It's World Book Day today, and in honour of this the Guardian has a poll going: Which fictional character do you have the hots for? ? Anyway, I thought it was an interesting enough question to ask the denizens of Hatrack.
So... please reveal your fictional crushes, in the interests of... well, just for interest, really.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
OK, so . . . Faramir. Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
Anita Blake, hands down.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Alvin Maker Lestat de Lioncourt Joscelin Verreuil (Kushiel's ___ series)
there's probably others, but those spring to mind instantly Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Ditto on the Joscelin Verreuil Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables Ivan Smetski from Enchantment Gabriel from Archangel, and also Obadiah Erik from Phantom of the Opera (in a strange, twisted sort of way) Along the same lines, the Beast in Robin McKinley's Beauty And there's several heros from romance novels whom I'd happily marry, but I'm not sure they'd count as "literary".... Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Me too for Gilbert Blythe. Fitzwilliam Darcy from Pride and Prejudice Sonny from Promised Land by Connie Willis
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Dread Pirate Westley I'm tentatively seconding Erik. Wasn't going to at first, but the more I think about it... I don't know if I could get around the masque, though.
Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
I admit that I have a bit of a crush on Thursday Next.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Yeah, I'm still pondering that one. Minus the visual, he's definitely on the list, though. Otherwise his hotness could be more on an empathetic level. Actually, the Erik in Susan Kay's Phantom may be more who I had in mind when I first posted.
Edit: This is in response to Goody. Posted by Kristen (Member # 9200) on :
Armory Blaine from F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise.
"I know myself," he cried. "But that is all-"
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
Er... Ford Prefect, Inigo Montoya and Sam Vimes.
edit - also Rhett Butler.
[ March 02, 2006, 06:13 PM: Message edited by: Bella Bee ]
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Gilbert Blythe
Ender Wiggin (This one got me in a lot of trouble before I learned to stop dating the tortured loners. They are NOT automatically Ender from Speaker underneath.) Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
Either one of the Weasley twins. I would also second Inigo Montoya. Basically anyone who can weild a sword.
Edit to add: Faramir. Definitely Faramir. And if I could have a girl crush, it would be Eowyn. She's incredible and I love her.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I like Ender from Speaker a lot too Katie, but yeah. No crushes.
My crushes include:
Gilbert Blythe from AOGG Ivan Smetski from Enchantment Faramir. He's just my type. George Knightley from Emma Fitzwilliam Darcy. Of course. Hamlet from Hamlet (This is my twisted sick crush.) And is it wrong that i had a crush on Abraham after I read Sarah?
edit to add one I forgot: Walter from Rilla of Ingleside. That was probably the most unhealthily real crush I had on a literary character when I was a teenager.
[ March 02, 2006, 05:50 PM: Message edited by: Narnia ]
Posted by R. Ann Dryden (Member # 8186) on :
Jamie from the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. One of the most romantic guys of all time.
Nicholas Harpole from Kage Baker's Company series. Especially if he overcame his martyr complex.
Mr. Darcy. Need I say more? I much prefer him to Mr. Rochester of Jane Eyre.
Beast from Beauty and the Beast (any version).
If I was a decade or so younger, I'd probably go for a Weasley twin myself. More so than Harry or Ron, anyway.
And yes, Wesley would be cool, but you've got to remember that he liked BUTTERCUP. Anyone who would be ga-ga over her is probably not my type after all.
Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
umm... well...
Quinn from "Once a Theif" and "Always a theif." He's a gentleman at heart... even if he is the world's most elusive cat burglar.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
I can't believe I forgot Jamie Fraser!!
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Oh, I didn't think about Jamie at all, but yeah, he'd be on my list too.
And Lars from Killashandra.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Willow Rosenberg. Aqua Blue Thompson. Dread Pirate Wesley (without the Buttercup issue.)
Pix
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Pixiest: Aqua Blue Thompson.
Isn't that a little incestuous?
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I suppooooooooose... but she's fictional!
Posted by Celaeno (Member # 8562) on :
Ohh, Mr. Darcy. Hands down. He was the first and then only person I thought of when I read the first post of this thread.
I don't know whether to be jealous or happy that other Hatrackers share my good taste. Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Daenerys Targaryen, the First of her Name, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, called the Stormborn, the Unburnt, the Mother of Dragons.
Or Dany for short .
Sansa Stark as well, from the scene of her in the snow onward.
Valentine from the Ender books (Ender's Game and young Val from CotM).
