Here are the answers to the Character Love Meme for everyone who took part.


Lieutenant Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace for [livejournal.com profile] pyromaniac111


I always love really tough girls. Not just girls who act tough or girls who are, you know, strong, but really resilient, tough female characters. Starbuck can be an emotional mess at times, but no matter what happens she always pulls through it with a lot of spirit. Nothing intimidates her or breaks her - not her tough childhood, not public humiliation, not her brief stay at the Farm, which is just kind of horrifying. Through all of that she stays strong, but also caring, which is good. She's also talented enough to get away with saying what all of us are thinking, which is always a good trait in a character. Finally, Katee Sackhoff is beautiful without being stick-thin, which is a nice change on TV.


Jack Sheppard for [livejournal.com profile] truffle_shuffle


As Rowan knows perfectly well, Jack is my least favourite character on Lost, but a lot of that is wasted potential. Jack actually does a lot of things I like. His 'Live together, die alone' sentiment is smart and completely appropriate given the situation the survivors have found themselves in - the best way to stay alive is to have someone watching your back. Jack's always motivated by the desire to do the right thing in any given situation, and he has a real belief in fighting until the end and not giving in, which is admirable. He saved my favourite drug-addicted hobbit once, too, so I suppose that's something.


Dean Winchester for [livejournal.com profile] truffle_shuffle


How can you not love Dean? He's the ultimate sexy, tortured hero. He's self-sacrificing to the point of being nearly suicidal, because the only life he's ever known is putting himself in the line of danger to help people who mostly don't know what's going on and will likely never thank him for it. Top of that list is his little brother, to whom he is absolutely and unswervingly devoted. Dean's got a wicked sense of humour and uses humour and arrogance as a defence mechanism, absolutely unwilling to let anyone see how close he is to losing it every day. He's equally good with kids and weapons and he loves his car. No, I mean, he REALLY loves his car. He listens to classic rock at top volume all the time and in the end he doesn't care what other people consider to be normal - all he wants in the world is his family.


The Cat for [livejournal.com profile] koneko_meow


The picture is technically of Duane Dibley, but since Duane is an alternate version of the Cat I figured it would be okay. Cat is the only living member of his race and is absolutely unconcerned about that fact. He is, in fact, the single most uncomplicated character in anything I've ever seen. His only concerns are dressing and eating well and having fun - so much so that, when injured, his first consideration is whether or not red will go with what he's wearing. The Cat is, in fact, so vain that his perfect companion is himself, and when he asks himself what he's given to the world, the fact that he existed at all is what he considers his gift. It's impossible not to love the Cat, because simply by being the Cat he provides us all with so much amusement.
Although he's pretty funny when he's Duane Dibley, too.


Hawkeye Pierce for [livejournal.com profile] nentari


Hawkeye is the main voice of reason in an otherwise mad world. A doctor in a community run by soldiers, Hawkeye's job is to do the best he can to save the lives of young men with what little he has, and he does his job damn well. He rarely loses his compassion and wit during his stint at the 4077th, and he continually fights for what he believes in - saving lives, whether they be American lives or the lives of the Koreans around them. He has a fantastic laugh and he loves his best friend, and he can charm the nurses like nobody's business. He can also hold his liquor.


Warren Mears (which is just not fair) for [livejournal.com profile] hybridutensil


First off, Warren is played by Adam Busch, who can sing really well and is pretty damn attractive, when not playing a raving psychopath. He's the smartest of the troika of nerds he brings together in order to attempt to take over Sunnydale, and most of his plans actually seem to work. He's capable of building fully functional robots that are completely indistinguishable from real people - well, for the most part - and in case we've forgotten, part of the reason he built the first robot was out of loneliness, because people thought he was a nerd. He has better taste than the company he keeps, as well - seriously, Connery was the only decent Bond.


Tara Maclay for [livejournal.com profile] hybridutensil


When we first met Tara, she was a shy, stuttering outcast with a sweet smile that drew Willow to her, but over the course of the three seasons she was in Buffy she filled a spot that was left vacant in the Scooby Gang by the loss of Joyce and Giles: she was the adult, the emotional core of the group. She had enough of an outsider's perspective to see what was really going on but she also took care of people and listened to their problems. Dawn probably wouldn't have survived the summer between seasons 5 and 6 without Tara. She could also be geeky in her own way, and she loved Willow enough to know that if she stayed with Willow she'd only be hurting herself.


