[LMB] OT: Heyeroes (was: Fantasy crushes)

[Margaret Dean]

Elizabeth Holden wrote:
> 
> --- Margaret Dean <margdean at erols.com> wrote:

> > For some reason [Avon] is the one Heyer hero whom I find Dead
> > Sexy, though I like an awful lot of them as characters.
> 
> I find Lord Damerel very sexy.  And Avon's son, Dominic, Marquis
> of Vidal. 

I =like= Damerel, but he doesn't turn me on the way Justin does. 
And Vidal never did a thing for me, I'm afraid.

I'm also terribly fond of Hugo Darracott, Miles Calverleigh,
Adolphus Gillispie Vernon Ware (aka Gilly), Kit Fancot, Freddy
Standen...  All right, so I happen to like nice men.  :)

Not that Justin is nice.  Not at all.  It's that impression of
controlled power that does it.

> (Am I just naming the Bad Boys of the Heyer pantheon?  Hmm.  Surely
> not.)  Avon is definitely Dead Sexy, and he also reminds me of Lymond,
> and I would guess, is one of the characters who influenced or inspired
> Dorothy Dunnett. But I've never head that confirmed, I don't think.
> I do know that Dunnett liked Heyer.

It wouldn't surprise me to find that's the case.  It's the
Omniscient Thang.
 

--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>