E list characters
A while ago, turtle_goose posted the following meme
1. Leave a comment to this post!
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.
and at my response gave me an E to work with.
Since turtle_goose’s motive were obvious when she picked E, we’ll start with the pair of them:
Elena Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries)
Oh Elena, people still don’t show you enough love (although my f-list is pretty good about it I must say), because you are awesome and wonderful. I’m not even sure I have a lot to say about the fact that she’s my favorite TVD character, she just is. It may have taken me a while to get there, but my falling in love with TVD and my falling in love with Elena/s character are pretty much tied together. Loving her is just part of loving the show for me, and the reverse is also true, it just took me a long time to really love either of them.
Now there’s no question who I love the most. And she’s a really a character I don’t deal well with people not loving, which is another sign of me loving a character (see my fan-rage whenever anyone insults my homegirl Rose Tyler).
Of course this means I spend a lot of time yelling at the screen telling her to move the hell away from Mystic Falls and go find some nice normal human life/boy somewhere far away from this nonsense. I love her too much to want her to stay caught up in this mess.
Elijah “Mikaelson” (The Vampire Diaries)
Elena may be my favorite character on TVD but Elijah is the main thing that gets me fannish about the show. This is the character that has single handedly been responsible for each increase in my fannishness for the show. You know how some people feel that making Caroline a vampire or having Katherine around was the best thing the show ever did? That’s how I feel about Elijah. Developing Elijah was the best choice the show’s PTB made since they chucked the books out of their plans.
His first appearance brought in this whole idea of secret underground vampire society which the show had really been missing up to that point. He’s still probably the most threatening persona the show has had. And part of that threat comes from the fact that he’s not actually a villain. But then when he became an ally? SO MUCH LOVE FOR IT. It lasted all of three episodes but it was glorious.
His reappearance this season was what pulled me from viewer into fan, and made me realize I finally had an actual ship on this show that I had been refusing to have a real ship in the race before (endgame Elena/Matt and dirty bad wrong shipping Elena/Alaric being my only half committed ships before). I was finally fully ready to throw my weight behind the wonderful Elena/Elijah ship when he left again. Now I just want him to come back, since he left the main thing I feel is anger at the show’s actual romantic leading men.
Ender Wiggin (Ender’s Game)
Trust me, I have PLENTY of issues with Card these days, but I can’t just ignore the fact that I love Ender’s Game; and most of Ender’s Shadow, although the Card-ness of it is showing more by that point. And Ender’s Game doesn’t work if you don’t love Ender I’m pretty sure, but I do so it works for me. He’s just a kid who was shaped and molded to become a weapon wielded by more powerful men. But he’s not exactly an innocent either, he’s got a good heart but his morality is all screwed up. It’s still a good read for me.
Ephram Brown (Everwood)
Hello jailbait boyfriend. To be fair he wasn’t so much jailbait boyfriend when the show started, I was 19 the actor was 18 or 19 even if Ephram was 15 so I was allowed to perv right? Trouble is, as usual it was Ephram I loved not the actor (although it helped), so it was still pervy. Ephram was just a really great guy that I wished I’d known in high school, but real enough that you could imagine that you could have. I should do an Everwood rewatch at some point, because it is a great show with lots of great characters, like Ephram.
Ermillina Curtana aka Snow White (Jim Hones ‘Princess’ series)
Anyone who’s enjoying Once Upon a Time, or anyone who isn’t but likes the idea of reexamining fairy tales should read Jim Hines’s Princess series. Go, do it now. These books are awesome, and the characters fantastic. Of the three leads Snow is maybe my least favorite and I still love her to pieces (Danielle has more character development since the books are largely from her POV and Talia just rules all, but Snow is still pretty damn awesome).
She seems like the shallowest of the princesses, and maybe she is, but it’s really only because they’re all so great. There’s a lot to her beyond the flirtatious and fun-loving front she displays to most people. She’s had it hard, and come through it with, mostly, the best parts of herself intact. Snow can make you laugh, make you cringe, make you cheer, and then she WILL make you cry in the end (I spent the last 100 or so pages of Snow Queen’s Shadow reading through the tears, but I couldn’t put it down and avoid what I knew was going to happen).
