Best Side Characters

Apparently, when it comes to favorite side characters in my writing, I have a type. And that type is competent, powerful, and ruthless (with a side of handsome of course). 

Inspiration

How have I come to this conclusion? Because my favorite side character in The Hidden Hotel is Dante and my favorite in The Missing Heir is Romeo. And they both fit that description to a tee 😅 They can both also be absolutely charming, if they so choose, and both for less than selfless reasons. Dante, of course, is quite charming to all the hotel’s guests to help them have a wonderful time and tell all their friends to visit, while Romeo is more than happy to be charming to people to lull them into a false sense of security and get information out of them. 

They were both so fun that I want to write more of them, so hopefully I’ll find excuses to pull them into future trilogies. The trilogy releasing this fall, The Burden of Royals, focuses on the sorcerers, who are more cunning than ruthless, so I won’t have any of what is apparently a side character type that I adore in that trilogy. 

Though in The Burden of Royals, my favorite side character kind of does a complete 180 from the type listed above. Remember how The Hidden Hotel states that sorcerers adore their spirit beasts? So OF COURSE I had to include a spirit beast. He is a red panda and he is my favorite side character from my upcoming trilogy. He might not be competent, ruthless, or powerful, but he is adorable and loyal! He bites though. So watch out. 

The enchanted race trilogy after The Burden of Royals will focus on the vampires. I expect there will be plenty of opportunity for ruthless side characters there. But since we already know that Elias and Benjamin are ruthless with getting what they want, I might want to go a different direction with side characters just for some contrast . . . It’ll be fun to start playing with that once I start plotting this series later this year! 

In the meantime, feel free to let me know who your favorite side characters are so far in the enchanted races world!

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