I've been super lucky with some of my dream characters!!
Darren was a character I fell in love with back in 2013! and I ended up trading four loop animations for him which was really cool. ;v;
Mako was an adopt I missed the first time he was auctioned off! I remember being suuuper disappointed that I'd missed this guy even though I was saving up to meet someone I considered one of my best friends at the time. I actually stumbled across this guy being resold completely by accident? Buying him was the first time I'd used paypal to buy anything ahaha
Reggy was a character I fell in love with a while back too! she got passed around to a few different owners and I remember offering on her a few times and being declined, I finally ended up being able to buy her and I'm supper happy about it!!
Mion was a character I drew as an attack for Art Fight in 2014 and I ended up just really drawn to him? I'm not even really totally sure why honestly aha. He's a ton of fun to draw though!
Aaand finally, Yui! I thought I'd probably never be able to end up with this bab because the last owner had him as trade-only but I don't trade my characters - they ended up offering characters in exchange for core membership on dA though and I ended up trading with them.
I have some characters that probably would've been dream characters if I had've known about them longer or hadn't forgotten about them for whatever reason too!! Alexander, Dannie, King, McIlrath and Matthew are all characters like that for me!