The fictional love of your life? [Archive]

Mortis Anarchy

06-27-2007, 04:19 PM

Well, being an android or robot Marvin should really be in the other thread, shouldn't he. Oh dear, I think I've made a mess of it separating persons and things...:(

I don't know Henry Dante. Who is he?

Ok, scratch Marvin...I'll put him in the other thread.

Henry Dante is one of the main characters from this book I just read(obviously)...he is kind of a thug...he works for Honey a mob boss and breaks peoples faces and stuff...he is really cool. He turns out to be a nice guy, but you can tell from the beginning.

I came up with some more!

James Bond(from the books)
Wes from The Truth About Forever
Noel from The Boyfriend List

ah hell, I'd take all of the Harry Potter Characters!:D minus Voldemort...and his cronies.

I want Mr Darcy and Sirius too!

I suppose we can share:rolleyes: :D :thumbs_up

or else we'd be doing this over them:argue: and Ill just put this one in cause it makes me laugh and I've wanted to for a long time! :banana:

Annamariah

06-27-2007, 04:48 PM

I suppose we can share:rolleyes: :D :thumbs_up

or else we'd be doing this over them:argue: and Ill just put this one in cause it makes me laugh and I've wanted to for a long time! :banana:

Yeah. One can have Sirius while the other one has Mr Darcy, then we can change them every week or something :lol:

And if I can't have Mr Darcy or Sirius, I guess I could maybe have Gilbert Blythe and Mr Rochester. :D

Nossa

06-27-2007, 05:53 PM

Mr. Darcy for sure!! lol I don't mind sharing..:lol:

Annamariah

06-27-2007, 06:02 PM

Mr. Darcy for sure!! lol I don't mind sharing..:lol:

There are always too many people who would want MY Mr Darcy :lol:

Three things about Mr Darcy that make me sad:
1) He's not single (lucky Elizabeth!)
2) He lived 200 years ago

and...

3) He never really existed :bawling:

Scheherazade

06-27-2007, 06:03 PM

I would like to be friends with:

Prof Higgings from Pygmalion

Yossarian from Catch-22

Lord Goring from An Ideal Husband

Charlie Gordon from Flowers from Algernon

Actually, I think I would be flattered if the above chose me as a friend...

And:

The Finch family and Dill from To Kill A Mockingbird

Nossa

06-27-2007, 06:06 PM

3) He never really existed :bawling:

:lol: :lol: :lol: Good Point!!

Annamariah

06-27-2007, 06:08 PM

:lol: :lol: :lol: Good Point!!

Don't you think that the world would be a better place if there were some Mr Darcys around? :D

Nossa

06-27-2007, 06:16 PM

Don't you think that the world would be a better place if there were some Mr Darcys around? :D

*dreamy look* oh yeah!! lol
Weird thing is that I remember Brutus from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar now...don't ask!! lol

Mortis Anarchy

06-27-2007, 07:20 PM

Don't you think that the world would be a better place if there were some Mr Darcys around? :D

Totally, I love watching movies or reading about that era...its much more romantic the way he talks and acts...:D

I prefer Antony over Brutus...but Brutus isn't bad either. Now about Shakespeare, I think Antonio would be a good person to have from a book...he sounds like a pretty decent guy!

the silent x

06-27-2007, 07:49 PM

sam fisher - tom clancy's splinter cell - unknown author (it is a book) - the reason should be obvious, (he's an assassin, i'm an assassin)

dirk pitt - many of clive cussler's books - reason:he'll knock you the f*** out and still have energy for the hot girl in distress at the end

King of the Nazgul - lotr - tolkien - reason: you can't kill him easily, the only ones who did kill him almost died afterward (in the book) and he's a wraith.

from my stories (not published so feel free to not let these in) will post the stroy but don't want people to steal it.

lance - the best of the best, can't die becasue he's already dead, and has the virus.

katie - assassin, the best assassin, better than lance in that regard and in strategical knowlegde, and finally has the virus.

Mortis Anarchy

06-27-2007, 07:52 PM

cranberry

06-28-2007, 09:50 AM

mmmm thanks for the interesting thread , i would like most charecters out of harry potter : like serius , lupen, snape , weasleys (twins) , harry to be a friend, harmoine , ron , i dont know why i like those charecters>>>>real people who dont exist >>>lets say all charecters >>>

if i had the chance i would write a novel LoOl but thats enough for now :) Thanks alot :)

barbara0207

06-28-2007, 10:08 AM

Henry Dante is one of the main characters from this book I just read(obviously)...he is kind of a thug...he works for Honey a mob boss and breaks peoples faces and stuff...he is really cool. He turns out to be a nice guy, but you can tell from the beginning.
James Bond(from the books)

What a very nice character, breaking people's faces for them ...:lol:

Er, what do you want James Bond for, with his masculinity streaming from each of his pores? :D Would you like to be reduced to just a playmate? (I admit I have only seen some of the movies.)

Mortis Anarchy

06-29-2007, 12:18 AM

What a very nice character, breaking people's faces for them ...:lol:

Er, what do you want James Bond for, with his masculinity sreaming from each of his pores? :D Would you like to be reduced to just a playmate? (I admit I have only seen some of the movies.)

Pssh...pah-lease!!! First off, I can keep that guy in line. If he (was real) even thought of going off with Money Penny or whatever, I'd be up in his face, I would call the shots!!! Secondly, I wanted to be a secret agent since I was like 6...I've been really sneaky since I was little...I used to spy on my parents while they watched T.V. in the living room of our apartment in Annapolis....they never knew I was there! It was great.

Well, as for Dante, he was a good guy at heart, just a little lost.:D

barbara0207

06-29-2007, 10:59 AM

Why do we women always tend to think we could keep a guy in line once we got him? Usually we cannot cure even one of his vices ... :D

But good luck for your secret agent career, 006. I suppose you won't tell us when you start work. :lol:

*Classic*Charm*

07-03-2007, 01:28 AM

OOh who wouldn't go for a Darcy??

