What do my characters mean to me?

Do you know the feeling of reading a good book and suddenly you get lost in the pages? You cease to realize what’s going on around yourself and it is as if you can see the most incredible landscapes in front of your very eyes. You live and suffer alongside with the protagonists – or the villains – as though you as well, are part of the tale. You are saying this sounds familiar to you?

This exactly is the meaning behind all my creations – to breathe life into fictional characters, to make them become real, along with their world. Not a single one of my OCs (short for “Original Characters”) exists solely on paper. Through every detail added to them, they become more and more alive and already in the earliest hours of their “birth” they live a self-reliant life. They constantly develop themselves further, sometimes even without my doing – it’s weird, but at times I really don’t know just where I got an idea for them from. It’s as though they are... Deciding things for themselves.
The best example for a character who became more than he was originally meant to be is probably my bard Levant. He’s a character who was meant to be a background actor – a mere pretty face, a minstrel to sing a song at some tavern, to set the mood. But guess what? He became a hero and one of the most important main characters of my novel – just because "he wanted" to!

Of course, it may sound ridiculous to be talking about an own “free will” of fictional characters, but it is a fact that everything you create, will come to life, if you give a piece of your heart to your creation. There’s so many stories and legends telling of just that – ever heard of Pinocchio? Or the Baron, from Ghibli's famous movie "The Cat returns" (based on Aoi Hiiragi's Manga "Baron: Neko no Danshaku ")? Just to name two examples.

It’s the same way with my characters. To me they aren’t fictional, they never were. For as long as I can remember they’ve been by my side and supported me in my life. When things get rough, I know I can always count on them, they’ll cheer me up when the sad every day life depresses me and help me to deal with difficiult situations.

My characters are my companions, my friends, my family, my children – my life.

If you wish to find out more about them, I recently added brief summaries of my dear OCs and in time, I'll add even more :) Either follow the links on top, or click here to meet the cast of my novel "Broken", my Youkai or my other heroes.