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.

just read adam bede...blimey i wanted to shake the man!

Janeite, I have a second hand copy of FF where someone has drawn little red hearts round Julian's name all the way through. Was it you?

You got me there, gov.

!!!!

When dd1 was six she got up one morning saying that she had been dreaming that Harry Potter kissed her and that she wanted to dream it again!

Mine are:

Barnaby from the Enid Blyton 'R' mysteries (Rockingdown Mystery, Ring-o-Bells mystery, etc). He was an orphan - may have been homeless and good with animals - can't remember now!

Gilbert Blythe

Louis and Armand from the Anne Rice vampire books - I was a brooding teenager dontcha know!

Obviously these were all YEARS ago and I have grown up and have no feelings for them at all any more! (ahem)

oh, and Prince Caspian - fell in love with him when I was about 11 and so was very pleased to see that the film version of him didn't disappoint

Another vote for Laurie from Little Women - how could Jo be so stupid as to turn him down?

Janeite - OK here's some virtual matchmaking. How do you feel about John Walker?

Janeite- are you okay? Being around in the day and all.....

Just recovering from a horrible virus EachPeach - been in bed for most of the time since Saturday lunch time. Thanks for asking. Am feeling a little bit more human now and should be ready to go back to work tomorrow. I hate being off work. How are you?

Seeker - Swallows And Amazons? I have never read it. HOW can I have never read it - this is shameful.

I'm fine... 6 days overdue, and fed-up, but apart from that fine

Hope the virus has cleared up properly- there is so much going round at the moment.

Never read S&A?
Dearie me.... did your DD's never read them either?

Will send you the next book this week as I have finished it.

No - I am a BAD mother. Will go to H library at the weekend and get or order it.

I haven't read the AC one you posted yet: haven't been feeling intellectually up to it tbh. Last week at work was hideous and then I've been ill. Hope to be back on fine reading form very soon indeed though.

Oh dear at six days overdue - dd2 did that to me but my waters broke and still nothing happened! Will be thinking of you.

@ bad mother! Yes- I'm sure your 2 have never read anything!

This month's offering is quite slim, so shouldn't take you too long.

No signs of waters going, or anything yet.... I don't think he's ever coming out!

DD1 is working through Miss Austen's works - only Mansfield Park to go now. And she liked Persuasion best - proud mummy alert!

He probably knows how cold it is out here!

Yes! DD was over too, but only 4 days. Have appt tomorrow at consultant for post-dates, so we'll see what they say.

Inspired by this thread I suggested A Dream of Sadlers Wells to DD1 last night as she was looking for something to read at bedtime - by this morning she had finished it. I didn't dare ask what time she put her light out.

Awww. I don't know that one: is it another Noel Streatfield? I read "Party Shoes" today in my flu-ey fug and very sweet it was too. No fanciable characters though!

It is the first of a series by Lorna Hill, Janeite. Very similar to Streatfeild. All out of print now I think but easily found secondhand.
I have been ill too over the past few days and have been indulging myself with DH's collection of Bernard Cornwell books!

I had a soft spot for Jon Boy Walton

Hope you're better now, LadyG. Will look out for Lorna Hill.

Dd2 is at a really awkward age (11) and not really knowing what she wants to read.

Oh secong gilbert blythe. can't believe Ann persistently rejects him.

But Sam Vimes - yes he's rather lovable.

DD1 is the same age, Janeite. It is tricky, she can veer from Claudine at St Clare's to the Diary of Anne Frank in one week.

eachpeach I would send eviction vibes, but as my DS was 17 days overdue, I don't think mine are that effective.

Francis Babington from A Traveller In Time.