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[ewein2412]

tigertrapped has done a very bad thing and tagged me. I work hard at keeping this journal clean, but… what the heck.

List ten fictional characters you'd jump into bed with, and then tag five friends

In my brain this translated as "literary" characters while I was making the list, so I have left out Buck Rogers, John Constantine, Han Solo, etc.


The first five were easy:

Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy Sayers)
Sydney Carton (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)
Brat Farrar (Josephine Tey, Brat Farrar) I know that this is really out in left field, but I adore Brat Farrar.
Ged (Ursula K LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan) (the YOUNG Ged)
Marcus (Rosemary Sutcliff, Eagle of the Ninth)

So then I had to make a list and eliminate for the next five. And the winners are:

Merlin (Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills) (I like my wizards youthful)
Gwydion son of Don (Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain) (like I said, I'm just HOPELESS)
Fairfax Rochester (Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre)
Touchstone (Garth Nix, Sabriel)
Mercutio (Wm Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet)

What does this say about me?

1) I guess I am heterosexual after all
2) I like the Good Guys, but
3) I like my Good Guys with a limp. Or a missing arm. Or scars, or shell shock. Actually, this explains a lot.

tigertrapped will probably get a kick out of the "also rans":

Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)
Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
Max de Winter (Rebecca)
Stephen Dedalus (Ulysses)
Hamlet
Lestat (Anne Rice)
Vanye (CJ Cherryh's Morgaine books)
Howl (Howl's Moving Castle)
Robert Jordan (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Robbie Turner (Atonement)
Alexander (a la Mary Renault)


I tag minayi, katranides, rachelmanija, telophase, and ellen_kushner. But only if they feel like playing.

Comments

[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

Fun list! You're a one for the wizards, aren't you?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I always want to sleep with the wizards, so long as they are neither teenage nor grey-bearded but just right, like Ged in The Tombs of Atuan or Lyo in The Changeling Sea or Antryg in The Silent Tower/The Silicon Mage.. But not Chrestomanci; he'd drive me mad.

Quiet yet deadly swordsmen with secret angst really do it for me, too. Vanye is wonderful. The bit in the third book with Morgaine and his hair made me squeal in delight. Have you seen Samurai Champloo? There is an excellent example of that type.

[ewein2412]

Richard St. Vier! And I also have a big crush on Manji.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I'd rather sleep with the older Ged. The younger one was such a self-centered twit. *gryn*

I think everyone wants to sleep with Lord Peter Whimsy. Mmmmm. He'd head my list, too.

[ewein2412]

well, I don't want Ged any older than The Tombs of Atuan. He gets too serious and mage-y for me in The Farthest Shore.

Dunno what it is about Lord Peter... maybe Harriet crying out "My Lord!" when they're on their honeymoon and consumating their marriage (hee hee hee)

[callyperry.livejournal.com]

Well you've got number one right, for sure. But tell me, have you never met Aral Vorkosigan?

Oh, my, yes.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, indeed.

Cait

[ewein2412]

no, I guess I haven't--only Miles, and only a passing acquaintance!

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

Count me out on Peter Wimsey. I know he had the reputation of giving women paradise (or the Champs Elysee) in his arms, but my immediate response was very negative. It's not just that he was a smoker and would therefore taste bad. Strong negatives for Mr. Rochester, Heathcliff, Jay Gatsby, or Hamlet. Mercutio and Brat Farrar are interesting choices. Actually, how about the wooly haired researcher in "Daughter of Time?" (I don't remember his name.

[ewein2412]

you'll notice that most of your strong negatives only made it to my short list... there's a reason for that.

I confess that I never paid much attention to the researcher in "Daughter of Time" (Alan something?) because I was SO DESPERATELY IN LOVE with Richard III at the time--once again showing my kinky bias!

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Restricting it to characters whose appearance you don't really know does kinda change the dynamic a bit. (Han Solo?)

[ewein2412]

I did say I was hopeless!

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

So I'm looking at this post and going...huh? I honestly have never given this a lot of thought....

Well, uh, hmmmm....ten?
Can we think about this for a month or two and then get back to you?

