/lit/ - Literature

[Tarvish !GyFe7zCLEs No.2005630]

Favorite fiction character:

Name:
Description:
Why favorite:

[Anonymous No.2005639]

Name: God
Description: Big douchebag
Why favorite: He's more powerful than anyone else

[Anonymous No.2005646]

>>2005639

>more powerful than anyone else
>more powerful than Goku
>Goku

NOPE

[Anonymous No.2005651]

Name: Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood
Description: Eighteen years old, socially withdrawn, prone to magical thinking & batshit insane.
Why favourite: Love the way curious dissonance in her personality. Very sweet but so very twisted at the same time. This saccharine passage "She was the most precious person in my world, always. I followed her across the soft grass, past the flowers she tended, into our house, and Jonas, my cat, came out of the flowers and followed me" combined with her actual actions in the plot serve to create one of the most intriguing female protagonists I've ever come across.

[Anonymous No.2005671]

>>2005646
I'm afraid I must concur.

[Anonymous No.2005683]

Name: Henry Chinaski
Description: Alcoholic, Smoking, Womanizing fuckface
Why Favorite: Because everything he ever says or does entertains the shit out of me. Aslo his entire philosophy on life and existence, despite being warped, makes complete sense.

[Tarvish !GyFe6PueEI No.2005688]

Name: Tarvish
Description: Creator of the best threads on /lit/
Why favorite: Because he is the best tripfriend ever.

[Anonymous No.2005689]

>Name
Lord Henry Wotton
>Description
Witty, homosexual-sodomite manipulator
>Why favorite
He thinks trolling is an art.

[Anonymous No.2005690]

>>2005689

Harry is one badass motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.2005698]

Name: Harriet M. Welsch
Description: Precocious preteen busybody baby dyke
Why favorite: See above

[Anonymous No.2005699]

Name: Sherlock Fucking Holmes
Description: Greatest detective to ever live, occasional user of cocaine, heroine and morphine, trained fighter, ect...
Why favorite: see description

[Anonymous No.2005701]

Name: Weronika / Véronique
Description: Two women who look exactly alike.
Why favorite: They break the fourth wall, and doesn't afraid of anything.

[ChampionOfTheLegion !!jLmffO4D1r9 No.2005704]

Name: ChampionOfTheLegion
Description: Relatively unknown tripfag. Staged an /x/ raid done by /b/ as being done by /lit/.
Why favorite: He's probably going to do it again. Oh, and you never see it coming. And he's a fucking moron.

[Behemoth !!Twl3DmqEY/B No.2005705]

Name: Ferdinand Bardamu
Description: Wounded romantic, scarred cynic.
Why: His misanthropy is balanced with a bizarre idealism based in compassion, a compassion which he persistently tries to convince himself he doesn't have. I can relate.

[Anonymous No.2005707]

Name: Larry David
Description: Social assassin, swan killer
Why favorite: Walking id, oddly sexy

[Gilberte, simple camarade !!e4RB1R0MkLo No.2005737]

- Natasha Rostov
- Audrey Hepburn in Russia during the French invasion
- self-evident

[Anonymous No.2005744]

Name: Paul Atreides
Description: Badass Emperor but caught in his own visions of the future
Why favorite: Inspired fanatic loyalty from those around him and took over the empire with good intentions

[Anonymous No.2005749]

Name: Werther
Description: Young, sensitive artist who obsesses over a woman (Lotte) and then kills himself
Why favorite: I really identify with the character as I have gone through something similar (except I didn't kill myself)

[Anonymous No.2005755]

>>2005701
Awesome choice. Will you have my babies?

Name: Tom Ripley
Description: All round nice guy and psychopath, isn't above murdering his friends if convenient.
Why favorite: He is an unscrupulous asshole and knows it, but he still tries to do good without feeling the need to repent.

Not to be confused with the wimpy shit played by Matt Damon in that terrible film adaptation.

[Bothersome !!eGkiP4WrjdR No.2005763]

Name: Anyone doesn't have personally identifiable information on /lit/
Description: They don't have a name, tripcode, or use the e-mail field to maintain an identity.
Why favorite: Because.

[Anonymous No.2006050]

>>2005704
He's a true badass.

[Caracalla !!S1oOkTjvsv2 No.2006067]

>>2005763

[Anonymous No.2006068]

Bane:Joe Christmas
Description: Biracial,adopted,murderer
Why favorite: He's a classic "nowhere man". He struggles with his past and who he is and where he's going. He trying to make sense of his ethnicity and similarly his predisposition to negative actions & thoughts.

[Anonymous No.2006075]

Name: Thomas Pynchon
Description: Fictional montage of sound
Why favourite: Q, Q, Q (Q, Q[Q], Q, Q, Q), Q, Q (Q) Q, Q. 269

[Rangaha !KJKZ7n2h3I!!KwkNRfROqPj No.2006076]

Name: The Underground Man
Description: A depressing guy with sadistic tendencies who lies constantly, speaks in a very indirect manner and is in general pathetic
Why favorite: He's a male version of me when I was 16

[Anonymous No.2006079]

Name: Jean Valjean
Description: redeemed ex-con, noble, kind, brave and incredibly strong
Why favorite: He saves a little girl from her abusive foster parents

[Anonymous No.2006078]

>>2006076
refer to
>>2005874

You are doing it wrong.

[Anonymous No.2006084]

>>2006075
>>2005707
>>2005704
>>2005688
These are real people!

[Anonymous No.2006093]

Name: >>2006084
Description: 4chan user
Why Favourite: So adorable, eh doesn't get jokes and doesn't afraid of anything

[Bothersome !!eGkiP4WrjdR No.2006097]

>>2006076
I entirely agree with your assessment of yourself.

