My Fictional Five
I am long overdue for an update and this isn't really one, but my best friend Rio a.k.a. Brandy ( http://anneelliot.wordpress.com ) mimicked this from our mutual friend Melissa Dominic and it only makes sense for me to do it as well.
A warning to all: There are spoilers ahead. Revelations will be made about the hot fictional men, so if you don't want to know, you should probably not read the small rant/blurbs that follow after each announcement.
1. Marcus Wright: Terminator Salvation (Film)
When I saw the preview for the new Terminator film, I groaned internally. Not only had they made Christian Bale John Connor (*hackhurlheave*), but really, after the last one they should've just stopped. However, upon the screen came Marcus Wright, the new Terminator, and I just about gasped in my seat from the shock of his hotness. I braved the film despite the Bale and fell into instant love with Marcus Wright. For some reason I find myself attracted to active, determined men, scruffy in appearance, awkward, highly intelligent, with a sense of justice. Marcus is all of these and he has an aching sadness that pulls at my heart strings and just makes me love him all the more. He is human, despite himself, honestly so and I can't help but be drawn to that. It is Marcus's change from someone who doesn't care to that of a passionate, thriving living man that gives me chills. Out of the all the men I adore, he is the most real, the most vivid, and the one who invades my dreams the most often. If they dare to make any more Terminator films all I demand is more Marcus. I don't care how they do it, as long as they DO IT.
2. Richard Cypher: Sword of Truth series (Novel/Fantasy series)
A man who dominated my fantasies since eleventh grade. Intelligent, downright brillian, a swordsman (I love men with swords good god), again with that sense of justice that I find so appealing, and it so doesn't hurt that he has piercing gray eyes. *fans self* Everything I could ever want in a man, Richard Cypher (a.k.a. Richard Rahl) is one of the few fantasy men that forever more will dominate my heart. Richard is everything I wish existed in the real world somehow. All of his qualities are absorbed by most of my dream men. Honorable, loving, gentle, fierce, a warrior, a leader, and so DAMN SMART it just takes my breath away every time. Richard gives me goosebumps and makes me shout and whoop and yell. Oh, no. I'm feeling the itch to read the ENTIRE series again...
3. Strider/Aragorn: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein (Fantasy novels/Films)
Maybe it doesn't seem so unusual considering the fame of the films, but I was already in love with Aragorn before the movies ever came out. I love Strider. For a lot of the same reasons I love Richard. What is it about these sword wielding warriors of justice that compel me so? Not to mention he's scruffy, sexy, intelligent and fiercely protective of those he loves. I love passionate men and both of my fantasy men are very passionate. I clearly have a thing for warriors, don't I? Brilliant, protective, warrior men that make my heart ache just watching and reading about them. Aragorn, like Richard, cares about his friends, adores his woman in such a way that makes me wish I was on the receiving end of such love, and is a GOOD man. I definitely have a thing for scruffy GOOD men.
4. Solid Snake: Metal Gear Solid series (Video game)
Which brings me to number four, not surprising, another scruffy, GOOD man, a warrior, who has traded in the swords of the above for AK47s, snipers, and tranquilizer guns. Solid Snake/Big Boss (they're essentially the same person) is MY video game heart throb. The man is a DORK and I adore him for it. He makes me split my sides with laughing and he gives me the aching thrills that seem to accompany every warrior man I set my heart on. He's scruffy, brilliant, beefy (notice how they all are *sigh*), and infinitely lovable. Like Marcus, he grows a lot as a person and as a character, and I respect and love the fact that he does things for his own reasons (unless forced or coerced--but then he finds a way out of it anyway) and for what is RIGHT. There's that sense of justice coming back. I'm sensing a theme here...
5. King Arthur Pendragon (myths/legends/novels/films)
My oldest love. I have loved Arthur for as long as I can remember. The myth never made a whole lot of sense to me because I could not FATHOM why Guinevere would ever betray Arthur (probably the reason I chose the most recent Arthur for the image--though really it was a toss up between him, Richard Harris when he did Camelot (couldn't find any good pictures though), and Arthur from Gargoyles--since there was none of that silly betrayal stuff going on in that movie). It just seemed illogical. Here you have a brilliant orator and man, far ahead of his time, a warrior, a protector, a man with--oh, crap there it is again--an innate sense of justice, which created a kingdom from nothing and led it to prosperity. Probably safe to say it was my love of Arthur that made it possible for me to love Aragorn, Richard, Snake and Marcus the way that I do. He was my first warrior love and he seems to have established the pattern that has made me love the fictional men above.