And I know it's cliché and all, but... wherefore art thou, Romeo??

bibliophile190

07-03-2007, 02:54 AM

Well, seeing as this board is overwhelmed with male characters, I think I'll balance things out with a female. I'd like to be friends with Esther from Bleak House.
-Gotta have Gandalf from LOTR.
-Gimli too.
-Have to second Dirk Pitt, from Clive Cussler novels, he kicks butt!
-Aslan from Chronicles of Narnia

That's about all I can think of for now.

Weisinheimer

07-03-2007, 11:17 AM

Aragorn from LOTR
Joe Gargery from Great Expectatons, he's such a nice guy.
Sydney Caron from a tale of two citeis, he's my hero.

EmilySian

07-03-2007, 11:20 AM

ooo has to be mr darcy or mr rochester
or maybe a character from lotr or harry potter. Spesh harry potter, because then they could do magic for you.

PrinceMyshkin

07-03-2007, 11:23 AM

OK, here goes. Come to think of it, I haven't even thought of one myself! :( I'll have to think about it.

Lydie Newton from The All-True TRavels & Adventures of Lydie Newton by Jane Smiley

barbara0207

07-04-2007, 04:17 AM

Lydie Newton from The All-True TRavels & Adventures of Lydie Newton by Jane Smiley

I've never heard about this book. What makes this character special for you?

Black Flag

11-27-2007, 11:51 PM

As dorky as it sounds, the first time I read Pride and Prejudice I became infactuated with Elizabeth Bennet and wished she was real. I was 16 — gimme a break.

Has anyone else ever "fallen in love (or lust)" with a character in classic literature?

cracking muse

11-28-2007, 12:08 AM

Fred Weasley! xD

MarileeRixon

11-28-2007, 01:36 AM

I always liked Ranger from the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. He's a bounty hunter.

B-Mental

11-28-2007, 02:18 AM

I always loved the way that Dumas describes Mercedes in The Count of Monte Cristo. I don't know if its an actual crush. Also have a minor thing for Natasha in War & Peace, but I suspect that is more a thing for Audrey Hepburn in the movie.

ivette

11-28-2007, 04:10 PM

I admit that when I was reading Gone with the wind I felt that Rhett Butler was described in such a way that he just had to attract you :p
That was a year ago actually but I was still 16 then :D

Dark Muse

11-28-2007, 04:23 PM

I would have to say either Nightfall, from The Legend of Nightfall by Mickey Zucker Reichert

or Robin Hood from The Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson

Those two chars I fell in love more then any others I have read about thus far.

Zelly

11-28-2007, 04:35 PM

Oh gosh... Edward Cullen. =( *blush*

I also have a thing for Patrick in the Alice series.

andave_ya

11-29-2007, 06:01 PM

......................

You know, every litnetter that's ever read any of my posts know which literary character I am in love with.

I'm famous in the blogs and the General Chat section for lovin' Boromir. :blush:

Niamh

11-29-2007, 06:08 PM

Captain Wenthworth. *sighs*

Scheherazade

11-29-2007, 06:53 PM

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070727/tearjerkers/mockingbird_l.jpg

And Yossarian.

manolia

11-30-2007, 01:52 PM

Edmond Dandes and Faramir

amalia1985

11-30-2007, 04:07 PM

Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights...I know, call me twisted, but I love him!

Marius from Les Miserables...a revolutionary who is also romantic in the literal sense of the word.

Newland Archer from Age of Innocence...for many reasons.

Quark

12-01-2007, 12:19 AM

As dorky as it sounds, the first time I read Pride and Prejudice I became infactuated with Elizabeth Bennet and wished she was real

Alright that is pretty dorky. Elizabeth Bennet? She so uptight and repressed. I like the fiery women in novels. Jane Eyre is a good one. I kind of like Sue from Jude the Obscure, but with all the Victorian novels the heroine has to become married and soon her character is diminished so much by having to be the sympathetic and caring wife. Look what happens to Sue. I think Olga from Goncharov was kind of hot, too. She seemed witty and intelligent--a little fickle maybe, though. Hmm, I'm not sure what exactly makes a good woman in literature, but some combination of those female leads I think is close.

Simao

12-01-2007, 06:29 AM

I, as well, liked Natasha from war and peace but I liked Catrina Ivanova in Crime and Punishment she was so hot headed and always there for her kids.
For the men I liked Rodya in Crime and Punishment for his crazyness and the strong hold of his believes and ideas which I found to be pretty inspiring. I also liked in Ivan in The Karmazov Brothers for I have no idea what reason lol.

bazarov

12-01-2007, 02:15 PM

Marius from Les Miserables...a revolutionary who is also romantic in the literal sense of the word.

Did you like him before revolution?

I, as well, liked Natasha from war and peace

I hate her! :flare:

Black Flag

12-02-2007, 03:01 AM

Alright that is pretty dorky. Elizabeth Bennet? She so uptight and repressed. I like the fiery women in novels. Jane Eyre is a good one. I kind of like Sue from Jude the Obscure, but with all the Victorian novels the heroine has to become married and soon her character is diminished so much by having to be the sympathetic and caring wife. Look what happens to Sue. I think Olga from Goncharov was kind of hot, too. She seemed witty and intelligent--a little fickle maybe, though. Hmm, I'm not sure what exactly makes a good woman in literature, but some combination of those female leads I think is close.

Maybe Liz is like that on the surface...But I bet when Mr. Darcy got her home...
Jane Eyre is too, oh, I don't know — "good". She would someone who insisted you go to church twice on Sunday or be damned. And forget about letting a curse word slip, or having a drink with the boys once in a while.
As much as I love Thomas Hardy, "Jude" was one of his first books I read of his and I don't remember too much about Sue. But there's nothing wrong with being a sympathetic wife.
I don't believe I met Olga.

hellsapoppin

12-03-2007, 07:07 PM

Character crushes?

That's EASY! Back in the 60s it my ideal doll was Honey West:

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/231500/231590QvXU_w.jpg

Alas, she was only a work of fiction!:bawling:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/honey.html

Annamariah

12-03-2007, 07:09 PM

Mr Darcy <3
Mr Rochester <3

browneyedbailey

12-03-2007, 07:13 PM

Mr. Darcy, Harry Potter, Tristen...

