Jumping to the point, I'm looking for any books no matter what kind it is that has characters I can use as reference for my OCs.
Like maybe a book focused on an egotistical, narcissist, maybe even psycho(?) character that ruins the lives of everyone around them, or a character born into the higher class of society yet suffers tremendously from abuse, S/A, other uncomfortable stuff that could give a person awful trauma and it is affecting them deeply throughout the story.
No, books don't have to fully match those descriptions since I'm just looking for anything that will interest my dark imagination and love for whatever I have going on in my head.
Also, another type of book I would like to look for is a time travel book where someone keeps going back to prevent a death of a loved one since that scenario is what keeps repeating in my head every time, I think of a type of book I want to read.
by AlbatrossSure9367
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*Frankenstein* comes to mind. Spoiled rich kid can do no wrong, has far less empathy than he assumes he does, consistently makes choices that hurt everyone, and rewrites all of his stupid, stubborn failures as tragic moral victories, but is still weirdly endearing in his eccentricity and misery. (And don’t even get me started on his kid.)
Then there’s also *The Invisible Man*, who is just a flat-out jerk, but a very unhappy one by the end. 🥲 And *The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*, about moral hypocrisy, magical drug addiction, and unforeseen consequences. *The Picture of Dorian Gray* might kind of work, too…
Moving out of the gothic genre, *The Hobbit* and *The Lord of the Rings* have Gollum, who is simultaneously one of the most horrible and one of the most pitiable little guys in literature. 😵💫
As for a time travel story like that, it’s not exactly a book, but there’s a webcomic storyline that has stuck in my brain for years:
https://scarygoround.com/badmachinery/index.html?pg=739#showComic