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  • aesmael@blahaj.zone
    Jul 3, 2026, 10:24 AM

    @ami_angelwings@urusai.social My favourite character beginning with J is the famous James T. Kirk, youngest captain in Starfleet and known "stack of books with legs". I admire his focus, his dedication and capacity to make difficult decisions, and the resolve that enables him to consistently prioritise the safety of the crew in his care and their mission over all manner of temptation, romantic or otherwise. Kirk always tries to find a peaceful solution, even when the logical response (as advocated by Spock on multiple occasions) is violence, even when he himself wants violence and even when he must put the Enterprise and its crew, shown so many times as so precious to him, on the line to give peace that chance. The man who would rather find common ground with the horta than exterminate it. The man who would give his own life rather than surrender his ship to an enemy. And the man who would leave his ship vulnerable to destruction by an only recently former enemy, rather than fight back and guarantee a war on the threshold to an end of enmity.

    Star Trek left me with an unfortunately overinflated expectation for the level of maturity I could expect from the adult world. But I keep on hoping.

    However I'm also going to post a runner-up, who would have been my pick for a different letter if they hadn't been bumped when I realised they had a first name I'd forgotten about.     #FavCharacterAtoZ, #FavCharacterJ

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  • aesmael@blahaj.zone
    Jul 3, 2026, 10:25 AM

    @ami_angelwings@urusai.social For C I had just one character in mind, at least until I was reminded his given name is actually John. Childermass, of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell, by Susanna Clarke, is the personal servant and agent Mr Norell, who is known as the first and only English magician in centuries and wants to keep it that way. Although much of the surface tension focuses on the rivalry between Norell and Strange, England's second magician, we also soon learn that Childermass has picked up a certain fluency with magic in the course of his service and perhaps access to Norrell's private library. And yet he is not supposed to be counted as a magician—because he is a servant and not a gentleman?

    Of course this doesn't go unnoticed and after loyally resisting efforts to lure him away he does eventually break with the peevish, petulant Norell and claim his own place as a magician and part of the return of magic to England.

    But really, ultimately, Childermass is my favourite for the moment of awe near the end, where he encounters what was     almost certainly the Raven King.

    _"The sky spoke to me"_, and that speaks to me.     #FavCharacterAtoZ, #FavCharacterJ

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