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Have you fallen in love with an E.G. character?

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:48 am
by Milo
I havent signed on in a while, and Ive been poking around today and read some interesting posts. The Q/A post is quite interesting, but as I havent been around much I dont know any of you well enough to ask a question. So, I decided to create this thread because its the one thing Id like to ask every member. Have you fallen in love with an E.G. character? If you were able to hop outside and conjure up a character, who would it be?

I know I for one have found myself way, way lost in though as it pertains to a character and then realized I had been assigning attributes to him/her that go beyond fictional characters. Am I alone in this?

If I could conjure up a character, I think it would be Milo. I could bore everyone to death with all of my reasons, but they are significant and well thought out.

So- if you've read this and Im not the only one who has gone overboard with my thoughts about an E.G. character, lets hear who it is. While I refrained from explaining, that doesnt need to be the status quo for this thread.

:lol:

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:06 am
by Jayelle
Movin' this over to Enderverse.

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:27 pm
by lyons24000
I'm trying to think of any characters named "Milo" in the Ender books but I can't seem to recollect any. Could I be thinking of Miro or am I forgetting something? Is your name even from Ender's Game?

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:15 pm
by Milo
Good point. Its Miro, yes, I just was in the mode of logging in. I tried for that name and took the closest I could get which was this. My bad!

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:00 pm
by lyons24000
Are you a girl? I ask because I immediately assumed you are a boy and now I'm not sure.

Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:01 am
by Gravity Defier
Peter.

Sadly, I was thinking about him just last night when I couldn't fall asleep. Mostly what he looks like and who in RL I think comes close (I think I was starting to decide Joseph Gordon-Levitt looks normal yet charming enough to be an older teenage Peter).

Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:17 am
by Tcashon
I think I fell in love with Petra a little bit, I love a good woman with a sharp wit and a smart mouth. Happily, I already have found this in real life :)

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:10 am
by beanpetrapeterlove703
Bean closley followed by peter and then petra- but mostly Bean.



you could just look at my name.

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 10:01 pm
by Peterlover14
I totally agree. Peter, Petra, and Bean. and of course Ender too...

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:50 pm
by Glass
ENDER<333

I loved they way he treated Alessandra. Even though, occasionally, he "led" her on a bit. I suppose it's all biology! :wink:

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:38 pm
by Peterlover14
That signature was mine like yesterday.

Anyway, welcome to Pweb, Glass.

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:43 pm
by Glass
That signature was mine like yesterday.

Anyway, welcome to Pweb, Glass.
Thanks :)

i feel unoriginal now. lol.

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:49 pm
by Peterlover14
Hahaha well it is a great quote. How long have you been and EG fan?

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:02 pm
by Glass
I read Enders game and Enders Shadow five years ago and didn't finish off the rest of the series till recently. So I'm an old/new EG fan? ^_^

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:08 pm
by Peterlover14
Wow. I read EG at the beginning of the school year for English and read the rest in between then and a month ago.

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:33 pm
by Glass
I probably need to brush up on EG and ES. it was too long ago that i read them.

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:35 pm
by Peterlover14
I got EG, SpD, and XN today. They're wet now.

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:58 am
by Glass
I got EG, SpD, and XN today. They're wet now.
how are they wet? :?

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:10 pm
by Jeesh_girl15
Hahahaha, that's funny, Peterlover. And welcome to PWeb, Glass. I think PL14 meant that she got something on her books.... Presumably while going around completely oblivious to her surroundings while brushing up in the Enderverse. And I have to say, I can't imagine if I had waited forever to finish this series... I would not be the same person.

As to stay on the topic of this thread: I think I fell in love with Peter... At least just a little... Not the original Peter, though, I liked Peter in CotM.

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:43 pm
by Crazy Tom: C Toon
I fell in love with
1. Bean, doomed to a short life
2. Valentine, so perfectly good and innocent, but still with biting wit
3. Peter (from CotM) trying hard not to be the demon he once was
4. Petra, desparately keeping Bean alive through children and marriage
5. Poke.

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 12:45 pm
by zeldagirl1234
I fell in love with Enders from the start...he is my vision for a real man. or atleast the man I want to marry. I then fell in love with the new Peter later on.

