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Jan 07, 2011 11:27

Back to Top Fives - ojuzu asked me for my top five non-heteronormative characters. She also specifically excluded Utena characters from the running, which does make narrowing the list easier, given that pretty much every Utena character would count for this. Still hard, though!

( Cut for images, as per usual. )

angel sanctuary, karen healey, ugly betty, top fives, kaori yuki, jekyll, alexandre dumas, sherwood smith, peter beagle

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tempestsarekind January 7 2011, 18:53:40 UTC

I have abandoned my typical lurking solely to wave my hands giddily about the fact that someone else has read Tamsin, and I didn't make that person read it! I love that book ever so, and Jenny is fabulous. (As is her family, and Meena, and Tamsin...)

So, er, yes. Hello. And yay Tamsin.

bookelfe January 7 2011, 18:56:59 UTC

Hello! :D Tamsin is one of my favorite books ever, so I TOO am excited to find someone else who has read it (who . . . I didn't make read it.) I love the way Peter Beagle draws the characters in that book; they're all so wonderfully complicated. (Well, except for Judge Jeffries, who is pretty unadulterated evil, but I'm okay with that.)

tempestsarekind January 7 2011, 19:28:17 UTC

Hee, I have bought so many copies of that book for people! And yes, I love how ...real everyone is. Even the pooka and the billy-blind. :) (Although aside from Jenny and Tamsin, my favorite might be Julian. Bless.)

bookelfe January 7 2011, 19:36:23 UTC

(Julian is also my favorite! Most adorable little brother ever. With his bizarrely deep voice!)

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kattahj January 7 2011, 21:32:17 UTC

The only ones of these I know are Justin and Miranda, but they're both awesome, so I'm going to trust you on the rest. Justin's coming-out arc is loooovely.

And you're watching Press Gang soon? OMGAMSOEXITE!

bookelfe January 7 2011, 21:35:00 UTC

I AM! innerbrat now lives down the street from me and so there is no possible way I can escape. *laughing* I will be sure to report back!

ashen_key January 8 2011, 00:02:12 UTC

Hell YES to Eugenie Danglars. She's the only reason I'd contemplate reread that book, because she is so awesome.

bookelfe January 8 2011, 00:16:13 UTC

I love the Count of Monte Cristo in all of its ridiculousness, but dude, Eugenie Danglars is so many levels of too awesome for that book she literally breaks out of it. SHE IS A BAMF.

ojuzu January 8 2011, 01:38:17 UTC

I remember rereading Eugenie's bits of that book many, many times. (And now I want to do it again.) Every time I was just "Did they really. . . HELL YES \o/" I mean, she has a whole big speech halfway through the book about how and why she's not going to get married, and I thought that was cool, but then she eloped with her music tutor to have crossdressing lesbian adventures (in Italy, wasn't that where they were going?) and MY EYES WERE FULL OF HEARTS AND STARS AND SPARKLES.

Someday I will finish Guardian of the Dead! I had to stop a little way in because I was too busy hugging the book and going yes yes yes canonical awesome asexual, it is on the page, they said it to read any more for a while, and then I put it down in favour of library books.

(I have never watched Ugly Betty, but I keep going back up to stare at that fuchsia shirt. It is fabulous and I want one.)

Also someday I will read Angel Sanctuary and all the other things you mentioned. They sound excellent!

bookelfe January 8 2011, 01:47:06 UTC

That was pretty much my reaction too, when I read it for class the first time! "Really? . . . AWESOME! *____*" Yep, they were headed to Italy, and they were planning on crossdressing lesbian SINGING adventures, and basically I just picture their life as one long joyous musical episode.

(Ugly Betty is ALMOST as full of amazingly eye-searing fashion as Capital Scandal. ALMOST.)