1. Leave a comment to this post!
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.
and at my response gave me an E to work with.
Since turtle_goose’s motive were obvious when she picked E, we’ll start with the pair of them:
Elena Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries)
Oh Elena, people still don’t show you enough love (although my f-list is pretty good about it I must say), because you are awesome and wonderful. I’m not even sure I have a lot to say about the fact that she’s my favorite TVD character, she just is. It may have taken me a while to get there, but my falling in love with TVD and my falling in love with Elena/s character are pretty much tied together. Loving her is just part of loving the show for me, and the reverse is also true, it just took me a long time to really love either of them.
Now there’s no question who I love the most. And she’s a really a character I don’t deal well with people not loving, which is another sign of me loving a character (see my fan-rage whenever anyone insults my homegirl Rose Tyler).
Of course this means I spend a lot of time yelling at the screen telling her to move the hell away from Mystic Falls and go find some nice normal human life/boy somewhere far away from this nonsense. I love her too much to want her to stay caught up in this mess.
Elijah “Mikaelson” (The Vampire Diaries)
Elena may be my favorite character on TVD but Elijah is the main thing that gets me fannish about the show. This is the character that has single handedly been responsible for each increase in my fannishness for the show. You know how some people feel that making Caroline a vampire or having Katherine around was the best thing the show ever did? That’s how I feel about Elijah. Developing Elijah was the best choice the show’s PTB made since they chucked the books out of their plans.
His first appearance brought in this whole idea of secret underground vampire society which the show had really been missing up to that point. He’s still probably the most threatening persona the show has had. And part of that threat comes from the fact that he’s not actually a villain. But then when he became an ally? SO MUCH LOVE FOR IT. It lasted all of three episodes but it was glorious.
His reappearance this season was what pulled me from viewer into fan, and made me realize I finally had an actual ship on this show that I had been refusing to have a real ship in the race before (endgame Elena/Matt and dirty bad wrong shipping Elena/Alaric being my only half committed ships before). I was finally fully ready to throw my weight behind the wonderful Elena/Elijah ship when he left again. Now I just want him to come back, since he left the main thing I feel is anger at the show’s actual romantic leading men.
Ender Wiggin (Ender’s Game)
Trust me, I have PLENTY of issues with Card these days, but I can’t just ignore the fact that I love Ender’s Game; and most of Ender’s Shadow, although the Card-ness of it is showing more by that point. And Ender’s Game doesn’t work if you don’t love Ender I’m pretty sure, but I do so it works for me. He’s just a kid who was shaped and molded to become a weapon wielded by more powerful men. But he’s not exactly an innocent either, he’s got a good heart but his morality is all screwed up. It’s still a good read for me.
Ephram Brown (Everwood)
Hello jailbait boyfriend. To be fair he wasn’t so much jailbait boyfriend when the show started, I was 19 the actor was 18 or 19 even if Ephram was 15 so I was allowed to perv right? Trouble is, as usual it was Ephram I loved not the actor (although it helped), so it was still pervy. Ephram was just a really great guy that I wished I’d known in high school, but real enough that you could imagine that you could have. I should do an Everwood rewatch at some point, because it is a great show with lots of great characters, like Ephram.
Ermillina Curtana aka Snow White (Jim Hones ‘Princess’ series)
Anyone who’s enjoying Once Upon a Time, or anyone who isn’t but likes the idea of reexamining fairy tales should read Jim Hines’s Princess series. Go, do it now. These books are awesome, and the characters fantastic. Of the three leads Snow is maybe my least favorite and I still love her to pieces (Danielle has more character development since the books are largely from her POV and Talia just rules all, but Snow is still pretty damn awesome).
She seems like the shallowest of the princesses, and maybe she is, but it’s really only because they’re all so great. There’s a lot to her beyond the flirtatious and fun-loving front she displays to most people. She’s had it hard, and come through it with, mostly, the best parts of herself intact. Snow can make you laugh, make you cringe, make you cheer, and then she WILL make you cry in the end (I spent the last 100 or so pages of Snow Queen’s Shadow reading through the tears, but I couldn’t put it down and avoid what I knew was going to happen).