First fictional character you fancied!

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Was reading the Wolf Hall thread and got me thinking about what was the first fictional character you got a crush on ?

Weirdly I think mine was Henry V from Shakespeare :-/ followed by Mr Thornton from North and South ( just discovered the tv version!)

What were yours?

Where's my arch rival Sarah Stratton with intimate experience of him lol

And I've killed the thread!

Oh yes I have

I'll take pity on you ponchopink and come and admit a deep dark secret

When I reread the Swallows and Amazons series as an adult I found Uncle Jim (Captain Flint) very attractive

Have just realised that I probably meant Dick from Flambards.

::long time since I read them::.

I think the fourth Pennington book is Marion's Angels

I loved all the K M Peyton books where you got the cross over characters like Ruth, Peter, Jonathan and Pennington

KM Peyton does write lovely flawed heroes

Ken from the Jinty and Shantih books

Yes, oh yes!

I bet Ken and Jinny got it together after the books finished. And I bet Ken was absolutely filthy

Mark was the good-looking but arrogant older brother, Will was kind and probably a better choice for Christina. I wasn't sure how I felt about Dick - nice and safe choice for her perhaps after the War, but he had had TB so I couldn't help but wonder how long he was going to be around for? (Flambards - :o)

All the usual suspects, Darcy, Aragorn (heavily influenced by Robert Stephens' phenomenal voice in the Radio 4 adaptations). I only read Howl's Moving Castle very late as an adult, otherwise he'd be top of the list. And, errrrm, The Vampire Lestat, .

But this has given me an idea for a parallel thread....brb.

There you go - literary couples you were most invested in (sorry, can't link, on phone).

All the Vidal and Avon fanciers should tootle over to the Devil's Cub book club before we move on to Part 4: Regency Buck.

at Ralph further up thread.

For me it's Jamie Fraser

YY, Gilbert and Laurie.

But also Jondalar from the Earth's Children series. He was all gentle and manly and stuff

First? Can't remember. Probably Fatty from The Five Find Outers series. Was unaccountably fond of him.

Embarrassingly I read nothing but Mills & Boon and Harlequin romances between the ages of 12 & 15 and was always in love with the hero .

My all time greatest fictional love is Atticus Finch.

Peregrine from MM Kaye's The Ordinary Princess for me.

He tops a very long list that includes 90% of the characters on here.

TBH, I tend to fall for most of the male heroes I read, unless they are truly awful.

My current paramour is the Marquis of Alverstoke.

Sodapop from The Outsiders

I liked Hal and Roger and Joe Hardy but I didn't fancy them

Ged/Sparrowhawk

Hoederer from Les Mains Sales

Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

and latterly, Chrestomanci.

Lux the Poet, eponymous hero of Martin Millar's cult classic. Also the nameless narrator of "The Colour of Memory" by Geoff Dyer. I read it when I was about 14, and there's something about the way he drifts so gently and kindly through his little world of '80s Brixton, with rubbish temporary jobs, rubbish flats, good times out of hard times, beers, jazz, his friends that mean everything to him and his crazy sister who drops in and out like Holly Golightly on acid... It just makes made me want to catch his eye at a party, spirit him away home and do stuff with him...quietly

Laurie from Little Women

Dempsey from Dempsey and Makepiece
James Bond

I'll get me coat

Later it was Heathcliff!

Indeed.

I may have to go and read the lot again actually.

She said the first one was about growing up, the second about sex and the third about dying, which is why is was the least focused of the three. It was the only one she hadn't done.