Brandi is a spooky townie introduced in the first MySims game. Her one defining character trait in that game is that she's a compulsive liar. As a kid, I would pretend to go on dates with Brandi and would decorate her house with black roses as gifts. I was drawn to her almost entirely because of the purple highlights in her hair.

She gets a much bigger role in MySims Agents where she works for MorcuCorp, an evil corporation. In that game, she's part of a Team Rocket-esque trio featuring Esma and Yuki.

Her dynamic with Esma especially adds so much depth and humour to her character. While Esma is fully devoted to MorcuCorp and even wants to take over the company herself, Brandi is mostly just there to get a paycheck and go home, so they butt heads a lot.

Beebee is a cute townie introduced in the first MySims game as the bunny princess.

As a kid, I would pretend to go on dates with Beebee in the original MySims. I even made a pseudo double bed in her house in game, and would pretend to be married to her.

Beebee gets a bigger role in MySims Agents, where she's the fiancee of a rich asshole CEO. She's so head-over-heels in love with him, and also just generally so stupid, that she doesn't even realise the severity of crimes her fiancee has committed, or that her fiance doesn't really like her that much. I think that's cute and fun! She's so lovable in that game and her dialogue is so funny.

Raven is one of the main superheroes in Teen Titans. She's got edgy magic powers because her dad's a demon or something (I missed most of the important plot-heavy episodes as a kid).

I really wanted to be goth when I was a kid but I wasn't allowed, so I lived out that fantasy through characters like Raven. In another life, we're totally hot goth gfs.

Robin is one of the main superheroes in Teen Titans. He was Batman's sidekick but now he's the leader of the Teen Titans.

Robin was my actual boyfriend when I was a kid. Trust me. I don't have any proof because he went to a different school but we were definitely dating and in love.

Howl is a wizard who lives in a moving castle. Hence the name of the film/book he's from.

I first saw Howl's Moving Castle on a very questionable pirated DVD which had Howl's Moving Castle, Hoodwinked, and Bratz: Genie Magic all on one disc. Quite possibly the most unhinged collection of movies to have on one disc.

Because I was too young to read well, I had absolutely no clue what film Howl's Moving Castle and I genuinely started to believe I had dreamt up the film when I grew up. It was only once I got online that I realised that the film was real.

Howl is a very classic lovable anime boy. He's suave and charming. He's also kind of scary and mysterious (characters claim that Howl likes to steal the hearts of young women). But, he's actually secretly a giant mess.

To be honest, I think I would actually find Howl insufferable in real life. I am not about to baby or mother a fully grown wizard man. But, I do think Howl and I could be besties with benefits.

I'm a furry and it's this guy's fault.

I started watching Doctor Who with the 9th Doctor, but the 10th Doctor was and still is my absolute favourite iteration (I know, I'm the most annoying genre of Doctor Who fan. I'm sorry).

For the uninitiated, the Doctor is a very old alien who travels throughout space and time with a human companion. He can "regenerate" into a new body, which is how the show has kept going for so long.

The 10th Doctor has all the baggage and complexity of the 9th Doctor, but he's also more approachable and fun. The show also leaned into how hot the Doctor was in this era and had basically all of his companions crushing on him. Those plotlines kind of suck, but they are definitely relateable.

The Master is one of the main long-standing antagonists in Doctor Who. He's a time-travelling alien who wants to enslave and murder everybody, but he's also troubled and ✩°morally grey✩°.

This entry is dedicated specifically to the John Simm iteration of the Master, which was my introduction to the character, but honestly every era is pretty good.

William is initially introduced in Code Lyoko as one leg of a slightly tedious love triangle (between Ulrich and Yumi, two of the protagonists). Ulrich is jealous of William because he's older and cooler than him and, honestly? Ulrich is right to be jealous! (Although the rules of TV writing makes it very obvious that Yumi is not going to end up with this random side character, let's be real)

However, for me personally, William only gets really hot and interesting when he becomes possessed by the series' antagonist, XANA, and he transforms into a secondary antagonist. He gets edgy villain music and a big-ass buster sword. It's so hype.

Zant is a cringefail megalomaniac who does freaky tongue stuff. And he wears a cool helmet. And his eyes are pretty.

Cloud is the main character of Final Fantasy VII. I'll be real, I have not played Final Fantasy VII. Maybe I'll play it one day.

