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26 October 2007
If you could have a romance with any fictional character, who would it be?→[More:]For me, it's Cap Garland from the Little House series.
Ford Prefect from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (c'mon! He's funny and smart and resourceful and ludicrously lucky in a kind of lopsided way.), or Dr. Who--either the Tom Baker or Christopher Eccleston incarnations. Claims geek crown.
As a child I had a huge crush on both Gilligan and Shaggy from Scooby Doo. I'm also very hot for Captain Hastings from the Poirot series shown on PBS. As for somebody strictly from a novel and not influenced by tv or film, I'd probably go with either Captain Wentworth from Jane Austen's Persuasion or Mr. Weston from Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey.
I once wrote a novel where the main character marries Lord Gerald Palliser from the Anthony Trollope novels.
Zonker from Doonesbury - and then, okay (oh god, nerd alert) Sirius Black. I cried and cried when he died. Elizard is going to have to fight me for Ford Prefect and Tom Baker's Dr. Who and I'll add Spike from Buffy to the mix as well. There's also a small 19th century self portrait at the Walters in Baltimore that I've been in love with for years, but he's not a fictional character, really.
Luke Danes from Gilmore Girls before the abysmal last season.
Someone played by Alan Rickman or Bill Nighy or Stephen Rea in the Crying Game. The Divine Wino of my dreams.
i dunno, i'll try to think of something better when i have my wits about me.
Someone possessed of inner strength and the ability to roll with it.
arsey, I'm perfect for you! Except I have blonde hair instead of black. And not so thin. And I laugh way too much. And I like a lot of sunshine. But check this out:
Black dress? Check.
Twisted humor? Check.
Bad housekeeper? Check.
See? Almost Perfect.
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For me? Oye. I don't really fall (romantically) in love with characters. Either that, or it's that I fall in love with all of them - which is pretty much the same thing.
Let's see... As a bookmark/placemarker, I'll say Edward Rochester. But really, he's not at all my type. I only love him because Jane loves him; Ill think about it more and get back here.
I would have to say George Clooney's character in From Dusk Til Dawn. Or Indiana Jones. Or Daniel Craig as James Bond. Or any character played by Jude Law.
Oh I totally agree with Dr. House. It is my great dream that Fox should air a show called "Rossi" at 7 on Tuesdays so that the tv listings would read Rossi Bones House.
No, not for me. But damn, what a hard question. I'm too boy crazy to pick just one. From literature, aside from characters I like in association wth their portrayal by hotties, I would have to go with a Heathcliff or Howard Roark... which is so odd to me to realize. I have dated some pretty impossible types in real life, though...
But for movies/tv, it's a long, long list. At the top are Russell Crowe as Bud White, John Malkovich as Vicomte de Valmont, Ryan Gosling as Noah Calhoun and Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski. With a little realism for flavor, not that it's really realism, give me Paul Rudd in anything, really. He's always Paul Rudd. YUM. And House, with Wilson.
Lloyd Dobbler. Only he'd either be my age or I'd be his. Cause at 31, it's getting a little weird for me to keep him as my fallback fictional boyfriend.
Gah, I, too, immediately thought of Colin Firth-ish Mr. Darcy (before I remembered that he's kind of a dick).
I always fall for the sidekicks, so my list includes Sol Star from Deadwood and Wash from Firefly.
As a kid, the list was pretty muck Dickon from The Secret Garden and Almanzo Wilder from the end of The Little House on the Prairie series. And for awhile I wanted to marry Anne Gilbert from Anne of Green Gables.
Were I not a mudblood, what would have been in store?
I'm certain that I wouldn't be in Gryffindor.
No, the Sorting Hat would know
To place me 'neath my beau —
The only Hogwarts student in House Dumbledore.
You all are high. The sexiest hottie is by far the twins played by Haley Mills in the original Parent Trap movie. Anyone who disputes this faces me in a duel.
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