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top ten; characters to revisit

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I’ve been book blogging long enough to have seen Top Ten posts on the various blogs I have subscribed to. I have not been blogging long enough to have participated. Until today.

The Broke and the Bookish have compiled a VERY INTERESTING list of prompts for Top Ten Tuesdays. Many times, I find myself pausing and thinking – hey, I could have done this. I have ideas for what I would have written! – but then I never get around to actually writing the thing because procrastination is an old friend of mine.

This time, though, this time I had to try. Or – okay, do or do not, there is no try, as Yoda says. Ten characters I want to revisit as adults, that’s easy. Or so I thought.

Coming up with ten characters was DIFFICULT. There are so many characters I love? But so most of their stories ended satisfactorily enough that I never want to revisit them again? So I may have, kind of, sort of, cheated a bit?

Or not cheated, per se. Mixed things up? Yeah, that sounds better, right?

top ten tuesday

Where Are They Now?
These would be characters I grew up reading about, whose stories may have ended, but whom I would love to check up on, in a way.

  • Alex Mack, from The Secret World Of Alex Mack. (Did she get her normal life? How did her family deal with everything that happened? Did she really give up her abilities? Is she still super close with her sister? ARE THEY HAPPY?)
  • Matilda, from Matilda. (She got adopted by Ms Honey, which was THRILLING, but then what? How did school go for her after? Did she skip grades? Is she still friends with the mish-mash group she got to know under Ms Trunchbull’s rule? IS SHE HAPPY? IS MS HONEY HAPPY??? Does she still devour every book she can get her hands on?)
  • Violet Smith, from A Tale Of Time City. (She made a home, a family, in Time City. But what about her actual family? Does she ever visit them? Does she live in Time City or divide her time between both lives? A sequel would not be remiss here, just saying!)
  • Katy Carr, from What Katy Did. (Okay, so What Katy Did Next ended with Katy’s engagement, but what happened after that? I definitely would not mind knowing more about how she fell in love with Ned. So sue me, I’m a romantic at heart.)
  • Susan Pevensie, from The Chronicles Of Narnia. (I get so sad when I think of Susan Pevensie. Tell me she was happy, she built her life up again after losing everybody in that train crash. Tell me she found Aslan in her new life, in her new world. That she grew up and found him anyway, that she was not forsaken. I will never be over Susan Pevensie apparently being forsaken because she listened to Aslan and grew up and made a life for herself. #bitterSusanfan)

What Were They Like Before?
These are the older characters I loved, who I want to know a little more about as children. What were they like when they were younger? Give me backstories, please.

  • The Marauders, from Harry Potter. (Literally no one would resist a chance to know all about the Marauders when they were in Hogwarts. To know how they became friends, how they grew apart. To know how James and Lily fell in love, how the Order was formed. That entire generation’s story would be FASCINATING, and I would love to read it.)
  • Haymitch Abernathy, from The Hunger Games. (This does not have to stop at Haymitch. I’d be fascinated by all the Games that came before the rebellion, to be quite honest. Give me the first ever Games. Give me the need FOR the Games. Or, you know, I’d also be okay for Haymitch’s games, and getting to know Maysilee Dorner, and the girl Haymitch loved and lost.)
  • Daphne & Ajax, from the Starcrossed series. (I know Josephine Angelini wrote a bit of a prequel for this? But I would LOVE to know more, about how they met and fell in love and lost one another.)
  • Maura Sargent & the ladies, from The Raven Cycle. (I haven’t had a chance to read The Raven King yet, so I don’t know if we’ll get to know the backstories of all the ladies at 306 Fox Way, but I’m DEFINITELY intrigued by how Calla, Persephone and Maura especially became friends. About how they fell into living together. About how Maura met Blue’s father, and what actually happened there. SO MANY QUESTIONS.)
  • Mandy, from Ella Enchanted. (It’s been ages since I’ve read this book, but the more I look back on it, the more I’m fascinated by how Mandy may have fallen in with Ella’s family. How did she and Ella’s mother become friends? I really, really think there’s a story to be told here…)

And there you have it! Ten characters I want to know more about – either about their futures, or about their pasts. Okay, technically more than 10 characters? Since some of them are groups of characters?

So, let’s put it this way – ten stories that could still be told? Ten stories I want to know more about?

What are characters you would want to revisit? What stories do you think should still be told? I’m sure I left out many characters I still love, so come and discuss this with me!!!

2016-04-12 11:46

I’m Ara, a Southeast Asian writer who someday hopes to have published a novel, and who is currently losing herself in the worlds created by others. I love books and food and television and blogging and I get distracted and sidetracked easily.

6 Comments

  • Zoe @ Stories on Stage

    YES TO ALL OF THESE. I think Haymitch’s prequel would make me super emotional. I never really thought much about his backstory, but it sounds so horrible. It would also be interesting to read Rue / Cato / Clove / Foxface’s prequels, or at least read about everything that happened in the arena from their perspective.

    Thanks for sharing and, as always, fabulous post! ♥

    • Ara

      I think anything in that world would make me emotional! But yeah, Haymitch’s especially, it is SUPER DEPRESSING. But OMG yes, the points of views of other Tributes! That would be good too.

      Thanks for commenting!

  • Topaz @ Six Impossible Things

    Oh goodness, so much yes to these lovely people. I believe that the need for a Maruaders book is rather universally acknowledged – they are my babies!!! I must know all of their stories, beyond the fanfiction!!!!!!!! – and if J.K. Rowling chose to write something as wonderful as this, I would truly be over the moon.

    And: I had not thought of it before, but I would so love a Haymitch/Maysilee story. I think there is endless beauty & tragedy to explore there, no? It would be a fascinating book to devour.

    Thank you so much for sharing, love. I could not agree more. xx

    • Ara

      Yes, I do believe everybody would REJOICE with a Marauders book. I just hope that if it ever happens, it doesn’t destroy the image I have of them in my head, lol.

      IT WOULD BE HEARTBREAKING which is why I want it, actually. I thrive off pain. Who knew? (:

      Thank you for commenting!

  • Cait @ Paper Fury

    Omg I’m still bitter about Susan too. D: I think she was handled HORRIBLY in The Last Battle. So dismissive and awful?! Like why couldn’t she want to live a full life??? Gee. I DEMAND SUSAN GET A BETTER STORY ENDING. Ahem.
    Also: 100% agree about Haymitch.
    And YES TO MAURA SARGENT. I want to know how she met Artemus?!? And we get a LITTLE bit in The Raven King but definitely not enough. ? Basically Maggie Stiefvater has given us waaaay too many interesting characters and WE NEED MORE INFO ON THEM OR WE SHALL COMBUST.
    *fangirls wildly*

    • Ara

      YES IT WAS SO DISMISSIVE. The more I look back on it, the more I get SO ANGRY. Someone please rewrite the ending.

      Ha. Everybody agrees about Haymitch and I love it. Everybody’s favourite drunk Victor.

      YES OH MAN. I cannot wait to read TRK, I need to know ALL THE THINGS. and then if I don’t get enough I’m going to be sad. SO SAD CAIT.

      Thanks for commenting (:

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