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

284 replies

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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janeite · 27/01/2009 14:16

Just recovering from a horrible virus EachPeach - been in bed for most of the time since Saturday lunch time. Thanks for asking. Am feeling a little bit more human now and should be ready to go back to work tomorrow. I hate being off work. How are you?

Seeker - Swallows And Amazons? I have never read it. HOW can I have never read it - this is shameful.

EachPeachPearMum · 27/01/2009 14:11

Janeite- are you okay? Being around in the day and all.....

seeker · 27/01/2009 13:50

Janeite - OK here's some virtual matchmaking. How do you feel about John Walker?

MrsTweedy · 27/01/2009 13:49

Another vote for Laurie from Little Women - how could Jo be so stupid as to turn him down?

Aniyan · 27/01/2009 13:46

oh, and Prince Caspian - fell in love with him when I was about 11 and so was very pleased to see that the film version of him didn't disappoint

Aniyan · 27/01/2009 13:44

Mine are:

Barnaby from the Enid Blyton 'R' mysteries (Rockingdown Mystery, Ring-o-Bells mystery, etc). He was an orphan - may have been homeless and good with animals - can't remember now!

Gilbert Blythe

Louis and Armand from the Anne Rice vampire books - I was a brooding teenager dontcha know!

Obviously these were all YEARS ago and I have grown up and have no feelings for them at all any more! (ahem)

janeite · 27/01/2009 13:38

You got me there, gov.

!!!!

When dd1 was six she got up one morning saying that she had been dreaming that Harry Potter kissed her and that she wanted to dream it again!

barbarianoftheuniverse · 27/01/2009 13:36

Janeite, I have a second hand copy of FF where someone has drawn little red hearts round Julian's name all the way through. Was it you?

troutpout · 27/01/2009 13:35

just read adam bede...blimey i wanted to shake the man!

troutpout · 27/01/2009 13:34

just read other posts and am now embarrassed by including rabbit on mine

janeite · 27/01/2009 13:33

Yep - the very one Seeker! I have been ill in bed for a few days and yesterday I chain-read three Famous Five books.

The boy has always got:

  • pockets full of money for buying ginger beer and high tea (the idea of high tea appeals so much to the glutton in me);
  • a spare jersey to put around Anne's shoulders when she gets cold or frightened
  • a spare piece of rope
  • a piece of paper and a pencil

What else could a girl ask for?!!

troutpout · 27/01/2009 13:32

Mr pinkwhistle

Brer Rabbit

Aslan.... I think love him more now he's got that lovely voice in the film

Peter Pevensey.....oohh

George (fellow tomboy)

Mr rochester

Jo..little women

Jem (to kill a mockingbird)..fantasy dad was Atticus

seeker · 27/01/2009 13:30

Janeite - not Julian "Oh no Ann and George, you can't come down to the beach at midnight to look for the robbers, you'll sprain your ankle. Stay here and pout the ginger beer and leave the work to us boys" Julian?

Oh and I had forgotten Meryon Fairbrass!

janeite · 27/01/2009 13:27

My first fictional crush was Julian - still got a bit of a "thing" for him I must admit! Although I am convinced he was actually more like 36 than the 14 or 15 or whatever he was supposed to be.

Now - it's Roland of Gilead from King's Dark Tower series, Strider before he becomes Aragorn (though I wouldn't say no to Aragorn either) and Colonel Brandon.

prideandprejudice · 27/01/2009 13:27

Love this thread!

Will in Flambards, definitely. Still am...DH definitely the nerdy one out of him and his brother!
Mr Darcy, obviously.

seeker · 27/01/2009 13:24

I'm still in love with Lord Peter too - I'm sure he could handle the pair of us!

I'm sure Biggles was gay, but was it Algy or Bertie?

barbarianoftheuniverse · 27/01/2009 13:11

Ged (and his best friend) from A Wizard of Earthsea

procrastinatingparent · 27/01/2009 13:07

Biggles.

Although in retrospect I think he was gay.

And I am still in love with Lord Peter Wimsey.

And about every 6 months I re-read my Sue Barton collection and sigh over Bill Barry.

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 13:03

Think it might have been Will Ladislaw

seeker · 27/01/2009 13:00

I liked Algy too - but I felt he was a bit out of my reach. Ginger was more accessible.

bronze · 27/01/2009 09:30

I always quite liked Algy. I have huge quantities of the books in boxes in my attic. I really must get them down and have a reread.

seeker · 26/01/2009 22:46

Ginger Hebblethwaite.

And I bet I'm alone in this bizarre confession!

womblingfree · 26/01/2009 22:45

Def Rochester.
Also had a weird fascination with the Mayor of Casterbridge when I was quite young and my Dad was working his way through Hardy's books.

mummy2benji · 25/01/2009 23:27

Keep being reminded of books I haven't read for ages... I loved the Sue Barton books and Flambards! I had a crush on the nerdy one in Flambards - Will, was it?

CDMforever · 25/01/2009 21:59

Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye

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