Patrick from The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Fictional sassy fem top of my dreams! Plus, the poor kid really needs rescuing. He should never have dated that self-loathing football player.
It’s so old hat, but Mr. Darcy from “Pride and Prejudice”. From movies, Seth Starkadder from “Cold Comfort Farm”, Uncas from “Last of the Mohicans”, Wind In His Hair from “Dances with Wolves” or Crash Davis from “Bull Durham.” Why? It’s pretty obvious. I definitely have a favorite flavor of guy. Smouldering and somewhat serious.
@KNOWITALL Heathcliff hanged his wife’s dog, forced her to run for her life, and later kidnapped Cathy’s daughter and forced his son to marry her. I don’t know…I think I might look elsewhere for marriage candidates! :-)
John Bates from “Downton Abbey.” He may not be conventionally handsome, but there’s something very dashing and compelling about him. I also love how he treats Anna.
@SadieMartinPaul Very familiar, one of my favorite books. Remember he was an orphan and a beggar exposed very early in life to the negative’s of life, then abused and ignored, and teased. I love the dark misunderstood people. And also, his wife dismissed every sign of his love for Cathy so she could have her own way, it was one-sided and very obvious. I don’t know, I get him.
@Seek_Kolinahr I would have thought you’d love it like I do. It was a dreary sounding group though so I can see that. I loved him walking the moors crying for his Cathy, so dark & romantic.
@Seek_Kolinahr Well crap, you like Aragon, I like Aragon, just trying to find a mutual interest or two. Besides the difference in religion, you interest me.
I’m just not into girly love stories. That’s why I like Aragorn. He’s sexy, he kicks serious ass, and he doesn’t care whether you want him or not. Man’s got shit to do.
The memoirs open with:
“I begin by declaring to my reader that, by everything good or bad that I have done throughout my life, I am sure that I have earned merit or incurred guilt, and that hence I must consider myself a free agent. ... Despite an excellent moral foundation, the inevitable fruit of the divine principles which were rooted in my heart, I was all my life the victim of my senses; I have delighted in going astray and I have constantly lived in error, with no other consolation than that of knowing I have erred. ... My follies are the follies of youth. You will see that I laugh at them, and if you are kind you will laugh at them with me.”
Casanova wrote about the purpose of his book:
I expect the friendship, the esteem, and the gratitude of my readers. Their gratitude, if reading my memoirs will have given instruction and pleasure. Their esteem if, doing me justice, they will have found that I have more virtues than faults; and their friendship as soon as they come to find me deserving of it by the frankness and good faith with which I submit myself to their judgment without in any way disguising what I am.”
above from Wikipedia
Oh damn, Casanova isn’t fictional just too good to be true…back to the drawing board…