I could go on forever!

Sweets America

12-03-2007, 07:35 PM

I might be the only one but I had a crush on Holden Caulfield. :blush: I guess he was as depressed as I was, I thought he would understand me. :D I still have a crush on him. I loved the way he talked, too.

I have a different kind of crush on Roland Deschain de Gilead, the main character of Stephen King's Dark Tower. He is quite cold and private, but I like him. He's quite sexy, too.

hellsapoppin

12-03-2007, 07:45 PM

Of course, Wonder Woman wasn't too bad, either:

http://gallery.future-i.com/Superheros/pic:WonderWoman04/full/60.jpg

http://images.google.com/images?q=wonder+woman&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=hrG&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

LadyWentworth

12-03-2007, 08:14 PM

Captain Wenthworth. *sighs*

:nod: Oh, you know how I agree with you! :D

Mr Rochester <3

:nod: How I agree with you also! :p

But I must also admit to Algernon Moncrieff (The Importance of Being Earnest). :D

Don't get me started on charcters from films! The list is endless! :)

liberal viewer

12-03-2007, 09:13 PM

:lol: Hmm, when I was a kid I fell in love with Nancy Drew, actually! I'm not kidding!

Weisinheimer

12-03-2007, 11:53 PM

Sydney Carton from a Tale of Two Cities is amazing.
And I also like Aragorn from LOTR. He's definitely a stud. Of course, my crush on him might have a little to do with Viggo Mortensen, who played him in the movies.

Black Flag

12-04-2007, 03:20 PM

Would anyone terribly mind if when you mention a character, referencing the book he or she is out of? Some I know. Others, who sound very appealing, I'm not familiar with.
And Liz Bennet (P&P) is still tops! ;)

I AM JINX

12-04-2007, 04:24 PM

Tamahome. However he is from an manga I read a lot. I still do wish he was real, I also like Ron Weasly from Harry Potter. ^^;;

Niamh

12-04-2007, 04:58 PM

:nod: Oh, you know how I agree with you! :D

I was going to have in brakets, "back off Lady Wentworth, he's mine!":p :D But decided against it.

Akkarrin in the Black magicians trilogy

OH and Thorn in The Bitterbynde Saga:D

LadyWentworth

12-04-2007, 07:02 PM

I was going to have in brakets, "back off Lady Wentworth, he's mine!":p :D But decided against it.

:lol: Well, I certainly think we can share him. I just think that we shouldn't allow anyone else invade our territory!! He is OURS!!! :D :D

Idril

12-04-2007, 08:18 PM

Soames Forsyte from The Forsyte Saga, although I think that might be more pity than an actual crush but whatever it is, I'm very attached to that character. Ivan from The Brothers Karamazov is another favorite, didn't love the book as a whole but Ivan was definitely a highlight for me and to continue my fascination with tortured characters, Maedhros from The Silmarillion and Isildur from LOTR.

Aiculík

12-05-2007, 04:14 AM

My first one would be Laurie, from Alcott's Little Women. :lol: That was when I was 8.

Then, few years later, I desperatedly fell in love with Corto Maltese :blush:
- brave, clever, good-loking, romantic, mysterious - what more could you wish for??? :p

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s260/Aiculik/affiche_pratt1.jpg

Niamh

12-05-2007, 12:49 PM

:lol: Well, I certainly think we can share him. I just think that we shouldn't allow anyone else invade our territory!! He is OURS!!! :D :D

:lol: :lol: I'm okay with that!:D

manolia

12-05-2007, 04:53 PM

:lol: Well, I certainly think we can share him. I just think that we shouldn't allow anyone else invade our territory!! He is OURS!!! :D :D

:lol: :lol: I'm okay with that!:D

Hmmm...kinky :D
Girls this forum has little children too, please :lol: :p

HotKarl

12-06-2007, 01:19 AM

Oedipa Maas from The Crying of Lot 49.

Yeah.

Ocelot

12-06-2007, 01:33 AM

Oh boy... Edward Cullen... I used to like Patrick from the Alice books, he is still awesome, but not much of a crush anymore.

And L, from the manga Death Note. =D

Annamariah

12-13-2007, 05:09 AM

My first one would be Laurie, from Alcott's Little Women. :lol: That was when I was 8.
Well, I love Gilbert Blythe from Montgomery's Anne-series <3 :blush:

Nico87

12-13-2007, 08:46 AM

Carl Joseph von Trotta from The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, even though he's a male and I'm not gay.

hellsapoppin

12-13-2007, 06:12 PM

I forgot to mention that I also adored Betty Boop:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=YCw&q=betty+boop&btnG=Search+Images

boop-oop-a-doop!

Zelly

12-13-2007, 06:23 PM

My first one would be Laurie, from Alcott's Little Women. :lol: That was when I was 8.

Oh my gosh. I forgot about Laurie. Yes, he was just lovely. =)

Scheherazade

12-13-2007, 06:28 PM

For a long time, I was confused about Laurie's gender. His name sounded so feminine but his character came across as masculine.

Wallnutters

12-13-2007, 10:51 PM

omg! im not the only one! i luuuuuuuuuuuurve edward cullen.. he makes me giddy inside. :3

id also ahve to agree with L form death note (kawaii) (again not only one.. though my friend is in love with him too, so..)

and of course, tamaki from host club (manga). he just so sexy and wonderful!!! ("tamaki! stop cultivating wild mushrooms in unknown rooms!") and if were going on host club, i must also give honory mention to hikaru and mori. *sighs*

Nightshade

12-14-2007, 12:56 PM

:lol: :lol: I'm okay with that!:D

Huh... I always did think he was the best of her heroes.

You do all realise this is rather ridiculous dont you? But has anyone notice a recent serge in fiction where one of these charcters jumps out of the book?
Im sure a couple of months ago I shelved a book called spmething like Mr Darcy and me ... and I rember thinking WHAT?!

Anyway to join the maddness Ive always been very find of Zorro, of course that statarted when I was long long before I discoverd The Curse of Capistrano.

