who's your hero?

[wisdomeagle]

I'm still trying to decide whether to type up my reactions to "Kansas" tonight or tomorrow, but in the meantime, I'm dwelling on the fact that John Crichton is my hero. I want to know who your fictional hero is -- and, if you're feeling talkative, why. John's not my hero because he always makes the right decisions, or because he's anything like me at all, but because he embarks on a hero's journey and because he is a traveler questing for home. Because he is Dorothy. Because he is ultimately, utterly, unfailingly loyal to the people he loves.

Who's your hero?

Definitely "Kansas" tomorrow, I think.

Comments

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about this ever since you posted the question, and I've come to the conclusion that I don't have any heroes, or not personal ones, anyway.

The names that initially came to mind were Jack O'Neill and Rupert Giles and Ray Vecchio, because they're flawed and brave and lonely and sometimes afraid and they just keep trying to do the right thing, even though sometimes they fuck up and they know it. Which makes them admirable human beings, as well as men I could easily lose my heart to.

But they're not bigger than life in the way I think of when I think of a hero.

Closest I'd come to that on an intimate/personal scale would be Howard, my long-ago significant other, who was a fireman and ran into burning buildings when any sane person would run out of them. He was the guy who went down into the basement of a burning building and stood thigh-deep in water floating with raw sewage, trying to rescue two terrified doberman pinschers who kept threatening to bite him because they didn't understand that he was going to save them. And he did. And that's just one such story; there were lots of others.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Crichton-as-hero works for me, mostly because he is, always, himself. The only times he's put on a pretend-face is to save another from danger (a la keeping his feelings for Aeryn close when suspecting Scorpius could use them against him). Unapologetic, in-your-face, 100% himself. :)

[cheese-munkey.livejournal.com]

Beka. So very much Beka Valentine, and maybe Lily Marquette (forgive the spelling? - I was 11 and never really involved in the fandom) before her. May have actual thoughts for you - besides feel the feminist-y chick luv! & my obsession with pilots - when you GET HERE TOMORROW!!!! XD XD XD XD

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[wisdomeagle]

Ah, squee! I should really not forget about Beka because she very much is a hero of mine too, although tragically her arc was not long enough to grab me and *suck me in* the way John's did.

Tomorrrrrow! SQUEEEEEE! You will be at Stamford at 9:53?

I will try to make myself a second cup of coffee for the afternoon/train ride so I will be awake when I get there.

[cheese-munkey.livejournal.com]

Of course will be there! XP Can't wait. XD