I have weird relationships with some of my characters.
Like, Jayveer is my precious little baby no one but me can touch... and yet I put him through every kind of horrible situation imaginable. Depression, loneliness, betrayal, death of friends. Sorry, Jayveer.
Aubri is basically me. She isn't necessarily my favorite character, but from the beginning, I basically chose her to base off of myself. We both like reading/writing stories and have insane imaginations.
Emily I literally just love for no reason at all. Probably because she threw off my authority as the author and gave herself a more interesting personality/life. Honestly, she was going to end up this solitary character who just sat in the background and did nothing.