John Thornton was a great guy too... :nod:

Willard

12-14-2007, 02:04 PM

Eula Varner in William Faulkner's The Hamlet .

Tosca

12-14-2007, 05:56 PM

My first one would be Laurie, from Alcott's Little Women. That was when I was 8.

I LOVE Laurie! He is definitley one of my favourites! I tend to fall in love with one of the main male characters from every book I read!

Mr. Knightley from "Emma"
Edmund from "The Count of Monte Cristo"
Rhett Butler....mmmm.. :)
And many others! :p

Nightshade

12-14-2007, 06:42 PM

Rhett Butler was real though.... or am I getting the actor and charcter mixed up? I alaways thought the actor was Butler? :confused:

Niamh

12-14-2007, 06:44 PM

Rhet butler is the character, Clark Gable is the guy who played him.

Nightshade

12-14-2007, 07:01 PM

dohh http://www.websmileys.com/sm/fingers/fing20.gif Im such idiot sometimes...

Dori

12-14-2007, 07:06 PM

Vittoria Colonna from The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone, although she was a real person, not a fictional character.

Here's a picture of her drawn by Michelangelo himself:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Vittoria_Colonna.jpg/250px-Vittoria_Colonna.jpg

Niamh

12-14-2007, 07:07 PM

dohh http://www.websmileys.com/sm/fingers/fing20.gif Im such idiot sometimes...

no your not.

docwill

12-15-2007, 09:02 AM

One would have to be Satsuko from Diary of a Mad Old Man by Tanizaki; also Mallory from the Carol O'Connell novels. Something about those bad girls, gets me every time...

*Classic*Charm*

12-18-2007, 12:37 AM

Darcy!!!! Man, I think Lizzie Bennett and I are pretty much the same person.

That, and I think I'll always have a soft spot for Holden Caulfield as well. You just wanna make everything better for him!

Black Flag

12-18-2007, 02:34 PM

Darcy!!!! Man, I think Lizzie Bennett and I are pretty much the same person.

What was that?!!!;)

Tosca

12-18-2007, 07:59 PM

Who is Holden Caulfield? Which novel is he from? Just wondering.... :)

I started Pride and Prejudice a few days ago and I can see that I am going to fall in love with Mr. Darcy! :)

Scheherazade

12-18-2007, 08:01 PM

Holden Caulfield is the leading character in J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Black Flag

12-18-2007, 08:04 PM

Just read it. Funniest book on earth. Or am I just too cynical?

Tosca

12-18-2007, 08:07 PM

Thank you Scheherazade! :)

Scripted

12-20-2007, 09:47 AM

Is it demented to say Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment? I always wanted to to be the soft light to his melancholy darkness.

tinustijger

12-20-2007, 09:59 AM

I know what you mean about Holden Caulfield, just because he's so smart and perceptive and a rebel! Oh yeah and he's depressed,, well, I don't really know much about that but it certainly makes him interesting!

Tosca

12-21-2007, 12:21 PM

Okay, so I am almost finished with Pride and Prejudice....I am SO in love with Mr.Darcy! He is just so....so.... *squeels* *sigh*. What am I supposed to do about this?! I can't help it!

michael336

12-22-2007, 09:44 AM

Yeah, Black Flag, I'm with ya on the whole Elizabeth thing, from Pride and Prejudice.[I] Also Elinor from [I]Sense and Sensibility. Also the protagonist from Persuasion. Let's just face it...Jane Austen is hot.

LadyW

12-22-2007, 09:45 AM

Yep... Im usually a dare-to-be-different kinda girl but I have to admit... Mr Darcy is rather dashing :D
Although I do like Mr. Bingley too just because hes lovely...bless him.

Tosca

12-22-2007, 11:37 AM

LadyW I love your avatar! I saw that movie for the first time last night...Mr.Darcy... *sigh*

*.*

subterranean

12-22-2007, 01:02 PM

John Worthing from The Importance of Being Earnest

Black Flag

12-22-2007, 06:50 PM

Let's just face it...Jane Austen is hot.

Damn straight. Strange she never married.

Xcape

12-22-2007, 07:37 PM

Mr Darcy *sigh*

LadyW

12-23-2007, 06:32 AM

Why thankyou very much Tosca, If you would like, I have a couple more P&P avatars and will be very glad to send them to you.

Tosca

12-25-2007, 08:50 PM

I would love that very much! Thank you! I watched the movie again today! It is so romantic!

amanda_isabel

12-25-2007, 10:05 PM

looks like i'm not the only one here who's calling dibs on Mr. Darcy! i fell in love with him even more with the movie.. (i wish i could take keira knightley's place..)

i don't know if anyone here has read Across Time-i fell in love with Alessandro di Montefiore, but he just happened to be married to Isabella (though i think we could omit those last two letters, lol)

there was Welles Blackburn too, from Tears of Jade, which i also don't think anyone is familiar with.

*sigh*

post-script... nice avatar LadyW. :)

Tosca

01-03-2008, 01:56 PM

Oh, I know! Matthew Macfadyen played an excellent (and a totally hot) Mr. Darcy! That movie was just splendid!

*Back off, Kiera!* :)

Nossa

01-03-2008, 02:08 PM

Silvia

01-03-2008, 02:18 PM

Oh, I love Mr Darcy...have you seen the BBC series??
Colin Firth is just perfect;) !!!!

huihuffaker

01-03-2008, 02:20 PM

I would have to say Edward from the 'Twilight' series. The way he is described is like a sexy forbidden love.

kratsayra

01-03-2008, 02:38 PM

One of my very first crushes (ever!) was on Jupiter Jones from the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series. :blush:

Schokokeks

01-03-2008, 05:11 PM

Hm, I must admit that I had (and have .. ? :blush: ) a rather large and persistent crush on Professor Snape. And him on screen only made matters worse :D...

