I will cheat a little bit. Will name first 5 fave characters and then I will edit to add another 5.
1. Wei Ying from Mo Dao Zu Shi
I like this character so much that most of my OCs need to reflect some of his personality or principles. Like no one can do it like him. A true baddass bitch!!!
2. Coco from Witch Hat Atelier
Give me a hopeful and kind girl character who still found beauty in magic and insisted on using Magic to bring joys, despite witnessing tragedies and horrors inflicted by Magic... Usually I'm very skeptical about optimistic characters because they can be outright obnoxious, but not this girl.
(I may list a couple of character from the same fandom but not exactly, if you treat each continuity as their own things)
3. Elita-1 from War on Cybertron trilogy on Netflix
Look, I have beef with this show and there were times I want to rage quit this show so bad just 1 or 2 episodes in, but Elita-1 was the reason I still kept going (until she got killed off) because she's probably the smartest one of her faction, compassionate, determined, and brave and I wished Optimus was the one who kicked the bucket so that she got the spotlight that she deserved.
4. Bronwyn from Rings of Power
Hopefully the anti-ROP not going to jump me (Lol, like leave me the hell alone). But Bronwyn is BAMF, but in more gentle way. Also, she's both a leader and a healer, which I found her quite similar to Aragon (You know how Tolkien liked the idea of being a good ruler should strive to be a good healer too) (This is hard to pick my favorite characters from ROP because I like most of them).
5. Mao Mao from Apothecary Diaries
Mao Mao is what I called the fakest IDGAF ever. Also my favorite types of genius who is logically and rational most of the time, but still have enough empathy to understand other people's predicaments, even if she didn't understand why people feel certain things about certain situations.
6. Ae-Sun from When life gives you Tangerines
Look, I know her husband Gwan-sik is the most perfect husband ever and people have praised him enough, but Ae-Sun though, is the perfect woman from Gwan-sik. Also, she just had this grit in her to keep going despite tragedies and hardships and she never gave up on her dream and found different ways achieve her dreams to be the president of her village and later got her poems published while still devoting to her husband and family. The best thing is even when she losed the love of her life, she still kept living and enjoying her life with her children and grandchildren.
7. Xiao-Ying from TGCF (I still at chapter 33)
I knew she's a minor character but this girl still haunted me. Kind, brave and caring, what not to love about her???
8. Orion Pax from IDW2 comic.
Look, I know I'm kinda cheating on this but again, when it comes to Transformers franchises, they have so many different continuities that they kinda became their own sub-fandoms within Transformers fandom, so yeah, I can just include him. Why do I like him? Because he kinda caters to me in term of his personality being a mundane average person that had difficulty to process what he actually wanted in his life and tended to let circumstances guide his own journey (Literally me when I have to decide what I want to do in life). He can be awkward when dealing with others but he's perspective and smart enough to know his "friend" is a lying bastard and his boss is a dumbass.
9. Frodo from Lord of the Ring (Book version only. I don't vibe with Movie!Frodo, sorry).
The true BAMF character who happened to be a middle age man. Wise, strong will, caring and merciful. He's a fighter but not like the one who held weapon. His battle lies in his strong will to resist the Ring as long as he could to reach to the Mount Doom to destroy the ring (He failed still but to last that long while trying to die on that hell-lish journey, he had to be very strong).
10. Raymond from Everything, Everywhere All At Once.
This movie literally saved me from going too deep into depression back in 2020, and Raymond validated me about being kind is not being naive or stupid, and being kind is still very important.