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?

Like LeQueen, I can't bring myself to read the fourth book either. I think she had changed direction with Ged.

YY to so MANY of these, esp. Walter Blythe, Giles Marlow - much hotter than Patrick - and Will Ladislaw - YUM - and (blush) Sebastian in Sadler's Wells. And Rush in Elizabeth Enright's Melendy books. He plays the piano too, in a moody way. Ok, he's called Rush, but what the hell.

Oh, and I forgot Ged, and I loved him to bits in the first three books and I can't bear her stupid pi retconnings of the character. Give us back our Ged! Quite liked Will in The Dark is Rising too. And Faramir in LOTR - NOT Aragorn.

yes, I really hated what they did to Farimir in the film, one of the few things that got on my nerves.

Big yes to Howl! Loved him, but first proper, I-want-a-man-like-HIM was Billy Lloyd Foxe. I just know he was scrummier than Rupert. Set the pattern for me always fancying 'interesting' looking men rather than straightforward hotties...

Have just remembered another strange one of mine - Adrian Mole .

Oh yyy to many of these, Gilbert being the main one, oh I was so mad at Anne when she turned him down!
And yes to SE Hinton's characters, I loved all of them!
And yes to the Vanlmpire Lestat at around 16/17, from the books, def not Tom Cruise!
And yessss to Alexander from Alexander and Tatiana, in my early 20's whoar he was hot!

John from the Tomorrow People.

Very first was Sebastian from Sadler's Wells. Then Bran from the Dark is Rising.

Another Pennington girl here. Those broad shoulders! That sensitive touch on the piano!

I'm re-reading Cross Stitch (found it in a charity shop for a pound) to see if it is as good as I remember it being when I was 17. It's not (natch). But Jamie Fraser has still got it.

Julian from F5. The dad from Little House on the Prairie and then Almanzo. Dick from Flambards.
Same as every one else it seems!

Laurie in Little Women - as a girl I could never understand why Jo turned him down for the older professor... now I completely get it though.

Was Joe Hardy the younger one? If so, then oh YES.

One of the books had a really bad picture of him standing blindfolded at the top of a ferris wheel looking as if he was about to walk off the edge (no, I can't work out how/why now either). I remember gazing at it in lust for hours. Think I must have had a bit of a bloke-in-peril fetish going on.

[runs away in shame to hide]

Laurie for me, I think I read Little Women before GWTW, if not it was always Rhett

I defo have a thing for Heathcliffe too

Another vote for Laurie here:)

Dr Christopher Syn from the Russell Thorndike novels - Pirate Vicar and Smuggler leader on Romney Marsh in Kent! Discovered whilst on a school trip to St Mary's Bay. (Do not read Dr Syn but the five 'prequels'!)
Or Sabatini's Captain Blood - or the hero of The Black Swan Charles de Bernais...
MY daughter now 13 agrees with me!

Am I really the only one for Captain Rhett Butler?

Oh yes yes yes to Peregrine from The Ordinary Princess [mental note to buy it for dd]. But before that it was Jack from Enid Blyton's Adventure series, and later (and unaccountably) The Mayor of Casterbridge .

Mine was Troy from the Virginia Andrews 'Heaven' books. Dark and dangerous..

Stuart from The Stand - I was about 11.

Just read whole thread and leoni has reminded me that my absolute first crush was Peter from Heidi!

Laurie! Yes. I forgot about him. I still don't get the old German teacher at all. Especially when he cut the boy's tongue. Nasty. But first crush - before Laurie, was Young Sherlock Holmes.