Childhood fictional crushes

[ellarien]

Various people on my flist and thereabouts have been musing about childhood crushes on fictional characters. I don't think I was much given to crushes, and from the age of twelve or so I tended to make up my own characters to daydream about. On the other hand, several of those -- the dark, lame ones -- owed a certain amount to Marcus in The Eagle of the Ninth (Book, not TV; until someone mentioned it yesterday I don't think I knew there was a TV version). I seem to remember a certain fondness for Wilfred of Ivanhoe, and of course Aragorn, and somewhat later for Arthur in Little Dorrit.

Wanting to be characters doesn't seem to enter into my way of interacting with story. (I made a conscious decision at age twelve to exclude myself from my own imaginative life, and mostly stuck to it through my teens.) There were some female characters (not all entirely fictional) with whom I felt a certain kinship: Anne of Green Gables; Marie Curie; Laura Ingalls; Polly in Alcott's An Old Fashioned Girl.

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[sciamanna.livejournal.com]

I didn't have a crush on Aragorn. I had a crush on Strider, but rather resented Aragorn.

Funnily enough, I've had a similar (though less intense) reaction to the recent movies... :-)