You're allowed to be friends with three fictional characters...

[TheProseccoAlwaysWins]

I'll start...

1. Catherine Cawood ❤️
2. Liz in Motherland
3. Roxy / Daphne in After Life

Gene Hunt ( would hope for a shag)
Kerry from This Country
Isa from Still Game

Tracey Gordon - Chewing Gum
Phil Dunphy - Modern Family
FWB Kingsley Ben-Adir - Love Life

Vinnie from Brassic
Anne from After Life
Professor Snape.

Jamie Fraser
Anne from Motherland
Marty McFly - so we could go places in his car!

I'm adding a separate Jilly friends category!

Rupert Campbell-Black (I'm too fat for him to hit on me but he is hilarious and would cheer me up with silly jokes and expensive champagne and his beautiful face)
Lizzy Vereker
Janey Lloyd Foxe for boozy fun times

Poirot, Hastings and Miss Lemon

Do you mean Scully? Mulder would tell you everything was aliens.

Jo from Little Women
Tommy Shelby
David from schitts creak

Like @PuttingDownRoots Peter Grant, being friends with him would involve being fed by Molly and getting to hang out with an incredible group of 'people'

Bridie Devine.

Aunt Augusta.

1. Gene Hunt
2. Emily Gilmore
3. Liz from Motherland

Flora Maguire
Ainsley Hayes
Lizzie Bennett

Guyth, guyth!
please could everyone who has put Sherlock specify your Sherlock as suggested by m’colleague upthread?

This is far far too difficult tbh...

For a dinner party;

1.Phryne Fisher (from the Payne fisher book series)

1. Wednesday Addams
2. Yennefer (from the Witcher)

I reckon that would be a brilliant evening.

But I would also want to be friends with

Kathryn Janeway
Obi wan Kenobi
General Leia Organa
Elrond
Severus Snape
Nanny Ogg
Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia (they come together obviously)
Din Djarrin

This is hard!

Robin Ellacot
Samantha Jones (SATC)
Steve, Stranger Things

Jo March
Nancy Blackett
And somebody I can't identify is lurking about unnamed, seems to be male, so can't be any of Pratchett's witches, and competent, so not Rincewind. I will update when he turns up.

Meryon from Monica Edwards Westling. Possibly.
Also, not male, Petronella rom the Witchend Lone Pine books.

I have now read more of the thread! I did think of her earlier.
I'm not sure Meryon counts as there were real people in those books, and I am not sure if he was the person Monica eloped with or not.
Cadfael
Marcus Didius Falco and family

Adora Belle Dearheart
Hermione Granger
Annabeth Chase

My old crushes christopher chant: wizard Howl and Harry Potter 😍

I believe that might be me?! [Grin]

Chudi Anagonye The Good Place.
Meemaw Young Sheldon.
Steve Harrington Stranger Things

Kurt Wallander
Rose Defoe in The Split
Laure Berthaud from Spiral

More like Ponder Stibbons, I'm afraid. Nice try, but I don't think Sybil would approve.

Ok.

1. Christopher Chant
2. Wizard Howl
3. Mor acotar

honourable mention:
elrond
captain picard
bilbo
Luna lovegood
Harry Potter
Cassian acotar
Data
Lestat de lioncourt
Ray from sunlight

Ice planet barbarians 💅🤭

Oh and Birgitte Nyborg from Bergen, if one of my other 'friends' falls off their perch or something!

Damn.

Maybe the Librarian?

Actually, now that I think about it, I'd quite like to be friends with the Patrician. Vetinari would definitely be an interesting friend!