Allen Francis Doyle for [livejournal.com profile] leeshy_s


Doyle, despite being half a demon, had an absolutely enchanting everyman quality about him that made him the perfect foil to Angel's brooding, heroic lead. Constantly talking in his (gorgeous) Irish accent with uncrushable optimism, Doyle managed to balance the show enough to make it watchable in the first few episodes. He was funny and clever and street-smart, but not wise. He also helped to give the show its film noir feel in its establishing episodes. The aforementioned everyman quality that Doyle had - his unwillingness to throw himself into battle - made his final sacrifice one of the most moving things I've ever seen on television.


Eowyn for [livejournal.com profile] dahlea


Speaking of tough girls, Eowyn is one of the poster children for tough soldier girls who go into battle to fight for their country and for themselves. In a misogynistic world filled with manly men, Eowyn learned how to fight and how to lead. Eowyn was by no means perfect - she was very proud, and somewhat cold and distant - but she was always strong, and she made the decision in the end to pose as a man in order to fight in what turned out to be the deciding battle of all the free lands of Middle Earth. One of the things I really love about Eowyn is that her situation made her more inclined to take Merry seriously when the other soldiers mocked him. The two of them were kind of kindred spirits.


Sayid Jarrah for [livejournal.com profile] ack_attack


Oooh, another loyal, sexy, tortured torturer hero with a dark past, pretty much the template for Green Queen's Favourite Characters. The amazing thing about Sayid is that he has these two very different sides of himself that are in constant opposition - there's the torturer the American soldiers turned him into and there's the romantic, heroic and moral man that he wants to be and, most of the time, is. He'll do anything to protect the woman he loves, whether at their request or not - sometimes, he has to put the relationship on the line in order to protect the girl. He's also the single smartest person on the island, although he won't assume a leadership role.Oh, and everything he says sounds so sexy.


Remus Lupin for [livejournal.com profile] snuffkin


Poor Remus. He's lost all his closest friends, he's an outcast from society, and he had to spend thirteen years believing that his boyfriend best friend murdered his other friend while having little to no paying job offers and struggling with his lycanthropy. In spite of all that he's caring and intelligent, and a teacher who really understands the intracies of connecting with children - no, worse, teenagers. Since there's nothing specific about these characters being canon, Remus also has excellent taste in men, and comes up with some of the funniest lines I've ever heard. He's socially uncomfortable and he overthinks things, but his serious nature perfectly compliments Sirius's gregarious, impulsive nature.


Sirius Black for [livejournal.com profile] di0nne


Poor Sirius. He's dead and he spent thirteen years of his short life in the worst jail imaginable for a crime he didn't commit. Worse, for the crime of killing his best friend, of which his other supposed friend was in fact guilty, and tortured by his own guilt at knowing that he was indirectly responsible for it. He's loyal, impulsive, funny, incredibly smart, talented and really sexy. (It's canon, Jo said he was good looking when he was younger!) Sirius may be impulsive but his lack of pre-thought is largely due to his incredible passion for life. Sirius overcame his strict, dark upbringing to become a fighter for the good guys, and his loyalty to his friends is unparallelled.


Brian Kinney for [livejournal.com profile] dreaminoflorien


Ah, Brian Kinney, God of Sex. Everything about Brian just exudes sex, and he knows it. He's confident to the point of arrogance. He sleeps with everyone he wants to and is completely unapologetic about it. Brian lives his life the way he wants to, and won't let anyone tell him otherwise - and he has the intelligence and talent to back it up. He doesn't lie to make people feel better or give up what he wants for anyone else. He works for himself and for his friends, to whom he is completely devoted, though he'd never tell them. He also has the best loft apartment of any show ever, I'm not kidding.