I guess it's safe to say why it suddenly makes sense that I have a cop fetish.
Honorable mentions: Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice (novel/film/mini-series), Bones - Star Trek (film/tv series), Yuri Hyuga - Shadow Hearts (vg), Magnus Gallowglass - Warlock Series (novels), Jayne - Firefly (tv series), Matrix - Reboot (tv series), Zidane Tribal/Adelbert Steiner - Final Fantasy IX, Goliath/MacBeth - Gargoyles (tv series), Kimball Cho/Patrick Jane - The Mentalist (tv series), Agent Seeley Booth - Bones (tv series), Wolf - The 10th Kingdom (mini-series), Shimada Kambei - Samurai 7 (anime), Shigure - Fruit’s Basket (manga/anime), Amon - Witch Hunter Robin (anime), Hiko Seijuro/Saito Hajime/Himura Kenshin - Rurouni Kenshin (manga/anime), Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust (anime), Kusuri Uri - Ayakashi-Bakeneko, Mononoke (anime), Clark Kent - Adventures of Lois & Clark/Smallville (comic/tv series), Zelgadiss Greywords - Slayers (anime), R. Daneel Olivaw - Robot/Foundation series (novels), Captain/Doctor Peter Blood - Captain Blood (novel/film), Captain Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean (films), Link - Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (vg), Gatts - Berserk (manga/anime), Dark Schneider - Bastard!! (manga/anime), Mad Martigan - Willow (film), Erik - The Phantom of the Opera (play/musical/film), Harry Dresden - The Dresden Files (tv series), Bernardo - Zorro (novel), Holden - Stickmen (film), Don Juan - Don Juan de Marco (film), Jareth - Labyrinth (film), Fiyero - Wicked (play/musical), Gambit - Xmen (comic), Zenigata - Lupin III (anime)
A warning to all: There are spoilers ahead. Revelations will be made about the hot fictional men, so if you don't want to know, you should probably not read the small rant/blurbs that follow after each announcement.
1. Marcus Wright: Terminator Salvation (Film)
When I saw the preview for the new Terminator film, I groaned internally. Not only had they made Christian Bale John Connor (*hackhurlheave*), but really, after the last one they should've just stopped. However, upon the screen came Marcus Wright, the new Terminator, and I just about gasped in my seat from the shock of his hotness. I braved the film despite the Bale and fell into instant love with Marcus Wright. For some reason I find myself attracted to active, determined men, scruffy in appearance, awkward, highly intelligent, with a sense of justice. Marcus is all of these and he has an aching sadness that pulls at my heart strings and just makes me love him all the more. He is human, despite himself, honestly so and I can't help but be drawn to that. It is Marcus's change from someone who doesn't care to that of a passionate, thriving living man that gives me chills. Out of the all the men I adore, he is the most real, the most vivid, and the one who invades my dreams the most often. If they dare to make any more Terminator films all I demand is more Marcus. I don't care how they do it, as long as they DO IT.
2. Richard Cypher: Sword of Truth series (Novel/Fantasy series)
A man who dominated my fantasies since eleventh grade. Intelligent, downright brillian, a swordsman (I love men with swords good god), again with that sense of justice that I find so appealing, and it so doesn't hurt that he has piercing gray eyes. *fans self* Everything I could ever want in a man, Richard Cypher (a.k.a. Richard Rahl) is one of the few fantasy men that forever more will dominate my heart. Richard is everything I wish existed in the real world somehow. All of his qualities are absorbed by most of my dream men. Honorable, loving, gentle, fierce, a warrior, a leader, and so DAMN SMART it just takes my breath away every time. Richard gives me goosebumps and makes me shout and whoop and yell. Oh, no. I'm feeling the itch to read the ENTIRE series again...
