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It is a well known fact that....

Everybody has their favourite fictional hero.

I know the attractions of Darcy, Heathcliff et al - but my tastes are a little less literary.

So.
I'm in two minds: either Rourke (JD Robb In Death) or Sparhawk (David Eddings Elenium & Tamuli).

Who is your secret hero?

Rourke. Yummm.

Sirius Black. I was gutted when he (spoiler deleted)

Jack Reacher, in realism. Richard Cypher, in fantasy.

Jackson Brodie (particularly now he looks like Jason Isaacs in my head)

Granny Weatherwax

Dirk Pitt, Bernard Sampson and George Smiley in equal measure.

Peppermint Patty from the Charlie Brown cartoons

Aragorn. He's much cooler in the book than in the films. So now I read the book and have sexpot Viggo in my head - best of both worlds.

Thursday Next, Harry Dresden, Kris Longknife . . .

The slayer of the Jabberwocky in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.

Winnie-the-pooh. Philosopher, hedonist and loyal friend.

Harry Dresden, Falco, Sam Vines

Juan Cabrillo, Dirk Pitt and Harry Dresden I think. Anne from the Famous Five series was one of my favourites when I was younger, along with Lucy Pevensie.

Bertie Wooster: preux chevalier and second smartest person in the Jeeves books (though there is an admittedly large gap between first and second).

Blackadder.


(notice hint of tongue in cheek)

Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables She has saw me through many difficult life situations with her eternal optimism and life affirming views.
"One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world"
And very appropriate for this group:
"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find there are so many of them in the world."

Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley... more of an anti hero I suppose, but so cool and suave.
And the intense and calculating Julien Sorel in Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir.

Can I have a second go? Justin, Duke of Avon, in Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades.

Elizabeth wrote: "Can I have a second go? Justin, Duke of Avon, in Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades."

Oooooh!

Possibly even swoon?

Elizabeth wrote: "Possibly even swoon?"

I'm considering it.

Logan Mountstuart, although he's not so much a hero, but more an appealingly-flawed human being.

Conway from Lost Horizon

Piglet for having the courage to overcome his fears despite his small size.

Jane Eyre

Kath wrote: "Sirius Black. I was gutted when he (spoiler deleted)"

ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like Pippi Longstocking, she just did what she liked and didn't worry about what other people thought but was still a good egg.

As I started this thread I'm allowing myself another go.

Lucy from the Peanuts cartoons.

Who hasn't wanted to be just that mean sometimes....

Rourke is def up there (I mean, hello, who wouldn't love him!) . . . and, yes, was gutted about Sirius Black.

Legolas from LOR and Charlie Parker and Mathew Shardlake.

Meursault from L'étranger but then I'm more about anti-heroes

Rosemary the fourth plinth wrote: "Jackson Brodie (particularly now he looks like Jason Isaacs in my head)"

Jason Isaacs was in the year above me at school. Safe to say we all thought his academic career was unspectacular, but then he did have good contacts...

Marc wrote: "Meursault from L'étranger but then I'm more about anti-heroes"

Coincidently, I added that to my must reread soon list yesterday. It was a toss up between that and The Plague.

The Plague is very good, an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France

Marc wrote: "The Plague is very good, an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France"

I remember reading it about 30 years ago, but I can't remember much about it. I did like it at the time though.

I did have quite a Camus/Satre/de Beauvoir period at one time. I even had the overcoat and the Gauloises.

:-)

what we'd do to meet girls eh?

Marc wrote: "what we'd do to meet girls eh?"

Yeah. That was more or less it.

Dave had a great coat and a ponytail, apparently.

Thank goodness I met him after his awkward phase.

Pity for him he met you just after yours started!

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Pity for him he met you just after yours started!"

He met her in childhood?

Oh you two.

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Oh you two."

*Chortle*