I'm really not comfortable with strangers talking about touching me or my characters, I'm touch-averse, these are characters personal to me. If we know one another, if we're mutuals, if we've got enough of a rapport that you feel like you could strike up a conversation with me and I'd want to be involved, that's different- you have my blessing to hug to your heart's content.
But unwarranted physical contact with strangers is a deep and painful well of past trauma for me, and so, despite the usual touchy-feelyness of our community, I'm not comfortable with it. Thank you.