Tosca

01-03-2008, 05:45 PM

Snape! hehehe. I admit I like him, too! Mr. Darcy still holds the number one spot for me though!

xlxlauraxlx

01-03-2008, 06:49 PM

Well i actually have a crush on Mr Collins "Maaybe he has a cousin"

jokes, as every other teenage girl Mr Fitzwilliam (isnt it interesting how they dont use his name often in the recent film) Darcy :)

Schokokeks

01-03-2008, 07:39 PM

All right, you can have Darcy, I don't find attractive enough even for all his wealth ;) Though living in the dungeons with Snape might not be that fanciful, but I'm sure this could be helped somehow :D.

Topekachu

01-04-2008, 02:51 PM

I really liked the Mellower from The Ear, the Eye and the Arm. I wanted to give him a hug! (Wonderful book, by the way)

Cailin

11-14-2008, 01:05 PM

If falling in love with a character in a novel/play was a possibility...who would win your heart?;)

Pensive

11-14-2008, 01:23 PM

Raskolnikoff from Crime and Punishment

And yes I know he was a murderer.

Professor Higgens from Pygmalion

Now hate me even more. :p

Cailin

11-14-2008, 01:30 PM

Professor Higgens from Pygmalion

Hee hee - What is it about him exactly?

Pecksie

11-14-2008, 01:32 PM

I have an unfortunate tendency to fall in love with the most unsavoury types... so probably Eugene Onegin from the eponymous novel, Stiva Oblonsky from 'Anna Karenina', or some other charming scoundrel of that sort...

On the other hand, Mr. Darcy from 'Pride and Prejudice', the cold and single-minded St John Rivers from 'Jane Eyre' and Sebastian Flyte from 'Brideshead Revisited' are all very sexy characters in very different ways.

And Jude from 'Jude the Obscure' was a lovable guy too.

I'll surely come up with more, as I'm always swooning over literary characters :lol:

Petya

11-14-2008, 01:41 PM

Clare Abshire from The Time Traveler's Wife. The lengths he put that poor woman through just goes to show shes nothing less than a saint. :)

Cailin

11-14-2008, 02:11 PM

the the cold and single-minded St John Rivers from 'Jane Eyre' ... very sexy character

Interesting choice! A departure from the more obvious Rochester ;)

kelby_lake

11-14-2008, 03:10 PM

I have an unfortunate tendency to fall in love with the most unsavoury types...
On the other hand, Mr. Darcy from 'Pride and Prejudice', the cold and single-minded St John Rivers from 'Jane Eyre' and Sebastian Flyte from 'Brideshead Revisited' are all very sexy characters in very different ways.

I'll second Darcy and Sebastian. I like the bad/tortured ones, Brick in Cat on a hot tin roof and iago in othello :D

kratsayra

11-14-2008, 04:26 PM

Jupiter Jones from the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators Series. :D

prendrelemick

11-14-2008, 04:34 PM

Becky Sharpe, the minx

Dark Muse

11-14-2008, 04:51 PM

I absolutely fell in love with Howard Roark in The Fountainhead

and I had fallen in love with Jennifer Roberson's Robin Hood in The Lady of the Forest

browneyedbailey

11-14-2008, 06:15 PM

Jace Wayland from City of Bones.

polgara

11-15-2008, 02:40 AM

Petruchio from The Taming of the Shrew because he has such a sense of humour, (maybe because I remember Richard Burton being so gloriously over the top!)

LadyWentworth

11-15-2008, 03:06 AM

Sebastian Flyte from 'Brideshead Revisited'
I do have to agree with this one. ;)

I have more than one. They differ based on my mood. ;)

Captain Wentworth - Persuasion (OBVIOUSLY!!!!:D)
Rochester - Jane Eyre
Algernon Moncrieff - "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Sydney Carton - A Tale of Two Cities
Benedick - "Much Ado About Nothing"
Alec Scudder - Maurice

I know there are more, but those are currently the ones that top my list. :)

Pensive

11-15-2008, 03:13 AM

I don't think I could fall in love with Rochester (one of my least favourite characters) but well who knows since people tend to fall in love with people they don't like in the beginning as well! I mean look at Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Maybe if we get to know each other better....

Sydney Carton on the other hand? Yes, that's a good one. I love cynics and pessimists! :p

Hee hee - What is it about him exactly?

Sometimes, love just happens. There are no reasons, and if there are, they are just unknown or you can not express them in words. :p

*Classic*Charm*

11-15-2008, 03:18 AM

As contrary this is to every moral fiber in my being- John Proctor (The Crucible)

LadyWentworth

11-15-2008, 03:21 AM

I don't think I could fall in love with Rochester (one of my least favourite characters) but well who knows since people tend to fall in love with people they don't like in the beginning as well! I mean look at Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Maybe if we get to know each other better....
Yes, see, that is a good way to look at it! :D

Sydney Carton on the other hand? Yes, that's a good one. I love cynics and pessimists! :p
I am somehow drawn to them. :p

mmaria

11-15-2008, 05:31 AM

If it had not been the cause of the Trojan war, I could select Paris, but the one from the myth about his decision to choose Aphrodite as the most beautiful of the three, because she promissed to give him the love of a woman. I admire his wisdom to see that love is the most precious value in life. Not Paris from Homer's "Iliad".

Guinivere

11-15-2008, 07:21 AM

wessexgirl

11-15-2008, 08:07 AM

I had a serious crush on John Thronton, the main male character from Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. If I had had the choice to go an live in the 19th century as his wife I would have done it. Sod the consequences.

:lol: Great choice, and I love your location....Gabriel Oak must be another good contender, good stolid, stable character, unlike Troy, but oh Terence Stamp in the film was mesmerising, (swoon), no wonder she fell for him :D. I like Wentworth too, another worthy, constant love. I have a really soft spot for Jude Fawley, poor bloke, and I'm falling for Arthur Clennam from Little Dorrit, as I'm watching the TV series, although I haven't finished the book yet. He's a quiet, honourable man, played beautifully by Matthew Macfadyen. Perhaps I'm getting the vibes from the actor though, as I think he's lovely.

hoope

11-15-2008, 08:40 AM

Mr.Rochester in JANE EYRE

and i wish i had a father like Jean Valjean in LES' MISERABLES

Guinivere

11-15-2008, 10:15 AM

:lol: Great choice, and I love your location....Gabriel Oak must be another good contender, good stolid, stable character, unlike Troy, but oh Terence Stamp in the film was mesmerising, (swoon), no wonder she fell for him :D. I like Wentworth too, another worthy, constant love. I have a really soft spot for Jude Fawley, poor bloke, and I'm falling for Arthur Clennam from Little Dorrit, as I'm watching the TV series, although I haven't finished the book yet. He's a quiet, honourable man, played beautifully by Matthew Macfadyen. Perhaps I'm getting the vibes from the actor though, as I think he's lovely.

