O is for...

[girlyswot]

* Comment on this post.
* I will give you a letter.
* Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

nineveh_uk gave me O.


1. Mme Orly
Patrick likes her and she prefers boys to girls. Though she likes the girls to be feminine and ladylike, not tomboyish. She converted to Catholicism for the sake of her second husband and has to explain to Lawrie that the historical facts of the beginnings of Christianity are not generally regarded as myth or legend. Ginty gets to visit her in Paris and be thoroughly spoilt. A terrifying, but (as one would expect of Forest) fully realised character that I can picture perfectly.

2. Julia Oversley
Georgette Heyer's answer to Marianne Dashwood.

3. Orville
Can you tell I'm struggling? When I was too young to know better I owned two Orvilles. And I have only just realised in the last week that he must have been named after Orville Wright. His best known song: 'I wish I could fly (but I can't)' is as irritating as you'd imagine.

4. Oliver Wood
For moonette1 and because I felt I should include an HP character somewhere in the list. Could have had Mr Ollivander, I suppose.

5.Owl
Or, as he prefers to spell it, 'Wol'. He, like Rabbit, has a brain rather than merely fluff and it shows. He knows his days of the week and can sometimes even read, so long as no one is looking over his shoulder. He behaves rather badly to Piglet in the matter of his house, though.

Comments

[dogstar101.livejournal.com]

2 Orvilles? I expect I'd have been very envious at the time. I hear he's changed a lot and is a strictly post-watershed duck these days.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

a strictly post-watershed duck these days.
Ewww.

[daksian.livejournal.com]

I'll play!

Is it bad that I saw 'Mme Orly' as 'Madame O rly?' Ya rly. :P

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's very bad indeed. ;)

R.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

In Owl's defence (if I remember my A A Milne, and I am willing to believe I don't), he didn't realise that it was Piglet's house...

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

No, although I think it is later pointed out to him.

If you would like a letter, have L.

[gabrielladusult.livejournal.com]

You should have done Ollivander for your Harry Potter character, then you could have done Oliver Twist as well...

I don't know half your entries (though I recognized Marianne Dashwood)!

I asked amamama for a letter, but haven't got one yet, so I'll take on from you.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I thought of Oliver Twist but I find him so repellent that I decided not to.

Hmmm. You can have... F.

[gabrielladusult.livejournal.com]

After struggling through Great Expectations, I only get my Dicken's through film -- and I liked Oliver! the musical well enough.

That's so funny! [Bad username or site: stmargarets</i @ livejournal.com] gave me 'f' once for a meme where I think we were supposed to give 10 words instead of five characters -- Interesting, interesting.

Well -- I've got some thinking to do.

[amamama.livejournal.com]

So now you've got two... I'm sorry you slipped under that radar, I had the usual happen (start replying, computer freeze, need to restart, forget), and you'd think I would've got a routine yet, but not so. I haven't rebooted either, I just don't care to do the job (though it'd probably take less time then all the restarts).

[gabrielladusult.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't mind, it's not as if they're the same letter (though, come to think of it, that might have been helpful, as long as nobody expected 10 character names instead of five). I'm happy to play.

Computer freezes are a pain.

[amamama.livejournal.com]

And accidentally you got F&G... Heh.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the letter! I thought it would be different...

I like the existence of Julia Oversley, though she's an infuriating character. A friend and I once had a long exchange about what Rock could possibly see in her, in which we could only credit the man with great insight or nefarious purposes.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I always assumed his purposes were utterly nefarious.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Well, it was different. I haven't seen anyone else listing ventriloquists' puppets from the 1980's. My first thoughts were all classical (Orpheus, Odysseus etc.) but then I thought that if I listed them I would have to show off my ignorance about them.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Wol is also under suspicion in the case of Eeeyore's tail, if I recall aright.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

He is an all-round suspicious character. Too clever by half.

[kinderjedi.livejournal.com]

I'll play. :)

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Okay. You can have.... K!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

OK, give me a letter, please, Carol. :-)

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Vowel or consonant? *g*

Have M.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm working on it now...

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

You owned two Orvilles! Only the claim of extreme youth in anyway iustifies that and even then you are on dodgy ground.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Did you want a letter? Try P.

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

I didn't but I suppose I'll have a go. You will have to wait until tomorrow though.