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I thought maybe that we should have a thread that we use to talk about our characters, you know, tell everyone about our favorite characters, the ones that make us tick and talk about how they evolved, or where they came from.

This could become a most awesome thread

One of my favorite characters has been Steven, the dead guy from It's Not About The Cookies. While I don't sit around carrying on conversations with dead people, Steven is based on someone who most certainly was real, and writing for the character forced me to take a long hard look at myself and how I was using things in my past as an excuse for things I should be doing in there here and now. Like Sam, the main character in the book, I hadn't been home to see family in nearly 15 years; if not for listening to Steven's voice, trying to understand him a little better, I might not have gone back when I did (my mother had a heart attack and a stroke at the same time...yet still, without that literary kick in the butt, I might not have gone.)

 

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In the case of Laris I wondered, What if the world turned its back on its savior? What kind of repercussions would that have for the "chosen one" and the people who allowed her to become the unwilling victim of evil? What would happen if the world's "Messiah" was never given the opportunity to fulfill her destiny? What if the cruelty and bigotry of the world transformed the Messiah into the Antichrist?

All righty...this was enough to get me to click on Buy It Now. Those are giant What If questions... I've had the fleeting thought of a story that posed the question What if the weight of the world crushed the person intended to save it, but I've never had the answer...

 

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My favorite character is Philp Flaxen, the protagonist in Turning Idolater.

Ok, now I have high expectations...I started reading this last night.
High. Very high.