My original mains were, in order, Ganondorf, then Ness. After my first tournament attempt, in which I failed miserably (mostly because, for some reason, I went Bowser...what was I thinking again?), I wanted to find a new character. One that suited my playstyle more, which was to shieldpoke, whittle away enemies, and pretty much be all over the place (sounds like MK doesn't it!?).
I started playing as Peach back when there wasn't really a tier list, but everyone seemed to hate on her (especially the Melee crowd). I thought "man, she's not THAT bad, just have to get used to not having down smash and such." I especially started enjoying her when a friend of mine started pretty much complaining at me that I was just doing what I did in Melee, which is playing as "bad characters" to annoy people (though that wasn't why I played as bad characters).
Basically, I felt that she had a lot of potential to be a strange character, considering how her float worked in the game, and a lot of her moves were buffed to compensate her loss of the brokenest move in existence. Especially Bomber. That move rocks now.