a character meme

[aria]

List 10 of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

I actually had to cheat slightly with a couple of these; there are sneaky ampersands for 3 & 10, because I was in torn-up agonies of being completely unable to decide.

1. Lord of the Rings - Sam Gamgee
2. Harry Potter - Remus Lupin
3. Discworld - Sam Vimes & Esme Weatherwax
4. Firefly - Simon Tam
5. Stargate Atlantis - John Sheppard
6. Buffy - Spike
7. Angel - Lilah Morgan
8. Doctor Who - Martha Jones
9. Battlestar Galactica - Laura Roslin
10. due South - Benton Fraser & Ray Kowalski

...To my surprise, there are more women and fewer evil bastards on this list than I would have originally thought. I'm not saying that I don't love, oh, the Master or Leoben a lot of a lot; it's just that Martha completely pwns the Master and Roslin can turn Leoben into her techie bitch. Which I guess is kind of a pattern already. Find me more, please!

Comments

[polarisnorth]

Well, the first thing that pops to mind is that you have a kink for loyalty. Suicidal loyalty, even (based on Sheppard, Fraser & Ray, Spike, and also Sam and Simon to a degree). And also, you like men who are really bad at expressing their emotions, and are total woobies in addition. (Remus, Vimes, Simon, Sheppard, Spike, Fraser & Ray.) Entirely separately, you like kickass women with a penchant for emotional manipulation.

[aria]

*dies dies dies* Jesus you are absolutely right about the emotional inarticulation. I secretly suspect that's because it's fun to write? Because then you are basically forced to show not tell.

I think Martha is a little affronted by the emotional manipulation charge, but Granny and Lilah are flattered. XD

[schiarire]

I love this meme!!!!!

You are hugely biased in favor of Good Guys.

[dira]

I am now pondering what Granny Weatherwax could do with Sam Vimes. o.O

[aria]

The Yuletide fic I received this past Christmas has a couple of great scenes with both of them in! which does not answer your question perhaps as fully as it could be answered, but still. Here!

[feverbeats]

Wow, you really do like good guys! I'm pretty surprised, actually. You also seem to like everyman characters, like Vimes and Sam and (to a degree) Ray.

[aria]

I KNOW RIGHT. I swear, I spent so much time hanging out with the Master (...and the Doctor, okay, they pretend he is all about saving people but he COMMITTED GENOCIDE, GUYS) that I forgot I really like good guys, but, like, c'mon, I love Lucy Pevensie and Will Stanton and Benton fucking Fraser, okay. This is a clear pattern of Saving The World Through Shiny Upstanding Morals. Ohgod.

...I so want Sam Vimes and Ray Kowalski to hang out.