Sweetness...

[fajrdrako]

From fannish5: Name the five sweetest fictional characters.

Sweetest? What an interesting question. Fictional characters - at least the ones I notice - tend to be brave, clever, strong, witty - but sweet? More like to be snarky bastards.

Sweetness tends to be a quality I associate with the unsophisticated and the young.

So I thought about it and came up with the following:


1. Kaylee in Firefly. She loves machines, sex, and strawberries. Adult but oddly innocent - and very sweet.
   
   
   
   
2. Kuzum, pawnish young boy in Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett.
   
   
   'I'm a very wet boy," said Kuzum.
   
   He waited blandly while, detonating mildly, [Philippa] thudded up the stairs to his side, and continued to gaze up at her blandly as she skidded to a halt, and, staring down, said, 'What's that on your head?'
   
   'That's my little hat,' said Kuzum.
   
   'That's a wooden spoon,' said Philippa. She disentangled it from the thick, silky hair. 'It's sticky... Why are you a wet boy?'
   
   'I sat in my dinner,' said Kuzum. 'Just like Tulip. What did you said?'
   
   'I said Tulip fell in by mistake, and I wish you had a better grasp of the English language... It's not funny.'
   
   'Laugh again.' said Kuzum, his eyes beaming.
   
   
3. Ella, Olivia's little niece in Fringe
   
   
   
   
4. Alexis, in Castle.
   
   
   
   
5. Little Sam Winchester, in Supernatural.
   
   
   

And an honourable mention goes to Keith Mars, Veronica's father in Veronica Mars. He's much sweeter than she is.