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.

Libra - at least she kept it in the family and didn't stray further afield, thus depriving local lasses of the other few available men.

I still don't get the Dick thing, though (just like in RL, ho ho) - must have been the lure of the stables and all that straw ...

It's brilliant to find people who've obviously read exactly the same books as you

Dick was a bit of rough.

What's not to get?

I'm supposed to be writing a job application today - not getting very far with it!

I get the bit of rough, but he was such a forelock-tugging wetty, really, wasn't he?

I think it was Heathcliff for me, it was all the soaring PASSION! I skipped over the fact that he was mental at the time

Have to say that I get the whole Sam Vimes thing though Captain Carrot just hasn't been "fleshed out" quite enough to get the heart racing lol

Precisely!!
Which is why Mark is better.

Good luck with the job application.

I am supposed to be writing a lecture on body image and the media.
Nearly typed the words 'bit of rough' on to the Powerpoint slides a moment ago.

jeee - I know, exactly. I could reread so many of these books, still go back to Antonia Forest now and again. Even got some from out of print booksellers. Can't wait for DD to be old enough for Sadlers Wells. (The books, obviously, as her ballet classes indicate she's not going to be the next Veronica Weston.)

Unfortunately all my Antonia Forest books were the paperbacks, and time hasn't been kind to them... the glue had gone, so I reread them page by page and had to throw them - but I have most of the Wells books in the original hardbacks

I seem to remember the actor who played Mark in the series was pretty easy on the eye. Hope the lecture works out ok!

I'm so glad someone else liked Francis Babington.

Re Flambards, Dick starts off very appealing but he is a bit of an arse in Flambards Divided. I think I'd go for Mark as well.

They only do paperbacks but people are aware of fidra and ggb

Barbar. Definitely

Oh yes, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Especially when he was being maltreated by the evil guy beginning with C.

And Sydney Carter (?) in Tale of Two Cities. I used to empathise so strongly with his lack of ability to actually get on and do things. And just wiffle around moping and fancying unsuitable people and getting drunk instead.

So, the big question is - did we go for the same type in real life? In my case, no man was ever going to live up to some of these literary gods!

(And now I really MUST go and do some work. Hoping I'm not a threadkiller, I shall return later)

Libra - I am with you about Mark, the cruel cousin from 'Flambards'. The actor in the TV series was called Steven Grives, but heavens - [[http://stevengrives.tripod.com/ look at him now]!!

i alwys do that link thing wrong look at him now

Fuck me! Sorry, supposed to be working and all but what the hell? That has ruined Flambards for me forever!

No, not me, in real life I do not go for the soulful romantic losers, wasting their lives in poetic overdrive.

Nor do I go for flamboyant sexy unfaithful adventurous types who can't stop shagging the kitchenmaids (D'artagnan) or murdering old women (Raskolnikov).

Nor the oh too perfect and conventional bland doctors like Gilbert Blythes. I would hate to be a doctor's wife.

All of those are just for adolescent fantasies.

My Dh is very like Barbar.

My DP is quite like John Walker. Sensible, scientific and practical. Good with boats. Likes to hang out with assertive women. Less good on poetry. Unlikely to succumb to passionate crimes.

My DP is a John Walker type too. With a touch of Professor Branestawm and Eeyore.

Luke Skywalker, when I was about 10. But only in Star Wars, he looked different in the other films.

Oh definitely MR Rochester. Still do, whenever I re-read Jane Eyre... I really fall in love with book characters, isn't that part of the joy of reading, to totally lose yourself inanother world.

That link has destroyed a good fifty percent of my fantasies, LightShines.

Am totally depressed now.