*Ronald "Ron" Weasley from JK Rowling's Harry Potter series.
boandpop.deviantart.com/art/HP-Finally-Coloured-Makani-66638986 Pretend the girl with the fluffy hair looking stupidly up at Ron in that picture is me and not Hermione. Delete the pink, lighten the hair about four thousand shades, and you've got yourself a pretty accurate representation of me, eh? Anywhoo, I love Ron because of his uniquely sarcastic sense of humour and the fact that he's one of the most realistic and three-dimensional teenagers I've ever seen in a fiction book. That and the fact that he's just totally adorable. He's got some very, very obvious flaws, but I think he'd be an awfully good friend and lots of fun to hang around with. It's easy to get mad at Ron, but hard to hate him... plus, he likes intelligent girls with fluffy hair, and I fulfill at least one of those requirements (the hair, naturally).
*Rex Greene from the Midnighters trilogy by Scott Westerfeld.
ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vGSlk7hXL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg This stupid emo book cover looks nothing like Rex, but it's the only picture out there that's not anime. Even though Ron Weasley is my favourite fictional character, Rex Greene is the only fictional character that I would actually want as a boyfriend were he real. I'm not really sure what the appeal is, but Rex fascinates me. He's highly, highly intelligent, always the iconoclast, and is always authoritative and commanding, and he reminds me slightly of Jordan Potter from my Potter's Pentagon series, except I think Rex would be more fun to hang out with. Oh, and he has dorky hair, a big swooshy jacket, and thick glasses-- always fun. Then, there's the interesting new aspect of him that's introduced near the end of the second book, which makes him all the more interesting!
* Moist von Lipwig from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels:
img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/twirlynoodle/disc/moistbath.jpg Okay, sorry about that picture, here's a less frightening one--
www.nocturnalsoldier.org/Tealin/xhp/disc/moist01.jpg. Anyway, Moist is an exceedingly cheerful and inventive con artist who is so charming and personable that he manages to trick everyone into adoring him as he swindles them. He has a fairly bent set of morals, but he's not genuinely evil, and he's endearingly awkward AND confident at once, which is fun. And he wears a sparkly gold suit and has a girlfriend named Spike. In my mind, Moist looks, acts, and sounds like Michael Ball, who is in my triumvirate of favourite celebrities, so that helps. I also love Lord Vetinari from the Discworld series, but I have a feeling Aku will discuss him.
*Fred Parsons from Sue Limb's excellent Jess Jordan books:
www.audioeditions.com/covers/muze/9781400090969.jpg He's the scrawny bloke on the right-hand side. Not a very well-known series of books, the Jess Jordan books are the funniest and most entertaining books with a female protagonist that I've run across. Fred is a highly eccentric young British lad who is devastatingly clever and one of the strangest people I've ever run across in literature. Or life. He says things like: “Forgive me for mentioning it, but there is a bogey sticking out of your nose and it bears a striking resemblance to a small but perfectly formed bison.” Have I mentioned I ADORE him? The web page for these books invites you to 'join in the insanity.' I recommend you do so now.
*Sir Percy Blakeney from "The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy:
broadwaymusicalhome.com/images/pimp2.gif (He's the rather foppish-looking man on the left) You knew this one was coming, didn't you? Basically, Sir Percy is my male alter ego, and I dress up as him all the time. He was the original Bruce Wayne, the character who inspired all superheroes (so if you like graphic novels, you better be respectin' that Pimpy, Kane. Haha. Pimp cane. I digress.) He's handsome and brave and smart, so of course he sacrifices all that by acting like the BIGGEST, MOST FOPPISH MORON EVER to cover up the fact that he's sneaking into France with all kinds of ingenious disguises, making death-defying rescues. Even his wife doesn't suspect him. He's hilarious, he gets very good songs in the musical, he's ridiculously well-dressed, and he's not afraid to look incredibly stupid defending his beliefs! Now that's someone after my own heart!
*Henry Tilney from "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen:
austenprose.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/nahenrytilneyportrait07w.jpg A dorky young clergyman who is exceedingly sarcastic and says some very strange things. Actually, my beloved Fred Parsons from the Jess Jordan series appears to be based on Mr. Tilney, which explains a lot. This kid talks in depth about womens' fashions and chick lit, charming all the ladies around, but he's actually doing it to make fun of them and their shallowness. Bit of a jerk, especially for a priest, but I like him anyway. You really have to see the 2007 movie starring JJ Feild to really get an idea of how dorkily charming he is. They have the whole thing on youtube, yanno.
*Claude Frollo of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo. I don't need to post a picture, he's my avatar. Now, don't worry, I don't like the guy. I hate him. But he's a fascinating, three-dimensional villain who makes you both despise him and sympathise with him, and I think he's the best antagonist I've read about. I was really disappointed with Javert, an antagonist that Hugo came up with much later in life, because Frollo had made such an impression on me. He's pretty awesome in the Disney movie as well, but he absolutely wins in
HONOURABLE MENTIONS:-- The eponymous Artemis Fowl: rie-cheese.deviantart.com/art/Artemis-Fowl-28422901 He's awesome, but he's also a bit TOO brilliant to be believable. Also, I liked him better as a sociopath. He seems a bit too nice to me now he's gotten older.
-- Monsieur the Baron Marius Pontmercy from Les Miserables.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d7MsvQNxPg (He's the boy) I love the awkward, dorky, utterly head-over-heels and totally impractical, idealistic Marius (and Michael Ball plays him, and he has pretty songs in the musical), but he can get a little annoying, especially when he's turning away Valjean forever or lying there for days moaning about how he'll never get to see his 'beloved' again (a girl he's never even spoken to.) Oh, here's another good picture:
img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/twirlynoodle/marius.jpg-- Edward Fairfax Rochester from Jane Eyre.
www.ciaranhindsfansite.com/images/janeyre7b.jpg Extremely flawed, very believable, and very well-written and charming. I can even accept that he's a jerk, a pimp, a bigamist, apparently extremely ugly,and the father of an illegitimate child, because he's an excellent character. What I can't accept is that at the end of the book, blinded and crippled, he's even more overdramatic than Marius and totally out of character. I liked him better cynical.
-- Bartimaeus from the Bartimaeus Trilogy.
img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/twirlynoodle/bart-slimepyramid.jpg Hilarious, sarcastic, a brilliant literary voice, but hard to think of as a consistent character when he's constantly changing form.
--Magical Mr. Mistoffellees from "Cats" the musical.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Mistoffelees.jpg/180px-Mistoffelees.jpg For a two-dimensional dancing cat in a leotard, he sure is cool.
