Rebirth of Character Love Meme

[caiusbackup]

Awhile back, cereta, I believe it was, started the character love meme. And it feels like my fandom could use some love currently, so I'm bringing it back.

Give me a character (hopefully a character you know I've at least heard of, and preferably like!). I will give you at least 100 words about why I love that character, and then give *you* a character, so you can tell me why you love *them*. (Unless I owe you from the previous iteration of the meme, in which case you get a freebie.)

Comments

[poisonivory.livejournal.com]

Ollie!

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

I love Ollie because he's so *honest*, even when he's being inconsistant. Even when he's changed his mind/gone off and done something else within ten seconds. It's why he can't keep a secret identity without *heavy* retcanonical obliviousness; beyond the beard, he's just so very much OLLIE, whether he's Green Arrow or not. He loves his people and his causes with *all* of him, even while he's constantly restless, always going to find new people and places--but he'll always love the people he loves, even after ignoring them for years on end.

Like Hal, he also struggles with being anachronistic; his character, official timeline or not, clearly came of age *before* the social movements of the sixties/seventies, and as fervently as he throws himself into them, there are always parts of them that are *still* the playboy he used to be. This comes out especially in his relationship to women; occasionally he crosses the line from 'gentlemanly' into 'chauvinistic', but he's *trying*, and with Dinah especially, he protects because he loves, so it's usually a loveable flaw rather than a bad one.

I love Ollie because he carries all the hasty, agressive, not-fully realized, charm and bluster of the 1970s.

I think you're the one I owe, so you get your choice.

[poisonivory.livejournal.com]

*has warm fuzzies*

Oh gee. I'm no good at choosing; you pick.

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Snapper Carr?

[poisonivory.livejournal.com]

*fails at replying within a reasonable timeframe*

Snapper! He became a member of the Justice League based solely on his personality. And he didn't, in fact, constantly get himself kidnapped or zap the Leaguers to another dimension or what have you; he actually saved the day quite often. And he did it all while speaking whatever language it is that he speaks, which was really just marvelous.

And then he grew up and became the kind of man who would set up his best friend with his ex-wife because he didn't think he was good enough for either of them, and despite carrying the weight of feeling weighed in the balance and found wanting, he never succumbed to angst the way so many other DC characters do (well, except in that one issue, and that was after being tortured by a demon so he has an excuse). He stayed cheerful and goofy and wonderful throughout.

Also? He has the best t-shirt collection in the history of ever.