The first of these interesting characters was Keenan Meadows. When I first introduced him to my sister, he was a cold, heartless evil wizard bent on nothing less than destroying all the good in the world. However, as the stories I told with him progressed, I learned that Keenan wasn't truly an evil man. He was merely placed in a situation that he saw no way out of. He was struggling with his conscious even as he did horrible things so that he could stay alive for one more day. I grew to love Keenan - and eventually "liberated" him.
Then I took a creative writing course at college. At first, I was terrified. The teacher came right out and said she hated fantasy stories! What was I going to do? All I wrote were fantasy stories. At some point, I shook my head and decided to write a story and just hope she didn't fail me. Well, not only did she pass me, she loved it! She loved the characters, the plot, every detail and every sentence. These were stories she said I should publish.
More recently, actually while I was reading fan fiction, I came upon the idea of making Inuyasha, Kenshin and Kurama brothers. However, the more I toyed with the idea, the more different from those characters the people I was visualing became. Finally, I threw up my hands and said, "I'll just make these people original characters, since that's what they are anyway!" Through this little rabid plot bunny was born an epic story - one that I still haven't finished - of three brothers trying to save their mother and learning more about who they are in the process.
