Recently, I had this idea of a set of characters who upon becoming aware they are characters, are torn from their universe. They travel the ether, searching for a world they truly fit in, to the point where they forget they're characters. In the meantime, they hop from canon to canon, could be a...
I'm guilty of both of these. For urban fantasy and slice of life affairs, I often pull out one or both of two certain characters. It might be becauce they've existed for quite some time, and I've grown attached (one existed for over 10 years) or merely out of laziness, but I tend to slot them in...