# Anyone else have a crush on a fictional character? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 29, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288 "2001-01-29T18:01:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/21 "2001-01-30T16:16:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Charley \* > \*\*Another Stephen King one, but I don’t have the book in front of me, and it’s been a while - the main character in the Dead Zone - can someone remind me of his name? I think the appeal of that one is another thwarted true love affair. \*\* Johnny Smith. I’d have to go with Stu Redman from The Stand, and Jack from The Talisman. Also the fat boy from IT. The one who grew up to be an architect. He was just the sweetest thing, and grew up to be a handsome devil! Nobody can develop a character and make him seem so real as Stephen King. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/22 "2001-01-30T17:10:03Z")
When I was a kid, Charles Wallace from _A Swiftly Tilting Planet_. In the other two books he was too young, but I liked Calvin O’Keefe at that point anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Stella\_Fantasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@Stella\_Fantasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stella_Fantasia)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/23 "2001-01-30T17:15:36Z")
Jax, from Barbara Kingsolver’s _Pigs in Heaven_. I used to go out with this guy who was a big-time jerk, just because certain things about him reminded me of Jax. And of course, Zaphod Beeblebrox. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/24 "2001-01-30T17:48:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kallessa \* > \*\* > > Corwin, Prince of Amber \*\* He’s actually a talking bear, you know. 😉 [[You have to be on the Amber mailing list to get that.]] **delphica** Porthos, all the way! ---
**Author:** ![BobSchroeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BobSchroeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobSchroeck)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/25 "2001-01-30T17:50:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by StephenG \* > \*_Yeah, there are many. I can only think of a couple… > [ul] > [li]Talia, from Mercedes Lackey’s Arrows of the Wind_ series,[/li][/ul] > \*\* Hmmm. I can see Talia. I think that personally I’m more of an Elspeth person, myself… her, or Kerowyn before she made captain. Or maybe Kerowyn’s grandma… Kethry went through life with a sharp mind and a gleeful sensuality. I could go for that… – Bob ---
**Author:** ![St.Attila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@St.Attila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Attila)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/26 "2001-01-31T01:09:32Z")
Sally Shears (aka Molly Millions) from William Gibson’s Sprawl stories (minus the razor blades, I’m convinced she was the model for Trinity in _The Matrix_). She kicks major butt and can sever testicles with a flick of her wrist. I like the way she thinks, too. She jacks into the Matrix and Case rides along; when she realizes he’s there and, essentially, sharing her body, she reaches into her jacket and gives her tit a squeeze. Totally bizarre sensation for him, 'cause it kinda feels like he’s squeezing his own tit. Mind job. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/27 "2001-01-31T01:32:48Z")
In my somewhat gothic youth I had a real thing for Edward Fairfax Rochester from Jane Eyre. Dark and brooding were really appealing then. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/28 "2001-01-31T01:36:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dolores Claiborne \* > \*\*Johnny Smith. I’d have to go with Stu Redman from The Stand, and Jack from The Talisman. Also the fat boy from IT. The one who grew up to be an architect. He was just the sweetest thing, and grew up to be a handsome devil! Nobody can develop a character and make him seem so real as Stephen King. \*\* Dolores- I know what you mean. His name was Ben, I believe. I don’t remember his last name, though. (Hey, Ben is better than “the fat boy.”) He was sweet. 🙂 And if we’re talking about The Stand, I’ll have to go with everybody (well almost everybody)'s fave bad guy…Randall Flagg. Tho Harold himself wasn’t so bad. I was starting to wonder where all the guys who lusted for female characters were. Here they are! ---
**Author:** ![Jekeira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Jekeira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jekeira)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/29 "2001-01-31T02:59:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kallessa \* > > Coren of Sirle from Patricia McKillip’s \* The Forgotten Beast of Eld\*, one of the best books > written and one of the most romantic heroes around. Kallessa, I’m a big fan of Patricia McKillip books, too. She’s one of my all-time most beloved authors. Me, I have a huge yen for Deth from the **Riddlemaster Trilogy**. So so quiet, so gentle, so intelligent, such a dangerous, unpredictable liar … Oh, yeah. By the time he lost the use of his hands in the third book, I was his slave. (Sorry, I just have to do a small hijack here, having run across another McKillip reader) - I once read a story by her that was based on Hans Christian Anderson’s “Ice Queen” story. It was amazingly good, but I’ve forgotten what it was called or where it was published. Do you know? ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/30 "2001-01-31T07:48:02Z")
Jekeira–I believe it’s called _The Snow Queen_, published in the \* Snow White, Red Rose\* (I think that’s the title–I know it’s Snow White something)collection in 1993 edited by Datlow and Windling, and in the _Best of Fantasy and Horror_ volume 7, by the same editors. Oh, and just so this isn’t just a hijack–I agree with you about Deth–another crush. And somebody mentioned Ponyboy Curtis, oh I remember him. And I’ll add a new name–Rakossy, a medieval Hungarian Baron fighting the Turks in the novel of the same name by Cecelia Holland. Several of her characters could go on this list when I think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/31 "2001-01-31T09:00:24Z")
Hawk and Fisher from the Hawk and Fisher Books by Simon Green. I have to say I have not found anyone with more disdain and rudeness to anyone they think worth it as equal to me. I swear to god I could knock back a few beers with both of them and be the 3rd Guardsman with relish In the realm of King, Roland the Gunslinger and I would make good traveling mates. I fire while seeing my fathers face and have a good supply of riddles. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Medievalist2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Medievalist2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medievalist2)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/32 "2001-02-03T10:28:02Z")
Beowulf Sir Gawain Roland ---
**Author:** ![IMATION](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@IMATION](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IMATION)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/33 "2001-02-03T10:58:52Z")
Could a person faking their identity on the inernet simply to fit into society be a legit ‘fictional character’ if the person talking to them starts to love them? Internet love, is fake as it gets, although you are both being legit… it is too easy to fake who you are over the internet… you never know… i could be 103 years old… type a character a minute, but still able to think logically and ethically as a 23 year old could… anything is possible… A character i have fallen in love with , (for fetish reasons) is cat woman reoww… well… thats the closest i have come across… but i dont ‘love’ her… just her looks and her soft, sly, personality. a venis fly trap as it were… a thorned rose…|!? Simply a matter or tastes… Peace, IMATION ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288/34 "2001-02-03T11:26:52Z")
I’ve had a long-time crush on HAL-9000. I mean, he was so devoted, and crazy, and he was SUCH a good singer… hooo… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-crush-on-a-fictional-character/52288.md?page=1)