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@toklaham-veruzia
Ooh, good choices! To be honest, I like the MC(blanking on his name rn XD) from A Silent Voice better, but I relate to him a bit more as well. 😉 Shoko is also a grand character, however.

@seekjustice

It is truly a fascinating topic, isn’t it? I find it rather amusing that despite the fact nearly everyone likes a rogue-ish type character to some extent(at least, many people I’ve met), it’s incredibly hard to find any one even similar to well-written. (I can’t even think of one as I write this, save for maybe Aragorn in the beginning of Lotr when the hobbits first meet him, though I don’t know if you could properly call him a rogue – he is a ranger, after all. Oh, and I suppose characters like the Winter Soldier and Han Solo. Those are both very popular and decently well written, in my opinion. Not great, by any means, but not bad. Compare that to the near innumerable amount of bad rogue characters there are, and they’re a gem. XD)

Strong female characters and I… have a grudge. I have nothing against a good female character(such as Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle – one of my favorite female MCs of all time), but I rarely find them and the plethora of bad female characters out there nearly 100% guarantees that I am less likely to enjoy a novel if it has a female MC. Take the new Disney+ show that just aired, The Mandalorian. I’m thoroughly convinced that if the MC would have been a girl(spoilers, woops), it would have likely ruined the show for me even though I was looking forward to it very much. A good strong female character is a rarity, but I’ll stand with you on liking characters that prove a point or illustrate something much more than a character being strong simply for the sake of being strong. Such as Eowyn – another of my favorite characters of all time. Nearly every “good” character I’ve ever read and truly connected too on some level has been part of some greater theme, and nearly every bad character I’ve ever read has been a misinterpretation of a theme or the ignorance of theme as a whole.

(Also, book-Merry is amazing and I love him. XD) I’ll 100% agree, the “bad boys” trope is very annoying and very poorly done typically. There are exceptions, such as like I mentioned above Han Solo(who is still one of my favorite characters, even though he has his faults as a character), but they’re rare and far between. I’ve come to the point that I’m convinced that YA Fiction just can’t pull off a good “rogue-ish” character, whether female or male, at this point. 😉