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

[http://users.livejournal.com/__marcelo/]

Oh, how I share your love for Amanda. She's the DCU's most skillful gov type, and that's a "superpower" on itself. Not to mention doing that *besides* having to break pretty much every glass ceiling there can be (she's also quite awesome in the JLU toons minus the idiotic Epilogue; her interaction with Batman, her sheer *guts* and ruthlessness and good intentions, are downright inspiring, even if she does all kinds of nasty things to get it done... I think, in the end, I might work for her with not many more reservations than I'd have working for the JL).


Now, Brainiac 5. The smartest person outside Colu, the "slow kid" of his family. How can he not feel doubly affronted by the idiocy around him? The entire universe must seem like a mockery with the goal of hurt him. Nobody trusts him, nobody does the work right, they keep throwing at him crazy things like sexy precogs, unsolvable misteries and dead crazy precogs, and yet...

He keeps trying. Frustrated, in pain -he's not anemotional, if anything, he's hyperemotional- he tries to do the right thing, where the right thing means "whatever will save us all". Or at least the ones he loves (at least a bit).

For that, he will cheerfully kill, maim, cheat, commit treason, give away his dignity, trust Cos, *whatever*. He loves and cares too much, and even as everything frustrates him, he still goes at it.

He's kind of like House, trying to get people to think, hitting everybody with his cane, saving the day, lying, loving despite himself, hurting at every step. Knowing exactly how much he can do, and how much it's not enough.

He's tragic, heroic, in pain, extraordinary, a crowded loner, a betrayed conspirator, a lover who didn't knew he loved until he lost.

He scares the heck out of me, and I'd want to give him the happy ending he deserves.

This being comics, it's not bloody likely. But I derive a bit of grim satisfaction from the fact that the universe can't keep hurting him forever before he'll lash back, and Brainiac 5 vs the Universe? It's going to be even odds.