Victor Frankenstein - Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus

The story of Frankenstein alone is enough to make me feral, but oh God, Victor is a character who haunts my psyche. The progenitor to the modern mad scientist trope, of course I love him. He's my name sake, as well as the basis for at least half of my original characters. A man brought down by his own hubris and intellect, someone who desires to work from death to create life, of course he is someone I'd immediately be obsessed with. The story of Frankenstein is a classic for a reason, and reading the book in 10th grade changed my life.

Leorio Paradinight - Hunter x Hunter

Leorio is my silly goofy husband, I think. He's so cutes and funny I love him sooooo much.

For real though, I love him. I think the fact that he tries to portray himself as self-centered and egotistical when like the second you get to know him you learn he's just someone who cares ahbout people so deeply and wants to help them. The fact he wants to be a doctor working basically for free is just so sweet and kind and he has the biggest heart in the whole universe and he makes me want to weep. He cares about people and especially his friends just soooooo much. I think that is a wonderful guy who's so there for his friends forever.

Kars - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

A buff man with long hair and a god complex, who was totally doing mad science experiments on people? Yes please! He's probably one of my favorite villains ever, he's evil and scary and fun to root for and against. Every time he showed up I was on the edge of my seat. Also, he kills nazis, so he's cool in my book.

Truthfully, I like all of the pillarmen, and I'm probably going to put them all on here eventually because they are just that cool. Kars, you will always be famous to me. It kind of baffles me how little fanart of him there seems to be, and I think it's in part because part 2 doesn't have some twink to ship him with. God forbid a man want bara or something maybe? Dunno.

Linhardt von Hevrig - Fire Emblem: Three Houses

I really liked all of the Black Eagles from 3H, but Linhardt really really endeared me. It's very funny that excluding the DLC, he is one of the only gay romance options, lol. His squeamishness at the fighting and blood is very endearing and silly to me as well, it makes him really feel like a scared teenager fighting in a war he didn't ask to be in.

I also like that Linhardt offers a very casual representation of depression. I don't think it was an intentional reading of his character necessarily, but his constant exhaustion and lack of interest in things felt very quiet and powerful to me, especially considering the quiet way his friends still engage with him. It reminded me of my friends knowing something was wrong with me, and instead of making a big deal about it, they would just let me sleep on their shoulders whenever I would say I was tired.

Kurapika - Hunter x Hunter

Oh my GODDDDD, what is there not to like about Kurapika. Clutches my head in agony and screams. Me when a character is so fucking focused on revenge he loses sight of himself and his morals and his relationships with the people on his present life because he can't think of anything but the past. He makes me sick with grief and the desire to throw something. Tee Bee Ayche.

I think him trying to pretend everything is okay, and that he is okay to push the people around him away and then realizing that he doesn't know how to go back to anyone is just so. It's so. He makes me so upset, I don't really even know how to word it. I think too hard about Kurapika and I feel like crying and weeping. He cares So So Much but he just can't express it because of everything that's happened to him. He makes me so sad.

Desch - Final Fantasy III

He's my first and truest blorbo, I love him with my whole being and I have for years now. I first played FF3 as a kid and he's still a character I come back to frequently. His sprite in the remake of Final Fantasy III on the DS gives me unparalleled amounts of cuteness aggression and even though I haven't engaged with Final Fantasy in a while, I think of him often. I used to run a Final Fantasy parody Twitter account as Desch, fun fact. It was a really fun time and I made some great friends doing that. It honestly might still be up, I have no idea if that account got fucking nuked or not. Oh well. I always end up loving characters with a total of 10 lines of dialogue, I feel like.

For real though, he's like the progenitor to a favorite character type of mine: flirty or silly men with hearts of pure gold. He's so sweet and yet so silly, sacrificing himself for the sake of 4 young children. His sacrifice always breaks my heart, and the fact he barely regained any of his memories when he did it makes me so upset. He was acting entirely on his belief that he could help, and I just think that's nice. I love him.

Weather Report - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

All of the characters in part 6 are so good, but Weather Report really speaks to me for a variety of reasons. Part of that comes from the way he interacts with everyone. He's so soft-spoken and doing this hovering that reminds me less of a character in an action manga and more of a shojo love interest and it's simultaneously so funny to me and so endearing of a character trait for him to have. When reading the manga all I could imagine is him acting like a sort of gentle breeze, and I think that's like a very interesting thing for him to be. As. The Weather Stand Guy.

His backstory also makes me feel a little crazy, I think it's definitely one of the more brutal backstories for a character to have. It's by no means the only upsetting backstory, but it kindof just... the most intense? And I am really glad that Araki doesn't play this for laughs either, it feels like something very sincere and genuine and it's treated with this sort of horror, but it doesn't change his friends views on him or anything. It's like refreshingly sober compared to how I imagine it would be handled in other manga. Weather Report you will always be famous to me.