Do you develop crushes on fictional characters?

[Spacemom]

Right now I'm totally enamored with Drizzt from the Forgotten Realms series. I know, I know, I'm about 20 years late to the party, but I was never in to the D & D thing, and I've just discovered these.

I'll always carry a torch for Lazarus Long, and I also had a crush on Roland from the Dark Tower series.

Am I just weird? (Ok, don't answer that :) )

[Catshrink]

1. Yep

Strider/Aragon -- and when I saw Viggo play him, OMG. Swoon!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Oh yeah...

I had a serious crush on Ivanhoe, long, long ago...

*sigh*

He was gorgeous...

Oh, and the Virginian too!

:P

[FreakinDJ]

3. hmmmm

[Speck Tater]

4. Years ago I had a crush on Robert A. Heinlein's character Friday from the novel of the same name

[Spacemom]

6. Don't tell anyone

but I had a crush on her too. :blush:

[notadmblnd]

5. I did when I was a little girl

not anymore.

[damntexdem]

7. Yes, you're weird. (OK, don't read my answer.)

;-)

[On the Road]

8. She Doesn't Have Much Depth of Character,

but that eSurance girl sure is cute.

[TlalocW]

9. Yep, sure do

A few years back, both Daria and Jane


And then there's an online web-comic called Wapsi Square - the main character is a short, busty Hispanic woman named Monica, who reminds me of an ex-girlfriend I'm still good friends with. Her look has changed as the artist's style has solidified, but these two comics remind me of her.

This is the first Wapsi Square comic. My friend would routinely give me the same look that Monica is giving her friend in the last panel.


I bought the original of this comic from the artist on eBay because Monica laughing in the last panel looked so much like my friend.


TlalocW

[Geoff R. Casavant]

10. Most certainly

Pretty much the entire female cast of Firefly.

On edit -- except River. She has way too much forehead.

[YankeyMCC]

11. Éowyn

I fell in love with her long ago reading the books, and Miranda Otto only rekindled the crush when the Peter Jackson movies came out.

Before that there was "Friday" from the Robert A. Heinlein novel.

[Onceuponalife]

12. Daenyrs Targaryen of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire

[RayOfHope]

13. Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast from the Lincoln/Child books. Love him n/t

[Mz Pip]

27. Me, too.

Smart, mysterious and rich. My kind of guy. :-)

[raccoon]

14. Not since I was a teenager. Had one on Huckleberry Finn, though. nt

[Jade Fox]

15. "Shane" when I was a teenager.....nt

[hippywife]

16. No. Not in books, anyway.

As a young girl I was in love with Clint Walker of the Cheyenne TV series. ;)

[Flaxbee]

17. Lord Peter Wimsey (from Dorothy Sayers books),

Melrose Plant and Richard Jury from Martha Grimes' mysteries.

:D

[closeupready]

18. Maybe a little yeah.

When I was a boy, I had a crush on Bink, the protagonist of "A Spell for Chameleon" - here is the artist's rendering of Bink (talking to the whatchamacallit):

[abluelady]

19. Wouldn't Call it a Crush

but sure would love a spouse like Roarke in J.D. Robb's books.

[Staph]

20. Jamie Fraser

from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. There's just something about a man in a kilt....

[Paladin]

21. No, But I Mourn For Them.

John Irving's novels really rake me over the coals, all the way back to "The World According To Garp."

[Hamlette]

22. Inspector Lindley

in part because of the British series. Love the actor. Eliz George books. (swoon)

[sea_dream]

23. fictional characters

I don't think that you would call it a crush, but I always wanted a father like Atticus Finch.

[AmandaMae]

24. Yes, when I was a kid

I had a crush on Mr. Rochester in the children's illustrated version of Jane Eyre.

[yellowdogintexas]

25. Lymond Crawford, Dorothy Dunnett's great Scottish Hero.

oh man was he hot

[LongTomH]

26. I've had crushes on most of Sir Terry Pratchett's femaile characters!

Sir Terence does wonderful, strong, and sexy female characters. I instantly fall in love with most of them.

Start with Sgt Angua of the Ankh-Morpork city watch, a dangerous lady. Then there's Lance-Constable Salacia von Humpeding, first vampire on the City Watch, and the mysterious Lady Myria LeJean.

Actually, I think the sexiest are Susan Sto Helit, Death's granddaughter and Adora Belle Dearhart. They both come on with just a touch of the dominatrix about them, especially in the Sky TV productions of Hogfather and Going Postal.

[XemaSab]

28. No mentions of anyone from Harry Potter?

:P

[Vampire Knight]

29. If you're weird, so am I, and that's ok.

I actually crush pretty often on characters from anime, and occasionally on ones from books. I am, much as I hate to admit it, a charter member of Team Edward. Other characters I've crushed on to some degree at one time or another include:

*Kaname (Vampire Knight...go fig)
*Ryuuki (Saiunkoku)
*Ichigo (Bleach)
*Legolas (LOTR)
*Byakuya (Bleach)
*Eric (Southern Vampire Series)
*Lelouch (Code Geass)
*Hotohori (Fushigi Yugi)

Well, you get the idea.

Naturally, these pretty much fit a few defined/related archetypes.

[Little Star]

30. Yep! Joseph Morelli and Ranger both from

Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Series. Just an fyi, Katherine Heigl to play Stephanie Plum in 'One for the Money'. These are funny, light reading books. The movie should be a hoot.