Happy distracting meme time: Top fives

[auroracloud]

Here's a meme stolen from thisbluespirit because we can all use some easy happy distracting content:

Ask me my top 5 of anything and I'll answer.

My note: These can be fannish or non-fannish, but if non-fannish, please nothing related to personal life(e.g. work, people, places, life events, studies), as this is a public post and I want to remain careful about what I post publicly. If fannish, also rare and obscure fandoms are welcomed, even if you and I are the only people who know about the said fandom!

Note: I've had some issues with my eyes hurting from looking at the computer screen too much, so if I take some time to answer, that may be why.

Comments

[auroracloud]

Sorry I took a while to reply - I love this question because I love many minor characters, but it makes it a bit hard to answer just 5! So this is just the characters who I currently want to mention - next month the top 5 may be different, or it may be the same, who knows!

1. Eugénie Danglars - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
2. Kizzy Shao - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (it's an ensemble book, so it's a bit hard to say who is a minor character and who is a lead character, but Kizzy only gets a two or three POV scenes while Rosemary and Ashby have tons, so I figure she may count)
3. Fariah from the Doctor Who serial The Enemy of the World (1960s, Patrick Troughton era)
4. I need to list someone from The Penumbra Podcast but I'm not sure whom because it feels particularly hard to define who's a minor character there. Everyone who isn't Juno? Characters who only appear in one or a few stories or are always in a supporting role? I'm not sure. Basically the question is whether Peter Nureyev is a minor or major character. I'm inclined to say he's a major character, but there are a lot of stories he's not in. Basically, if we count him as a minor character then it's got to be him, if not then Alessandra Strong.
5. David Maddox from EOS10

[hebethen]

Hey, listen, minor character high five :P It is harder to pinpoint in ensembles, I agree, but having read the Wayfarer books myself I agree Kizzy counts!