Memorable Fiction Characters
Ha! I took the "which Harry Potter Character Are You?" quiz, and it appears that I, like my dear friend Diana Peterfreund, am Hermione Granger!
I love Hermione - she's smart and proud of it, she has saved Harry's bacon more times than I can count, she's the chick hot Russian quidditch stars yearn to date, and she is a true, honest, and loyal friend. She's one rockin' great character!
Characters are what keep me reading. In addition to the unforgettable cast JK Rowling created in her HP series, there are books and characters I absolutely adore - books I will read over and over again because their characters--often even one or two particular scenes with those characters--just fire my thrusters.
A few of my favorites:
Other memorable characters who really stand out in my mind
I love Hermione - she's smart and proud of it, she has saved Harry's bacon more times than I can count, she's the chick hot Russian quidditch stars yearn to date, and she is a true, honest, and loyal friend. She's one rockin' great character!
Characters are what keep me reading. In addition to the unforgettable cast JK Rowling created in her HP series, there are books and characters I absolutely adore - books I will read over and over again because their characters--often even one or two particular scenes with those characters--just fire my thrusters.
A few of my favorites:
- Jack Ryan from Tom Clancy's novels, in particular the scene in Executive Order, when Jack is President of the US (POTUS) and the pencil in his hand snaps as he threatens India with nuclear war. What is it about Jack I love? He's a hero. An idealist, loyal, smart, honest, a true man of integrity. He is GOOD. He's the kind of man I want in my life. He's not brash, bossy, or arrogant. There is a humbleness to him, and a core of pure, unwavering steel. Oh, Jack. Be still my heart.
- Jacques Dubrinsky from Christine Feehan's Dark Desire. He hits all my Beauty and the Beast fairy tale buttons. Tortured to the point of insanity, teetering on the brink of madness, drawn back from utter destruction solely by the power of love. I love how much, how deeply, how eternally Jacques loves his lifemate, Shea. This was the book that made me, for the very first time in my life (can you imagine?) get on the internet and chase down an author. And that's the other reason I'll always love Jacques: he is the reason I met one of my best and dearest friends.
- Zsadist from J.R. Ward's Lover Awakened. Ok, so I have a thing for tortured heroes. I know it. And they get me every time. I adored this book.
- Sebastian Ballister, Marquess of Dain, from Loretta Chase's Lord of Scoundrels. This is one of my all time favorite books, and Dain is one of my all time favorite heroes. The heroine, Jessica Trent, is fabulous too. Beautiful, bold, smart, brave, practical, well grounded. She's the perfect foil for Dain. When I read this book, I knew I was reading a masterpiece of romantic fiction.
- Legolas, in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Oh. My. Long blond hair, mastery of bow and sword, loyal and true, and immortal...be still my heart. Let's hear it for pointy eared hotties!
- Luke Skywalker. One of my first loves.
- Han Solo. One of my first "bad boy" loves! My favorite movie line: "I love you." "I know." And "Scoundrel! Scoundrel? I like the sound of that."
Other memorable characters who really stand out in my mind
- Dobbie, the house elf, in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I mean, c'mon, he ironed his fingers in self-punishment!
- Princess Leia in George Lucas's Star Wars. I love that chick! Bossy, sassy, chief-chick-in-charge. "Will someone get this walking carpet out of my way!"
- Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2 in George Lucas's Star Wars
- Jean Grey, in the Uncanny X-Men. The original Dark Phoenix story remains one of my all time favorite comic book tales.
- Strongbow in Richard and Wendy Pini's fabulous graphic novel series, Elfquest. The strong, silent type.
- Jessica in Frank Herbert's Dune. The lady loved her man, loved her children. She was strong, she was smart, she was determined, and she did what had to be done. Of course, her son Paul was no slouch either!
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike. Buffy because she's just great - a hip, ass-kicking, funny, young woman who gives far more than she gets, and her hair and lip gloss stays perfect! And Spike because he's just so much freakin' fun!
- Axel Foley from the first Beverly Hills Cop movie. And Serge, the scene stealer.
- Gratch, the long-tailed gar, in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. He's just so cute!
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Somehow, I ended up Draco Malfoy. Ack! I'll try not to read too much into that... (And I'm not sure which of my answers tipped the scale in that direction!)
Memorable fiction characters... I love Ford Prefect in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series, Lady Saura in Christina Dodd's Candle in the Window, Emily Marlowe in Mary Balogh's Silent Melody, Tally Youngblood in Scott Westerfeld's Uglies trilogy, Melanie McCaffery, Frank Pollard and Bartholomew Lampion in Dean Koontz's The Door to December, The Bad Place, and From the Corner of His Eye, respectively. Lasher in Anne Rice's witches trilogy and Ramses in The Mummy, Milo in Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth, Charles Wallace in Madeline l'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, Max in Where the Wild Things Are, Alexander in Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day... Apparently, I could go on for days, so I'll cut myself off now. =)
P.S. Oh, and Mr. Peabody cracks me up. I like him too. And Snuffles, the Hanna-Barbera dog that would go all anti-gravity with glee when given a doggy treat... that still kills me...
Ha! Draco? You? Diana as Hermione makes so much sense it's almost scary. I was sure I was going to come out as Ron! LOL.
Love love love Christina Dodd's Candle in the Wind! She also has what looks like a really cool new paranormal series out called The Darkness.
And Ramses in the Mummy! Oh, be still my heart!
Hehehe - I ended up Sirius Black.
Um.. I just hope I don't end up like he did, yanno?
Sigh. I wanted to be Lupin, but I ended up as Harry. That's okay; I like Harry.
Favorite fictional characters:
I am so with you on Leia. She rocks.
If I could be any fictional movie character, it would be Leia. And I like Han, but if I could fall in love with a fictional movie character, it would be Capt. Jack Sparrow. Oh my beating heart. Yes, definitely Jack Sparrow. sigh.
Now, as for book characters I love. Yeah, I really liked Legolas in the books. Bloom's pretty enough for him in the movies, but he's just not as classy as I pictured him.
From Tolkien's books (NOT the movies, because they changed these characters significantly), I've always loved both Eowyn (kind of a Leia type) and Faramir. I would've followed either one into battle.
In the Harry POtter books, it's Sirius and Lupin, but I like Hermione, too because she's no wimpy girl.
And I really like Ned Henry in Connie Willis' To Say Nothing Of The Dog. He is sooooo funny.
I agree on Jessica from Dune being an awesome character, but I actually liked her daughter more.. up until the whole become-the-Baron-and-break-Duncan's-heart thing... Because Duncan is just too cool to have his heart broken. And Paul is great up until he becomes all-knowing, then he's sort of boring. Much better in DUNE MESSIAH though.
Yes. I'm a scifi geek.
Yay Tawny, and PW you can't complain about being Harry...but I did so love Lupin as well!
Tealah - I loved Paul's sister too, but I was not at all pleased with her going all fruitcake in the later books. (in fact, I had a hard time dealing with what happened to Paul and Chani! Sniffle!) I could not continue to read on after that. If sci-fi channel does happen to turn more Dune books into movies, I'll watch them. Somehow it's less painful to watch than read when the kill off my favorite characters!
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