I Heart Characters!

I Heart Characters! is a weekly meme hosted by Dani @ Perspective of a Writer to showcase our book blogger love for characters! Each week she’ll supply a topic and you’ll supply the character. Post on whatever day suits you, about characters from whatever media you love (books, movies, K-dramas, television, manga, anime, webtoons, whatever!) and link up on Thursday so you and others can blog hop and share the character love.

This weeks topic is Bam! The Opposite Sex (A character you’d like to read about but the opposite sex of what they identified within the original story!)

Amanda

I have two choices for this weeks topic. I just couldn’t decide between the two, but one option was a female main character and the other choice was a male main character so I thought it worked out well.

The first is from my favorite book, Looking for Alaska by John Green. Our main character, Miles Halter (also known as Pudge) goes off to boarding school where his whole life changes. He makes new friends and does things that he’d never done before, smoking cigarettes, pranking other students, drinking. He falls in love with a girl and learns a lot about himself, about love, and about life. I have always wondered how this story would be different or the same had the main character been a girl instead of Miles. I think I may write this story one day, but I wonder how Miles experience would differ from the boarding school experiences of a female.

The second choice I have for this topic is my favorite series, A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. So I’d really love to read this series from Rhysands perspective, but that’s not really the question I’m being asked. I also think it would be so interesting and totally change the whole story had our main character, Feyre, been a male main character. This would be interesting because I think all the other roles would need to be reversed as well. So Rhysand would need to be a female and being a High Lord that might mean that all the other High Lords would be made female as well to have the story make sense. This role reversal would be excellent.

Antonia

Oh, man. All of them? I think gender-swaps are fascinating.

I think Bloodlines by Richelle Mead would be really cool if Adrian and Sydney’s roles were reversed. While they’re very complex, their personalities definitely fit with what you might typically expect as male and female. I’d love to see those stereotypes erased. Have a female vampire who’s kind of a player and a guy who’s a little neurotic and body-conscious.

I Heart Characters!

I Heart Characters! is a weekly meme hosted by Dani @ Perspective of a Writer to showcase our book blogger love for characters! Each week she’ll supply a topic and we’ll supply the character. Post on whatever day suits you, about characters from whatever media you love (books, movies, K-dramas, television, manga, anime, webtoons, whatever!) and link up on Thursday so we can all blog hop and share the character love.

This week’s topic is Anti-Establishment Group of Badasses (A group of three or more characters that belong together as they fight the “good fight” – this can be interpreted however you like.)

Amanda- This was totally an easy topic for me. I would for sure have to go with my favorite squad from the A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas. Even if we don’t include Feyre and Rhysand – Mor, Cassian, Azriel, and Armen are still a fantastic group of badasses that have hearts of gold and mostly do the right thing all while showing the world their resting bitch faces. They all have hardships that they dealt with in their past that shaped them into the good people they are today, people that fight the good fight for those that can’t fight for themselves. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I would love to be a part of this squad. They have such a fun dynamic that’s actually pretty similar to myself and my husband and our friends now that I think about it.

Antonia- I think I have to go with the group I read about most recently: Cass, Del, and Nyx from the Dragon’s Gift series by Linsey Hall. Technically, there’s three series; one for each girl, each made up of five books. After losing their memories around age fifteen, all they know is they’re being hunted by someone they call The Monster and that their powers make them criminals in the eyes of the magical government. They’re sisters by choice but I never once felt that they were anything but family. They’re strong, compassionate, badass ladies who always do what’s right even at the risk of their own lives. I’d absolutely love to be best friends with them.

Thanks for reading! What characters would you choose for this weeks topic? Let us know in the comments or leave us a link to your post.