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 2:38 pm
by spanish_rockette
i wouldnt say i fell in love with Ender. but i grew fond of him. like really fond of him from liek the beginning. like i started balling when he died. but now that im writing this, i might have fallen in love with him. but not in a way that i base every guy on ender. im not obsessed. but if there is a guy like him(not in a way that he feels to take care of me or being known as a "kid killer") than i would be intested. (oh and not in a way he would "lead me on" like he did alessandra)

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:29 pm
by Natalis
Well I can't really think about falling in love as in an obsessive, hormone-induced feelings that randomly explode whenever you're close to your crush as popular culture oftenly implies happening to teenagers. I'm in my teens now, but those stuffs just... don't.... happen.

I find myself too picky for boy-girl relationships. Lol never had a boyfriend ;) And Ender is just the picture of perfection. The most acceptable Gary-Stu ever for me. I can imagine devoting myself for that kind of person, you know, lol, like "I can die for him" kinda stuff. Now I don't obsess over Ender, but I hope my future man will just have some of his characteristics.

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:59 pm
by spanish_rockette
alright. whatevr you say

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:42 pm
by Paul
Not going to lie. Part of me fell in love with jane. Yes, i know that for the most part she was only a voice in Ender's Ear, but I always loved her sarcastic remarks while Ender was having a conversation with someone else.

Plus she eventually did get a human body, so it could work right?

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:11 pm
by spanish_rockette
I reread Ender in Exlie yesterday. And I realized that I based the guys at my school on "Ender's Standards." I like guys with the traits that Ender has. Would that count as falling in love with him?

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:06 am
by locke
I reread Ender in Exlie yesterday. And I realized that I based the guys at my school on "Ender's Standards." I like guys with the traits that Ender has. Would that count as falling in love with him?
Not really, that would just be projection. And this would be no different from girls who evaluate boys on how much they are up to "Edward's Standards." And it is always worthwhile remembering that in general humans see what we want to see and don't evaluate other humans (particularly of the opposite sex) objectively or fairly.

In other words if you like a guy your brain will find some way to put him into the "similar to Ender category" even if he is really nothing like Ender. In stories, movies, TV, and real life whenever a person in love is told "can't you see what kind of person x is?" in general, no, they can't. most of the time they're only seeing what they want to see, an ideal in their heart, rather than really seeing the other person they're "in love" with.

Petra

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:45 pm
by Locke Delphiki
How can you not love petra?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:31 am
by Mitchi
Started getting a huge crush on Ender early on in EG, which later became the running gag with my RP buddies that I was the resident pedobear. Really though, it was because he reminded me of my (female, mind you) vampire from our current game (I'll spare the boring details and say that she's essentially almost exactly like Ender except she's an 11 girl(this was unintentional.)).

The more I read though, the more I liked him. Not so sure why.

Also I was crushing hardcore on Jane. I love a snarky woman.

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:04 pm
by Kill Devil Hill
Definitely Ender. I realized recently that the books that took me the longest time to get through either had minimal or no Ender at all. The Shadow series kind of dragged while I flew through the Ender series. And I personally believe the Shadow series was better, more exciting, a page turner. The difference is that I was more willing to pick up a book with Ender at the forefront. It took me two weeks to read the Ender series (would've taken less time without my taking more than a week to find Speaker for the Dead at a library). It took me two months to read the Shadow series, and I'd purchased a boxset of that series, so there really are no excuses. Ender in Exile took me two days. Shadow Puppets took me three weeks (by miles, the book I dwelled longest on in the whole Enderverse).

I pretty much hated Children of the Mind for obvious reasons.

Re: Have you fallen in love with an E.G. character?

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:27 pm
by Lemonade Ice Queen
I think I might have the tiniest crush on Ender circa Ender in Exile.

Re: Have you fallen in love with an E.G. character?

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:51 pm
by Platypi007
Petra, for sure.

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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:00 pm
by OSCjunkie
I think I fell in love with Petra a little bit, I love a good woman with a sharp wit and a smart mouth.
Me too! I also got a bit of a hero-worship, man-crush on Bean. I'd like to be half that smart.

Re: Have you fallen in love with an E.G. character?

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 4:54 pm
by Jinxletandcake
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Re: Have you fallen in love with an E.G. character?

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:26 am
by Peter Wiggin
Young Val, Jane, Peter