Favorite Beta Kid: I'll complete the quartet and say Rose, who's been my favorite kid pretty much since the beginning of the story. John and Jade have got nothing on her, and I go through up and down phases re: Dave but he still can't broach her heights. The dame is a treasure.
Favorite Male Troll: Karkat! Forget the fact that he's my patron troll, he's undergone hands-down the best, most organic character development in the whole story.
Favorite Female Troll: I debated between Aradia and Kanaya for a while before summoning enough bleak self-awareness to realize I was actually trying to pick "Hottest Female Troll in Fanart". I dunno, man, I think Vriska is better-written than either of them but she's just not my favorite. I'll give it to Kanaya on the strength of her early conversations with Rose.
Favorite Alpha Kid: Roxy completely blew the other three out of the water in early Act 6, and even as they've scrabbled to keep up she's still held strong as the best of the four.
Favorite Cherub: Seems like an awfully scant pool of choices, but I'll say Caliborn. He's a jackass but I would much, much, much rather read a conversation featuring him than Calliope. The pornography sequence with Dirk was one of the comic's crowning moments of sustained hilarity.
Favorite Beforan: At first I thought, "Well, Meenah," and then I wanted to think about it a little, and now I'm back to Meenah. I like the Beforans, gimmicky personalities and all, but it just doesn't happen that any of those gimmicks beckons to me. So let's stick with Meenah, one of the best, most rounded personalities Hussie's wheeled out in a while. (I should be partial to Damara because I suggested her name but nah, she ain't got a patch on Aradia.)
Favorite Guardian: Doc Scratch. HAHA TOTALLY COUNTS; TECHNICALITY. Seriously, although I have mixed feelings about his narration sequence, his conversations with Rose were superb. Aranea and Calliope ought to learn from Doc how to deliver megainfodumps in a manner that's fluid and very entertaining.
Favorite MC Member: Look, it's just Droog, okay? No fancy reasons here. Pretty self-evident.
Favorite Exile: The Renegade is MAH BOI. Honestly though there's a chance I would have picked the Vagabond if he hadn't spent all of Act 6 so far as a gag background character occasionally mentioned by kids/trolls as a super cool dude for laffs. A character like him wasn't meant to function at the outside of a big ensemble -- he needs POV status, badly.
Favorite Felt: God bless Matchsticks. What a trooper.
Favorite Sprite: ARQUIUSPRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE! You should really add this to the list.
Favorite Other: Fedorafreak. I'm serious, that's not just a joke response. His scene was a beautiful grace note, a gesture of fulfillment to those of us who'd followed the comic for a while and had hyped him up as the unsung hero on a different stage. I'm not sure it would mean quite as much to someone who was reading the comic fresh now, but it's hard to express how happy that update made me.