I spend a LOT of my time having feelings about characters (other than my own) and I wanna try to codify them into different types so I can organise them better, so here goes!

Type 1: Befriend

example: Pascal

A simple one to start out with, there's a set of characters for this and it's just a case of I think they're neat and I want to hang out with them, play games with them, hug them.

Type 2: Just like me fr

example: Yuki Nagato

Pretty simple still! I hear most people have some of these, characters who you relate to and who make you feel seen!
Usually for me this is pretty simple to short girls in shorts! Usually auties and/or tech heads, sometimes machinists.

Type 3: Adore

example: Quetzalcoatl

A very rare type, I'm not really that attracted to people often, and when I am I think I'm at least somewhat demi, I don't feel that much attraction until I know their personality.
Quetz is my most prime example, physically yes she's tall, buff and has incredible hair, those are great. But more importantly, she's positive, smiles a lot, energetic, caring and brave!
For these characters I wanna snuggle up to them, be held by them, smooch them maybe, but mostly they just make me feel extremely gay and useless and yet good all at once.

Type 4: Daughter

example: Jack

A bit of a one-off, I don't normally have any maternal instincts, small human children are mostly just not-quite-people-yet to me.
The only exception so far is Jack, from the moment I saw her I was like "That's my daughter", I just wanna hug her and look after her and make sure she's safe and happy!
It's not fully a one off though, I get some of those feelings when I see other Tiefling or other monster children, but never yet to anything like the same degree.

Type 5: Vanth

example: Vanth

Here's where it gets weird, I talk about Vanth a lot, not just because I have strong feelings for her, but because she bridges the different categories. Probably at least partly because she exists in her comics as both a kid and an adult, and my feelings about her change depending on that, but also something else.
As a kid she's in both type 1 and type 2. As an asult she's in both type 2 and type 3. I don't fully understand it and I don't know how to reconcile those feelings.

She's wonderful and I wanna smooch her but also look after her but also she's way too much like me.