After giving it some thought, I *do* have character love

A meme! I think the bandwagon has already gone by, but I just wanted to, you know, remind myself that I *am* in fandom.
 

Good Omens

1. The first character you fell in love with:

Hmm. It's a flip up, but I think I'm going to go with Crawly. I fell in love with the *book* within the first two pages, in which Aziraphale was probably the most sympathetic. On the other hand, Crawly was a *snake*.

I've always had a... fascination for snakes. On account of how they look interesting, and I'm not allergic to them, and they tend to get entertaining reactions, so any aspiring Freudians can sit down and shut up right now.

2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:

The Them, I think. The first time I read the novel, they were just *there*. But then I got to thinking about what it might mean for a human, especially a child, to take on the aspects of the apocalypse (even if for a moment). And Adam has probably been *shaping* his friends into what he thinks they ought to be, long before he was even aware he could do such a thing.

It's all desperately interesting, really. (Why can't anyone else *see* that?)

3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:

Mmmm. I'm not crazy about Shadwell, but then again, I'm not sure if anybody else is either. I'm not fond of certain depictions of characters that are rampant in the fandom, but I'm not sure this counts.

I have a hard time actively disliking characters. (Even Lana in Smallville - to pick the most hated character I know of - entertains me. I giggle at her Drama Queen tendencies.)

4. The character you love that everyone else hates:

*eyes fandom* Are you all hating on somebody when I'm not looking? Although, sometimes there doesn't seem to be room in the fandom for any characters but Aziraphale and Crowley....

Well, no one seems very interested in the Them, so I'll just point to question #2.

5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
*considers* Nope, all the love is still intact.

 
DCU Comics

1. The first character you fell in love with:

Supergirl! No, really. My formative years were shaped by Silver-Age comics (which I think might explain a lot about me), and my eight-year-old proto-fangirl self glomped onto Kara. She could do *anything*, and she was surprisingly intelligent for a Silver-Age character (probably 'cause she got used mostly as a plot device, but). When I decided to look up more modern comics, and I found out they'd killed her, I was very upset.

But now she's back. Yay! Glee! See, there's something to be said for such comic book traditions.

2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:

Alan Scott, but this was mostly a case of me not realizing he existed. (He's not-so-surprisingly absent from the bulk of my father's old Superman collection.) He's powerful, and damn sexy for his *apparent* age, and he can be kind of a bastard. Also, despite being highly respected, he has a ridiculous outfit and he made it so on *purpose*.

Also, this is the Green Lantern whose willpower can stand up to anything but wood, which deserves EVERY SINGLE JOKE you can think of. (You've all seen my icon, right?)

3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:

*thinks* Well, I don't have much love for Roy. He can be pretty, depending on the artist, and he interacts well with Dick, and that issue of Outsiders focusing on his recovery was pretty kickass... but he just doesn't click for me. Maybe I just haven't read the right comics.

4. The character you love that everyone else hates:

Well, I would have put a Legion character here, but then the Legion went and suddenly grew a fandom. And, seriously, what's up with that? It's like finding a viable Captain Planet fandom has grown through LJ over the couple weeks I've been doing Other Things.

So, because of the reaction to Rucka's Ruin storyline... I'll go with Pete Ross. Who, to me, will always be that kid who made it his hobby to watch Clark undress, the perv.

5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:

Um. Again, not so much with the loss of love. The great thing about comics is that you get to ignore any canon you don't like, so the characters can stay intact in your head even when really stupid things happen in the books.

#157 on the List of Things That Will Not Surprise Anybody:

Neil Gaiman is a slasher.
 

      Rereading the book recently as an adult I found it still as beautiful, still as strange; I discovered passages - particularly toward the twisty end - that had once been opaque were now quite clear. Truth to tell, I now found Lo Lobey an unconvincing heterosexual: while the book is certainly a love story, I found myself reading it as the story of Lobey's courtship by Kid Death, and wondering about Lobey's relationships with various other members of the cast. He is an honest narrator, reliable to a point, but he has been to the city after all, and it has left its mark on his narrative.

-From Neil Gaiman's Forward for the 1998 edition of
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany