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I always have a love interest character. What can I say? I'm a girl, I want a hot male to come turn on my MC. ^.^

My Love Interest Character always tends to be rugged and rough. Kinda bitter, a little mean on the outside. And they almost always have a strong jaw and five-o-clock shadow.

What about your Love Interest Characters? Are they usually the same, or do they differ story to story?

Mine tend to differ from story to story. In the first novel I wrote, which is now sitting idly on my desktop, the love interest was a hard-bitten cynic with a dangerous temper, but softened up with repeated advances by the logical, compassionate, and clueless protagonist. (Blah. Just blah. That was from a year ago.)

In my current project, I have two MCs and a LI for each of them. One's a psychopath, plain and simple, the tall, muscular, can-kill-you-easily-and-would-if-he-got-bored-enough type. The other is an eloquent gentleman on the outside but a sadistic killer when he needs to be.

It depends on the story, yeah. But, since my writing style is getting progressively darker, I'm needing more and more psychotic dudes to turn on these horrible MCs.

Love interests a plenty in my stories. In my own life I've noticed that romance and what-not can add another layer of drama to what would seemingly be a boring life.

The love interest varies from story to story. They usually tend to be aloof and uncaring, although determined to get their way. They also have a tendency to have trust issues and start of using the MC as a means to an end but then start to fall for said MC and in the process have to convince the MC not to think of them as an a** any longer.

Heh, I'm all about the tension between characters. 3nodding

Let's see....

The book I wrote back when I was thirteen (so I was one of those dramatic-zomg stereotype writers) I wrote about a girl who basically had no personality at all falling in love with a slightly emo, but mostly badass foreign boy. See, the boy actually kidnapped her (there were cultural differences between them and he thought it was his duty to take her away to be killed) and they end up falling in love, and she ends up escaping, and bla bla bla.

xD So, I guess you could say he was a little kinky.

My next book has two romantics, one from the girl's past, and one from her present. The past... I haven't developed his personality yet. From the now, however, there's a quiet, self-critical young man who absolutely despises everything she believes in.

I guess this whole culture-differences thing is a reoccurring theme in my books....

No romances in the books after that. There was one where the main character has a girlfriend who's hardly around. Anyway, the main character was a really laid back, affectionate guy who adored his girlfriend and did reckless things like try to have phone sex with her while she was at work teaching kindergarten children. But that only took up a small portion of the story. XD

The love interests I write about change as I mature and come to understand life and love a little better.

Back in the day all my LI characters were bad-asses with inexplicable hearts of gold. I had a thing for bad-boys, what can I say?

In my current original fiction project my MC encounters two love interests. The first represents the idyllic young-love. He is handsome, charming, light-hearted, careless and very endearing. His major flaws stem from that fact that he's chidish and a little spoiled. But it's one of those unrealistic, impossible-to-sustain relationships. It's cross-cultural. Actually...it's interspecies, which sounds way more sick than it actually is. Elf and Fae--not that different but whatever.

The second LI is a sharp contrast to the first--a foil if you will. Only he's more important. He is a reserved, introspective individual. He's more down-to-earth which makes sense seeing that he lives in abject poverty. He's wise beyond his years but often unsure of where he's from or where he's going. All in all he's a more calm, collected individual. He's also somewhat awkward in interpersonal situations. He has difficulty voicing his thoughts. He and the MC share hardships.

Is it clear I enjoy writing about relationships? I'm all about female empowerment but a body just can't deny the impact romantic partners can have.

Lol, totally. xd

Yeah, in my story I have two love interest, but one is more of a big-brother type to the girl, and it kind of unexpected. He's boyishly handsome, blonde hair, Blue eyes, disheviled and devilishly playful, but absolutely overprotective at the same time.

He opens up to the MC when the second LI comes in, who is a militaristic man, strong, confident, a bit on the quiet and bitter side, with that awesome jaw and such. *siiighs*

It's funny that Lycaon states how his/her (sorry, you can never tell anymore) LI characters change as he/she matures, because the first LI I have is someone I would of had as a LI when I was a teenager, and the second is what I lust after now. ^.^

But I really can't write those lusty romance novels. I actually started writing this story for a contest, but then it took on a life of it's own and completely changed into something better, so now the romance part has been placed on the back burner, and is only simmering in the background. xd

But I do enjoy writing the LI characters. Oh yes oh yes I do.

Uh... what?

It was in question. I clarified--tactlessly.