Fictional Heroes

[MaleVolentworld]

Who are the characters from fiction that you admire or feel close to in some way?

Due to my misanthropy I am attracted to Dostoyevsky and in particular Raskolnikov and the character from Notes from The Underground, I feel these characters in a way. However I don't admire them at all.

The only character I have really admired is Roark in The Fountainhead.

[Rudy]

Roark is a good one to admire, but he's too idealized for me to feel close to.

Tiffany Aching, from the Wee Free Men series, I both admire and feel close to. Click for my reasons, which I have detailed elsewhere. (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)





RudyHenkel added to this post, 1 minutes and 3 seconds later...

Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth, both, from Pride and Prejudice, who I admire and feel close to in different ways.

[MaleVolentworld]

I have never read Terry Pratchet but he was on TV recently documenting his Alstheimers (sp?) and he is a really nice and funny gentleman. He'd be awesome to have as a dad, he's so optimistic.

[Rudy]

I have never read Terry Pratchet but he was on TV recently documenting his Alstheimers (sp?) and he is a really nice and funny gentleman. He'd be awesome to have as a dad, he's so optimistic.

*nods* You said elsewhere that you are not big into fiction, but if you develop a taste for fantastical satire, I highly recommend him, especially the Wee Free Men books. They aren't completely Objectivism friendly (which I know you are a proponent of,) but they are very big on the importance of individualism.

[darynthe]

Roark. I love him. Nobody comes close to him.

To be perfectly honest, I came to this forum because of him.

[SShack]

Tiffany Aching is indeed awesome. Being an ENTP, I've found myself drawn to my Discworld counterpart, Moist Von Lipwig.

[halfcrazed]

Most influential fictional hero: Philip Marlowe. As created by Raymond Chandler: "Down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." After reading Chandler, I just started identifying my own moral worldview with that presented in the novels...

[une fille]

I'll go with Dostoevsky again, but Ivan Karamazov.
Or Faust, as Goethe wrote him to be.
I don't suppose I really admire them, but I definitely relate to the characters.

[Homini Lupus]

While he's not totally fictional, being based on an historical figure, the figure I've identified with the most lately is the Magister Nicolas Eymerich, as he's rational and ruthless in his search for truth.

Quoting Wikipedia:
Nicolas Eymerich is a real historical character, member of the order of the Dominicans and inquisitor in the Spanish Inquisition. He was born in 1320 in Gerona, Catalonia, and died in 1399. Evangelisti’s interpretation of his character is a cruel, ruthless, haughty, restless man, who acts mercilessly to protect the Catholic Church against perceived menaces of natural or supernatural origin. At the same time he shows an outstanding intelligence and a deep culture in his actions. In the novels of the series he investigates the mysterious phenomena of Medieval Europe, thus subtly influencing many of the historical events of that epoch; on many occasions the solution of the riddles comes up from stories which are narrated along with the main plot, normally set in the present and in the future. Evangelisti's atmospheres are normally dark, nightmarish, haunting