The Master of Culter and the Voevoda Bolshoya...

[fajrdrako]

30 Day Book Meme: – Day 14 - Favorite character in a book (of any sex or gender)

Again, too easy: Dorothy Dunnett's hero Francis Crawford of Lymond, "a drunken amateur who makes music and love comme une ange." - That's Leone Strozzi's assessment of him in Pawn in Frankincense. Or, conversely, "a man whose mind was and always had been as far above theirs as the stars over their heads." I think that's Philippa thought. His mother says, "My son is not very complicated... though the artifice glitters."

Lymond has been my favourite hero since I was fifteen. He appears to those around him to be something different - less - than he appears. He has all the characteristics I love: he's painfully intelligent, insightful to the point of oversensitivity, utterly heroic, theatrical, imaginative, tolerant, nonconformist, reckless, courageous, private, witty, bisexual, devious, idealistic, erudite, complex, driven, and funny.

Some readers are annoyed by his troubles, which he keeps to himself till they become explosive. (Lots of mother issues.) Some readers find him intimidating; I am fascinated by his many levels.