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?

Am in total agreement re will stanton, ged and pennington. Just had to share this thread with my non mumsnetter best friend who would KILL for 4th book but she reckons it is called fallen angel? Would be eternally grateful if anyone knows where i can buy or borrow it.

Gilbert Blythe again one of my first. Also Captain Wentworth from Persuasion. I'd always go for him over Mr Darcy!

Almanzo, from Little House on the Prairie. :)

Oh gosh had completely forgotten Peter from Heidi! And Peregrine from The Ordinary Princess, which is one of my absolutely favourite children's book (Apart from The Talking Parcel which may well also have fanciable characters in it but not that I remember. As an aside, why on earth hasn't that been made into a film? It's a corking story and has lots of interesting beasts/mythology to delight the Harry Potter fans, not to mention the film special effects departments...)

Mr Rochester
Sebastian Flyte (before he became a drunkard)

Thanks leonie Marions angels will make fab birthday present for my bessie mate!

Starting really young, I adored Peter in the Narnia books. He killed a wolf with an actual sword.

Most of mine have been mentioned, but my all time favourite has to be Francis Crawford of Lymond. Possibly the sexiest man in the world, ever. There must be other Dorothy Dunnett fans out there to back me up on this one!

At the risk of sounding like a total wet fart I think mine might have been Romeo. I went on a school trip to the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester to see Romeo & Juliet when I was thirteen and Michael Sheen played Romeo - I've got a feeling it was his debut performance after leaving drama school. The programme had a picture of him kissing the actress playing Juliet and he just looked so phwoar.

Later I also lusted after Leonardo di Caprio in the same role.

I had a bit of a thing about Adrian Mole too - the bits when he tried to touch Pandora's boobs used to do it for me.

Rupert Campbell-Black was another one.

Lestat from Anne Rice's The vampire Lestat and Queen of the damned...and (ahem) Gambit from 80's cartoon X-men... guilty pleasures!

Never got the Rupert Campbell-Black thing. Ricky France-Lynch, however...

Rhett Butler, obviously (oh I love that book so much), Laurie from Little Women, and pretty much every hero in the Mills & Boon books I devoured every summer holidays.

Nowadays, I am madly in lust love with Jack Caffrey from the Mo Hayder novels. God he is so fit. But then I have a long-standing fantasy desire to sleep with a detective...

Magneto "Sirius Black. I was 15 when she killed him. How I cried"

Me too! Although I was 29. And on a packed commuter train

I liked Sebastian from the Lorna Hill ballet books. And another one here for Gilbert Blythe. He is popular!

Terrapin from Bilgewater, by Jane Gardam. Cheekbones like set squares...Read it again the other day and I still fancy him!

Oh and the 'bad' brother in Flambards. Not Will, he was too nice.

Another vote here for Wizard howl

Also

Joe hardy
Roger the Dodger

and from TV - Arnold Judas Rimmer.

Rebus by Ian rankin. Don,t know why just seems very sexy.

Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables

haha should've read the thread first! I'll fight you all for him!

I fancied one of the Defenders of the Earth when very young...no idea which, don't think I could name any of them now!

Bigwig from Watership Down.

I was very young.

Oh, I can't believe I forgot this one! Definitely the first fictional character I really fancied and still do now, the character in the books is even better than the very swoon-worthy TV adaptations: Richard Sharpe. I secretly measure all the men in my life against Sharpe. Poor DP...

Peeta from the hunger games trilogy....even with artificial leg. Swoon.