This week BTT asks: "Have you ever fallen in love with a fictional character? Who and what about them did you love?"Well, yes and no. I don't think I could say I've ever really fallen in love with a literary character. But then, I don't fall in love easily. I can think of quite a few favorite characters, but my interest in them stops short of any emotional attachment.
OK, I suppose I'd have to say Rhett Butler came close. But that was long long ago, on a planet far far away. And when I read Gone With the Wind back in the Pleistocene Era, I was just as much in love with Ashley Wilkes as Scarlett was. Both guys are dashing and romantic and brooding and handsome and virile and all those things a 13-year-old girl would be looking for in a man. Come to think of it, I guess they're all those things a 60-something-year-old girl would be looking for in a man, too.
The one fictional creation I can remember actually falling in love with wasn't a literary character (at least not at the time) -- he was a character in a TV show. And I wouldn't really call it love so much as obsession. For a while, back in the '70s, I was a Star Trek junkie, and I was completely besotted with Mr. Spock. I liked Captain Kirk too, but Spock was my real sweetie. Bless his green and pointy little ears.
Great answers! I answered this one thinking about characters I read in books and it was hard for me to remember anyone. I wish I had answered thinking of TV or movie characters. My BTT is here.
ReplyDeleteI have had a lot of character crushes, but I agree with you, it is easier to fall in love with a TV/movie character than with a literary character. Here is my BTT.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rhett and Ashley. Can't think of any other character. Certainly not Mr. Darcy!
ReplyDeleteYes, Gone With the Wind came to mind for me too - but long, long time ago (like 40 years or so)
ReplyDeleteHere's mine: http://dawntreader-island2.blogspot.com/2012/03/btt-bookish-romance.html
Ha-ha...yes, I love the way you put it.
ReplyDeleteCan you believe I chose Rhett, too, as one of mine?
But when I reread the book some time this year, I wonder how I'll see him? Since my teenage self had very little taste...lol
Here's MY THURSDAY MEMES POST
I passed this week. But the one that came to mind for me was Mr. Knightley in Emma. But did I fall in love with him, I don't think so. Just liked the way Jane Austen wrote about him.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your answer and agreed.
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Fallen in love is pretty strong for a two-dimensional character - I can't think of any I've fallen in love with.
ReplyDelete'FALL in love' ?- well not in the romantic boy/girl sense but I can say I loved the character of Claire in Shadow Baby...a precocious young girl...bright, funny, loveable. Author: Allison McGhee
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