10 Shaggable Fictional Characters

[annathepiper]

Yeah okay, fine, like this is going to surprise any of you? And I think I'm going to have to break this down by film & TV vs. books and comic books...

Film and TV:
1. Han Solo
2. Indiana Jones
3. Captain Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly)
4. Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
5. Captain Jack Aubrey (as played by Russell Crowe in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
6. Cort (The Quick and the Dead)
7. Aragorn (as played by Viggo Mortensen, the Lord of the Rings movies)
8. Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
9. Remington Steele (show of same name)
10. Clark Kent (as played by Dean Cain, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

Books and Comics:
1. Harry Dresden (Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series of books)
2. Corlath (Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword)
3. Strongbow of the Wolfriders (Elfquest by Wendy and Richard Pini)
4. Teir (also Elfquest)
5. Emerson (Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series)
6. Ramses Emerson (also from the Amelia Peabody series)
7. Roarke (J.D. Robb's Eve Dallas series)
8. Julian Kestrel (Kate Ross' Julian Kestrel series)
9. Jason Morgan (Julie Czerneda's A Thousand Words for Stranger)
10. Reandn (Doranna Durgin's Touched by Magic and Wolf Justice)

There were quite a few other contenders, but I disqualified them on the basis of not quite being high enough on the radar, or else being more crush objects from childhood rather than current lust objects. ;)

NEXT!

Comments

[suntop.livejournal.com]

I am so with you on Teir!

[annathepiper]

That full-body panel where we first get a real good look at him, where he's all long-black-haired and blue-eyed and tanned and scantily clad... oh my. That was pretty.

One had to work hard to yank my attention off Strongbow, but Teir did it! If he'd ever been put into play on Two Moons, I'd have been looking for excuses to go and swoon--if not actually play him myself to make sure he was played RIGHT. ;)

[suntop.livejournal.com]

I tried to get Staff to let me play Tier on a number of occasions and they never let me. I was SO wanting to play that particular character...

Yeah, I had a window decal I printed of one of those panels...I still have a notebook with the image of him sitting with the wolf pups.

Hot!

[annathepiper]

The tough part about implementing Teir on Two Moons would have been figuring out a doable background for him. Since TM's timeline differed so dramatically from what got played out in the comics, Teir would have had to have his history rewritten from scratch while preserving the character's most vital traits--as Tyleet did, and as Venka would have done if we'd allowed her to be put into play.

TM had gotten around to implementing Teir's animal-influencing powers, at least, so that was a start.

[suntop.livejournal.com]

Oh, I had a background all set for him...one that preserved his traits, but worked in a different birth and all.

But they didn't want to see it. I remember sending them information about him to make it possible, but they didn't really give me a good reason as to why not, it was just a big, fat, NO.

I don't think they liked me too much then.

[annathepiper]

Eh well, there's always fanfic! ;)

(Me, I've come to appreciate writing a great deal more now that I've backed out of MUSHing--the ability to write a story about the character the way I want, without having to specially apply for it or ask anyone's permission, or worry about the actions of others causing me to have to take a story in a new direction entirely... it's very intoxicating!

Of course, we won't get into how my own other characters frequently interfere with what I'm doing with a character anyway.... ;))

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

Outstanding lists!

And Han shot first, dammit! :P

[annathepiper]

Preach it, brother!

(Gosh, it's such a good thing George Lucas never got it into his head to mess with one of the best scenes in one of the finest movies he ever made, isn't it? Because I mean DAMN, that would have been STUPID!)

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

Or that he'd retcon his own work like some sort of Communist Party historian, 'cause that'd just be whacked....

[annathepiper]

Yeah, totally. Thank gods ol' George is a sensible producer and director! Otherwise he might have gone and done something like, oh, I dunno, making vastly inferior prequels to Star Wars.

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

Yeah, 'cuz if he did he might put an idea like that into the heads of the Wachowski brothers, and they might make crappy sequels to The Matrix...

[annathepiper]

And boy, am I glad that didn't happen!

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

On your Books and Comics list, of the ones I recognize, I can understand Strongbow and Corlath and quite agree, but I've tried to rack my brain as to where I would recognize Teir, and it's a no go. I'd go through my Elfquest collection, but they've already made the move up to my apartment, which is an half hour drive from here. Is Teir in the most recent publication? That's probably the only one I haven't read so far.

[annathepiper]

Teir shows up in the latter Hidden Years issues, after it shifts over to regularly following Ember and her offshoot tribe. He becomes rivals with Mender for Ember's affections, and there are huge hints dropped that he might be a son of Kahvi's, though we have yet to get actual confirmation of this.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was confirmed that he was definitely a GoBack and a possible descendant of Kahvi...and I think he was also pretty old.

[annathepiper]

Well, offhand I don't remember specific proof that he's completely Go-Back blooded--there may have been a reference, but it's been a while since I've read the comics, so I'm not pulling it up out of memory.

The Kahvi connection I remember more clearly. There's a bit where the human bounty hunter brings Ember's tribe a braid as proof of having taken out an elf--and the tribe thinks it's Kahvi, because they recognize her scent. And it affects Teir in particular very strongly, as we see him have a flashback that strongly implies that he is Kahvi's son. Which would of course make him part Go-Back, but the impression I got was more possibly that Kahvi ran into some other tribe of wanderers in her travels--and that Teir could have been the product of a fling with one of them.

You're right, though, my understanding is that Teir's supposed to be significantly older than Ember. His bio page on Elfquest.com bears this out, talking about his having spent "countless years" alone.

[ravyngyngvar.livejournal.com]

Comics aren't exactly accessible to me, either, but I thought I remembered that there was a flashback where Teir seemed to remember Kahvi, and there was some discussion about whether this meant that Kahvi was Teir's mother or not.

However, Teir definitely showed up with a long sword like those from the troll war earlier, so that's another connection.

Surprised that Strongbow didn't get top billing. :-)

[annathepiper]

What can I say, Harry Dresden and Corlath are awfully swoonable. ;) And while only the Dresden Files are ongoing, The Blue Sword has a very high place in my heart--it's one of the very first fantasy novels I really remember falling in love with, and Robin McKinley is definitely one of my writerly inspirations.

[leian.livejournal.com]

Teir! *swooooonn*...

Hey, this looks like fun. I think I'll give it a shot! :D

[annathepiper]

Indeed, the Wolf-father is quite swoonable! Have fun playing with this meme. :)

[leian.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe done! I did things a little different and mixed the TV characters with book characters due to there being few of the former. And I stuck characters from the same source into one slot each, if you see what I mean. :)

[annathepiper]

Cool beans. :)