Just a quick meme, serenasnape gave me an H. Lets see...
Comment on this post. I will give you a letter. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
Harry King - A very successful businessman in the Discworld's Ankh-Morporkian society. He's known as King of the Golden River, but started out as a muckraker - one who searches the muddy and filthy areas of Ankh-Morpork for things that were worth anything. After a lot of hard work he now provides the city with paper, keeps the streets clean, and generally removes the things that would produce nasty smells and worse messes. I really like his character (even though he's only been in two books) because he's obviously very good at working out other people's characters. He's also obviously not afraid to get his hands dirty, which is alluded to by the knuckle-duster type rings he wears on his fingers. I adore the fact that despite acting rough and tough and somewhat ruthless he dotes on his daughters.
Harriet Lockhart - Say it with me "Not Buddy Likely". She's a two year old who gets kidnapped by an evil man, and is rescued by a gang of Irish hellions who among other things teach her how to swear leading to the quote above. What with the book being set in the Victorian era, and Hattie being an illegitimate child, she's got a lot of things that are out to get her. She very rarely allows fear to take hold, and she shows herself as very much Sally Lockhart's child. It strikes me that were she around when Emmeline Pankhurst was making her stand, Harriet would have been right there with her, although maybe Emmeline might have had a problem with Harriet being an illegitimate child.
Hercule Poirot - Of the Christie detectives I think that Poirot's mysteries are the most interesting partly because Hercule is far more likely to get into foreign or exotic situations than Miss Marple is ever likely to. My favourite Christie mystery includes Poirot with him solving the riddle of Sparkling Cyanide. He's close, he's arrogant, and he tends to appear not to care if people are dying all over the place. He'll also not tell you who the murderer is until he's absolutely ready, which is generally when you're about to kill someone because you can't take him spinning the tension out anymore!
Hiro Nakamura - I love his character, mainly because he actually has a "Heroes do good" mentality, he's possibly the only good guy in the Heroes series who actually enjoys using his 'gift' and possibly the first thing he does with them is attempt to save a doomed girl. She dies anyway, but he tries, even though he's in love with her so it's slightly selfish! He also has an ancient samurai sword and is pretty good with it.
Hawkeye Pierce - I love M*A*S*H, and Hawkeye as the main character is a big favourite of mine. Ok, he's a womanising, arrogant, sometimes selfish man who occasionally lapses into lunacy, but the way he's written (mostly by Alan Alda who plays him...) allows him to also be witty (in the earlier series) and make comments on the situation that he's in that are both insightful and sometimes funny as well. I prefer him in the early series, because by the end he's managed to get somewhat jaded and him jokes are slightly repeatitive - his constant references to meatball surgery get wearing. I have seen every episode - including the movie length ending which is unbelievably creepy and mind twisting - and I still love the character, because he develops his character all the way to the end.
I had to restrain myself from using more than one Terry Pratchett characters, but since there are a lot of characters named with 'H' I didn't want to overdo the Terry Pratchett-ness. So, I picked one - but special mentions should go to Havelock Vetinari, Hex, and Hodgesaargh. Outside of Pratchett, I might have included Hermoine Granger, and Hamlet, but decided against it. So those are my five runners up (way outside the rules, but hey, I can break rules if I want to) and now I shall go away.
Harry King - A very successful businessman in the Discworld's Ankh-Morporkian society. He's known as King of the Golden River, but started out as a muckraker - one who searches the muddy and filthy areas of Ankh-Morpork for things that were worth anything. After a lot of hard work he now provides the city with paper, keeps the streets clean, and generally removes the things that would produce nasty smells and worse messes. I really like his character (even though he's only been in two books) because he's obviously very good at working out other people's characters. He's also obviously not afraid to get his hands dirty, which is alluded to by the knuckle-duster type rings he wears on his fingers. I adore the fact that despite acting rough and tough and somewhat ruthless he dotes on his daughters.
Harriet Lockhart - Say it with me "Not Buddy Likely". She's a two year old who gets kidnapped by an evil man, and is rescued by a gang of Irish hellions who among other things teach her how to swear leading to the quote above. What with the book being set in the Victorian era, and Hattie being an illegitimate child, she's got a lot of things that are out to get her. She very rarely allows fear to take hold, and she shows herself as very much Sally Lockhart's child. It strikes me that were she around when Emmeline Pankhurst was making her stand, Harriet would have been right there with her, although maybe Emmeline might have had a problem with Harriet being an illegitimate child.
Hercule Poirot - Of the Christie detectives I think that Poirot's mysteries are the most interesting partly because Hercule is far more likely to get into foreign or exotic situations than Miss Marple is ever likely to. My favourite Christie mystery includes Poirot with him solving the riddle of Sparkling Cyanide. He's close, he's arrogant, and he tends to appear not to care if people are dying all over the place. He'll also not tell you who the murderer is until he's absolutely ready, which is generally when you're about to kill someone because you can't take him spinning the tension out anymore!
Hiro Nakamura - I love his character, mainly because he actually has a "Heroes do good" mentality, he's possibly the only good guy in the Heroes series who actually enjoys using his 'gift' and possibly the first thing he does with them is attempt to save a doomed girl. She dies anyway, but he tries, even though he's in love with her so it's slightly selfish! He also has an ancient samurai sword and is pretty good with it.
Hawkeye Pierce - I love M*A*S*H, and Hawkeye as the main character is a big favourite of mine. Ok, he's a womanising, arrogant, sometimes selfish man who occasionally lapses into lunacy, but the way he's written (mostly by Alan Alda who plays him...) allows him to also be witty (in the earlier series) and make comments on the situation that he's in that are both insightful and sometimes funny as well. I prefer him in the early series, because by the end he's managed to get somewhat jaded and him jokes are slightly repeatitive - his constant references to meatball surgery get wearing. I have seen every episode - including the movie length ending which is unbelievably creepy and mind twisting - and I still love the character, because he develops his character all the way to the end.
I had to restrain myself from using more than one Terry Pratchett characters, but since there are a lot of characters named with 'H' I didn't want to overdo the Terry Pratchett-ness. So, I picked one - but special mentions should go to Havelock Vetinari, Hex, and Hodgesaargh. Outside of Pratchett, I might have included Hermoine Granger, and Hamlet, but decided against it. So those are my five runners up (way outside the rules, but hey, I can break rules if I want to) and now I shall go away.