Crushes on Fictional Characters

[weatherwax]

I'm riffing off of today's AV Club Q and A. Which fake people did you have crushes on as a kid? Who still makes you sigh, despite your adulthood and their fictionality?

Childhood:

Robin Hood from the Disney version. Yes, the fox. He was charming! He was courageous! He liked kids! He had a British accent! My VHS got a lot of play thanks to that crush.

Older Pete from The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Young Pete was spot on my age, so I knew older Pete would never glance my way even if he existed IRL. Still, I loved his laid back attitude, and how he took the weirdness of his town in stride.

Spike Speigel from Cowboy Bebop. I was introduced to anime through Cowboy Bebop at the age of 15, and lordy did my lil' fangirl heart pitter pat at Spike. Today, I think Spike would be just about the worst person to date (mercurial, thoughtless, arrogant, kinda shallow -- not to mention that past and his hang-ups over a certain woman), but I loved him as a teen. Thank god I didn't do fan fic back then, else it would have been...oh, god, so bad...

Current Crushes

The Goblin King from Labarynth. This is a crush that never died, though it began in childhood. Listen, if a fellow whisked me off to his magical kingdom to solve a riddle that seemingly will save someone I don't really love all that much but I feel a duty to protect, and that entire premise was just an elaborate set-up to get me to fall in love with him and his world, and that fellow ALSO looked like David Bowie with crazed owl hair and a codpiece, I'd be hard-pressed to dismiss him. I mean, good lord, "I will be your slave?" Gorgeous ball room masquerades? Not to mention the MAGICAL AWESOMENESS OF THAT WORLD! Metaphoric lessons of growing up and leaving childish things behind be damned, I STILL want in on that.

Russia from Hetalia Axis Powers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's a psychopath. I think this mostly has something to do with my fascination with Russian history. It's just so strange compared to Western Europe or Asia or North America (the other areas and eras I know fairly well). I mean, there's the usual wars and stuff, but there's this huge sense of "F you guys, we're gonna do our own thing, thankyouverymuch" from its incarnation to the current day. Seeing the country come to life as an anthropomorphic personification just makes me squee.

The Doctor. I mean, come on.

[FreakyBoy]

Even guys have crushes on the The Doctor. I know I do.

[Ruan]

Truth. He's... the Doctor.

I'm not sure about crushes per se, but at the very least a healthy dose of affection...

Hm. Considering I play eroge, specifically pure love eroge, which tend to attempt to invoke precisely that feeling toward the heroines... potentially quite a few I could list. Still. Top two has to be Mitsurigi Meiya from Muvluv Alternative, and Rin from Cartagra. Rin in particular was painful because Cartagra is a murder-mystery game... and you cannot save her from getting killed. Ahhh, that still ticks me off, because out of all the characters, she's the one that everyone wants to save.

Otherwise...

I tend to have a weakness for strong women. I've had a thing for Milla Jovovich since I watched The Fifth Element for the first time, and it hasn't changed yet.

Not exactly fictional, but I'm also a sucker for beautiful voices... for instance Sharon den Adel from Within Temptation.

[Kajin]

The first time I can recall having a crush on a fictional character was Sailor Moon. I think I was nine at the time.

[weatherwax]

I think voices count. I have a small thing for Garrus from Mass Effect. He's a lizard guy, sure, but he has one HELL of a voice actor. Like butter on the ears.

[Steave]

Having a crush on The Doctor is obvious. When I was young it was Ace who hit all my buttons ... with Nitro 9, blowing them all the Hel up. *sigh* What a gal.

[Kajin]

On a more recent note, it would be General Olivier Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist (Brotherhood if you're watching the anime). There's just something about a strong and powerful woman who knows how to handle heavy firepower that just lights a fire in my belly.

[SaveTheGreyhounds]

The Doctor is awesome, yes, but I might just have a bit of a thing for Rory...

[giggles]

Jareth the Goblin King is an obvious one, my first and still going strong. I had a thing for Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury. There's also Angel, Spike, Willow, and Buffy. I can't really think of any more though.

[FreakyBoy]

Am I the only one that crushed on Jupiter instead of Moon?

[Kajin]

I liked Jupiter. She kicked ass. Basically the only Sailor Scouts I didn't crush on were Mercury, the two Loli Scouts, and the "cousins".

Pluto was probably my favorite, but I guess she isn't a Sailor Scout anymore.

[kitoba]

The only one that really comes to mind for me was Gabrielle from Xena: Warrior Princess. There was a year or so that I watched that show religiously.

[Kea]

When I was about 13, I had a crush on The Young Indiana Jones.
Yep, I was well on my way to Massive Dorkiness. Of all the fictional characters to get a crush on, I had to pick the hokey walking history textbook.

[Solara Hanover]

My first crush I remember... and I couldn't have been more than four or five at the time... was Thomas Magnum. I used to watch Magnum PI with my dad EVERY week, and Magnum was just so COOL and cute and funny... I was gonna marry him when I grew up.

[AlternateTorg]

The first fictional character I remember crushing on when I was a kid was April O'Neil from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I dunno, something about that yellow jumpsuit...