[ewein2412]

Actually, I had trouble coming up with ten. The first five sprang to mind immediately, and then I had to go scan the shelves. Robert Jordan ended up on the list twice...huh.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Well, I've put together a partial list, but don't want to commit myself to it yes. Indeed, two of Teresa Egerton's guys end up on it, and two of CJ Cherryh's as well. (I'm also partial to Vanye)

Still thinking it over. Only have seven on the list right now. No wizards, though....

[ewein2412]

funny thing is, I never really thought of myself as having a soft spot for wizards.

Considering that my father claimed to be a genie and my brother trained as a magician, it is a little scary.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I can't help but say that raises all sort of questions?????

[ewein2412]

and my aunt Elaine has got Excalibur hanging in her living room.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I still have a massive crush on Medraut, despite the obvious reasons why that would be very very unwise. Smart, angsty men with scars and incest issues really do it for me, apparently.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

So very much seconded.

[sparrow-wings.livejournal.com]

I, on the other hand, would totally sleep with his mom. Broken bones and everything. *hides in shame*

[ewein2412]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

I LOVE YOU.

I cannot tell you how much I laughed at this. It made me APPLAUD.

After uch Contemplation...

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

All right, I'm sure I've missed a couple, and I know they aren't in 1-10 order...

Vanye from Cherryh's Morgaine Series.
Sandor Kreja from Cherryh's Merchanter's Luck
Francis Skelbrooke from Teresa Edgerton's Goblin Moon
Tryffin from Edgerton's Green Lion trilogy
Olivier de Bretagne from Ellis Peter's Cadfael novels (two of them)
Domingo Chavez from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Ilias from Martha Well's The Fall of Ile-Rien
Garin from Ansen Dibell's Summerfair
Julian Stretton from Sheila Simonson's A Cousinly Connexion
Bane from PC Hodgell's Godstalk books
(Please note...that last one is not a safe choice. If you bedded down with him I'm certain you'd end up dead.)

In trying to think of literary heros of the past, I believe the language just puts me off. I have trouble of thinking of Fitzwilliam Darcy and a bed at the same time--far too courtly for that. Sorry. (I prefer Campion, by the way to the other sleuths....those big glasses are SOO sexy)

Re: After uch Contemplation...

[ewein2412]

golly, I don't know ANY of those except Vanye. Which are the Ellis Peters books?

Re: After Much Contemplation...

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Olivier appears first in The Virgin in the Ice, and finally in Brother Cadfael's Last Penance.
He is Cadfael's half-Syrian bastard son, and a nicely mysterious character.

I think I tend to choose fighters rather than wizards, logical enough. Many of them loners, able to shift for themselves, very aware of the danger out in the world...

Re: After Much Contemplation...

[ewein2412]

thanks, I'll add those to the neverending pile!

Re: After uch Contemplation...

[ewein2412]

ps I suspect there is a glaring trend here, but since I don't know any of the books I can't spot it

Holy breastplates Batman!

[gvdobler.livejournal.com]

I always had a fancy for Wonder Woman.

Re: Holy breastplates Batman!

[ewein2412]

you know her original sweetheart (Steve??? memory fails) was a World War II pilot!

Re: Holy breastplates Batman!

[gvdobler.livejournal.com]

Steve Trevor aka Lyle Waggoner was a dashing pilot, you are correct.
Although, I think they fudged the timeline forward in the TV version. The original comic book was WW2 for sure, and Steve had blonde hair.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Oh, boy! This is the first time I've been tagged (that I know of)!

Must give this deep and serious thought. My problem is, I always want to *be* the heroes, not screw them. But surely I can come up with a list.

Does protocol dictate that I reply here, or at my own page?

[ewein2412]

I think the protocol is you post it on your own page, but you can reply here if you like... my personal protocol is, it's a chain letter by any other name, you can drop it in the virtual trash compactor if you like.

I agree with you, actually, about wanting to BE the heroes... and I can safely say this is also true of everyone on my list.

[ewein2412]

except for Gwydion son of Don. I was always too in awe of him to imagine myself as him. Mainly because I imagined myself as Taran.

hmmm, Taran and Gwydion. lead me to the fanfic... ahahahahaha