# What literary characters have you fallen in love with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2002, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234 "2002-06-03T20:55:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234/61 "2002-06-09T07:14:45Z")
I second Peter Wimsey. I’ve been intriged ever since I met him. ---
**Author:** ![Bubba\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bubba\_Ray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubba_Ray)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234/62 "2002-06-09T12:22:19Z")
Friday from Heinleins book of the same name, she really had a certain something. Hmm and another vote for Susan Sto Helit… ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234/63 "2002-06-09T12:37:24Z")
Well I dunno about Anne Rice’s Akasha, but for a while I went out with a girl who used Akasha as a handle, does that count? ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234/64 "2002-06-09T13:47:38Z")
Aragorn, of course. The movie just didn’t compare with the man who’s been inhabiting my head since I read the book. Captain Carrot. I’ll third (or is it fourth? I’ve lost track) Stu Redman. Mr. Darcy. Tarzan. Maybe this is why I haven’t been able to find a dateable guy… possibly my standards are just a smidge too high. ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234/65 "2002-06-09T15:12:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FisherQueen \* > \*\*Aragorn, of course. The movie just didn’t compare with the man who’s been inhabiting my head since I read the book. > \*\* William Hurt’s voice was sexy in Backshi’s LotR wasn’t it? **Mudge the Otter** from Allan Dean Foster’s Spellsinger series. **Duncan Idaho** gholas of Frank Herbert’s Dune. The poor long suffering soul! I think **lobley** is right…Adoration is more like it. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234/66 "2002-06-09T20:08:58Z")
Yuri Zhivago, even if he WAS a two-timing sleazeball. All’s fair in love and war, you know. Of course, maybe it’s just because I saw the movie before I read the book, and Omar Sharif is such a hottie! ---
**Author:** ![A\_wizard\_song\_for\_thee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@A\_wizard\_song\_for\_thee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_wizard_song_for_thee)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234/67 "2002-06-09T20:23:50Z")
Candace Compson from _The Sound and the Fury_. I mean, the book was written because Faulkner was in love with her, and the whole story is about making the reader love her, too. You know that you couldn’t keep her, but… Rowr! I don’t really know why, but I fell in love with Celia from _Volpone_, too. She just has all the guys wrapped around her finger… Oh, what the hey, I’ll put in another voice for Susan Sto Helit! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234/68 "2002-06-09T20:32:56Z")
Huh. While I can understand some of these choices (esp. Kinsey Millhone), I guess I don’t usually fall for book characters in that way. What I thought of was my teenage crush on Kitty Pryde from the _X-Men_ & _Excalibur_ (“X-Calibre”) comics. I think serialisation has something to do with it. (Also the case with Kinsey Millhone, of course.) What struck me was that Chronos mostly named books I’m familiar with from childhood. But I wouldn’t have thought of Susan Calvin from _I, Robot_ or the princess from the Prydain cycle. Of course, I identify with characters of both sexes easily, so I’m not sure whether I ever “fell in love” with those characters, except in a fan-to-concept way. I definitely dug Lucy (_Narnia_) & Eowyn (_LOTR_) for obvious reasons, but in love with? Maybe. It’s been a while. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234/69 "2002-06-10T03:02:58Z")
Howard Roark from _The Fountainhead_ and Rochester from _Jane Eyre_ ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Salads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mr\_Salads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Salads)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234/70 "2002-06-10T03:05:44Z")
**Roland Deschain** from Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234/71 "2002-06-10T03:24:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Carter of Mars \* > \*\*Why, that would be Dejah Thoris; heroine of the E.R. Burroughs _Mars Series_.😃 Burroughs’s descriptions of her made an impression on my then eight year-old mind that has never dimmed, never faded. **First Love** dies hard! \*\* LOL, don’t let my friend and fellow SDMB’er Tars Tarkas hear that! I think he’s got dibs on her. While I’m tempted to pick any of the slavegirls on Gor…really tempted…oh yeah, that’s the stuff…er, as I was saying…well, I lost my train of thought now! :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-characters-have-you-fallen-in-love-with/112234.md?page=3)