I thought this might be fun! Who would you like to be? Who are you most like if you're being honest? For me I think: I would like to be like Lucy Westenra in Dracula. Because: Well not because she's a vampire! She's innocent and pure. She only cares for the things she wants in life (finding a husband, maybe not that part) but the theme stands. She's loved by all and her life is like a dream of happiness and fun... well you know, until... (should probably come up with a better one.) If I'm being honest I'm most like: Adrian Mole. Because: I probably think I'm better at things than I actually am. I have a stream of bad luck. In those bad incidents, I tend to handle them over all with a bit more humour than seriousness. (Even though I probably shouldn't) Tell me yours!
I wouldn't mind being the Cheshire Cat in Through the Looking Glass; laze about in a tree, grinning, and dispense wisdom to passersby.
I would love to be Frodo Baggins. Not a great warrior, but has the soul of a poet and the purity and courage to carry the ring to its destruction, and a great group of friends to help. Plus he had a nice little adventure along the way.
Love me some Dracula. I'd be... One of those labourers unloading crates of Transylvanian dirt in Piccadilly under the pay of some master somewhere, thinking about Bram Stoker's Dracula and who I might be. Or, some post dated human expired come back incarnate complaining Heaven's just another OR happy that my boat finally came in and I got mine, even if it's for everyone and you're dead. - On 2nd thought, that's not a character, I'd probably end up like good ol' Holden from The Catcher In The Rye if I'm lucky, Jesus, now that's a sobering thought, I guess I really screwed the pooch in this thing called life huh. Actually, I would be Dave Lister from Red Dwarf, lucky, bottom of the ladder, part bum part rock star - with a funny English accent! Lucky for me I've seen this character in book form to be able to use it too.. And I like cats...And curries... And who doesn't like lager?
I would be Corwin, a Prince of Amber. That would allow me to walk in shadows. In other words I could visit uncounted worlds and realities, if I desired.
It's been a long while since I read it, but I would be H.H., the narrator in Hesse's Journey to the East. He's a guy who starts out with a lot of enthusiasm on this mystical journey, gets discouraged, finds himself separated from the group, and presumes the group has met some dire end. Hhe eulogizes it and its failed idealism. Only to discover that the group continued on, but he had simply given up. I feel that way every time I pick up my copy of the Tao te Ching, which I laid aside for fifty years before re-discovering it.
I would like to be his neighbour. The nice quiet life, nothing happens, plenty of meals... and that annoying fellow from next door goes away for ages leaving me in peace to enjoy the view.
Yeah, you probably want to break into my cozy Hobbit Hole don't you? I've seen you admiring my lawn and the little lawn gnomes I chained in place to hold lanterns here and there.
I don't know if I would choose to be a character. The best stories usually have horrible things happen to good characters, and I don't know if I'd want to experience that. But if you're asking who I'm most like, I'm half Osaka from Azumanga Daioh and half America from Hetalia.
I'm not sure Groot qualifies so much as a character in a book, or if it's more that you've been ground up and made into books.
You took off in such a hurry, I wouldn't want you to come back to spoilt food. Nice custard tarts by the way.
Rose madder/the insane spider lady/ not really sure what her name is from Rose Madder by Stephen King.
Esme 'Granny' Weatherwax, one of the witches from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. She is well meaning, has many good qualities and wise thoughts and is generally worth knowing, but can also be absurdly stubborn and proud, to the point of melodrama (I can't remember the details but in one book she goes off to die by herself in a cave rather than admit to her friends she needs help - it was at that point I started to find her uncomfortably relatable!). Some choice quotes (all by Sir Terry of course): "Granny’s implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on occasion, mountains." "She'd never mastered the talent for apologizing, but she appreciated it in other people." "She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite bring it to mind."
