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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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EachPeachPearMum · 27/01/2009 21:04

Nooooo- Nancy was way better than Titty!

Janeite Wild Sheep Chase is my favourite of Murakami's.
WHich one(s) has DP read?

jkklpu · 27/01/2009 21:01

Almanzo Wilder

Eowyn · 27/01/2009 20:58

Sad to say the first thing that came into my head was Benjy from The Children of Cherry Tree Farm cos there was a nice illustration of him. V fustrating to get it for dd & different illustrations, wanted to check out my childhood taste..

FattipuffsandThinnifers · 27/01/2009 20:56

Probably Dickon from The Secret Garden. I was quite young

Onlyaphase · 27/01/2009 20:52

All rather predictable...

Gilbert Blythe

Mark Russell and Will's pilot friend in The Edge of the Cloud, can't remember his name

Patrick Pennington - though I also liked KM Peyton's other heros especially Jonathan.

Ace Mulholland from Prudence

Fennel · 27/01/2009 20:41

It had to be Titty not Nancy, if you're going for swallows and amazons girls.

But I agree with all the Noel Streatfield difficult and unmusical middle girls with no ballet ability. Wonderful, all of them. Especially Petrova.

ScummyMummy · 27/01/2009 20:37

The cruel sadistic one? Well the crying one who hated hunting one was a bit wet, I suppose.

LadyGlencoraPalliser · 27/01/2009 20:36

Yes, you absolutely are Libra! How could you!

Libra · 27/01/2009 20:34

Oh yes, See You Thursday! Tortured musician. Fab.

Am I the only person who preferred the older brother in Flambards? Was his name Mark?

ScummyMummy · 27/01/2009 20:32

Uncle Gum did have a certain something, janeite. Came gruffly to the rescue of the best Fossil for starters, when nana was running off with boring acting Pauline and Garnie following the insufferable dancing Posykins to Czechoslovakia.

tattycoram- I'd forgotten the utter loveliness of John. That is a sad and excellent book.

Agree, agree on Aragorn, fennel.

who else?

Male crushes

Drem the redheaded one armed wolf slayer
Chrestomanci (both of them)
Howl (of moving castle fame)
Moril (the dreamy musician who looked vaguer the cleverer he was being)
mister tom (as in goodnight)- so lovely

Female crushes

Nancy the Amazon pirate
Dicey (and her gruff grandma)
All the difficult Noel Streatfield bolshie middle daughters- based on herself: Victoria, Jane, Petrova etc. But then again also always liked the thoughtful nice conscientious eldests like Sorrel and Myra (esp.Myra)
Jane Eyre

janeite · 27/01/2009 20:26

Oh EachPeach - I meant to ask. Is it you who likes what's-his-name Marukami (sp?). Dp has just "discovered him" and I was wondering which ones to get him next, for his birthday at the end of the month.

Sorry to go off topic a minute everybody else: keep thinking of ragged Victorian boys, bearded men with huge fossil collections and of course, lashings of ginger beer for a moment, would you?!

Lancelot · 27/01/2009 20:23

Umm. Baringa the horse, from the Silver Brumby series.

I'll get me -rug- coat, shall I?

lalalonglegs · 27/01/2009 20:20

I had a soft spot for any young boy fallen on hard times: basically if he was Victorian, wearing torn/patched breeches and working down a mine/as a cabin boy/on a canal boat then I was pretty certain to fancy him. Peter in Thursday's Child anyone?

Followed by people's widowed dads: Atticus in Mockingbird - so virtuous, so upright; Danny's dad in Champion of the World.

EachPeachPearMum · 27/01/2009 20:19

Well- S&A are my absolute favourite books ever, not not sure it's worse!

I shall definitely be giving BS to DD.

Fennel · 27/01/2009 20:18

I am just a bit envious of my teen self. These days I don't have the time or energy for lusting over tortured yet finely chiselled protagonists.

janeite · 27/01/2009 20:17

That is worse than my not having read "Swallows And Amazons" EachPeach! When your dd is around seven or eight, she will thank you for introducing it to her. When ds is sleeping will be the ideal time for you to read it and get your relaxation time. I'll test you on it later!

EachPeachPearMum · 27/01/2009 20:15

I have 4 days left in Jan!

Janeite- I am to say I have never read Ballet Shoes!
(realises this is a mn faux pas, and I will probably be banned now )

janeite · 27/01/2009 20:12

Oh no - I have killed the thread with my weirdness.

I'm sorry - please come back everybody and I promise to sit quietly and be good!

janeite · 27/01/2009 20:05

You may well be right Fennel.

Has anybody mentioned Uncle Gum from Ballet Shoes yet? I always sort of thought I might like to "tame" him one day.

Janeite realises that is perhaps taking weird crushes to a whole new level.

Fennel · 27/01/2009 20:02

This thread rather shows which of us spent our teenage years in books rather than out dating boys doesn't it?

Also on my list of early teen lusts include Levin (War and peace), Dr Zhivago, D'artagnan and Athos, Edward Dantes and a variety of other French characters and even some ancient Greek philosophers - Socrates and others. I should have got out more....

smugaboo · 27/01/2009 20:01

Hah! Hah! I saw this thread title and immediately thought "Gilbert Blythe" - and I see so does everyone else! I think I still love him too Bubbaluv

christiana · 27/01/2009 20:01

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Bubbaluv · 27/01/2009 19:59

I think I still love Gilbert Blythe

McDreamy · 27/01/2009 19:59

Julian from the Famous Five

Fennel · 27/01/2009 19:57

Then Raskolnikov in Crime and Punisment.

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