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Favourite fictional characters thread. Not the characters who happen to be in your favourite books, but your favourite stand alone fictional friends.

I'm going with;

1. Andrew Bolkonski (War and Peace)
2. Stephen Dedalus (Portrait of the Artist)
3. Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment)
4. Buddy Glass (Assorted)
5. Shatov (The Possessed)
6. Esther Greenwood (The Bell Jar)
7. Rakitin (The Brothers Karamazov)
8. Yossarian (Catch-22)
9. Ivan Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov)
10. "Nameless Narrator" (White Nights)

>> No.1325707

>Implying the man from White Nights is superior to The Underground Man

>> No.1325724

Oh, that's a real swell list you have their, bro. I'll make one of my own to showcase my own taste in literary characters.

1. Bartimaeus (Bartimaeus Trilogy)

Lol, that's it.

>> No.1325726

>>1325707

>Implying I liked Notes from Underground

Well okay I liked the first 40 pages.

>> No.1325736

Gregor Samsa (The Metamorphosis)
Yossarian (Catch 22)
Snowball (Animal Farm)
Creon (Oedipus Cycle)

>> No.1325766

A. Square (Flatland)
Any character by Warren Ellis ever

>> No.1325776

1. Peter Parker
2. Mick Kelly
3. Meowth

>> No.1325853

my fav. psychobitch is nastasia philippovna, wojzeck is my favved underdog, coriolanus (stoia ftw!), maupassant has one patriotic whore en resistance, ijon tichy's robotka has much more essence than hal9000, the eeyore and marvin the paranoid android get the special prize for being the blueprint of my current room mate.
>>1325697

>1. Andrew Bolkonski (War and Peace)
y
>2. Stephen Dedalus (Portrait of the Artist)
y
>3. Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment)
i think Svidrigailov had more edge and this detective dude was a lot more impressive. RezRez is a wimp.
>4. Buddy Glass (Assorted)
nigger what?
>5. Shatov (The Possessed)
i don't remember shit. the epic mega pwnzor was verkhovensky, followed closely by that engineer dude (shatov? was it?)
>6. Esther Greenwood (The Bell Jar)
the suicidal psychobitch? the blonde whore fatale? remind me. look, we can't be googling every single brain droplet of your.
>7. Rakitin (The Brothers Karamazov)
the "i'm gonna kill me/you, mofo, for touching my son"-dude?
>8. Yossarian (Catch-22)
why not go for the czech original?
>9. Ivan Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov)
well, you might want to finish the book.
>10. "Nameless Narrator" (White Nights)
lol watwat

>> No.1325877

that jesus dude was pretty neat

>> No.1325899
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Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre always seemed like a real bro. Plus, whilst reading it I picture him as Mike Patton, which is always an added bonus.

>> No.1325909

I don't know OP I really liked Dmitri.

>> No.1325910
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Svejk.

>> No.1325911

Enjolras, Grantaire, and Gavroche - Les Mis
Cyrano de Bergerac - *same*
Marius - Vampire Chronicles (in b4 Anne Rice jokes)
Myshkin
Benjamin - Animal Farm
O'Brien - 1984
Diomedes and Hector - Iliad
Satan - Paradise Lost

I'm too lazy to think of other novels atm.

>> No.1325915

Hermione Granger

>> No.1325918

Long John Silver, Gargantua + Gilgamesh + Utnapishtim, also Dusan Makavejev's Stalin (pbuh)

>> No.1325920

Eragon - inheritance trilogy
Curious George
Yurii Zhivago - Dr. Zhivago

>> No.1325928

>>1325909
demetrios "the indecisive rapist" karamazov?

>> No.1325929

>>1325909

Eh, he was okay. I preferred almost every other character though to be honest.

>> No.1325933

what was the stinking guru's name? i liked how tastefully fyodor implied the steamy homosex vs. alyosha

>> No.1325938

Robin Hood & Sherlock Holmes were always some favorites of mine.

>> No.1325946

Bertie Wooster

>> No.1325952

war and peace - pierre
anna karenina - levin (not nick)
sound and fury - benjy (haters gonna hate)
notes from the underground guy
seymour glass from salingers stuff. zooey too
fathers and sons - bazarov
george from of mice and men

>> No.1325956

>>1325853

1. I just like him. Everything he thinks and does is relevant to me and my personality. When he dies the rest of the book seemed to draw on seemed almost uninteresting by comparison. The other characters are okay, but Natasha was a bit useless - fair enough she was sixteen. Nicholos was annoying, Pierre was only okay. I just felt that Andrew ties together the entire story and makes it worth reading.

