Very good choice!Originally Posted by _Shannon_
I'll take Ray Smith.
Very good choice!
Dag yo, I'll third Darcy and Sebastian, haha.I'll second Darcy and Sebastian. I like the bad/tortured ones, Brick in Cat on a hot tin roof and iago in othello
My mind went blank. Wow.
I think I have a sort of platonic crush on Anne Shirley if we really need to talk about some female characters too.
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?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.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
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
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...
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
From movies, but oh well.
Sophie from Vanilla Sky
Ana Pascal from Stranger than Fiction
Sam from Garden State
Told by a fool, signifying nothing.
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
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
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...
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.
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.
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"
Boromir from the Lord of the Rings (what a misunderstood man!)
Lord Peter Wimsey from Dorothy L. Sayers mystery series (wit, charm, and bookishness)
Odysseus from the Odyssey (ingenious man, AND played by Sean Bean
I must admit to a fondness for Darcy, but maybe...just maybe...he isn't quite the love of my life
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
For me it also has to be Mr Darcy
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..
I thought we had a thread on this a while ago or perhaps it was another forum. But my ideal would be Honey West:
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent
~ Isaac Asimov
Hannelore from questionable content
Told by a fool, signifying nothing.
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!
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