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.

I loved Gilbert Blythe too, I think Anne only kept rejecting him because she was too stuborn to let him off.

Oh my goodness Kathy - me too!

I had forgotten that book until now. This thread has been fantastic at reminding me of forgotten magic

I have just started reading "Flambards" - another I'm ashamed to admit to never having read before. I am liking Dick the stableboy very muchly so far!

Oh Tinkerbelle's mum - I see you've had number 2 - huge congratulations!

I loved teh blind boy from See You Thursday (was it Ure?). and Pennington

17 days annvan ? eek- don't think I will survive that long!

I too had a thing for Gil Blythe...

Biggles

Then the chocolate soldier from George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man. I had a long long crush on him. Bizarre. And unusual.

Also Gilbert Blythe, along with everyone else.
Aragorn from Lord of the Rings. (and Viggo Mortense in the film).

I remember "See You Thursday"!

I was also rather head over heels about Jude Fawley when I was sixteen but soon realised what a wet drip he was when I re-read it a couple of years later.

Oh and Simon from The Lord Of The Flies.

Thanks janeite she's nearly four weeks old now I think I've swapped places with EachPeach! You are having a February baby

Then Raskolnikov in Crime and Punisment.

Julian from the Famous Five

I think I still love Gilbert Blythe

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Hah! Hah! I saw this thread title and immediately thought "Gilbert Blythe" - and I see so does everyone else! I think I still love him too Bubbaluv

This thread rather shows which of us spent our teenage years in books rather than out dating boys doesn't it?

Also on my list of early teen lusts include Levin (War and peace), Dr Zhivago, D'artagnan and Athos, Edward Dantes and a variety of other French characters and even some ancient Greek philosophers - Socrates and others. I should have got out more....

You may well be right Fennel.

Has anybody mentioned Uncle Gum from Ballet Shoes yet? I always sort of thought I might like to "tame" him one day.

Janeite realises that is perhaps taking weird crushes to a whole new level.

Oh no - I have killed the thread with my weirdness.

I'm sorry - please come back everybody and I promise to sit quietly and be good!

I have 4 days left in Jan!

Janeite- I am to say I have never read Ballet Shoes!
(realises this is a mn faux pas, and I will probably be banned now )

That is worse than my not having read "Swallows And Amazons" EachPeach! When your dd is around seven or eight, she will thank you for introducing it to her. When ds is sleeping will be the ideal time for you to read it and get your relaxation time. I'll test you on it later!

I am just a bit envious of my teen self. These days I don't have the time or energy for lusting over tortured yet finely chiselled protagonists.

Well- S&A are my absolute favourite books ever, not not sure it's worse!

I shall definitely be giving BS to DD.

I had a soft spot for any young boy fallen on hard times: basically if he was Victorian, wearing torn/patched breeches and working down a mine/as a cabin boy/on a canal boat then I was pretty certain to fancy him. Peter in Thursday's Child anyone?

Followed by people's widowed dads: Atticus in Mockingbird - so virtuous, so upright; Danny's dad in Champion of the World.

Umm. Baringa the horse, from the Silver Brumby series.

I'll get me -rug- coat, shall I?

Oh EachPeach - I meant to ask. Is it you who likes what's-his-name Marukami (sp?). Dp has just "discovered him" and I was wondering which ones to get him next, for his birthday at the end of the month.

Sorry to go off topic a minute everybody else: keep thinking of ragged Victorian boys, bearded men with huge fossil collections and of course, lashings of ginger beer for a moment, would you?!

Uncle Gum did have a certain something, janeite. Came gruffly to the rescue of the best Fossil for starters, when nana was running off with boring acting Pauline and Garnie following the insufferable dancing Posykins to Czechoslovakia.

tattycoram- I'd forgotten the utter loveliness of John. That is a sad and excellent book.

Agree, agree on Aragorn, fennel.

who else?

Male crushes

Drem the redheaded one armed wolf slayer
Chrestomanci (both of them)
Howl (of moving castle fame)
Moril (the dreamy musician who looked vaguer the cleverer he was being)
mister tom (as in goodnight)- so lovely

Female crushes

Nancy the Amazon pirate
Dicey (and her gruff grandma)
All the difficult Noel Streatfield bolshie middle daughters- based on herself: Victoria, Jane, Petrova etc. But then again also always liked the thoughtful nice conscientious eldests like Sorrel and Myra (esp.Myra)
Jane Eyre