Falling in Love With a Character

For me it was Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy And Keanu Reeves in anything

The Blob.

I have never fallen in love with a character but there have been books that I didn't want to end because I really liked the people and wanted the story to continue. I may have been a little too invested in them and wanted to know what happened to them next.

Welcome to the wonderful world of fan fiction.

Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice.

Yeah, me, too... so many like that!

I feel that way about the settings of novels. I would gladly transport myself to live in Trollope's "Barsetshire" ("as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business" - Hawthorne) and take a few excursions to Hardy's "Wessex".