Yes it is a tough choice. I really love Gabriel Oak, the whole caring, nice character. But when I read North & South for the first time it just blew me away. I hadn't yet read a classical novel from the 19th century where the agonies of unreciprocated love, from the male side, had been so wondefully depicted.
And I forgot poor Wentworth, or sould I say, the dashing Captain Wentworth. He's another strong contender. :)
I haven't read Little Dorrit yet. I never really took to Dickens (and I know it's blasphemy). Maybe I'll give it a go.

wessexgirl

11-15-2008, 11:32 AM

Quite coincidentally here Guinevere, I'm just watching Camelot on tv. Now there are 2 more literary characters to fall for, Arthur and Lancelot. I think overall though I would go for Arthur, lovely as Lancelot, (or Franco Nero) is. The overriding goodness of both, with Guinevere torn between them is heartbreaking, but I have to go with Arthur, especially in the manly form of Richard Harris :lol:.

PeterL

11-15-2008, 11:32 AM

I fell in love with a character in a novel that I started. I dropped that project.

kelby_lake

11-15-2008, 12:25 PM

Sydney Carton on the other hand? Yes, that's a good one. I love cynics and pessimists! :p

Same! I love all the alcoholic/tortured men :)

As contrary this is to every moral fiber in my being- John Proctor (The Crucible)

John Proctor! Why?!

amalia1985

11-15-2008, 06:02 PM

Heathcliff or Macbeth.

_Shannon_

11-16-2008, 06:36 PM

Oh- Japhy Ryder...no doubt about it.

Scheherazade

11-16-2008, 07:13 PM

Professor Higgens from PygmalionToo late! I am afraid, he's already been spoken for! ;)

Nobody is going to bring up Yossarian?

*Classic*Charm*

11-16-2008, 07:36 PM

John Proctor! Why?!

Why does it go against my morals, or why is he my fictional love? haha

It goes against my morals because he cheated on his wife

He's my fictional love because he's one of the most passionate characters I've ever read. The scene between him and Elizabeth when he's in custody of the court in the fourth act, and they're both begging for each other's forgiveness is so powerful, and again when he's in court giving the false confession, and he cannot do it for the sake of those who died in the name of truth. It's amazing.

LadyWentworth

11-16-2008, 08:01 PM

I had a serious crush on John Thronton, the main male character from Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. If I had had the choice to go an live in the 19th century as his wife I would have done it. Sod the consequences.
I love that! :D I thought of him, too, but I think the 6 men that I listed are more than enough to pine away for right now. :D

Heathcliff or Macbeth.
Of course! ;) :D

Virgil

11-16-2008, 08:11 PM

I can't honestly say I have fallen in love with any fictional character. Judging by the responses here, I suspect this is mostly a female thing. :p

Kevets

11-16-2008, 10:10 PM

I can't honestly say I have fallen in love with any fictional character. Judging by the responses here, I suspect this is mostly a female thing. :p
I'm a man. I gave some serious thought to this. All I could come up with is my teenage self might have been taken with Lyra Belacqua from Phillip Pullman's trilogy.

But then I got to wondering - is it a a gender attitude thing or are loveable women written well into literature?

mtpspur

11-16-2008, 10:11 PM

Well I always wanted to have Edgar Rice Burroughs kill off Jane and have Tarzan go to the woman who really deserved some happiness in her life--La of Opar featured in Return of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, and Tarzan the Invincible. She steals the scene in any chapter she appears in. Jane Porter was a pale imitation of a heroine compared to her. La could easily have had a novel written and centered around her if the times had been different. Often wondered if she was patterned after Haggard's She Who Must be Obeyed--Ayesha.

Sweets America

11-16-2008, 10:55 PM

Oh- Japhy Ryder...no doubt about it.

Very good choice! :):) I'll take Ray Smith. :):) Then maybe the four of us could hang out sometime.

Mortis Anarchy

11-17-2008, 01:19 AM

I'll second Darcy and Sebastian. I like the bad/tortured ones, Brick in Cat on a hot tin roof and iago in othello :D

Dag yo, I'll third Darcy and Sebastian, haha.:D

My mind went blank. Wow.

Pensive

11-17-2008, 02:22 AM

I think I have a sort of platonic crush on Anne Shirley if we really need to talk about some female characters too.

I can't honestly say I have fallen in love with any fictional character. Judging by the responses here, I suspect this is mostly a female thing. :p

Awww, or can it be that no author could invent up a woman as an epitome of morality and virtuousness good enough for Virgil's liking? :p

kiki1982

11-17-2008, 08:02 AM

I fourth Mr Darcy!

Rochester of Jane Eyre is also quite popular I see, but he is an absolute icon as a man...

Benedick of Much Ado about Nothing has also been mention. Lovely man! He would never marry... Men who are caught off-guard are so cute... (that's probably the charm of Rochester and Darcy as well)

D'Artagnan and Athos... I wouldn't know which one to choose... Athos is so lovely and sweet, but d'Artagnan is so surprising and manly... swoon :blush:
Although, I'm afraid I would have to choose Athos because I have the impression that by the end d'Artagnan had banned women out of his life forever...

Raimundo Silva of José Saramago's The Siege of Lisbon. He's also caught off-guard. An older man, never fallen in love suddely finds himself obcessed with a woman in his thoughts and has to recognise that he is for the first time in love. So sweet...

imthefoolonthehill

11-17-2008, 08:12 AM

From movies, but oh well.

