The Guys I Love...

[przed]

For this week's fannish5: What five characters do you find the most interesting and why?

1. Spock. Because he was my first fannish crush. Because he's the geeky, smart outsider. Because his existence helped kept me sane as a geeky, smart, outsider-type teenager.

2. Boromir. Because reading the chapter where he dies in The Two Towers is my most vivid memory from my first time through LotR when I was ten. Because I always love the noble, misguided and doomed guys.

3. Athos. Because he's the musketeer with the mysterious past and the dark secret. Because, as played by Oliver Reed in the 70s movies, he's totally hot.

4. Illya Kuryakin. Because he's another geeky smart outsider, and even more sarcastic than Spock. Because black turtlenecks are cool. Because he's Russian.

5. Raymond Doyle. Because I also always love the violent lads with a streak of conscience. Because he tells the worst jokes. Because he wears the tightest jeans. Because, gods help me, I love the curly hair.

The runners-up: Artemus Gordon, Vila Restal, Richard Sharpe, Batman, Nightcrawler.

Comments

Spock rules!

[sensine.livejournal.com]

I really liked your choices, but what cracked me up was this:Because he tells the worst jokes. Because he wears the tightest jeans. Because, gods help me, I love the curly hair. You nailed RD, plus our fannish love for him *g*
Sometimes he seems more complicated than Bodie, I haven't watched the eps for awhile now, but what I remember is that I sort of expected Bodie to be violent and do the job without fussing. Doyle was more of a thinker, and in some strange way seemed softer. But it may be my memory failing me, and he was efficient enough when working with Bodie - his one true love!
I'm still waiting for the best of the seventies fashion - the sprayed-on jeans, to become popular again ;-) (Need I say Led Zeppelin?)

Re: Spock rules!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Doyle was more of a thinker, and in some strange way seemed softer.

I'd agree that he's more of a thinker, or maybe more of an agonizer, but he's only softer in the fanfic. Doyle in the show can be every bit as vicious as Bodie when he needs to be. In fact, he can be worse, because he's got a hell of a temper. Of course, after the fact, he is given to thinking too much about what he's done, which is only one of the things that makes him such an intriguing character.

And yeah, sprayed on jeans are always a fun fashion choice. As long as I can just look and don't have to wear them anymore. ;)

[faramir-boromir.livejournal.com]

I am totaly with you on Boromir and Athos. The similarities between them (and of course Faramir/D'Artagnan) are fantastic.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're evil. (Thoughts of Athos/D'Artagnan are now dancing in my head.)

[faramir-boromir.livejournal.com]

You mean you *never* thought of that before???

*shakes head* The parallels, the parallels!

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'd never thought of The Three Musketeers in a slashy way. Until today. And it's all your fault.

(Okay, so I did use a shot of the movie in the Gay Bar vid, but I also used one from Scaramouche and I'm so not going to slash that movie. Well, not the brothers, anyway. Hmmm. No, you're pure evil.)

[faramir-boromir.livejournal.com]

I accept full responsibility for my innuendo. I will own it and claim it as my very own, and not dump it on the shoulders of others. *g*