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.

Someone mentioned Flambards, I think I read my first sex scene in Flambards, am I right in thinking there was some tussling in the hay? For some reason I can even smell the hay.

Re. loves, most have been said.

A Vicarage Family - John
Wells - Sebastian
Jack Maynard but I think I wanted to be in love with him, I don't think I really was. He was gorgeous on the cover of Chalet School in Exile & there wasn't much sex appeal in all thousand books or however many there were.
I liked Shasta from The Horse & His Boy.

Are all threads on this topic like this... I mean completely non-MN style, with everyone being... nice to each other, even if they don't agree?

Huh? why should you not be nice to people?

If you disagree with someone's first fictional love should you insult them, berate them, or jeer at them?

I know, I agree - but everywhere else on MN seems to be full of insults, and comments that get close to personal, no matter how impersonal the OP starts as. I love this thread, BTW

Hey - sex scene in Flambards? We did this a set text at school when I was 11 - Haven't read it since. I went to a convent school and I don't remeber any sex scene? Maybe the nuns ripped all those pages out.
I'll have to dig it out now!!

I'm not sure marge. It might have been in a sequel, or it might have been hotted up for tv. I do have a fantasy memory of it though.

I didn't even know there was a sequel. I didn;t see the TV seriese either as I was abroad. I'll def have to check this out.

By the way Fennel, - I totally get the Chocolate Soldier!!

Mais oui, see

Oh, good, someone else for the chocolate soldier. I thought it was just me on that one.

hahaaaa! Will have to get this!

Thanks!

Can anyone help me with a very vague memory.

This was a book we all got out of the school library again and again.

It was a contemporary setting (which means the late 70s) The heroine is about 15 and she meets and starts seeing a boy who is slightly older, smokes and (horror) rides a motor bike.

Her parents ban her from seeing him and then have to relent when he falls badly from his bike.

I can not remember anything more apart from the fact that he seemed at the time to be the utmost romantic hero.

Now I just agree with the parents and would ban any daughter of mine from going anywhere near such a long-haired and dangerous oik.

i really fancied the time traveller in the time traveller's wife. anyone else?

how could I forget.... Steerforth in David Copperfield!

I didn't read that sort of book Libra (lofty emoticon).

Another one of my teenage lusts, Bill in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Yet another tortured and imprisoned shifty character (skinny with dark hair) with loose sexual morals and a tendency to crime.

Oh my book choices got much worse than that.

I used to read all my mother's Jean Plaidy novels.

I used to have a massive crush on Henry VIII.

One of my friends had a crush on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, as shown in a photo in our history books.

Another, admittedly weird, girl had a crush on Alex Higgins, the snooker player. She cut his photo out of library books, and had her hair cut like his.

Those aren't exactly literary crushes, but along the same sort of lines.

Kathy - I also had a crush on Steerforth, helped enormously I think by the fact that he was played by Anthony Andrews in an ancient BBC version.

Fennel - I have been searching through this thread to see if anyone else liked Sydney (Tale of two cities). Im covinced that character had a huge influence on my taste in men. No my DHs is not really like that - only in looks (at least what I imagined he looked like).

I also love Sam Vimes - but I discovered him much later on. He is still a somewhat tortured character but he is far more fatherly and down to earth. I guesse thats growig up for you!

Growing up - obviously!

Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye. It was like he read my thoughts. Mine and those of several million other women.

Brilliant thread, I really want to go back and re-read Flambards and Noel Streatfield now. I would even give Anne of Green Gables another try if Gilbert is all he's cracked up to be.

I started having a crush on Julian (Famous Five) then Colin (Secret 7), then Dick (FF), then Colin (SS). Can't remember any other literary crushes between Enid Blyton and Mr Darcy, but that's probably because there were so many.

Todd from Sweet Valley High

Heathcliff, oh i wanted to be his Kathy so much, I was about 11

lol @ Isambard KB crush! Mind you I had a MASSIVE crush on Richard III after studying princes in the tower and concluding that he was a maligned innocent with a noble face. Went onto have a crush on Josephine Tey's detective Grant, who reached the same conclusion in The Daughter of Time.

Amani - my Sweet Valley High crush was Nicholas Morrow - thanks for reminding me