Sophie from Vanilla Sky
Ana Pascal from Stranger than Fiction
Sam from Garden State

Bitterfly

11-17-2008, 08:21 AM

D'Artagnan and Athos... I wouldn't know which one to choose... Athos is so lovely and sweet, but d'Artagnan is so surprising and manly... swoon :blush:
Although, I'm afraid I would have to choose Athos because I have the impression that by the end d'Artagnan had banned women out of his life forever...

Ha ha, I fell in love with d'Artagnan as well! And Lancelot - I used to read his adventures over and over again... Slightly more recently, I had a huge crush on Lawrence of Arabia (I know he's not a fictional character :p ), in his book and in the film... ah, Peter O'Toole...

prendrelemick

11-17-2008, 08:33 AM

I'm a man. I gave some serious thought to this. All I could come up with is my teenage self might have been taken with Lyra Belacqua from Phillip Pullman's trilogy.

But then I got to wondering - is it a a gender attitude thing or are loveable women written well into literature?

Rather than poorly written female characters being the cause,
I reckon men choose with their eyes and admire the physical form.
women trust their imagination and look beyond this. They are therefore more successful at fantasizing about literary figures.

Emil Miller

11-17-2008, 05:37 PM

Mr.Rochester in JANE EYRE

and i wish i had a father like Jean Valjean in LES' MISERABLES

Mr Rochester is an interesting choice. Did you know that Jane Erye used to be on the school curriculum in China and millions of chinese girls were in love with him. A friend of mine from Shanghai even took Jane as her English name when she came to live in England.

Cailin

11-17-2008, 06:01 PM

andave_ya

11-17-2008, 06:12 PM

Boromir from the Lord of the Rings (what a misunderstood man!)
Lord Peter Wimsey from Dorothy L. Sayers mystery series (wit, charm, and bookishness :D)
Odysseus from the Odyssey (ingenious man, AND played by Sean Bean :p)

I must admit to a fondness for Darcy, but maybe...just maybe...he isn't quite the love of my life :lol:

bree

11-17-2008, 07:50 PM

For me it also has to be Mr Darcy

islandclimber

11-17-2008, 08:02 PM

Well Virgil, I don't know if I would call her fictional love of my life, haha..

but Tess from "Tess of the D'urbevilles" is pretty amazing.. the one letter she wrote Angel Clare is so sad and powerful and wonderful..

hellsapoppin

11-17-2008, 08:26 PM

I thought we had a thread on this a while ago or perhaps it was another forum. But my ideal would be Honey West:

http://i1.sell.com/6/95/429515/35/159/2310204-m.jpg

imthefoolonthehill

11-18-2008, 04:33 AM

Hannelore from questionable content

librarius_qui

11-18-2008, 09:00 AM

However I'll write about her as soon as she comes out, in a way I've been making some efforts of imagining.

It isn't easy, because, like actual people, characters are already there (here) in the world. I make characters, so it's a bit different. I'll never find the girls I write. And I try to write from girls that are around, that captivate me.

So, for instance, I've imagined the light (untouchable) artificial intelligence of a (space)ship's computer ...*

Now, I'm into some sort of plot in which the main character goes the story around this image and, in the end, he finds the girl in whom the a.i. was based, she (the real one) sleeping for ages (?) in a case.

So, I think I'll get there when I have actually met her. Until then, "this is all academic" ...

One of my dreams is to connect the already there characters I have with real girls, but I haven't reached this yet. ~

*Important to me to say that, in my "futurism", there's no laser weapons, no touchable holography, no teletransportation, no alien life-forms [ah, and no jump/warp or light-speed] ... It's all about conquering the Solar System and "history" of the Solar System conquest! Which is a dream I have! :)

:crash:

Guinivere

11-18-2008, 10:21 AM

Does anyone hear know the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. Wonderfully trashy and really entertaining books. I always think she should end up with Ranger. But I see why she fancies Morelli. At least he doesn't kill people.

Cailin

11-18-2008, 06:46 PM

I thought we had a thread on this a while ago or perhaps it was another forum.

Ok I've done this more than once - "starting" a thread that already existed in the annals of Litnet. I think I'll give up.... :blush:

Ps I think the title for my thread suggests I'm more of a romantic than the author of the thread in which we now find ourselves!!

Niamh

11-19-2008, 03:37 PM

John Thornton was a great guy too... :nod:

I'm currently having a crush on Mr. Thornton of North and South, :D
Oh how i agree with you!

Captain Wentworth - Persuasion (OBVIOUSLY!!!!:D)dont forget our bargin from the earlier pages of this thread! ;)

Rochester - Jane Eyre
Hes a given....

Benedick - "Much Ado About Nothing"

you know what? i have to agree with this...there is something saucy about Benedick. :nod:
gonna jump on the bandwaggon and say Edward Cullen as well....oh the passion! Shame she lost sight of his character in the last book...

subterranean

11-19-2008, 03:57 PM

Who's that guy in Bridget Jones?

Niamh

11-19-2008, 04:34 PM

Mark Darcy? (aka Mr Darcy)

Jane'sRedRose

11-19-2008, 06:48 PM

The fictional love of my life would have to be Gabriel from the Annette Curtis Klaus novel (not movie) Blood and Chocolate because he is so primal, yet sensitive and he is willing to wait for the woman he desires. He is patient and understanding and the perfect image of a macho man without the overdone ego or narcissism; just an overall bad boy with good guy qualities. Gabriel is a man with whom I would love to hop on a motorcycle with and traverse the country without a care.

grace86

11-19-2008, 09:04 PM

OK - three pages on from my original post I too must admit that, as a 13 year old, I fell for Mr Rochester's brooding presence - and the most wonderful way he proposed to Jane
"I ask you to pass through life at my side, to be my second self and best earthly companion"

Ahh! I love that marriage proposal! And I've not read the book! Oh dear what have you started?! :D

Mr. Darcy of course is on my list. I love to watch the BBC version of P&P when I need to make everything right in the world. :D I am a hopeless romantic and he's just so yay he has to be on that list!