Andrew Wells for [livejournal.com profile] mitzi007


My appreciation for Andrew has grown since rewatching season 6 recently. Of the three geeks, Andrew is probably the least intelligent, which means that he relied totally on the protection of the other two. Andrew was obviously gay and in love with Warren, which makes his later actions understandable, if not excusable. He becomes a kind of conduit for the audience in the final battle - he doesn't want to be in it, but he can't be alone and he can't look away, so he follows to his destiny. He's completely socially inept, but he at least tries, and he fights in the final battle in spite of his cowardice. Andrew was completely convinced he deserved to and was going to die in the final battle, so his own survival was a surprise to him. Also, he quotes Lord of the Rings.


Galadriel for [livejournal.com profile] jrho


Galadriel is an incredibly strong character. She's graceful and beautiful. Her beauty carries with it a lot of weight and wisdom, but it also carries her rather turbulent past - she made mistakes, and she is tested for them in the end. Galadriel exists on a plane that is somewhat detached from the rest of the people of Middle Earth, and yet she has the ability to touch everyone she meets. She's powerful and dangerous, but she manages to temper her power in the end, in order to preserve her...I want to say humanity, but can you say that about elves?


Holly from Red Dwarf


'Anyone up for a game of charades using only your nose, or is this a bad time?' Holly was once a supergenius computer with an IQ of 6000 but after drifting in space for three million years he winds up with only the same IQ as 6000 PE teachers, and it shows. Holly is completely space-mad and as such comes up with some of the best non-sequiter gags I've ever heard. Holly decided to change his sex after coming across an alternate female version of himself. The best thing about Holly, though, is that when he feels underappreciated he creates an alterego, Queeg 500, who is a total slave-driver, as a practical joke. That's genius.


Meriadoc Brandybuck for [livejournal.com profile] virtuistic


The gayest of all hobbits! Okay, I love him for the description, and for Dom, but the really interesting thing about Merry is that he's got a very strong sense of the world around him. He's more intelligent and intellectual than most of his fellow hobbits, and that quality together with his love of the Shire and of all things Hobbity makes him a force for change in the Entmoot and a soldier in the following war. Merry is also loyal and brave. He loves and protects Pippin as much as he can, and he follows Frodo without question, determined to be there for his friend.


Sun Kwon for [livejournal.com profile] virtuistic


I took a quiz to see which character I was from Lost and it said that I was most like Sun, who is kind and meek. Two things about that rubbed me the wrong way - for one, I'm neither, and for another, while Sun is kind she isn't what I would consider meek. Sun refused to let her life be dictated by her family or by tradition. She got herself an education before she decided to marry, and she fell in love with a man who was well below her station in society. When Sun feared for her life she learned English and planned to leave everything she knew behind for a new beginning. I'd say that takes considerable courage.


Justin Taylor for [livejournal.com profile] virtuistic


To be honest Justin was never one of my favourites on Queer as Folk, but he has an absolute single-mindedness and a devotion that I find really admirable. He stands up to his father and is proud of his homosexuality, and he persues Brian with a strength of conviction that's unrivalled. Justin has a romantic streak that isn't shared by Brian but it makes him kind of sweet, and he almost always gives Brian everything he can. He survives an attack and instead of letting it destroy his life he bounces back. He's an incredible artist, and he doesn't let anyone tamper with his vision.


Spike for [livejournal.com profile] annikaa


Spike is so cool, because he's an anomaly among vampires. He's got the blood lust and the violence and all that jazz, but he's so much more passionate than most other vampires. He fights and fucks and loves and loses with equal passion and, eventually, he goes out and gets himself a soul because he knows what he wants, and he knows the only way of getting it. Spike is also one of the only vampires who is attracted to slayers rather than being scared of them. He's really attracted to danger and power and he isn't scared of a girl who can match him.


James 'Sawyer' Ford for [livejournal.com profile] annikaa


C'mon, everybody loves our self-hating southern con man with the sexy accent and all the cool pop culture references. Sawyer is exactly the kind of character that is responsible for making or breaking a show, and in Lost he definitely makes it. He's one of the most twisted characters ever to come out of those writers' imaginations - his life was ruined by a con man who he then tried to become. Sawyer is angry at the world and he constantly wants the world to be angry with him, so he puts his considerable intelligence towards conning people instead of connecting. He's obviously well-read, and will even put up with looking like somebody steam-rolled Harry Potter to continue his reading.


