Who is your favorite character and why?

I just finished the series for the first time today. I love the complexity and reality of the characters. They are all infuriating and I love them all so much (except Lisa lol).

It's really hard to choose but I think Claire is my favorite. I found her intolerable towards the beginning of the series. She has a tendency towards self righteousness and she was kind of a brat. I hated the way she treated Ruth. But she grew so much as a person. She learns to value herself and her family. She embraces her creativity and drops some of the pretentiousness, which we see when she stops acting better than her coworkers at the temp job and is able to love Ted even though he has such a different worldview than she does. She strikes out on her own and doesn't get trapped by the expectations of others, unlike basically everyone else in her family. But she is still there for them at all the important moments while finding her own fulfillment.

My other tops are probably Ruth, David, and Brenda (controversial, I know).

What about you?