I would say Hermione, but to be honest, I think its more Emma Watson's Hermione that I have a crush on, not so much Hermione from the books.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Xav, you reminded me of Lupin! I LOVE Lupin! Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Jamie Fraser.
Sam Vimes.
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
Dr. Aki Ross (voiced by Ming-Na in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within) Marcus Cole (Jason Carter in Babylon 5) Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton John in Grease - before the finale) Sandy Kessler (Helen Slater in Ruthless People) Buddy Lawrence (Kristy McNichol in Family) Rynn (Jodie Foster in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane)
[Those last two are old crushes from when I was much younger.]
Linda Danvers in Peter David's run of Supergirl Shane McCutcheon (Katherine Moennig in The L Word Andrew (John Dye on Touched by an Angel) Graham Dalton and Dr. Daniel Jackson (James Spader in Sex, Lies and Videotape and Stargate) Kaylee Frye (Jewel Staite in Firefly/Serenity Posted by Mirrored Shades (Member # 8957) on :
Forget Sam Vimes -- I'm with Carrot all the way.
Also, Edlin from Jane Lindskold's Firekeeper books, Simon from Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, and Philip from Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham.
And on a related note -- when I was a kid, I was in love with Simba from the Lion King.
Posted by Swampjedi (Member # 7374) on :
Kaylee for sure. Posted by Dante (Member # 1106) on :
Tom Davidson
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
Frankly, I got a huge crush on !Xabbu from Otherland. For a while, I also had a crush on Samwise Gamgee.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Lupin. Some hawk chick in a story and her snake husband. They both had it going ON. Juniper Morpheus Death Kabuki Akemi ect...
Posted by Queen Mab (Member # 9218) on :
Frodo Baggins Harry Potter Inigo Montoya Sirius Black Guy Montag
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Heck yes to the Faramir.
Also, Jon Snow. Massive crush on him... Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
quote:Originally posted by R. Ann Dryden: Nicholas Harpole from Kage Baker's Company series. Especially if he overcame his martyr complex.
And I thought I was the only one.
Peter Decker, in Faye Kellerman's mystery series.
I'm sure there are others, but I'd have to think about it for awhile.
Edited to add: I looked back over the other responses, and I didn't catch before that TV and movie characters count as well. In that case...
...definitely Gil Grissom (William Peterson's character on CSI).
Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on :
Jon Snow, yes. Jaime Fraser, yes. And, I agree Narnia, Abraham (also with a )
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
See?! OSC just managed to make him so...desirable! Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :
Ron Weasley...which is scary because he's half my age.
Legolas, oh how I wanted to be Elvish. Logan from the Heaven series. (My embarassing VC Andrews series.)
I know there's more...let me think.
Edit: stupid typos!
[ March 02, 2006, 08:08 PM: Message edited by: aretee ]
Posted by Celaeno (Member # 8562) on :
quote:Originally posted by aretee: Logan from the Heaven series. (My embarassing VC Andrews serious.)
Oh, this is embarrassing to admit, but when I was in middle school I read all of those. But Logan? Really? I always favored Troy.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Peggy.. Ender...
Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :
Yeah, I always root for the underdog. Logan was her first love, he was so constant (well until that whole Fanny thing). I know Troy was kind of the underdog, too...but I kept rooting for Logan the whole time.
I can't believe I remember so much about those books. I haven't read them since high school.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by starLisa: Dr. Aki Ross (voiced by Ming-Na in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within) Marcus Cole (Jason Carter in Babylon 5) Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton John in Grease - before the finale) Sandy Kessler (Helen Slater in Ruthless People) Buddy Lawrence (Kristy McNichol in Family) Rynn (Jodie Foster in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane)
[Those last two are old crushes from when I was much younger.]
Linda Danvers in Peter David's run of Supergirl Shane McCutcheon (Katherine Moennig in The L Word Andrew (John Dye on Touched by an Angel) Graham Dalton and Dr. Daniel Jackson (James Spader in Sex, Lies and Videotape and Stargate) Kaylee Frye (Jewel Staite in Firefly/Serenity
What about Catwoman? Grrrrr!
Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dante: Tom Davidson
He's fictional? Then who the hell did I meet at KamaCon?!
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Aragorn- He is the perfect man. Sure, it's nice that he was played by someone hot in the movies, but he was hot in the books long before Viggo even thought of playing the part. I've never read a book with a guy character that's so very hot based merely on the reading before or since.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Does anyone find Ray Bradbury's Illustrated Man appealing?
Nah, me neither.
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
blacwolve - that is so true.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Glad to see so many agree w/ me on Faramir! blacwolve, I was wondering if anyone was going to say Aragorn . . .
amira, c'mon now, you have to play too!
