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I?  Am an RPer.  I have been for a long time, though I resisted it for quite some time before that.  I've had a lot of characters, mostly online, some TT.  A lot of them have died in play, or I've gotten bored with them or whatever, but some have seriously been favorites.  Some pop into my head at random times, reacting to random things (or the portion of my brain dedicated to a given character is sparked into life, or . . . whatever, however it works).  My favorite favorites cling for a long time - for months, years after I stop playing them, things, places and situations make me think of the character.  And it's like an old friend popping up and saying hello, putting in two cents about something, and then going away.  I know they'll come back, they always do.

Until they die for real, and they don't come back any more.  This is the case for my two favorite TT characters ever - sure, they were part of a game set here, so I see landmarks that make me smile fondly, but their parts of my brain don't spark to life and wave at this.  It's the case with quite a few online characters.  Collette, Reagan, Enid (the Fianna, not the Hermetic), Elizabeth, Mac, Betsy, Britt, Ava - none of them pop into my head any more.  I get a nostalgic smile when the times and places related to them come up in conversation with other people who were around then, but that's it.

All this is to say, I think my most recent crop of favorite favorites is going too.  I haven't thought of Gregory or Rhia in ages, other than to go, "Huh, I haven't thought of Gregory or Rhia in ages."  Alas!  I think the former may well have been in my top three for quite some time, and the latter in my top five.  It may be time to make some new favorites.