My exposure to Cloud came entirely from the Internet, and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Yes, I have never played the game, but I have watched the sequel movie to the game several times. And that's entirely because Cloud is so goddamn pretty in that movie.

I also didn't know men could kiss other men until I discovered Cloud x Sephiroth yaoi, so I have Cloud to thank for that too.

I can't justify this. This is the worst entry on the list.

2D is one of the members of the virtual band Gorillaz, which is also one of my favourite bands.

The band has a lot of lore, and I don't really follow it super closely. But I do think 2D is very very cute and I like hearing him sing.

Avengers Assemble was the first film in the MCU I had ever seen and I only went to the cinema to see it because I saw some hot Loki wallpaper edits on DeviantArt.

Loki is a pathetic megalomaniac with a posh accent and pretty hair. Are you noticing a theme yet?

Yes, I was in the Sherlock fandom. We all have our crosses to bear...

Did you know that the mediocre circumcision-based horror game Silent Hill 4: The Room had a very active scene of yaoi fangirls, primarily on DeviantArt?

Well it did and I was one of them. Honestly, the fandom was more fun than playing the game it revolved around.

Walter Sullivan is a soft-spoken serial killer ghost. He's honestly kind of gentle and sweet if you ignore the whole serial killer thing.

I was way more of a Tekken player growing up, but Tekken girls have nothing on Street Fighter girls.

Cammy has always been my absolute fave, mostly because she's British and has giant thighs and a giant forehead.

... Oh my God, she's literally me for real.

Yes, I was one of those people who drew him as a blonde twink.

If you get it, you get it. If you don't, you never will.

As a kid, I was a Silent Hill fan, and it was written into Fandom law that if you liked Silent Hill, you couldn't also like Resident Evil. So, I completely avoided Resident Evil until my mid-teens when I first played Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and was introduced to Albert Wesker. And it was love at first sight.

Wesker is a maybe-British goth megalomaniac zombie who can fucking teleport. He wears an all-leather outfit. He has kitty-cat eyes that glow.

Peak.

EverymanHYBRID was an online ARG about Slenderman, until it wasn't anymore.

A couple years in, EverymanHYBRID introduced a new villain called HABIT, who was a quirky demon who possessed people and made them murder people. He possessed the hottest member of the cast, Evan, and quickly racked up fangirls on Tumblr.com.

HABIT referred to his followers as "rabbits," which is why I started going by the name "Rabbit" online. If not for my love for this ARG, I would have a very different online identity...

Juri is Chun-Li, except fucked-up and evil.

She gets really quirky and silly with it and has a crazy eye that can glow (it has lore implications, but I don't really keep up with Street Fighter lore).

Unfortunately, she's into foot stuff and I am not.

Alex Wesker is great because she's basically the answer to the question "What if Albert Wesker was a hot woman."

She's also more charismatic than her brother. An absolute upgrade.

If only Capcom would put her in another game...

He's just a little guy with glasses and guns and no empathy and he's also an absolute idiot!!!

This is like the result of trying to make the perfect man for me in a lab.

He's just a little guy with glasses and guns and no empathy and he's my favourite!!!

I wanna sit in his lap in his nasty apartment while he explains Minesweeper to me.

Don't tell Frank Herbert's ghost or any of the old nerd guys in the Dune fandom, but basically the only reason I got so passionate about Dune was from seeing this man's bare tiddies in HD.

If I was in the Dune universe, I'd have Feyd-Rautha posters all over my bedroom.

I used to be very into vampires when I was a child, but this was pre-Twilight. While I have mostly come around to appreciating Twilight for what it is and have shed most of my "not like other girls" baggage, I do find that a majority of post-Twilight vampire fiction is lacking in the true horror department. Vampires are mostly presented as hot people with strange dietery requirements who don't go outside much. Sorry, but that's not sexy to me - it just sounds tedious!

So, as you can imagine, I was very happy with Nosferatu (2024). And I was also very happy with Count Orlok for... other reasons.

I don't want to present this as an indictment of the modern dating scene, but it comes to something when a horror movie monster is incredibly romantic by modern dating standards. He is completely devoted to his wife, he is very attentive to her desires, and he likes to sniff her hair, which he carries around with him everywhere. He moves across Europe and learns German just for her!

He also murders a lot of people and he's horribly coercive and has anger issues, but nobody's perfect.

Also, the rats and puppies are cute.