Man, it's been ages since I've done a meme (in this sense of the word), and Beldarius had one that I decided to steal. I think I've done this before for a single fandom, but I can't remember, so we're going to just go with it. I took out the last question since I don't think all of you want to be exposed to my pairing preferences.
Choose your top four fandoms (in random order)
- Avengers
- Meine Liebe
- Suits
- X-Men First Class
The first character you fell in love with:
- Avengers: Thor. He's adorable and totally still my favorite ever. I just love him. He tries so hard and cares so much and is much cleverer than anyone gives him credit for.
- ML: Ludwig. He's manipulative and calculating, doesn't do emotions, uses people like whoa to accomplish his own goals, baits the main character mostly for shits and giggles, and tends toward the autocratic in his views on governing--and he's still one of the good guys. Also he's questionably heterosexual life partners with his assistant/best friend person (that's their heterosexuality that's questionable; Ludwig at one point outright tells Naoji: "you have beautiful eyes").
- Suits: Harvey. I'm not sure there's another right answer for this question. He's a badass smoking hot lawyer who pretends to not do caring but adores his associate so much he's willing to put his own job on the line for Mike. Also he lets Mike puppy-eyes his way into all sorts of things.
- XMFC: Erik. He's just. Angry obsessive vengeful German assassins with a soft spot for adorable pampered British boys just do something to me?
The character you never expected to love:
- Avengers: Tony. I /hated/ Tony in Iron Man 1 and 2. I thought he was a giant dickbag and yet no one appeared to ever call him out on it (except occasionally Rhodey, who is awesome) and every single person I ever talked to thought Tony was the shiz and I just kind of wanted to pound his head against a sharp object. And then...there was Avengers, and Steve calls him out on being a douche, and then he /stops being a douche/. And then I read Tony fic, most especially "The Act of Creation Will Be Your Salvation", which is an amazing fanfic that made me cry (as a warning to would-be readers, it's Steve/Tony pairing) and really helped me to see Tony for the beautifully broken person he really is, and now I pretty much identify with him more than anyone else in Avengers.
- ML: Naoji. I didn't ever hate Naoji, but he was so self-effacing and had such an inferiority complex (he is seriously the most typical Japanese person I have ever seen in an anime) that I didn't think I'd ever particularly love his character. But, you eventually realize that Ludwig chose him for the role of PA/best friend/confidante/boyfriend for a reason--Naoji kicks /ass/. In episode 1, he stops a duel between Ludwig and Orphe (the main character) by using a couple of branches because his swordsmanship is /that awesome/. It helps that periodically Ludwig just has a random conversation with him where Lui is all "Naoji, if you weren't awesome I wouldn't have made you follow me forever".
- Suits: Louis. He's such a sneaky bitchy backstabbing little weasel, and yet he's hilarious and awesome and occasionally we get to see development of him as a person that makes you feel bad for him.
- XMFC: Gosh, I dunno. Unfortunately, most of the characters who aren't Erik, Charles or Shaw don't get a lot of development. I'd say Havok/Alex. He was all "I'm sexy and going to hide in solitary to avoid killing people with my chest-rays and Charles must be insane or dumb to try to train me, and then I shall explode all the things because they killed Darwin."
The character you never expected to hate:
- Avengers: I don't think I hate anyone from Avengers world, honestly. Maybe...Howard? I dunno. I certainly never /expected/ I'd hate him, but I don't think I expected much since I never saw Captain America.
- ML: I ended up liking a lot more characters than I thought I would, and didn't really hate anyone except the intended villains, I guess. The closest answer I have is Camus, who I never hated, but I got really bored of the arc where he essentially decides to go home because he doesn't fit in at school, and we have to watch him angst for no particular reason for like four episodes.
- Suits: Rachel. I am so /so/ sick of the repetitive love triangle of Rachel/Mike/random blonde from Mike's past. I try to like Rachel because she can be snarky and cool, but then she does something really dumb and gets pissy at Mike and is indecisive and silly and I just want her to go away and find someone better because the love triangles are past old by now.
- XMFC: Raven? I liked her in the bits of fic and fandom I picked up before I saw the movie, and then in the film I found her to be really, really whiny (seriously, Charles probably told her to put on some clothes because his sister walked in to the kitchen naked, not because she was blue), and kind of a whore (she knew Darwin for like two hours before trying to make out with him, she jumped into Erik's bed, earlier in the film she was acting kind of like she wanted Charles to sleep with her) and just not as cool as fanfic made her out to be.
The character you would hug anytime:
- Avengers: I'd say Thor, but he'd hug back and I like to breathe. And then I'd say Loki, but he'd just stab me and I like being alive. And I'd say Tony, but he'd probably just try to cop a feel. At which point I'm going to have to go with Steve.
- ML: Eduard. He's adorable and fun and super chill about everything, and would also have the least alarmed reaction. (Orphe'd be all "gah, it's a girl!" and Camus'd probably get sick, and Lui'd be all "ew, it's female" and Naoji would just be like "oh my god someone that isn't Lui just showed me affection, what do I /do/?")
- Suits: Mike, because he's cute, and because hugging Harvey just seems like a bad plan.
- XMFC: Charles? Erik would just shoot me, and Charles is adorable and kind of heartbroken at the fact that he's pretty much stuck fighting Erik forever. (Although if I could get away with hugging Erik, he probably also needs some comfort too because he's stuck fighting Charles forever AND it's his fault Charles is in a wheelchair.)
The character you're most like:
- Avengers: I...don't think any of them. Seeing as I am relatively normal and don't have eighty billion complexes and quite as much emotional trauma. So...the closest thing to that is probably Coulson, but I'm nowhere near as awesome.
- ML: Uh, gosh, Ed? Or maybe Elmunt, minus the giant mancrush on Camus. The others are a little too insane.
- Suits: I'd love to be like Donna. Or even Jessica. Unfortunately I don't think I qualify into being like anyone in Suits. Probably random associate #4 who just sits in the corner and watches stuff go down.
- XMFC: Darwin, probably. He's just kind of around and fairly reasonable about things (and...dead, which I'm obviously not, but hey). Or Riptide, who kind of just does his job and lets stuff happen.
The character you'd slap:
- Avengers: Loki. I love him, but he needs a slap to get his head out of his ass. Especially with regards to the fact that Thor /adores/ him.
- ML: Beruze. I stopped hating him, but poor Werner is angsting so hard and Beruze is just /tormenting/ him.
- Suits: Hardman, because he is a douchenozzle. (And Tanner, if possible, he's also a douche.)
- XMFC: Erik. I also love him, but he also needs to get his head out of his ass. He's just making himself and Charles miserable doing what he's doing. Boo.
Three favorite characters I like a lot (in random order):
(other than the ones I've listed in the first two questions)
- Avengers: Steve, because he's such a sweetheart. Loki, because he's lovely and broken. Bruce, who is just plain awesome.
- ML: Ed, who is in a terrible situation but just kind of doesn't mind and kind of takes a big brother role anyway. Headmaster Bartholomew who not only has awesome hair but is actually also pretty awesome. Professor Gerald, who I always imagine to be constantly internally facepalming, but is too nice to do it outwardly.
- Suits: Mike, who is adorable even if he makes questionable decisions in his love life. Donna, who is the most awesome person ever. Jessica, who kicks intense ass.
- XMFC: Charles, who cares too much for his own good. Also Azazel and Riptide, despite them not getting developed almost at all, because I love how composed they are, and how they're just very good at what they do. (Also Riptide is pretty and Azazel looks rather kickass and appears to be Russian.)