My quirks aren’t a gimmick or false front—I’ve been borderline looney toons as far back as I can remember. My best friends growing up were the gang from Mystery Inc. especially shaggy and Scooby Doo. We’d have adventures that led nowhere and solved nothing and I was often heard muttering the phrase “if it weren’t for you meddling kids….”
At 8, it was cute. At 31, just plain strange.
Some other favorite fictional characters that I’ve been obsessed with.
1) The crew from Star Trek: the Next Generation. I watched the shows, devoured the books (the ones by Peter David are the absolute best, especially if you are a Riker/Troi fan) and even had a game boy video cartridge. And I won’t apologize for it.
2) Suzanne Brockmann’s troublershooters. Of course, I prefer the ones that focused on the Navy SEALs, having an inside track to the navy lifestyle and having heard first hand the reverent tones in which the SEAL teams are described. Something about Brockmann’s guys in particular is timelessly appealing. The tortured heroes to the nth degree.
3) The Charmed ones. Though I didn’t get cozy with this uber popular TV series from the beginning, I was no less a fangirl once hooked. Julian McMahon as the half demon Balthazar. Oh yeah.
4) J.R. Ward’s Blackdagger Brotherhood. Another master of torture. By the time you get to the end of one of Ward’s books, you know those characters have truly earned their HEA.
5) Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark Series. Nuff said.
6) The Gilmore Girls. The speed of snark in this show mesmerized me. This and Farscape is what got me through 2004 in my money-pit, bug-infested ranch house, two children under the age of four and a husband on 6 month deployment.
7) Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. Are you getting the impression that my tastes in entertainment are a little disparate? The common thread is quality. I leaned on this fantasy epic while pregnant with my first son, and took me about nine months to read the first eight books, as I had to keep switching back to What to Expect While Your Expecting. (Talk about disparate.;-))
8) Maggie and Neil. He’s been with me since 2006 and I’ll never grow tired of him. I’ve said it before and I will gain, Neil is my ultimate hero, I can’t create any better than him. Maggie’s voice is so interwoven with my own I have a hard time figuring out where she ends and I begin. We have a great love-hate bond going. Other characters come and go, but these two will be with me forever.
So what about you? Do you ever obsess over characters, well after the show has ended or the final page of the book has been read? I’ve aired my dirty laundry and there’s plenty of room on the line for yours!
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Oh, yes. There are characters that live on in my head long after their stories are over.
You want to talk embarrassing? Okay. *rolls up sleeves*
The Prophecy 4- Yes, I said 4. Shut-up. Anyway... it's all for the end. There's a scene where Allison has some serious UST with the Devil. He's talking about how many of hell's denizens despise her and her kind. And she turns to look at him, wide-eyed and innocent, the romance novel heroine braving the dark and she asks him, obviously begging him to kiss her, "What about you, do you despise me,". He grabs her and she sees Hell and the future in his eyes. It burns her, marks her and she's afraid, but she doesn't run away. In my head, you know he carried her off to hell and they bought a house with a yard, a lawn-mowing goat and a three-headed dog.
Jared from The Pretender-What an amazing character. I wanted him to end up with um... I can see her face, but I forgot her name. You know who I mean.
My own characters-Yeah, it's something I have to do. I have to fall in love with them.
Sometimes, I'll be doing something else and I just slip into a character fugue. I come to, and half an hour is gone and scenes have played out in my head. Some people find that scary, but I welcome it. When it doesn't happen, that's called literary constipation. For me anyway. *g*
Ms.Parker! She's my hero. They really should have made one more mini series movie to tie the whole thing up.
I love it when an author makes me fall in love wtih the characters so much that I think about them long after I've read the last page.
Some of my obsessions are Zsadist, Rhage and Butch from the BDB series. Loved many of Brockmann's heroes too (Mike Muldoon, Sam Starett and Max Baghat are my faves).
Of course my own heroes are always on my mind. I'm uber attached to Luke, but I think of the other guys a lot too :)
I haven't read Kresley Cole's books yet--where should I start?
Many of mine have been mentioned, but here's a few...
Bones from the show Bones.
Lestat from Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.
Eric Northman and I are secretly having an affair behind Saranna's back. lol
Cara from Legend of the Seeker. She is one badass chic.
Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory.
and Scarlett from Gone with the Wind, because I've never met a more seld indulgent person ever.
Kaylea,
I love what you've done with Luke in the first two books. (That's as far a I've gotten.) He's so stalwart and tortured, love him to death!
As far as Kresley Cole goes, the very first IAD book was in the anthology Playing Easy to Get. The story is called The Warlord Wants Forever. The first stand alone is A Hunger Like No Other.I'm reading the latest one know, between bouts of anxiety.
Paranormal Queen: I've been seeing previews for bones on TNT, think I'll have to give it a go. And I've heard great things about Legends of the Seeker. Since you have such excellent taste, I'll be sure to check that out too!
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