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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

[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