D is also a Meme
I commented on new_vogue_ravyn's meme so now it is my turn to do it and hopefully see if someone else does it too. The rules are:
1 Comment with "FLUFFY".
2. I will give a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters and your thoughts on each.
My letter was D :
1 D: Main character of theVampire Hunter D novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi. Honestly I've seen the two movies Vampire Hunter D and Vampire Hunter D:Blood lust than read the books, I began the first one but haven't finished yet so what I'm going to say is influenced by those. While being the main character I sometimes feel he is a rather simple character more like an the hunter/atoner archtype silent, somber, will do what he has to do an nothing can sway him. You can see come conflict in how he strives to balance his dhampir inheritance and how he reacts to the hate and scorn of both humans or vampires but since you first meet him in the novels and movies when he is an adult that has roamed the world fro so long the conflicts have mostly been either solved or accepted. it would have been better in my opinion if some of the story was narrated by him.
2 Dracula: Continuing the vampire theme the good count is the reference most people have of how vampire behave, though some of the characteristics like fetid breath, hair in the palm of the hands, hooked nose and the ability to function in the DAY have been larely forgotten to given a makeover to have in my opinion more marketable appeal or more suspense after all the scareist moster is the one you can't recognize at a glance. Again unfortunately he is not that developed we never know how he came to power, how he became a vampire if he is the original vampire, how he mantained his power because if only 7 commited people was all it took to bring him down either the people who lived near were so terrified they could only freeze as rabbits even if they knew some of the weakness or the good count was getting sloppy in his old age. To sum up he is the antagonist and nothing else, pure malevolence who doesn't care who or what he harms.
3 Dianora from the novel Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay: Now we are getting to a more complex character. Possing as a royal concubine so she can kill the tyrant who enslaved and erased in a quite literal sense her country she is plagged with doubts as the story goes on and begins to consider if she would really carry on her self appointed mission. I liked her character after seeing her country go to hell she makes a plan and decides to do something and proves there is a real risk of becoming the mask once you find out the tyrant is also a person who laughs, grieves, thinks, and plots like everyone else and not just an evil overlord. I won't spoil the rest but it is suffice to say a bittersweet ending occurs.
4 Dean Moriarty from On the Road by Jack Kerouac: a person that in my opinion is an example of those who burn so bright that they burn everything around them incluiding themselves. So mad to live, to always go forward, never adjusting, not waiting for others he simply alienates everyone even if he wants to make friends. To sum it up in the words used y Chinua Achebe in his novel Things fall apart (which I reatly recommend) "raing fire only begets cold impotent ash"
5 Daenerys from the series of novels A song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones, Clash of Kings, etc) by George R.R Martin : Oh boy talk about a coming of age story in a world not much different from ours with all its bloody glory and beauty. One of my favorite characters, it is a pleasure to see her grow and try to become the queen she has been told she should be a salute to Martin for not being afraid to show her blunders and the real and even horrifying consequences of them. More books are on the way so there is still a lot to learn of this character.
Those are my answers.