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/lit/, I need some help. I'm looking for a literary hero that fits some of these qualities:

a) physically strong or "primal"
b) in touch with his thoughts or emotions
c) has an iconic name

Maybe from, like, an epic poem or a classic tale? Let me know whatever pops into your head.

>> No.624972

hector

>> No.624971
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624971

Edward Cullen.

>> No.624974

Lew Archer

>> No.624976

Don Quixote.

>> No.624982

Satan.

>> No.624986

Ulysses

>> No.624987

>>624971
ha.

>>624976
Quixote was one of my first thoughts too, but it's already been taken.

The reason I'm asking is because I'm forming a concept band and I want its name to draw from a hero of this nature because it fits the genre and the mood we're trying to create.

>> No.624995

KULL, EXILE OF ATLANTIS

>> No.624997

Rocky Dennis

>> No.625000

Egil Skallagrimsson.

The most badass viking-poet-magician ever to have existed.

>> No.625004

Druss the Legend; who else? :)

>> No.625028

Beowulf

>> No.625029

Koba.

>> No.625036

Antonius Block

>> No.625038

Dom Santiago.

>> No.625037

odysseus

>> No.625041

Achilles

>> No.625044

Gilgamesh.

>> No.625045

Conan

>> No.625051

Sherlock Holmes
Jesus

>> No.625053

Pechorin

>> No.625054

call me Ishmael?

>> No.625060

man with a eyepatch from Blindness

I see the use of descriptors as names more iconic than names can be when used correctly.

>> No.625065

Steppenwolf

>> No.625082

The narrator in Cowper's 'The Task' would work well except that he's unnamed and even if we take him to be a poet 'William Cowper' is not a very strong or iconic name. Similarly, William Blake would be great if he'd been in a fictional work.

Oh, I know - Tamburlaine?

>> No.625088

McMurphy from one flew over the cuckoos nest

>> No.625089

Othello, maybe?

>> No.625085

Jurgis

(sort of)

>> No.625096

>>625088
This is a good one, OP.

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625103

Motherfucking Gilgamesh

>> No.625115

>>625028
>Beowulf

and it's quite short to read

>> No.625120

Alistair

>> No.625137

>>625103
Ugh, shouldn't be in some other board with that pic?

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625140

This man.

>> No.625142

>>625137
>implying Gilgamesh is an anime character

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>>625103
>Gilgamesh King of Mesopatamia
>a teenage blonder
>no Enkidu

Japan I am dissapoint

>> No.625153

The Judge

>> No.625336

>>625140
he asked for heroes not vainglorious anti-semites

>> No.625349

h T T P : // À T . K Ì m m O À . 5 3 /

>> No.625361

Seconding Santiago.

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625477

>>625153
>>625153

Seconded

>> No.625482

>>624967
I was going to say motherfucking Hektor up in this bitch, but then I >>624972'd.

>> No.625554

>>625153

Not really a hero, but fits all the other criteria. From Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.

Conan the Barbarian is also good. Or Odysseus.

>> No.625574

H T T p : // À + . K i M M o a . S E /

>> No.625606

Samson.

>> No.625628

Zarathustra

>> No.625631

I third Gilgamesh

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>>624965
h T t p : // á + . K | M M ò Á . 5 e /

>> No.625693

Gary Stu