Falling In Love with Fictional Characters

It's been very difficult for me to write scenes with just Dawn and Kyle. When I drew Riley from the beginning, I had difficulty creating a Kyle that would look as good. It took me three attempts to get the right Kyle. Not only that, but the competition between them had already been set by the audience.


I've posted their photos in Facebook to see who would get most votes. Kyle couldn't even catch up to Riley. The score was 8 to 2. And with that in mind, I couldn't allow my brain to like Kyle more, which was difficult since Dawn was supposed to feel good around him. And every time I would write scenes with them together all that was in my mind was Riley is much suited for Dawn.


I believe at some point it was my fault. I shouldn't have allowed votes in the first place, but I needed to know who people preferred as Dawn's leading man in the story. The thing is, before I posted the guys' photos I had no idea who Dawn was going to end up with. And judging by the votes, I might lose my audience if she ended up with Kyle.


I'm not saying that she would end up with Riley as I kept thinking that I might add another character or change the ending, but for now I guess I should let the audience love Riley, while I try to regain my love for Kyle's character. My best friend and I actually prefer him over Riley, but since I haven't written much about him yet, the audience might still have a chance to change their minds.