10 Fictional Characters Meme

[przed]

After ancastar posted an illustrated version, I couldn't resist. So here is my 10 Fictional Characters I Wouldn't Kick Out of Bed list:


1. Ray Doyle. As if there was ever any doubt he'd make the top of my list. Scrappy, scruffy, good with a gun and absolutely gorgeous.


2. Boromir. He's tragic, doomed, scruffy and has a big sword. And played by Sean Bean. What's not to like.


3. Richard Sharpe. If Bernard Cornwell had set out to write the perfect character for me, Pauline Zed, he could not have done a better job. (Highly competent, scruffy, problem with authority, extremely loyal and, oh yeah, has a big sword. Yes, please!) Not to mention here's that Bean fellow again.


4. Spock. The intelligent, aloof outsider. Always a favourite archetype of mine. And quite possibly my very first crush.


5. Vila Restal. He might be cowardly, alcoholic and venal, but he's also brave, loyal and extremely competent. Vila's a mass of contradictions that I cannot resist.


(I toyed with including my other Blake's 7 fave, Kerr Avon, but as I always told my grad school pals, I want to be Avon, I don't want to do Avon. Still, here's a pic, just because.


6. Illya Kuryakin. In the mold of Spock, intelligent and slightly aloof. Also, highly sarcastic, which I can totally appreciate.


7. Athos. Smart, cynical and extremely good with a sword.


8. Rawhide. Buckaroo Banzai's second in command and the archetypal laconic cowboy. I've followed Clancy Brown's career ever since.


9. Teyla Emmagan. Because none of these lists is complete without a girl crush, and Teyla would be mine. Seriously, just look at her.


10. Diego Alatriste. Competent? Check. Scruffy? Check. Has own sword and knows what to do with it? Check. Loyal? Absolutely. And as a bonus, played by the always delicious Viggo Mortensen.

Comments

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

I love your list. You really went outside the norm (though it was no surprise to see Doyle, Illya, Sharpe and Boromir make appearances). I love Clancy Brown, though don't know him from Buckaroo Bonzai. I'm getting such a kick out of the scruff working for you as well as it obviously does. :-)

In doing this, I've discovered I'm attracted to geeks. It's the competency thing you touched on. I almost put Rodney McKay on the list, not because I'm physically attracted to the actor, but I love his mix of smarts, ego and vulnerability.

As for girl crushes--I couldn't think of a single female character who does it for me. But my sis and I have often confessed--we'd be gay for Angelina Jolie. *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I could have done an entirely predictable list, but I thought what the heck, why not go a bit deeper and put up some of my longtime crushes. (As for scruff, heck, I married a scruff. It's definitely a look that works for me.)

I have to admit to seriously loving the geeks (Illya!) though not always in a lusting sort of way. And Rodney in one of the major things that has kept both me and the Sweetie watching SGA. I know Hewlett from way back when he was doing the Canadian show Traders, which actually got me to stop watching ER. The Sweetie knows him from countless crazy Canadian indie films.

I have to admit, I don't usually get girl crushes (I'm pretty darn close to a 1 on the Kinsey scale) but Teyla rocks my world. Actually, come to think of it, so does Teresa, Sharpe's first wife, the kickass Spanish guerilla fighter.