Favourite Character Meme

[kerravonsen]

From altariel1 though I think a version of this went around a while back...

1. Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life.
2. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each item.

1. Blake's 7 - the first and second are too obvious, so I'll challenge you to guess the third - Vila (guessed by altariel1, then mistraltoes)
2. Doctor Who 2005 - The 9th Doctor (guessed by altariel1 and more precisely by mistraltoes)
3. Doctor Who original - 1. the 5th Doctor (guessed by altariel1, then mistraltoes)
4. Bujold's Vor-verse - 1. Cordelia (guessed by altariel1) 2. Miles (guessed by mistraltoes)
5. Pern - Menolly (guessed by dawnmist)
6. Lord of the Rings - 1. Sam (guessed by dawnmist, then labingi)
7. Buffy - Giles (guessed by mistraltoes, then kalypso_v)
8. Stargate - Daniel (guessed by mistraltoes, then kalypso_v)
9. Highlander - Methos (guessed by altariel1, then mistraltoes)
10. Tomorrow People NS
11. Tomorrow People OS
12. UFO
13. Space: Above and Beyond - McQueen (guessed by kalypso_v)
14. Narnia - 1. Lucy (guessed by altariel1) 2. Puddleglum (guessed by mistraltoes)
15. The Champions - Richard Barrett (guessed by kalypso_v)
16. The Sentinel - Jim (guessed by mistraltoes)
17. VR.5 - 1. Oliver (guessed by mistraltoes)
18. Sapphire & Steel - Steel (guessed by altariel1, then mistraltoes)
19. Liaden universe novels (I don't expect anybody to get this)
20. Honor Harrington novels

Bonus question: which four characters from the above universes would I want to beta-read my fic?
Methos (guessed by mistraltoes)

Comments

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I don't know most of those very well. In Narnia - taking a wild guess - I wonder if you like Edward best, because he fell but repented. Not that you are much of a sinner :-) but I think you might like the story arc. But there are a lot of characters over the whole Narnia series.

[kerravonsen]

No, not Edmund.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Some of these I don't know, or don't know well enough to guess.

1. Vila
2. The Doctor
3. The Fifth Doctor
4. Eek, good question! Er, Cordelia?
6. Gandalf
7. Buffy
9. Methos
14. communicator got in first, so I'll guess instead Lucy
18. Steel

[kerravonsen]

1. yes!
2. yes!
3. Yes! (equal first)
4. Yes! (equal first)
6. No, though I'm very fond of him.
7. No, even though she's the title character.
9. Yeah, bleedin' obvious innit?
14. Yes! (equal first)
18. Yes!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

4. Denethor?

[kerravonsen]

No. However much I might be a member of the Denethor Anti-defamation League, he is not my favourite character.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Frodo, or I am stumped.

[kerravonsen]

You're stumped.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Heh!

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Stabbity stabbity stab:

1. Vila
2. Nine
3. Five
4. Miles
5. K'van
6. Gandalf
7. Giles
8. Daniel (eep, I should know, but this is a guess)
9. Methos
10. ---
11. ---
12. ---
13. ---
14. Puddleglum
15. ---
16. Jim
17. Oliver
18. Steel
19. ---
20. ---

But it's the bonus question that really interests me. Hmm... wonderful opportunities for fact-checking, there. Methos, Daniel, Orac, ---?

[kerravonsen]

1. yes
2. yes
3. yes
4. Yes! (equal first)
5. No.
6. No.
7. Yes! Give the lady a book!
8. Yes! Give the lady another book!
9. Yep. As if my Methos icon didn't give it away...
14. Yes! (equal first)
16. Yes!
17. Yes! (equal first)
18. yes.

[kerravonsen]

And in the bonus question... Methos is one of them.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

1. Vila
2. Harriet Jones
3. Liz Shaw
6. Aragorn
7. Giles
8. Daniel
9. Methos
13. McQueen
14. Edmund
15. Oh, it's years since I've thought of that, but I used to have a thing for the William Gaunt character, so I'll go for him. Barrett, was it?
18. Silver

Um... maybe Liz and Giles.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

re 14 - Is it Edward or Edmund? I wrote Edmund first but then I changed it. So long since I read those books...

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Its Edmund

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

The Pevensie boy is Edmund. His cousin is Eustace Clarence Scrubb. I'm very fond of both, though I think my all-time favourite is Puddleglum. I don't think I can do this meme, I've given away too many of my preferences already!

[kerravonsen]

1. yes
2. No, though I'm looking forward to her return.
3. No, she wasn't really a favourite, though Jerri Massi's stories give her a much better role
6. No, though I'm much fonder of Movieverse Aragorn than Bookverse Aragorn
7. yes
8. yes
9. yes
13. Yes!
14. No. Why do people keep on thinking I'd be fond of Edmund?
15. Yes! Richard Barrett
18. No, though I'm fond of him.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Why do people keep on thinking I'd be fond of Edmund?

Well, I like him. He's quite bright, as he's the only person on the battlefield who works out how to improve the odds against the Witch's forces. And later on he's Edmund the Just, and I like seeing him as an adult in The Horse and His Boy.

[kerravonsen]

Good points...

[kerravonsen]

And to the bonus question, no, and no.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

6: Eowyn?

20: I suppose it's too obvious, but Honor herself? Or maybe her sentient cat pet whose name I've forgotten?

[kerravonsen]

6. no
20. half a point

[kerravonsen]

You need the name...

[dawnmist]

5. Menolly
6. Frodo or Sam
19. Val Con (if I remembered his name right *grin*).

Bonus. The 5th doctor, Daniel.

[kerravonsen]

5. yes, I thought you'd get this, considering we were talking about Pern the other day. 8-)
6. yes, Sam is equal first
19. you remembered his name right -- but that's not it. This character has not appeared in the ones you've read, that's why I don't expect anyone to get this.

[kerravonsen]

And for the bonus question... no, and no. If I have Methos as a history consultant, I don't need Daniel...

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

10. Lisa
11. Stephen

[kerravonsen]

10. No
11. No

[labingi.livejournal.com]

6. String or nothing. (Or else I, too, vote for Sam.)

[kerravonsen]

(snerk) No it isn't Gollum. Yes, Sam is equal first.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Are there two answers for all of them? Or just the ones where you've put 1 even if only one's been achieved?

[kerravonsen]

No, there are not two answers for all of them. Some have two answers, some have one answer. (There are some universes where I could not pick just one favourite)
If I've put a "1." there, yes, it means that there is another answer as well as that one.