The Five Fictional Characters Meme

[browngirl]

As gotten from jenny_junipurr:

1. I will give you a letter.
2. Think of 5 fictional characters whose name starts with that letter and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
3. Link back to that entry here. She gave me

This is surprisingly difficult, even with the time of day (morning, busy) and other handicaps (me, groggy).

1. Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan. I just deleted what I wrote, because it was STUPID, but suffice it to say that Cordelia redefined my notions of heroism. She's just so wonderfully, relentlessly herself, a Betan on Barrayar, a mother who is uttely the antithesis of chickified, a scientist who kicks ass. I love her.

2. Naamah. She isn't a character so much as a fictional deity, a goddess of sex workers, and I... I have a couple books about sacred sexuality, and I have a thing for fictional sex workers (about which I feel guilty, because I worry that I'm romanticising real problems, but I still have it) and she hits all those happy buttons for me.

3. Nikeratos from The Mask of Apollo. I love him, gently bitchy and keen-eyed, devoted to his art and to those he loves and yet eminently practical. And I love that book, and that novelist.

4. Nightwing. I really like the journey Dick Grayson went on from kid sidekick to adult hero, from a flat cheerful kid to a personality of more than one dimension. I really think comic books can be much more than people often expect them to be.

5. Nancy Drew. Poor Miss Drew. I think I always felt expected/required to like her due to demographics, so I never really gave her a chance. Fortunately I soon learned to like things not because of or despite their level of popularity, but regardless.

Comments

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[andreas_schaefer]

<selfpity thing> nothiung much I can do with this useless arm in a cast </selfpity thing>

It occurs to me that some letters may be more difficult than others.

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

I'd ...like to play. I think :>

[jenny_evergreen]

When I was 9-ish, I read so much Nancy Drew that my mother despaired of me ever reading anything else. Wow! I guess I had a "normal" moment in my life after all. *grin*

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I'll bite. (heh, heh)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Funny thing. I often have trouble keeping track of names in fiction--in novels I frequently get confused by who is who, and in movies, I keep track by appearances, and for the most part couldn't tell you the names of characters the minute I leave the theater.

Of course, I have trouble with names in real life. Every year I find I've learned fewer and fewer of my students' names by the end of the term.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Oh, go on then.