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Favorite Character?

Posted on by D. D. Syrdal

Not to steal anyone’s thunder, and I’m happy to give credit where due, but I just ran across a really fun question on another blog, “Tales from the Crit”. I didn’t leave a comment, I had the sense it’s a small, rather insular group so I felt like I would have been intruding but thought you might like to play along. (Note: I could be completely wrong about that other blog, they might be perfectly happy to have folks stroll by and join the convo.)

So the question is this: If you could spend a day with one of your characters, who would it be? And why?

I’ll go first.

My vampire, Andrej. He’s a smart-ass, smart, knows all the best hot spots and has the cutest Czech accent. And then I’d have him turn me into a vampire. And a bunch of other reasons I can’t go into on a PG blog 😉

On an unrelated note, my new blog is coming along. I’m getting plugins figured out and have the stats loaded at last. It was so much easier than I thought! There are so many options for tracking stats, but I finally got the ones I’m used to from my WordPress.com blogs going this morning. Yippee, progress!

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Writer of vampire stories and science fiction. First novel, "Revenants Abroad", available now at Amazon. If you like a vampire you can go out drinking with and still respect yourself in the morning, I think you'd like Andrej.

14 thoughts on “Favorite Character?”

  1. That’s a hard one …
    I could say Gabriel, because he’s a vampire, and he’s sexy and he does all the stuff you’d want him to do, but he’s also pain sometimes, so I’m choosing … Ken (might change the name later), the main male character from my (yet unstarted) project “Blood Red”.
    He’s considerate, a true gentleman, would do anything for his woman and he’s drop dead gorgeous, not too mention what he’s like in private … XD
    So Ken wins in the end. Sorry Gabriel.

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  5. Oh, lord. I can’t choose. I know which characters I don’t want to hang around with, but I’ve got several right now that are vying for my attention. I am now and forever indecisive.

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  7. Well – he is rather charming isn’t he? And I do believe I may have just made him more so. Gotta amp Zee up a bit to give him more competition, I’m afraid.

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  9. Absolutely, DD. But be aware, he’s very particular about the crust. He doesn’t complain out loud (too much the gentleman), but he secretly takes note of such failings. 😉

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  10. I think I’d like to spend a week with Dortmunder and his gang from the Donald Westlake novels – they are smart-ass thieves who never steal from anybody who doesn’t kinda deserve it; although they are only intermittently successful, their methods are always unique and enterprising, and they know all the back entrances and unsung side streets of New York City.

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  11. oo, oo, I’m seeing Goran Visnjic for Andrej in the movie version:

    ttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899681/

    He’s actually Croatian, not Czech, but I’ll bet he could approximate the sexy Eastern European accent.

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    1. Oh, I’ve loved him since he was Jimmy Angelov in “Practical Magic” (even though he was entirely evil in that). He wasn’t who I had in mind for Andrej, but he might just do 😉

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