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[mipeltaja]

I think I've figured out why my favourite characters usually aren't very popular:

It's because they're usually neither pretty nor broody, which the most popular characters tend to be. Actually, in my opinion many of them are good-looking, but a large part of the fandom would disagree with me on that. It seems that these days a character cannot be "pretty" without having issues or being antisocial for no particular reason. Me, I like characters who can look on the bright side of things and have the guts to be silly.

However, there are exceptions. For example, I wouldn't call Bryan Fury optimistic or particularly silly to his face. On the other hand, he's not actively disliked by the fandom, either. Er, at least that was the case last time I dared to check the Tekken fandom, which was before T5 came out. The fandom could be exploding with Bryan hate/love and I wouldn't know.

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[darylchan.livejournal.com]

I don't know the general opinion of Bry-Bry now either. I've pretty much given up on that fandom. :/

I always seem to gravitate towards the minor characters anyways...probably because the major, popular ones are just so shoved-in-everyone's-faces that I start to resent them. Like Zoro and Sanji...I really don't like either of them now. But I've discovered that I really do like men that resemble rodents, that barely anyone else seems to like (Shura and Nero). :/

[mipeltaja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that shoved-down-the-throatness of the popular characters might also have something to do with my liking less popular characters.

I like pretty much everyone in One Piece, even Zoro and Sanji, although I must admit that they're not exactly on the top of my list, more like at the bottom, but I still like them. The only character I don't like that comes to mind is Don Krieg, because I find him boring.

[darylchan.livejournal.com]

That's because he IS boring. He's very 2-D compared to the other villains in East Blue, with the possible exception of Morgan. But then again Morgan wasn't around for nearly as long as Krieg was, so he had less time for character development than Krieg did. :/