I'm part of the way through my second draft! (AKA my sister-- who I asked for a subject-specific beta that the first part of my fic depended on-- said I had everything wrong. I took the easy way out and started the fic later rather than completely rewrite the scenes. I'm actually successful in not feeling guilty about that.)

As for characters I pick on… I tend to glom onto certain characters and usually write about them, whether for darker stories or not. So, basically: Maglor.