Posted by xxsockeh (Member # 9186) on :
Heheh...Bean (from the Ender/Bean series)... I'm thinking...hard...I can't remember anyone else though. Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
Ramses Emerson. David Randall. Seregil. Alec. Aragorn.
Mostly David Randall.
Posted by R. Ann Dryden (Member # 8186) on :
Ooh, I'd forgotten about Lars from Anne McCaffrey. Though F'lar wouldn't be bad either, or Jeffrey from the Rowan. You know what? She just writes great guys. Her women, though - shrews.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Huh. I like Nerilka. And Moreta. Lessa's not so bad. Menolly!
And I really like Tai.
(And just to clarify, all of these are in response to the post above mine, not to the original question. )
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Eilonwy from the Prydain Chronicles. Meg from A Wrinkle in Time Lusa from Prodigal Summer Posted by foundling (Member # 6348) on :
I second the Death and Morpheus crush, though by the end of the series I kind of wanted to smack the Sandman for his self absorbed weighty ponderings. Shadow from American Gods... Hot.
I had a HUGE crush on Heathcliff till I became old enough to realize what an a**hole he actually was.
I also have a crush on the Beast from Robin Mckinleys adaptation of that story.
I could never really stand Gilbert, but I did have a rather large crush on the older guy she goes out with in later stories. I cant remember his name now, but he was hot.
I read a story when I was a kid about a rabbi who created the golem, the name of which I cant remember for the life of me, and for some strange reason I totally fell in love with the rabbi.
I also loved the main character from the Night series by Elie Wiesel.
Posted by Avatar300 (Member # 5108) on :
The girl with eager eyes and yellow hair from Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins."
Also, his Pauline in "One Way of Love." She stands in for a girl I used to like. Ah, suppose that my Pauline had bade me sing!
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Shadow and Morpheus, definitely. Roland Deschain Eddie Dean Ron, Bill, Fred and George Weasley. Remus Lupin Sirius Black Peter Pevensie Aragorn FitzChivalry Farseer The Fool Verity Farseer
There are more, I'm sure. I just can't think of them. I'm not including Tv and movie characters, cause there are way too many.
Ni!
Posted by Celaeno (Member # 8562) on :
Oh, in my sophomore year of high school I read a short story and I can't remember its title or author, but I was in love with one of its characters. He was sweet and spontaneous and a social outcast and in love with the story's narrator (or main character, I can't remember if it was in the first or third person). They bought bowling balls at a thrift shop and gave them homes by leaving them on their teachers' porches in the middle of the night. She broke up her her jock boyfriend for him. He was diagnosed with cancer, and to say their goodbyes, he took her to the airport and made himself a plane ticket in a sleeve and everything. As they kissed and she cried, he dropped the ticket and a lady picked it up and handed it back silently so as not to disturb them.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I've been trying to figure it out for years.
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
Menolly!
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Interesting. I can't think of a single literary character I lust after. However I am a man. The vast majority of respondents here are women, lusting after the men that, when I read the stories, I identified with.
Do authors write stories with male characters that the men want to be, and the women want to be with? What does this say about our culture, about writers, about writing, about men and about women?
There is a great Psychology (Sociology, Women's Studies) Grad Paper in this.
Posted by R. Ann Dryden (Member # 8186) on :
Rivka, I know McCaffrey CAN write decent women. They mostly all start out that way, but look at Lessa and Killashandra, or the Rowan. They all kind of get bitter and pissy. Even Menolly, once the POV switches to that other kid, Piemur? Can't remember his name, anyway, she even gets pissy at times.
Actually, my biggest complaint with her work is that her characters aren't different enough. Lars and F'lar are kind of similar. Lessa and Killashandra, ditto. And lots of her other hero/heroine combinations start to be samey as well.
But how could I have forgotten Robinton? What woman wouldn't want to be swept off her feet by him? - There, now I'm back on topic!
Posted by R. Ann Dryden (Member # 8186) on :
Dan_raven, I agree with you about the possibility of a paper. If I ever go to college I'll remember and use this idea. Thanks! (Of course, I'm a stay-at-home mom who's been out of school for a decade now, but hey, who knows?)
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Cilla, from Johnny Tremain. Leia, from Star Wars (stretching the definition of "Literature" a bit). Anne, from Hand-Me-Down (thanks for the rec, OSC).
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
OSC's Ender Herbert's Paul Atreides and Duncan Idaho GRRM's Jaime Lannister Hobb's The Fool Aragorn
i know i'm missing some.
