#WritingWonders 5.18 — Do many people find your MC attractive?
CW: Spoilers. [If you follow me under another persona, these #sff versions of my original characters are very close. You know who you are. You may wish to skip this one if you haven't read the stories.]
Author: A lot of characters had opinions about this question. I've included some of them, but I have more! If you comment and ask, I'll add more as replies! #CommentingIsCool
Night Mare aka Gelding aka ... (the main character): I'm not particularly physically attractive, certainly not plump enough, and too muscular to be pretty. My internally snide and clueless personality makes me less attractive, and that's fine. I don't need people. I find books, especially "magic" books, attractive.
Trigger: The boss told me to get cozy with a girl fitting her description. I wolf-whistled her and she verbally handed me my testicles on a platter. She made up the name Gelding on the spot. Later, she knocked out my girlfriend who stupidly got jealous and got physical with her. Stole her jackknife, too. The woman proved endearingly immature yet dangerous after I had to manage training her to become a transporter and a bodyguard for the syndicate, but she learned fast and proved unerringly better than anyone. Less than a year later, she took over the syndicate when the boss suddenly died. I figured I was dead meat, but no. She saved my flank, made me her executive secretary, and our team kept everything from collapsing. I think it's her quiet confidence and competence that makes her immensely attractive. A natural leader.
Broom Wielder (aka Witchy): I got sent by the boss, like Trigger, to recruit her into the syndicate. It floored me when I learned she was the prizefighter who'd just won the championship. She looked different without the costume and the dye job. I'm a super fights fan, but I was supposed to play hard to get magic tutor she really wanted. It was hard not to fangrrl all over her. She didn't act celeb, though, but like the vulnerable teenager she was underneath all the façades. She even shared the secret of who she really was. I kept that secret—even though the boss would have paid dearly for the information. I ended up working under her as part of the bodyguard team for the boss, but we became her family whom she fiercely protected. I prefer men, but if she asks...
Citron: I'm young, but no kid. I can set anything on fire, including cement. Yeah, I like to see things burn, but not people. She's the first that treated me like a man, and she taught me the ropes. Made me professional, calling me her "personal pyro-peep." Made me want to exceed expectations, which is why the boss included me in her bodyguard team with her. I didn't realize I had a crush on her at first. I mean, we all thought she was a guy for the first half-dozen or so jobs, and it started before I knew the truth. I never acted upon it, though, because when around her I felt driven to be professional. She's the woman I think of at night. No woman since has come close...
The Schoomate: She could fight, answer any question in class, and was the only one in school never cowed by my act. One day, she tried to sell me a drug I wanted to try, but I should have known she'd been hypnotized or drugged herself into doing it. She burnt up the taste when she realized. I never told her we'd ridden each other before she came to her senses, especially when I learned later she preferred men. We ended up living together (she lost her job), but I insisted she share my bed. Never got intimate, but she did hold me while I slept and I never slept better. When I learned she formulated an amazing but unethical research project, I figured out how steal it and make it legit, making her do the work but taking the credit so I could show it to my teacher, Director Rainy Days, as my work. Rather than beating me bloody (which I later learned had been her job as a mob enforcer), she was deliriously happy. She would have gleefully let me ride her that moment in the kitchen had I asked (I didn't). All she wanted were the results of the research, and I'd promised her the funding to realize them sooner. She even promised she'd fight Director Rainy Days for me with the new "magic" to make me the next director. (I thought that ridiculous, but she did end up battling my adopted mother.) Despite me being rotten and conniving, she accepted me and eventually saved me from my addictions. She's my first love...
Well, there you have it. A consensus. People find her attractive for reasons beyond her looks.
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