Which fictional romantic couple did you get most invested in

[DilysPrice]

Reading the "Who was your earliest literary crush?" thread has made me think about the fictional couples I have been most emotionally involved with.

I wouldn't personally touch Peter Wimsey with a bargepole, but I really felt Harriet falling in love with him, and the sudden shock at the picnic where she realises she lusts after him.
Aragorn and Arwen, who we never really see together, are give emotional heft by seeing Eowyn hopelessly in love with him.
And I cry buckets over Genly Ai and Estraven falling in love as they trek across the ice in The Left Hand of Darkness.

Which literary couples made you cheer on a crowded train when they got together, or weep when they didn't?

Oscar and Lucinda. It's not fair. Ditto Antonio and Pelagia in Captain Corelli.

Yyy to Left Hand of Darkness. I haven't read it in ages and now have a reading mission, thanks!

Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth

Oh, Laurie and Jo. I am still outraged about him and Amy. Yeah she looked pretty while painting - big deal eh

Francis Crawford and Phillipa Somerville.

Catherine and heathcliff - I thought I was catherine and so got very cross when she/I went off with that wussy fella.

Veronica Weston and Sebastian Scott was the earliest - I read the Lorna Hill books when I was about 10. I had such a stonking crush on Sebastian.

Then Taggie and Rupert Campbell-Black.

Then Elizabeth and Darcy, and Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth.

I think though since I was in my late teens a romantic couple hasn't engaged me in teh same way as when I was younger.

Yep, Austen for me - Anne Elliot and Cpt Wentworth and Elizabeth Bennett & Darcy. Couldn't give a monkeys though about the minx Emma.

Beatrice & Benedict, Much Ado

Amelia Peabody and Radcliff Emerson, although not sure that counts as literary!

"I am Heathcliff"

YY, ReportmeNow, my poor boyfriend at time of reading was a mild-mannered 17 year old, don't think he really liked being my Heathcliff much.

Rupert and Taggie!

Dorothea and Will Ladislaw in Middlemarch, from their very first conversation just when she's realising she's made a massive mistake with Casaubon.

Still cross that Walter Hartright in The Woman in White fell for drippy Laura rather than brave clever Marian.

Scarlett o hara and Rhett Butler without a shadow of a doubt. They remind me of me and an ex, but I never managed to get him back.

Laurie was a charming wastrel, though, Jo was much better off with kind thoughtful Professor Bhaer who was really committed to improving the world rather than pratting around being rich and arty.

I meant to say I never managed to get him back either! That last post of mine read completely wrong!

Yes, Heathcliff was a bit primitive wasn't he?

YYY Francis Crawford and Phillipa Somerville

And me for Francis & Phillipa - makes me want to reread them (again) but once I pick them up I can't stop until I've finished all six so nothing else gets done!

I agree about Laurie and Jo - that was a travesty! I'm afraid I couldn't imagine what she saw in Professor Bhaer.

Also Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe, Darcy and Elizabeth, Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliott - I'm a bit predictable, I'm afraid!

Ross Poldark and Demelza

with the added bonus of the tv series and Robin Ellis looking mean and moody in Georgian clothes. Yum!

Elephants, me too! And I don't care how lovely Prof Bhaer was, it just didn't work for me.

LOTR I actually got far more hooked up with Eowyn's romance with Faramir. Really really did. I even drew pictures of it

I thought Prof Bhaer was so weird and past it, Jo might just as well have gone off with Laurie's Grandfather.

Ah but if he really did look like Gabriel Byrne, then I'd completely understand why she chose him :o

True enough!

Also Heathcliff and Cathy/Scarlett and Rhett.

And, er, Mulder and Scully. Except when they did, it was a bit rubbish.