bravo1102 wrote:
I've known enough real people where that has never been a thing for me. I mean I lusted after Jennifer Connelly in Labyrinth but it was Jennifer Connelly not her character.
I remember telling someone this online and they said I was a dirty old man because she's a teenager. Then I told them that Jennifer Connelly and I are nearly the same age in real life.
As for my own fictional characters, they're often based on people I've known and elements of past loves are in there so you could say I took care of the lust before I turned them into a fictional
character. XD 😁😉
Now if you only knew how many female creators lusted after Jareth. I was in a writers forum and many of the members where young women and they all loved Jareth.
I concur with the Jareth comment only because of the ballroom dance scene and the scene when the song “As the World Falls Down” plays at the end and not because of the gray pants Bowie was wearing during “Dance, Magic, Dance” which friends made comments about in sixth grade. It is probably because Jareth is the Goblin King, not some lowly goblin peon. He also makes that great speech where he talks about showing Sarah her dreams and how he will be her slave, yadda yadda yadda.
In truth, like many girls in the eighties, I looked up to Sarah, played by Jennifer Connelly, as a role model because she was an older teen at the time. The entire, “You have no Power over me” speech was empowering and I even recited it to myself when faced with a difficult teacher in school. Connelly later went on to act in some very exciting roles like the Rocketeer, Inventing the Abbotts, and Requiem for a Dream. (The latter of the three left me completely devastated when I watched it as a nineteen year old college freshman because she was an actress I had looked up to my entire life. I finally rewatched the film recently and I appreciate she did not limit herself to films like Labyrinth, but made an artistic risk that went beyond the expectations of films in the early 2000s.)
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To respond to the original topic of this thread—-
“Sexual Fantasies with Fictional Characters”
I can speak about the main male protagonist in my own comic, Kawaii Daigakusei, who shows up around comic #138. It was Summer of 2007 at the time the comic was created. I was enrolled in a summer writing class and had one quarter left before graduating early, I was single and still had not met the man I was going to marry at twenty-two, so I wrote a character that embodied all the hopes and dreams of the type of person I would have absolutely loved to have dated and fallen in love with while in college. It was therapeutic, really, it became an ideal of “The One” or a person who could really fit into the world of the female protagonist.
Eventually the character I had created became a blueprint for the qualities I was lacking in my own life, in example, the male protagonist is an architect, so in my mid-twenties, I enrolled in an architectural design program so I would not necessarily need someone who was an architect since I learned how to draw up floor plans myself.
Sexual fantasies with fictional characters is a whole other ball game. While the early days of the Internet left virtually nothing for the imagination when I would research Tuxedo Mask, cartoon characters were all about personality and charisma and were more suitable as a crush. They are very two-dimensional (made up of a voice actor and an illustrator) and not exactly as easy to fantasize as a real human being.
Easy fictional crushes from my youth: Michelangelo from TMNT; Tuxedo Mask/Darien from Sailor Moon; Tatewaki Kuno from Ranma 1/2; Squall Leonhart from FF8; Heero Yuy from Gundam Wing; and Vincent Valentine from FF7.
