Unicorns and Crowns

I realize I've yet to make a post about a female character. While I will admit most of my characters (for pretty much all my stories) are male, you can still count some interesting, cute, and downright fun ladies among the cast. For that matter, I don't care so much about the characters' gender or ethnicity as I do about their likability and what they add to the story.  As I said in a previous post, the best characters are the ones that make you feel all sorts of things, both good and bad. They do some things that strike a bad nerve, but you don't wish them any serious harm in the long run.  Some of my characters came about in the first place because I tried to envision a slightly more palatable version of an already existing character. In this case, I thought about a version of Queen Cersei who's not only nicer but actually gets redeemed at story's end.  It may sound surprising, given the extremely family-unfriendly nature of Game of Thrones . If it weren...

A very happy 206th birthday to Terence Silvermane Lactantius! Well, he's actually 16 years old, since his story was first conceived in 2005(ish), but he's 190 at the story's beginning, so we just tack on an extra year. And since unicorns age a lot slower, ten years for them equal one year for us humans, so he's really a four-legged 19-year-old. Simple enough arithmetic?