>>2006084
Protip: That last one was somebody impersonating the OP and trolling

[Anonymous No.2006101]

Name: May Kasahara
Description: precocious, defeatist(?), crazy (well, that moon thing anyway), frank/blunt.
Why: see description.

[Anonymous No.2006117]

>>2006079
FOREVER AND ALWAYS

I FLOCKING CRIED AT THE END

i didn't even cry when my dad died so go figure

[Anonymous No.2006119]

>>2005646
I made a horrible womanish squealing sound and then laughed heartily. You are a bad man!

[Anonymous No.2006284]

Name: Patrick Bateman
Description: Serial killer, businessman, dubs guy
Why favorite: Check'em

[Anonymous No.2006289]

>>2006117

Tears came to my eyes at the end too. I love Les Miserables, it's easily in my top 10.

[Anonymous No.2006324]

Name: Darsie Latimer
Description: Badass, doesn't afraid of anybody
Why: Because fuck the Jacobites.

[Anonymous No.2006331]

Name: Lennie Small
Description: Professional rabbit fetishist
Why favorite: Tell me about the rabbits, George.

[Anonymous No.2006336]

>>2006331
>Professional rabbit fetishist
You're bad and you should feel bad.

[Sherlock Holmes Guy No.2006414]

>>2005699
fuck yeah

gosh I don't know who my favorite character is aside from Holmes. Willard is high on the list, but he's from a film--I haven't ever read Ratman's Notebooks. i'll just go ahead and pick somebody before i start listing hundreds of names

Name: Snitter
Description: One of the main characters of The Plague Dogs. He's a damaged little fellow: good-natured, but a mental and emotional basket case, with a big gash all along his head from experimental brain surgery.
Why favorite: His dialogue is bomb, I love it. If you've read Watership Down he is alot like Fiver. I really enjoy how Adams portrayed his thought processes and mental afflictions, and revealed his backstory.

[Dionysus_Spinoza_Faux !!nd/jmcT/oLN No.2006444]

Name: Dr. Faust
Description: "Darn-it Jim! I'm a DR. not a doctor," Says My bones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cuu1JBbMeA
Why: The most mainstream character in ever-way of presenting a story. based on the alchemist based on the pursuit of knowing and doing everything [IE polymath/neo-ducks,R-homme, H-unversalis.]
>Inb4 Robert Johnson at the crossroads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD2jXjV9Z8A

"Here I am man; Dare man to be!" JG'S F.

[Anonymous No.2006455]

>Professional rabbit fetishist

"He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:
This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid.
Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits
This formula for drawing comic rabbits made."

---Robert Graves (1895-1985)

[Anonymous No.2006468]

Name: Gertrude Johnson

Description:

The protagonist of "Pictures from an Institution", a novel by Randall Jarrell. Gertrude is a Swiftian novelist who has taken a job teaching creative-writing at a rural women's college.

Why favorite:

"Every place was like every other to her; she saw the difference, but she didn't feel it. Wherever she went, she went in Gertrude.... She had made up her mind. _If I can stand myself, by God, you'd better_ she could have said; must often have said."

(pp65-6)

[Anonymous No.2006490]

Favorite fiction character:

Name:Raoul Duke
Description:Journalist, author, hedonist, cynic.
Why favorite:He lives in a constant state of excess and mania. Coming to the precipice of death, imprisonment, and madness, he evades capture and annihilation while maintaining a certain semblance of amiable innocence. All the while making hilarious observations and social commentary.
tl;dr for the lulz

[Anonymous No.2006540]

>>2006331
You're horrible.

[Anonymous No.2006543]

Grendel.
In the eyes of the people of Beowulf he is vile, incapable of higher thinking, and the epitome of all that is wrong in a creature. In John Gardners' eponymous novel, he is an a perfect existential nihilistic solipsist.
A perfect existential nihilistic solipsist. Didn't I mention this before?

[Anonymous No.2006578]

Name: Candide

Description: Eager to learn, adventurous, doesn't have a good sense for money

Why Favorite: Has no clue what he's doing the whole book. All he does is think with his dick and it leads him into shenanigans all around the world.

[Anonymous No.2006609]

>>2005701
Kieslowski doesn't get enough love here in America.

[Anonymous No.2006610]

Name: Aureliano Babilonia
Description: The last in the Buendia family
Why favorite: His cousine painted faces on his dick before having a great fuck

[Anonymous No.2006620]

Favorite fiction character:

Name: Samwise Gamgee
Description: A young hobbit and the gardener for Bag End
Why favorite: He gives me hope that I can accomplish things greater than myself.

[Anonymous No.2006642]

Name: Peter Wiggin
Description: Political genius and psychopath.
Why favorite: Because he's like Ender, but more cunning and less of a moralfag. Sure, Ender won the war, but it's Peter who ends up being king of the world.

[Anonymous No.2006644]

>>2006642
oh my god i hate you so much

[Anonymous No.2006652]

>>2006644
Haters, they gonna hate.

[Anonymous No.2006654]

Name: Sir Percy Blakeney
Description: An English gentleman who on the surface appears to be a dimwitted dandy but secretly nighttimes as a masked hero rescuing French nobles from the Revolution
Why favorite: The original masked hero, hates on revolutionaries, is just a boss in general

[Storm Petrel !HQmqe0QeaQ No.2006664]

>>2006654

They seek him here,
They seek him there;
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven,
Or is he in hell?
That damned, elusive Pimpernel.

Also, Orson Scott Card sucks.

[Anonymous No.2006669]

Favorite: Hamlet
Who: Some guy that went around killing Nazis during World War II
Why: Cuz he was married to Johnny Cash's sister.
pic related. it's him

[Anonymous No.2006802]

>>2006654
Thoughts on the sequels?