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Who was the first fictional character you fell in love with?

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nkf · 24/01/2009 20:59

Mine was Prince Caspian.
And my most recent was the King of the Gyptians in The Dark Materials.
Show how I've changed. It used to be a boy King. Now it's a fatherly type.

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Fennel · 28/01/2009 14:07

Oh, good, someone else for the chocolate soldier. I thought it was just me on that one.

ILiketoMarmiteMarmite · 28/01/2009 14:03

Mais oui, see

marge2 · 28/01/2009 14:00

I didn't even know there was a sequel. I didn;t see the TV seriese either as I was abroad. I'll def have to check this out.

By the way Fennel, - I totally get the Chocolate Soldier!!

ILiketoMarmiteMarmite · 28/01/2009 13:56

I'm not sure marge. It might have been in a sequel, or it might have been hotted up for tv. I do have a fantasy memory of it though.

marge2 · 28/01/2009 13:54

Hey - sex scene in Flambards? We did this a set text at school when I was 11 - Haven't read it since. I went to a convent school and I don't remeber any sex scene? Maybe the nuns ripped all those pages out.
I'll have to dig it out now!!

jeee · 28/01/2009 13:52

I know, I agree - but everywhere else on MN seems to be full of insults, and comments that get close to personal, no matter how impersonal the OP starts as. I love this thread, BTW

ILiketoMarmiteMarmite · 28/01/2009 13:49

Huh? why should you not be nice to people?

If you disagree with someone's first fictional love should you insult them, berate them, or jeer at them?

jeee · 28/01/2009 13:47

Are all threads on this topic like this... I mean completely non-MN style, with everyone being... nice to each other, even if they don't agree?

ILiketoMarmiteMarmite · 28/01/2009 13:44

Someone mentioned Flambards, I think I read my first sex scene in Flambards, am I right in thinking there was some tussling in the hay? For some reason I can even smell the hay.

Re. loves, most have been said.

A Vicarage Family - John
Wells - Sebastian
Jack Maynard but I think I wanted to be in love with him, I don't think I really was. He was gorgeous on the cover of Chalet School in Exile & there wasn't much sex appeal in all thousand books or however many there were.
I liked Shasta from The Horse & His Boy.

Libra · 28/01/2009 13:38

That link has destroyed a good fifty percent of my fantasies, LightShines.

Am totally depressed now.

mackerel · 28/01/2009 13:38

Oh definitely MR Rochester. Still do, whenever I re-read Jane Eyre... I really fall in love with book characters, isn't that part of the joy of reading, to totally lose yourself inanother world.

marge2 · 28/01/2009 13:36

Luke Skywalker, when I was about 10. But only in Star Wars, he looked different in the other films.

seeker · 28/01/2009 13:26

My DP is a John Walker type too. With a touch of Professor Branestawm and Eeyore.

Fennel · 28/01/2009 13:17

My DP is quite like John Walker. Sensible, scientific and practical. Good with boats. Likes to hang out with assertive women. Less good on poetry. Unlikely to succumb to passionate crimes.

pollycazalet · 28/01/2009 13:13

My Dh is very like Barbar.

Fennel · 28/01/2009 13:11

No, not me, in real life I do not go for the soulful romantic losers, wasting their lives in poetic overdrive.

Nor do I go for flamboyant sexy unfaithful adventurous types who can't stop shagging the kitchenmaids (D'artagnan) or murdering old women (Raskolnikov).

Nor the oh too perfect and conventional bland doctors like Gilbert Blythes. I would hate to be a doctor's wife.

All of those are just for adolescent fantasies.

CJCregg · 28/01/2009 13:10

Fuck me! Sorry, supposed to be working and all but what the hell? That has ruined Flambards for me forever!

LightShinesInTheDarkness · 28/01/2009 13:06

i alwys do that link thing wrong look at him now

LightShinesInTheDarkness · 28/01/2009 13:04

Libra - I am with you about Mark, the cruel cousin from 'Flambards'. The actor in the TV series was called Steven Grives, but heavens - [[http://stevengrives.tripod.com/ look at him now]!!

CJCregg · 28/01/2009 13:04

So, the big question is - did we go for the same type in real life? In my case, no man was ever going to live up to some of these literary gods!

(And now I really MUST go and do some work. Hoping I'm not a threadkiller, I shall return later)

Fennel · 28/01/2009 13:03

Oh yes, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Especially when he was being maltreated by the evil guy beginning with C.

And Sydney Carter (?) in Tale of Two Cities. I used to empathise so strongly with his lack of ability to actually get on and do things. And just wiffle around moping and fancying unsuitable people and getting drunk instead.

pollycazalet · 28/01/2009 12:59

Barbar. Definitely

bronze · 28/01/2009 12:56

They only do paperbacks but people are aware of fidra and ggb

Kathyis6incheshigh · 28/01/2009 12:51

I'm so glad someone else liked Francis Babington.

Re Flambards, Dick starts off very appealing but he is a bit of an arse in Flambards Divided. I think I'd go for Mark as well.

CJCregg · 28/01/2009 12:51

I seem to remember the actor who played Mark in the series was pretty easy on the eye. Hope the lecture works out ok!

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