Samwise Gamgee for [livejournal.com profile] flamingo_killer


My love for Sam comes down to one central trait that he possesses so strongly that no other fictional character has ever come close, in my book: loyalty. Out of nothing but loyalty and friendship, Sam embarks on a dangerous journey into the unknown. He's tested repeatedly, but he never once wavers in his total devotion to Frodo. He would literally do anything for Frodo, and in the end it's Sam who's the real hero of the Lord of the Rings. It's Sam who carries Frodo those last few steps of the journey into Mount Doom to get the job done because Frodo is no longer able, and it's Sam who saves Frodo time and time again.


Ronald Weasley for [livejournal.com profile] flamingo_killer


Actually, the reasons I love Ron are similar to the reasons I love Sam. Ron has the same qualities of loyalty, devotion and bravery that Sam has. Ron isn't the smartest kid in school, or the best-looking or most popular. He's had to walk in the shadow of his brothers and of Harry, but he stays friends with Harry anyway, for the most part. When the shit hits the fan, Ron's the kind of guy you can always rely on to watch your back, even when he's scared or hurt. He's also so cute in his clumsy flirting with Hermione and his attempt to impress her.


Charlie Pace for [livejournal.com profile] flamingo_killer


I feel for Charlie, I really do. He got sucked into the world of drugs by his brother, who then abandoned him, only to offer help when Charlie was way too far gone to be helped. After a struggle Charlie had the courage to give up the drugs, only for everybody to turn their suspicion back onto him and cast him out of their society when the island gave him a vision quest, just like it had given a bunch of them vision quests. Hypocrites. Charlie really loves his music, and he has the most wicked, sarcastic sense of humour. He's also very sexy, especially when playing guitar.

It's three am and I'm tired. I'm going to bed, I'll do other...half...later. Oh, bugger.
Green Queen

From: [identity profile] tropicalpara18.livejournal.com


Yay for Dean, Merry, Sawyer, Sam, Ron, and Charlie :)
Aw, no Sam Winchester :(

From: [identity profile] green-queen.livejournal.com


Nobody gave me Sam! People gave me characters to talk about, so that's what I'm doing.

Also, I'm only halfway through yet.

From: [identity profile] green-queen.livejournal.com


*shrugs* I have a LOT of fandoms with more characters than Supernatural has.

From: [identity profile] flamingo-killer.livejournal.com


Lol I love it. I read it all the way through. Damn, you're a dedicated meme-doer :)

From: [identity profile] green-queen.livejournal.com


You're a dedicated reader. I've still got another 20 to go, too *facepalm*

From: [identity profile] nentari.livejournal.com


Much, much love to most of those (though, as you can imagine, there's two characters that stand out above all others to me... *pets Doyle*).

I agree wholeheartedly with Tara being the adult of the group during her time with the Scooby Gang - it never crossed my mind like that, but it's the best definition of her role I ever saw.

From: [identity profile] green-queen.livejournal.com


Doyle! I loved Doyle.

Her role as the kind of 'adult' didn't occur to me until I rewatched season six, but she really does have a maturity that's beyond the other Scoobies.

From: [identity profile] nentari.livejournal.com


Doyle has got to be my favourite Angel character, regardless of how little we got from him (my mind often wanders to how things would have been like if Hero had never happened *sighs*). There was just something about Doyle that just made me want to cuddle him - plus there's the fact that Glenn Quinn was my non-twin :)

From: [identity profile] slybeer.livejournal.com


Hello again! Banner time once more... Did I mention earlier that if at any time you don't want to keep making these to just tell me? It just occurred to me that I might not have said so and here I come, just saying "hey, make banners!" and, well, I just wanted to make sure you knew that it's all good if you get sick of it. And also that I really appreciate you doing them. And also, I hope we might see an icon or two from you this week? Your icons are always great. :D

Meanwhile, only two banners this week because of the underwhelming amount of entries - both were made by [livejournal.com profile] damn_squiggly.

First: Image (http://imageshack.us)
Second: Image (http://imageshack.us)

TIA. :D

From: [identity profile] ack-attack.livejournal.com


You got all the best characters to do. For realz. LOL I hope that Lost test you're referring to wasn't mine! Although I bet it was. And in my defense, that test was written before Season 2, so Sun was still pretty meek :P

And I love all these photo illustrations :D
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