue (Princess Tutu)

up there among favorite antagonists/anti-villains

perfectionist with deep-rooted insecurity. at her core she just wants to be loved, and almost everything she does screws her (& Mytho) over in pursuing it.

in one of her early scenes she tells her puppet-like, literally heartless boyfriend to say he loves her. He does.

Agott (Witch Hat Atelier)

i love her arc of rediscovering her passion/heart after everyone around her stamped it down.

how she and Coco elevate each other is wonderful. So is her baby crush on her.

deeply 12 years old. Studious and perfectionist and narrow-minded at first. I like that she's depicted as selfish at times.

Vergil (Devil May Cry)

i dont think this one's a surprise

I love a guy who keeps screwing himself over because he doesn't realise what he actually wants and already has. To the point of stabbing out everything that makes him him. Great villain & foil & Dante's annoying nerd brother.

v v v fun to beat up & play as.

Ayda Mensah (Murderbot Diaries)

When I read All Systems Red, Mensah's leadership and presence was really nice to read. You could see why everyone respects her so deeply. She did her best to lead through awful situations and cared deeply for her team and was also ride or die to pull off batshit plans.

Cannot emphasise enough, I love how Martha Wells depicts Mensah's leadership style.

Always looked forward to the bits where Mensah & Secunit interact.

Cyclonus (Transformers/MTMTE/Lost Light)

his arc with Whirl & Tailgate was the best part of MTME for me

Stoic intimidating bot falls so so so hard for someone and all his goopy emotions spilled out

Goes from trying to kill Whirl to basically them being QPP.

Lelouch (Code Geass)

this show has a lot of issues.

but teen me had so much fun watching this guy go ham & screw himself & everyone around him over

Alucard/Arikado Genya (Castlevania)

popping Arikado's pic here because this is the funniest turn Alucard could have gone. government agent fakename-mcDarkGuy. Babysitting his evil father's reincarnation.

I think there's a lot unsaid about Arikado seeing his father move on & break the generational curse on the Tepes & Belmont families

v v v fun to play as beautiful tragic dhampir prince.

Ao Bing (Nezha 2019/2025)

v v v good bestie & foil to Nezha. Tries to do good by his family & entire people. He is 2 years old.

Unflinchingly polite young boy with a lot of passion that bursts out. Don't see that often.

Enjoy the intertextuality that in the OG tale, him & Nezha should have killed each other as enemies. Difference is that their parents care so much about them in a new way. Whole films tackle family ties very well.

Protoman (Megaman - Archie comics)

his plot was the best part of the Archie run. Little robot boy with a core defect runs away thinking his creator wants to fix him (at risk of deleting his entire sense of self). Comes back & thinks he's been replaced with new robot kids. Crashes out.

He's Rock & Roll's wayward brother. You want to see him become that.

Hitori Gotoh (Bocchi the Rock)

this show and this character were so funny & charming.

Also she can get so in her head & value things like fame & popularity & the nice comments she gets on her youtube channel. I like that she's very imperfectly human.

midna (the legend of zelda)

really just a good character. i like her for the same reasons everybody else does. and the nostalgia factor of course. as a kid i really wanted this game but i only played it last year for the first time. and it lived up to the hype. i like companion characters and get easily attached to video game characters especially if they trouble you as the player in any way. she is everything but mid....

Milchick (severace)

really really compelling character as soon as he doubled down on his role. the reveal that he is not severed comes as a bit of a chock and it makes you think how someone can otherwise be groomed to have the personality and functions of a severed worker but i really think its his purposeful mimicry of severed workers that makes him a mastermind sort of character. without kier actually present the villains of the series interpret him or act out systematic orders which is really great worldbuilding. im particular to stories of disillusionment and how a reality-defining delusion like capitalism is asserted (especially once the show made it clear that socio-cultural factors are involved) and i thought his methods for keeping the branch in check were interesting and terrifying.

Iris Thompson (scp)

been reading many stories about her and i very much like the Resurrection canon with her in a protagonist role. I'm also fond of Jude Kriyot because of his relations to gamers against weed and awcy and i like those power fantasy takes on creative organized protest. ultimately im glad these projects address the old internet issues of the prior canon but dont linger on it so they can become something new.

V (devil may cry) i have said many times they had no reason to make this character in the sense of ramping up the action and stakes. he sucks to play as. he was entirely made for telling a vulnerable story mostly about emasculation that also feels like it touched on the roots of the series set in dmc1 and is unapologetically a homage to the original goth fans. but you can also make fun of him because he is vergil.

Leigh from look outside I really like loss of humanity characters. Its really cool that you can find her phone and have conversations about her old self. I enjoyed the drama between her and her fiancé and i liked how her story showed some of the philosophy of the game. game of the 2025 also. its hard to single out a character.

Desmond sycamore (professor layton) Antihero from professor layton series. blorbo of like 12 years. Just found out there is an active fancommunity for this guy. excellent. His design and personality is really fun. just an all-timer for me

Prismo (adventure time) One of those characters that are written like you would like to know them in real life. I like what the sequels have done with him. Essentially just a narrative device with a personality which is easy to imagine as an rpg npc its nice.

deltaswap tenna laptop au (deltarune) otherwise Spamton You know. I already wrote an essay on this. he got the essay treatment for like 15 pages and i didnt even touch on his homelessness. but mostly i like him for the same reasons as V. there was no reason whatsoever to make a character like this except the author just wanted to and you can smell it on him.

blue gnome (rtvs) hes like a freak mode infomaniac. makes me smile everytim. feed me some goins sir.

earthmover (ultrakill)