Who was the first fictional character you fell in love with?

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Mine was Prince Caspian.
And my most recent was the King of the Gyptians in The Dark Materials.
Show how I've changed. It used to be a boy King. Now it's a fatherly type.

Oh Books! Of Couse.....erm Heathcliff probably

William and Mark and Dick (might as well go for the hattrick) in Flambards

Kunta Kinte and Chicken George in Roots

Desperately tries to think what else I read as a young teen....

Mr Rochester

(I think Jan Francis too)

I said this earlier
I think it was probably Meryon Fairbrass

Sebastian in A Dream of Sadlers Wells.

what was that book set on a farm (classic book, had to study it at school along with the Great Gatsby...)...where the female character ends up rolling in the hay with the rough farmer?

i fell in love with Darryl (was that her name) in Malory Towers

I tend to fall in love with the writers though. I sometimes think 'yes I get exactly why you wrote that' and then want to be inside their head iyswim.

Joe Morrelli the on/off cop boyfriend of Stephanie Plum in the Janet Evanovich novels is HOT!! and possibly (probably) saved my sanity when my three DC were under 5 and I had the buiders from hell in building my extension. A definate readers recommendation but lay off ladies he is mine - you are welcome to the very worthy Ranger though.

LOL at the highbrow answers.

Mine was Joe Hardy. Of the Hardy Boys

God this is going to sound pathetic:

Almanzo in the Little House books (when he picks up Laura from that awful house where she is staying. Oh it was lovely.)

Gilbert from Anne of Green Gables.

Taran from The Black Cauldron.

Foxinsocks, was it Cider With Rosie. We had to study it at school too, utter pants. And apparently mostly fabricated.

Pip from Great Expectations and Gordon Tracey from Thunderbirds. I can't remember who was first out though.

aah have remembered, it was the Go Between (not set on a farm but Ted was the farmer). I must admit that the whole Ted Marion thing had me worked up a bit lol.

It seems SO bloody long ago! Fallign in love/lust with characters is more satisfying once you're an adult!

oh you were all very literary children, weren't you

My first fictional love was Colin from the Secret seven.

Noel Streatfeild's cousin John in the Vicarage Family. Oh he was lovely.

Foxinsocks, sure it wasn't Alan Bates (who played Ted in the film) that you were falling for?

Katy Carr

Biggles.

All the bl**dy princes from all the fairy tales, and therein lies the problem of my whole life..always waiting for someone to rescue me. As I got older..Rhett Butler, Heathcliff, Jan Ridd, the list goes on predictably.

LadyGlen, until that post I had COMPLETELY forgotten "a dream of sadlers wells" !!! Oh my goodness; I loved that!

Richie Cunningham

Definitely Gilbert Blythe.

HA! Posted without reading the rest of the thread.. glad I'm not alone. TwoIfByTheSea, I was about to write Taran down as well, but then back-calculated the age at which I read the Prydain Chronicles and realised that technically he couldn't be "first".

This is an entertaining thread - thank you!

smiler from "the runaways" by victor canning. always had a little thing for ginger lads since smiler.

Oh, and the lovely Sebastian.... (sigh). Chronologically speaking, he'd be third, but oh the sensitive and temperamental artiste . I have never, ever been built for ballet and I wanted to be Veronica Weston.