3. Strider/Aragorn: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein (Fantasy novels/Films)
Maybe it doesn't seem so unusual considering the fame of the films, but I was already in love with Aragorn before the movies ever came out. I love Strider. For a lot of the same reasons I love Richard. What is it about these sword wielding warriors of justice that compel me so? Not to mention he's scruffy, sexy, intelligent and fiercely protective of those he loves. I love passionate men and both of my fantasy men are very passionate. I clearly have a thing for warriors, don't I? Brilliant, protective, warrior men that make my heart ache just watching and reading about them. Aragorn, like Richard, cares about his friends, adores his woman in such a way that makes me wish I was on the receiving end of such love, and is a GOOD man. I definitely have a thing for scruffy GOOD men.
4. Solid Snake: Metal Gear Solid series (Video game)
Which brings me to number four, not surprising, another scruffy, GOOD man, a warrior, who has traded in the swords of the above for AK47s, snipers, and tranquilizer guns. Solid Snake/Big Boss (they're essentially the same person) is MY video game heart throb. The man is a DORK and I adore him for it. He makes me split my sides with laughing and he gives me the aching thrills that seem to accompany every warrior man I set my heart on. He's scruffy, brilliant, beefy (notice how they all are *sigh*), and infinitely lovable. Like Marcus, he grows a lot as a person and as a character, and I respect and love the fact that he does things for his own reasons (unless forced or coerced--but then he finds a way out of it anyway) and for what is RIGHT. There's that sense of justice coming back. I'm sensing a theme here...
5. King Arthur Pendragon (myths/legends/novels/films)
My oldest love. I have loved Arthur for as long as I can remember. The myth never made a whole lot of sense to me because I could not FATHOM why Guinevere would ever betray Arthur (probably the reason I chose the most recent Arthur for the image--though really it was a toss up between him, Richard Harris when he did Camelot (couldn't find any good pictures though), and Arthur from Gargoyles--since there was none of that silly betrayal stuff going on in that movie). It just seemed illogical. Here you have a brilliant orator and man, far ahead of his time, a warrior, a protector, a man with--oh, crap there it is again--an innate sense of justice, which created a kingdom from nothing and led it to prosperity. Probably safe to say it was my love of Arthur that made it possible for me to love Aragorn, Richard, Snake and Marcus the way that I do. He was my first warrior love and he seems to have established the pattern that has made me love the fictional men above.
I guess it's safe to say why it suddenly makes sense that I have a cop fetish.
Honorable mentions: Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice (novel/film/mini-series), Bones - Star Trek (film/tv series), Yuri Hyuga - Shadow Hearts (vg), Magnus Gallowglass - Warlock Series (novels), Jayne - Firefly (tv series), Matrix - Reboot (tv series), Zidane Tribal/Adelbert Steiner - Final Fantasy IX, Goliath/MacBeth - Gargoyles (tv series), Kimball Cho/Patrick Jane - The Mentalist (tv series), Agent Seeley Booth - Bones (tv series), Wolf - The 10th Kingdom (mini-series), Shimada Kambei - Samurai 7 (anime), Shigure - Fruit’s Basket (manga/anime), Amon - Witch Hunter Robin (anime), Hiko Seijuro/Saito Hajime/Himura Kenshin - Rurouni Kenshin (manga/anime), Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust (anime), Kusuri Uri - Ayakashi-Bakeneko, Mononoke (anime), Clark Kent - Adventures of Lois & Clark/Smallville (comic/tv series), Zelgadiss Greywords - Slayers (anime), R. Daneel Olivaw - Robot/Foundation series (novels), Captain/Doctor Peter Blood - Captain Blood (novel/film), Captain Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean (films), Link - Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (vg), Gatts - Berserk (manga/anime), Dark Schneider - Bastard!! (manga/anime), Mad Martigan - Willow (film), Erik - The Phantom of the Opera (play/musical/film), Harry Dresden - The Dresden Files (tv series), Bernardo - Zorro (novel), Holden - Stickmen (film), Don Juan - Don Juan de Marco (film), Jareth - Labyrinth (film), Fiyero - Wicked (play/musical), Gambit - Xmen (comic), Zenigata - Lupin III (anime)