Top 5 characters U-Z
Happy Tuesday bookworms!! Today’s Top 5 Tuesday post is top 5 characters whose names start with the letters U-Z. We are finally at the end of the alphabet!!
*Genuinely down to “some” now!! Yes, I’d like to say that this list is much smaller than other weeks (but still over the 5 that it should be…)!!
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Top 5 characters U-Z
U is for Usagi
Calling all Sailor Moon stans!! I am, and have been for most of my life, a giant fan of Usagi, Tuxedo Mask and the rest of the Sailor Scouts. This was my favourite cartoon when I was a kid, and it brought me so much joy. Suffice to say, when I found copies of the graphic novels, they were quickly added to my TBR.
Usagi is not the hero you expect at all, and apart from the part where she looks EXACTLY like Sailor Moon, it’s so easy to assume that she isn’t a hero. She’s scared and emotional and cries all the time. But she’s a really loyal friend, and she eventually gets it right.
No honourable mentions because I couldn’t think of anyone else who’s name starts with U.
V is for Vasya
Vasya is one of my favourites because she is impetuous and wild. But not in a way that is malicious or hurtful, which is so nice. Just in a medieval European girls-should-be-seen-and-not-heard breaking all the rules way.
Vasya not only breaks all the rules of being a “good child”, she can see the old spirits of Slavic folklore. She is friends with the rusalka, the bannik, and the domovoi (he was my favourite). And she adheres to the traditions that keep them alive. It’s probably my favourite thing about her.
Honourable mentions: Victor (Vicious); Viggo (Grim Lovelies); Valek (Poison Study); Vivi (The Folk of the Air).
W is for Will
Will is… Will. He’s headstrong, brash, bold, wilder than Vasya, and has this recklessness about him that should drive me mad. But likely I’m ok with it because I genuinely don’t have to deal with it myself. He’s just fictional, and even then, cleaning his messes is not my job!!
I feel like some of the recklessness was definitely passed down through the gene pool. While I haven’t read Chain of Gold yet, you can definitely see it in Jace at any rate!!
Honourable mentions: Wade (Soulbound); Wolf (The Lunar Chronicles); Willow (Starfell); Daft Wullie (Discworld).
X is for… nothing!
Y is for Yelena
Yelena is one of my favourite YA kick-ass female characters. In fact, when I read it, the story reminded me of Throne of Glass a little to begin with. (Girl is sentenced to death, but at the last moment is offered to the King (Commander) as an assassin (poison tester), and falls in love with the guard.
That’s about it for similarities. Yelena has common traits with Celaena, but they are very different people. Yelena is trained by Valek, who is the Commander’s right-hand man, to become a force of nature herself, but Yelena’s greatest attributes lie in her kindness and mercy.
… and Y is for You
OK, so I don’t actually have much to say for You, except that she’s a very lovely white cat. Probably magical. And I love her name (she was named by Granny Weatherwax). She is also the exact opposite of Greebo (Nanny Ogg’s cat) in pretty much every way. And she chose Tiffany, which speaks volumes for her character!!
To be honest, I was going to put You in the honourable mentions, but she looked so sad there all by herself… and besides, I love showing the cover of The Shepherd’s Crown, where she is actually seen!!
No honourable mentions.
Z is for Zuzana
Yes, finally, we reach my favourite rabid fairy, Zuzana. Not actually a fairy, just a girl with a penchant for puppets and Karou’s best friend, Zuzana and Mik actually got their own story (Night of Cake and Puppets) from the DOSAB trilogy and it was the greatest!!
Fun story for you: When we were in Prague on our honeymoon, I had mapped out Zuse and Mik’s map from this story and took my husband for a walk along it. Because they zigzag a little bit, husband was convinced I was lost (I never told him that was the path we were taking), and it was so it has become this hilarious conversation of ‘remember when you got lost in Prague?’ One day I might let him in on the secret!!
Honourable mentions: Zachary (The Harmatia Cycle); Zila (Aurora Rising).
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The Infinite Library (part 2)
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A Fictional Bookworm
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The Book Connection
Evelyn Reads
Zezee with Books
Beware of the Reader
Wonderwall
Strange Storyteller
Who are some of your favourite characters?
20 Comments
ketutar
Here’s mine 😀 An hour ago the list was pretty much empty, and then I started going through my favorite books on Goodreads, and got a couple more names. This challenge makes me really, really, really sad that I haven’t kept a reading journal since the day I started reading… if you read this and have children or get children, see that they keep a reading journal, where they record all the books they read, what they thought about them, what they liked about them and what they disliked about them, and talk about their favorite characters and quotes and everything else, because if they ever become writers, they will thank you for ever 😀
Then I found this on Goodreads… https://www.goodreads.com/characters?page=1
Would have been nice to find a month ago 😀
And I STILL couldn’t find an X! I’m pretty sure there has been at least one character whose name starts with X I’ve read about the last 45 years!
Anyway, here’s mine: https://ketutarwriting.blogspot.com/2020/09/top-5-fave-characters-uz.html
meeghan
Oh I totally feel the empty list dread!! I have to admit, when the month started, I pulled a bunch of books off my shelves and made a spreadsheet (love a good spreadsheet!!) with my fave characters. I pretty much just kept going (hence the honourable mentions) until I had filled most of the alphabet!! ??
thepunktheory
I loved Sailor Moon SOOOOOO much when I was a kid. Recently, I’ve been revisiting some of my favorite childhood animes and now I’m really in the mood to check out the graphic novels!!!
meeghan
Yaaaaay!! Also, childhood favourites are the best!! ??
wonderwall360blog
That is a great Prague story! It is fun trying that I did it in Edinburgh for One Day. X is hard!
meeghan
X was so hard!! I thought about Xander from Buffy, but ended up not going there because I haven’t read any of the comics… ??
wonderwall360blog
I thought there must be anonymous people in books that could be classed as x, know read one book like that but could not remember name.
Not even watched Buddy or X men or any other characters that appear in comics so could not use them.
I scheduled my post and last night realised scheduled for Weds rather than Tues so had to publish it quickly late last night.
meeghan
Ha, totally fine!! Mine was super late!!
evelynreads1
Great list! I really struggled with the U and X haha!
(www.evelynreads.com)
meeghan
Yes!! I knew this week would be tough ?
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Cheryl Malandrinos
Neat list. I struggled with this one. Hope you have a great day.
https://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2020/09/top-5-tuesday-top-5-fave-characters-u-z.html
meeghan
Th ask Cheryl!! I’ll come by soon to check it out ?
Sophie @BewareOfTheReader
I didn’t find any with U or X!!!!! Here is my post https://wp.me/p8cg8e-3w4
meeghan
That’s ok Sophie!! I feel like we made up for it in other weeks ??
dbsguidetothegalaxy
I definitely cheated here and there with adding some movie/tv characters ? They’re still fictional though! The Bear and the Nightingale looks like a good read!
meeghan
Haha, totally fair!! I considered Xander from Buffy (but ultimately he kind of annoyed me). And yes to The Bear and the Nightingale!! I have so much love for it!! ?
dbsguidetothegalaxy
I’ve watched like two episodes of Buffy and I’m pretty sure he annoyed me as well ? It looks like the type of book to read over a winter weekend? And I think ours are almost done ?
meeghan
True. But this week has been so cold again!! It’s been like a last little cold snap!!
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