K'tanya Demonstar

Who was the first fictional character you really fell in love with?
What qualities or traits did s/he have that made her/him admirable?
Did that character and those traits influence your development as a writer / roleplayer? If so, how?

The first one I can remember really falling in love with was Optimus Prime. There were other characters before that I liked, but none of them grabbed me quite the way he did. To this day he's still one of my all time favorite characters.

I think for me he was always that 'white knight' kind of character that little girls dreamed about when they were growing up. He was the one who was always there when he was needed, whether it was a literal rescue, or a figurative one. He cared about the people he worked with, and would do whatever it took to save them and the world. If that meant sacrificing himself for the greater good, then so be it. He was a hero because he did what was right, not because he wanted to be one. That made him awesome in my eyes. The fact that he was a robot didn't matter a bit.

I don't know that he really influenced my development as a writer or roleplayer much other than wanting to make sure that any characters that I wrote or developed would be the kind of characters that people either loved, or loved to hate. I wanted them to seem to take on a life of their own, like Optimus had done for me when I was a kid.