You seem to have a passion for edgy, tortured characters on the road to redemption. Yes, I do love writing these characters who live life on the edge. Someone who's gone to the very brink of despair and devastation and yet came back a stronger person for it. There's something so intriguing about adding a hint of danger to a hint of vulnerability. It's like a chemical reaction on paper.
Characters become flesh and blood that way.
I would have to describe myself as the quiet type on the surface but underneath there's raw passion. So it might come from that. From the moment I started writing about her, she came to life. She'd done some terrible things in her life, had some terrible things happen to her, but she's a stronger person for everything she's gone through. She still lived with the danger and vulnerability though, so she's completely unpredictable all the same.