Hump Day Crush: The Character Crush

[american_arcane]

Originally published at How to Crush Without Being Crushed. You can comment here or there.

The Character Crush-Also known as the Hollywood Crush or the Literary Crush. Can you fall for a fictional character? You bet you can. This is a pure fantasy crush (for most people, except, of course, Katie Holmes-who did have a crush on Tom Cruise when she was

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I always believed I would have made an excellent wife to Atticus Finch. :)

[fatesfolly]

And this is so true... "Character Crushes are great things because you rarely (if ever) have to worry about the characters letting you down."

It's the ultimate fantasy because even after you've left the medium that set the original character traits, you control the fantasy character.

Re: I always believed I would have made an excellent wife to Atticus Finch. :)

[american_arcane]

And they never grow up or grow old or lose interest in you or complain if you lose interest in them... and, if they're in a long finished book, they don't harbor any dark secrets that will creep out at the most inopportune times.

Unless, of course, you like those kind of surprises. 'Cause they're good for that, too. :)

Yes, it is the one sensible crush (as opposed to the bad idea Obsessive Crush) that will always leave the crusher in total control of "reality."

[jenaiabird]

(for most people, except, of course, Katie Holmes...

and Melissa Gilbert. She had a huge crush on Bruce Boxleitner, i think in one interview she admitted to having a picture of him in her locker or some such...

who know they'd meet, and he'd be all "hey there" and she'd be all "hey there" and they'd be all "i do!"

;)

[grumpygrafx]

"who know they'd meet, and he'd be all "hey there" and she'd be all "hey there" and they'd be all "i do!"

That is the best way to describe a meeting, relationship and marriage I've ever read. I hope my future girlfriend/wife and I meet just like that.

[american_arcane]

I had totally forgotten that the age difference between those two was just enough for that to happen.

I like them both. They're fun.

[akilika]

Character crush is the one I'm most familiar with.

I tend to go for reserved characters, largely more-or-less in the background--cool, capable, and to-the-point. They've generally got their hands in a lot, but won't make a big production of it. Reliable, I suppose is the thing, and responsible.

Even sometimes ones that aren't strictly doing it for the side of Good. Half the people I've got on that particular List are Neutral at best. (Gargoyles' Owen Burnett is hard to say, but I'd say he's on the side of Interesting more than anything.)

It's kind of comforting. I don't really know how to deal with real people, but a one-sided crush on a figment of someone else's imagination carries just about no risk at all, except people looking at me like I'm crazy.

It's cool.

[dv8dragonfly]

It's sort of funny that you should post this just when you did. I have been hanging out lately with these two brothers, Dave and Anthony, who remind me of two celebrities (Timothy Olyphant and Leland Chapman, respectively). I crush on both the brothers and the actors, though I never really have considered that there was a connection, unless it was that I crush on the actors because of the brothers, rather than the other way around.

[magic_lilybean]

Oooh, fun! And we were just talking about one of my Hollywood crushes this weekend; there was a show on about all the Star Trek series. I was explaining to everyone that when I was Emma's age, I would tell anyone that listened that Dr. McCoy was my boyfriend. Yup, Captain Kirk was (for reasons that I'll never understand) the sex symbol, but I liked me some Bones (and I don't care how wrong that sounds). He's Southern, he's a doctor, and he can cure ANYTHING with a few hours and a little beeping box