Among others...Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, Edmund Dantes from Count of Monte Cristo, a small crush on Professor Snape. Interestingly enough, tall, dark and handsome seem to fit into my real life crushes, especially seeing as it includes long hair too! :blush:

One character I really, really loved was Razumikhin from Crime and Punishment..Raskolnikov's best friend (right??), he was such a sweet man!

Virgil

11-19-2008, 09:29 PM

Ahh! I love that marriage proposal! And I've not read the book! Oh dear what have you started?! :D

Mr. Darcy of course is on my list. I love to watch the BBC version of P&P when I need to make everything right in the world. :D I am a hopeless romantic and he's just so yay he has to be on that list!

Among others...Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, Edmund Dantes from Count of Monte Cristo, a small crush on Professor Snape. Interestingly enough, tall, dark and handsome seem to fit into my real life crushes, especially seeing as it includes long hair too! :blush:

One character I really, really loved was Razumikhin from Crime and Punishment..Raskolnikov's best friend (right??), he was such a sweet man!

I would have thought you would have preferred Don Quixote. :D Or maybe Sancho Panza. :p

LadyWentworth

11-20-2008, 12:55 AM

Oh how i agree with you!
dont forget our bargin from the earlier pages of this thread! ;)
Oh, of course I remember our bargain! How could I possibly forget? ;)

Hes a given....
:D

you know what? i have to agree with this...there is something saucy about Benedick. :nod:
Yes, there definitely is something, isn't there? :nod: :D

As for John Thorton, I have always had a fondness for him, but I can honestly say that any stronger "feelings" that I have had for him lately are due to the sight of Richard Armitage in the role that he plays to perfection. ;)

Niamh

11-20-2008, 10:17 AM

As for John Thorton, I have always had a fondness for him, but I can honestly say that any stronger "feelings" that I have had for him lately are due to the sight of Richard Armitage in the role that he plays to perfection. ;)

He heightens the character alright! :p

I still think Thorn from Bitterbynde Saga. :nod: Of Course! I would have to be drawn to the king of the Faeries wouldnt I! :lol:

Pecksie

11-20-2008, 10:23 AM

I see Mr. Darcy is stealing the show!

Since I last posted I've come up with a few more --- call me a romantic!

* The Baron from Chekhov's "Three Sisters" (so sweet and steadfast)
* Onegin from Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" (dashing, morose, and the way in which he learns to love is heartbreaking)
* Inman from "Cold Mountain" (OK, so maybe it's Jude Law) :D
* Julien Sorel from "The Red and the Black" (I loved him when I read the book, being very young and not realizing what a hypocritical creep he was) :lol:

SleepyWitch

11-21-2008, 03:34 AM

:lol: I loved the movie and loved Mr. Darcy even more. But somehow, I'm currently having a crush on Mr. Thornton of North and South, he's a lot like Mr. Darcy, but I kind of sympathized with him more, don't know why though. But still Mr. Darcy rocks! :D

maybe that's because Gaskell shows us the perspective of different characters, whereas in P&P Darcy's consciousness is never actually presented (except in one tiny little passage) and we only know him through Elizabeth. ???
which makes me wonder: is it actually Mr Darcy that so many girls like or is it Colin Firth (or that other actor in the new film)? Or is Darcy like a screen on which we can easily project all our own fantasies, interpretations etc, precisely because he is so indefinite?

Viola Hathaway

01-30-2009, 07:41 PM

Faramir from Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings', Captain Wentworth from Austen's 'Persuasion' and Sirius Black from Harry Potter are the main ones, for me. However, I'm also rather fond of Giles Winterbourne from Hardy's 'The Woodlanders', and if anyone's read Philip Pullman's 'The Ruby in the Smoke', I've adored Frederick Garland for years.:blush:

librarius_qui

01-30-2009, 08:33 PM

Faramir from Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings', ...

Ron T.'s one, ot P. J.'s one? ...

:crash:

dramasnot6

01-30-2009, 09:13 PM

If I had not already found a very real,very perfect love of my life, I would shamefully admit to Austen's Darcy.

1n50mn14

01-30-2009, 09:43 PM

Nicholas D. Wolfwood, of Trigun.
<3<3<3<3<3

I'm NOT a fangirl...
*squinty eyes*

mono

01-31-2009, 03:59 PM

For some reason, I have always had the oddest attraction to women in J.D. Salinger books - intense, honest, straight-forward, witty. They astound me!

Joreads

02-01-2009, 02:04 AM

gonna jump on the bandwaggon and say Edward Cullen as well....oh the passion! Shame she lost sight of his character in the last book...

I think we are going to need a bigger wagon then I am in also;)

maraki16

02-05-2009, 06:48 AM

mr. darcy of course! and perhaps edward cullen. and a mixture of other characters perhaps....

LostPrincess13

02-05-2009, 07:22 AM

I know I had a lot of fictional crushes before but I couldn't remember at the moment. For the mean time, I'd have to say Francisco D'Anconia and John Galt from Atlas Shrugged.:blush:

badbadman

02-05-2009, 01:14 PM

Lucie Manette from a tale of two cities, not because I am attracted to her but because I identify with Sidney Carton so much, and there is a Charles Darney in my life as well. The situation suits mine so well sometimes that she would be my fictional love, just as I have my own fictional real love already...

Wilde woman

02-05-2009, 06:36 PM

BATMAN! :lol:

Cyrano de Bergerac (I don't mind the big nose...it might even be useful in the sack ;) )
Captain Wentworth (over Darcy any day!)
Aragorn
Marius Pontmercy from Les Miserables (though admittedly he can be a douche)
Razumihim from Crime and Punishment
Hector of Troy (I'd love to be Andromache before the Trojan War)

Quite coincidentally here Guinevere, I'm just watching Camelot on tv. Now there are 2 more literary characters to fall for, Arthur and Lancelot.

Sorry, I'd go with Gareth. More loyal than Lancelot and less tortured than Arthur. Plus, I could tease him with "Beaumains." :D

And for all the Edward Cullen shippers out there, LESTAT DE LIONCOURT is and always will be the hottest vampire out there. Period.