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: What about Catwoman? Grrrrr!
Ew. Never seen it. Never gonna. Catwoman and Elektra are two flicks that I don't intend to ever have abuse my eyes.
Though I have a lot of respect for Halle Berry actually showing up to receive her Razzie.
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by foundling: I second the Death and Morpheus crush,
Oh, right. Death. Mmm... Who'd have imagined Death being so hot?
Posted by amira tharani (Member # 182) on :
Okay, okay... Taliesin, from Stephen Lawhead's book of the same name. Reuven Malter from The Chosen and The Promise, both by Chaim Potok. Not a crush, exactly, but I do rather like Nirgal from the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (but the best bit in the whole trilogy is Ann and Sax finally getting together right at the end of Blue Mars - and it's really funny reading it again with the knowledge that that happens).
Posted by Maria (Member # 9209) on :
When I was young: Tarzan (books not movies) & Alaric Morgan, Deryni series
Now... I have to say that the more my husband looks like Gandalf the Grey, the better I like it! Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kama: Herbert's Paul Atreides and Duncan Idaho
Ooh, yes!
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
Paul, no way. Little fascist that he is. But Duncan... I can see that.
Posted by sarcare (Member # 8736) on :
Severus Snape, though my co-workers tell me it is really just Alan Rickman that I think is hot, I definately go for the angsty teacher thing.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
F'lar never did anything for me, though I liked him. F'nor was more my speed. But Lars... *sigh* I always liked Sebelle too.
Kris from Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar.Her stories aren't nearly as romantic as McCaffery's, though. Her best romances are between people who don't actually love each other that way, which is way weird.
Posted by TheMaia (Member # 9219) on :
Sita from the Last Vampire series by Christopher Pike!!!
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I just remembered, the first book character I ever had a crush on was Juror #8 from 12 Angry Men. *sighs* He was so dreamy.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by starLisa: Who'd have imagined Death being so hot?
Perhaps he's death warmed over.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by starLisa: Catwoman and Elektra are two flicks that I don't intend to ever have abuse my eyes.
Well, the movie was pure dreck, but Catwoman was awfully hot, nonetheless.
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
Psylocke! Devi from JTHM and I Feel Sick.
Posted by Mirrored Shades (Member # 8957) on :
Oh, I forgot F'lar! And F'nor. I liked them both. I haven't read those books in ages, but I definately remember liking F'lar, F'nor, and their father, whose name I can't remember and who was an awful lot like, well, F'lar and F'nor.
And as for Catwoman -- I can't remember any of the story except that Halle Berry and Benjamin Bratt were in it, and that there was a lot of leather, some motorcycles, and whips. And what more can you ask for in a movie?
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
quote:Originally posted by starLisa: Paul, no way. Little fascist that he is. But Duncan... I can see that.
See, the thing I find attractive about Paul is that he's a facist and has a god complex and is horribly arrogant.
My answers so far have been who I'd want to date, as opposed to who I think is hot. The hot list would be much longer, and much scarier. (I had a crush on Bill Sikes from the musical Oliver! for ages, for example)
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester:
quote:Originally posted by starLisa: Who'd have imagined Death being so hot?
Perhaps he's death warmed over.
Um... "she", actually.
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mirrored Shades: Oh, I forgot F'lar! And F'nor. I liked them both. I haven't read those books in ages, but I definately remember liking F'lar, F'nor, and their father, whose name I can't remember and who was an awful lot like, well, F'lar and F'nor.
I don't know if it's because I first read the Pern books back around when the original Battlestar: Galactica was out, but I always see F'lar and F'nor in my head as played by the actors who played Apollo and Starbuck. Even though it's clear in the books that F'nor, at least, doesn't look even remotely like Starbuck did (and even less like the current Starbuck <grin>).
quote:Originally posted by Mirrored Shades: And as for Catwoman -- I can't remember any of the story except that Halle Berry and Benjamin Bratt were in it, and that there was a lot of leather, some motorcycles, and whips. And what more can you ask for in a movie?
Um... sounds interesting. But why'd they have to take a character who is actually fairly interesting and use her name for a movie that has nothing to do with her.
I put Catwoman and Elektra in the same category as Star Treks 5 and 10. They were never made.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by jeniwren: F'lar never did anything for me, though I liked him. F'nor was more my speed. I always liked Sebelle too.
Mmhmm! F'nor more than F'lar, definitely. But F'lessan more than either his dad or his uncle.
And Sebell more than any of them. And not just because I identified with Menolly.
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