2. I read "Portrait" when I was very young and I can hold Joyce accountable for most of the interest I now have in literature.

3. Don't be silly.

4. Why not? I like the narratives in Salinger's stuff a lot and Buddy/Salinger is a pretty engaging figure.

5. Verkhovensky and Stavrogin were cool but I found Shatov to be a more realistic figure and my sympathies were with him and the narrator (though I did sort of want Verkhovensky to succeed).

6. Suicidal, partially autobiographical protagonist of Sylvia Plath's only novel "The Bell Jar".

7. No. Rakitin was a sort of minor character. He's Alyoshas friend who greets him in the beginning at the monastery and he ends up being a sort of intellectual confidante for Dmitri before and after the murder trial.

8. I'm not familiar with it.

9. What?

10. I really liked the story.

>> No.1325957

>>1325933

Zossima.

>> No.1325962

>>1325952

Shit I forgot Bazarov.

11. Bazarov

>> No.1325989

>>1325956
>>1325956
>Pierre was only okay

nigga please

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I'm probably not supposed to like him, but Ignatius J. Reilly

>> No.1326014

>>1325910
Švejk was epic.

>> No.1326028

>>1325989

Okay fair enough, Pierre was pretty good and he was definitely my second favourite character.

>> No.1326035

>>1326014
shame it never got finished

>> No.1326600

>>1326001

Agreed, that book was hilarious.

>> No.1326604

12. Captain Campion (Watership Down)

>> No.1326916

>>1325956
>6. Suicidal, partially autobiographical protagonist of Sylvia Plath's only novel "The Bell Jar".
a dazed and confused midwestern christian psychobitch who gets read mental after dancing a chilean dude? y y y y. i can't remember much short of the "uhng i am so stoopid, man" thing. she also broke a leg and realised her hillybilly doctor boy was rather bland. oh wow
explain urself

>> No.1326920

Two words. Zaphod fucking Beeblebrox.

>> No.1326922

>>1326916
while Buddy Willard was a bro

>> No.1326925

Death from the Discworld novels is my favorite by far

>> No.1326930

OP. That list. You are my lost brother.

>> No.1326940

I really liked Godunov-Cherdyntzev from "The Gift" by Nabokov. Kind of guy that reminds me of myself sometimes.

>> No.1326941

Chicot the jester from Dumas' La Dame de Monsoreau. And Bartimaeus.

>> No.1326957

Captain Nemo, Alex DeLarge, Don Quixote and Miyamoto Musashi

>> No.1326958

>>1326957
(In addition to everyone already said)

>> No.1326962

1 Edmond dantes

Yup

>> No.1326970

I am torn between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. I think they each represent something crucial in all of us, so I wouldn't like to choose.

>> No.1326973

i rly like the shamhatbrosis. epic mega whore wit erudition 4 redneckbro enkidu via orgy porgy

>> No.1326982

Where's all the Holden Caulfield love?

>> No.1326993

The White Knight - Through the Looking-Glass
Kongming - Romance of The Three Kingdoms

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>Andrew

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>> No.1327012
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Charles Swann from In Search of Lost Time.

The guy is fucking awesome.

He falls in love with girls that aren't even his type and doesn't afraid of anything.

>> No.1327013

>>1325697
I liked Pierre better than Andrei

>> No.1327053

1. Edward!
2. Jacob (hawt!)
3. Bella (She is so me)
4. Victoria (she is soooo evil!1 LOL ROFLMAO)
5. Carlisle (I wish my dad was like that....)
6. Aro
7. Zafrina
8. Jasper
9. Sam
10. Detritus, he's so funny!

>> No.1327060

>>1327053
the worst bit about that is that you know so many characters.

>> No.1327084

Sarah Woodruff (The French Lieutenant's Woman)
-Found out I was named after this character after independently finding and reading this book and thinking it was one of the best characters I'd ever read.
Narrator (The Invisible Man)
Pontius Pilate (Master and Margarita)
Tyrion (A Song of Ice and Fire)

>> No.1327089

Asterion, from the short story 'the house of asterion' by borges, when he's talking about what he does for fun in his house (pretending that he's being hunted, running until he falls down, pretending there's another Asterion that he's showing around the house) i cannot help but laugh loudly.

O'Brien from 1984, dude was just such a bad motherfucker.

Sancho Panza

Rogozhin from The Idiot

>> No.1327092

Hamlet from Hamlet

>> No.1327127

>Buddy Glass
about time someone recognizes him

>> No.1327131

>>1327089

My favorite Borges story along with Theme of the Traitor and Hero

>> No.1327132

Luis Carruthers (American Psycho)

I can relate to him...