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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elemental" data-source="post: 1854230" data-attributes="member: 7931">I'll probably remember a dozen others after I click Send, but the five I can recall right now are:Eddie Dean, from King's Dark Tower series. A clown and joker, but with the soul of a warrior. His slaying a psychotic AI with illogical jokes, his talk with Roland about what stopped him shooting himself on the beach, and the scene in the final book [SPOILER]where he gets shot[/SPOILER] are the standout moments I took with me from that series. It's a very close thing between him and Susannah, mind.Linden Avery, from the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. She starts off with a massive amount of angst and accumulates more throughout the books (hey, she's a Donaldson character), but the appeal for me lies in the fact that she never stops trying to overcome that angst, refusing to simply lie down and give up. And it's fun watching the ambivalent relationship between her and Covenant as they slowly realise that she's the real saviour this time round, and he's been cast as the devil.Hiro Protagonist, from Snow Crash. An over-the-top lampoon of cyberpunk heroes, who grows into a well-rounded and believable character. Gets into the top five just for the paragraph that starts "Until the age of thirty, every man thinks he could be the baddest mother****** in the world."Etta, from the Liveship Traders trilogy. There's something about the competence and hard-bitten determination that counters well with the tragedy of the fact that the man she loves and would do anything for is essentially a sociopath. Then again, most of the supporting cast in that series was far more interesting than the people who were supposed to be the heroes.Tyr Anasazi from 'Andromeda'. He's selfish, amoral and playing his role as the right hand man of the saviour of the galaxy for all he can personally get out of it, but there's a cunning and method to his actions, and the hard-edged pragmatism that drives him appeals to me.</blockquote>

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