A meme from jordannamorgan...

[curuchamion]

List fifteen of your favorite characters from different series, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

I expect very few of my friends are familiar with all or even most of these series/whatnots, but maybe we can get some conversations started anyway.

1: Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2: Logan / Wolverine (X-Men - mostly Chris Claremont's comics for canon, but I read genfic from anywhere)
3: The Third Doctor (Doctor Who)
4: Samuel Vimes (Discworld)
5: Dr Donald "Ducky" Mallard (NCIS)
6: Dr Janet Fraiser (Stargate SG-1)
7: Merryweather (Disney's Sleeping Beauty)
8: Bert the chimney-sweep (character played by Dick Van Dyke in Disney's Mary Poppins, who may or may not have done permanent things to three-year-old!me's taste in guys)
9: Sherlock Holmes
10: Captain America
11: Dr Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy (Star Trek: The Original Series)
12: Gandalf (Lord of the Rings - books especially)
13: J'onn J'onzz (Justice League - TAS, mostly)
14: Eddie Brock / Venom (Spider-Man 3 does not exist, la la la)
15: Andrew the Angel of Death (character played by John Dye on Touched By an Angel)

Obviously most of these should have a note of "closely followed by at least one or possibly all of the other characters on the relevant whatnot", but hey... I was running out of parentheses. ;D

Comments

[togsos.livejournal.com]

Bert the chimney sweep tends to throw the curve off a bit on my observation of you liking carers, whether that be manifest as protectiveness or medical and really powerful beings! :D

[thisbluespirit]

Out of the ones I recognise, it is a bit hard to tell, although there they do tend towards older, brainy and/or non-human. But only sort of (I know Three, Vimes, Merryweather, Bert, Sherlock Holmes & Gandalf...).

[lolmac]

I also only know some of the fandoms, but at least I've got 9 out of 15, plus vague notions about another 3, to work from.

You seem to like/appreciate/be drawn to people who are comfortable and secure with the fact that they're a bit on the outside of the central group/established norm; who know that they contribute valuable insight from being in that position; who can work independently without fear of that status; who do not wallow in angst.

There's an element of helpful/intelligent/knowledgable/heroic etc. as well. If not highly intelligent, then possessed of solid street smarts; also, spunky/brave/hard to intimidate.

ETA: Also, a common quality of being matter-of-fact in who they are, what they do, being heroic and unusual, etc. This is part of the not-wallowing-in-angst element, but is also a specific characteristic on its own.

[derekmetaltron.livejournal.com]

Oh, sounds a fun exercise! Of those I know about 10-11 well enough, so let's see what patterns I can spot here.

Odo and Holmes are both detectives clearly and can be masters of disguise when it suits them to investigate. Irene Adler and Kira Neys (their 'woman') are both very different sorts of characters. Venom has also been a bit of a 'Lethal Protector' at times though I seriously hope you don't desire to eat people's brains or take them over with black gloop!

Logan, the Third Doctor and Merryweather are all good people who have the tendancy to get a bit shirty when things don't go their way (as does Holmes and McCoy at times now I think of it).

Bert is a bit of a wild card actually - down on his dumps but with that sweet optimism you know rubbed off from Mary. Good chap in a crisis of course, as are nearly all of these people here actually.

Most of these are also very heroic and desire to do good - Captain America, Logan, Odo, John, Sherlock, the Third Doctor, Gandalf... even Eddie in his own twisted moral code (and he has of course been down a better path of late as Anti-Venom). This is quite a good sign for you, I think! :) As Lost Spook says, many of these people are either extraordinary humans or not human. That's harder to read into.

Anyway, fun exercise! :) Have to try it myself at some point.