My Favourite Book Characters of All Time 🧡 [CC]

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Hey there! It’s Olivia-Savannah here from Olivia’s  Catastrophe, and today the day that I’m bringing   you this video, it is my birthday. Happy birthday  to me! I am turning 25. So to celebrate my 25th   birthday I always do a video about whatever I want  my video to be about. And here I’m bringing you  

For my 25th birthday. My favourite book characters  of all time. And as it is my birthday I have also   cheated and grouped some of these characters  together. Bear with me. It’s my birthday,  

I can do what I want. I can break my own rules.  There will be no spoilers in this video for any   of these books. And I’m going to start with my  top three in order and then just randomly mention  

The other ones, not in any particular order. But  let’s get down to my top three. So I think a lot   of people can predict this, but my number one book  character of all time, my ultimate book boyfriend  

Who I love my whole heart is Adam Parrish from The  Raven Cycle. You meet him in the first book and I   have loved him since then. I will say that I have  a thing for mechanics and Adam Parish knows how  

To do the mechanical stuff. I think what I like  about mechanics or like, people who know how to   build stuff and fix stuff that is broken, is that  they have a logical part of their brain. A way of   puzzling things out, thinking through things  that I don’t possess myself whatsoever. I’m  

Rubbish at following instructions. I do lots of  things intuitively over logistically. And so even   though I can use the logistical of my brain if I  really put my mind to it, I think that’s one of  

The reasons why I’m drawn to mechanic characters.  But also I feel like he’s one of those boys that’s   just like a really sad boy, who’s trying to  recover and just trying his very best. He’s also  

Full of pride and he has to learn how to get over  himself. I just love seeing character development.   So seeing him learn to get over himself but also  like learn how to love people in terms of like,  

Found family. It was beautiful in The Raven  Cycle. And there are many reasons why I love   Adam Paris and I don’t have time to get into all  of them today. But I wish this character eternal   happiness. My second favourite character of all  time is Jasper Cullen. Now, he is from Twilight  

And I absolutely love him. I’ve been on quite a  journey with Twilight. I’ve reread those books   countless times and if I was a teenager, when  I first read it and you asked me my favourite   character it would have obviously been Edward  Cullen. But then by the end of the series it was  

Jasper Cullen. And as I’ve grown older it’s fallen  into like, Jasper as my number one, and Edward and   Carlisle tied for number two. And I have a special  place in my heart for Leah. But truthfully, like,  

Jasper just takes the cake. I love him so much. I  try and ignore the confederate past that Stephenie   Meyer just did not choose to address. And I think  of him as my polite Southern Cowboy vampire of my  

Dreams. And I just love the way that he loves his  partner through and through, and is so dedicated   to her. I think his gift is really cool and the  best thing about Midnight Sun was being able to  

Learn more about his gift. And I love the name  Jasper. I just think he is wonderful. And my third   top character of all time is actually a woman.  Praise be! I love scary women. I love scary women  

Who can just like steamroll over me. And Scarlet  from the Lunar Chronicles is definitely that. She   is a handy shot with a gun, she knows what she’s  doing at all times. I absolutely love how boss  

She is in this series. But also how loyal and  dedicated she is to the people she loves. She   would fight for them. She would do anything for  them. And actually tied in third place with her   is Wolf who you meet in Scarlet’s book as well. I  think he’s a fantastic book boyfriend character.  

I just love that he has that werewolf thing to him  about pack, about found family, about loyalty. He   would do anything for Scarlet. He sees her as his  Alpha and I love that respect. So now we just get  

Into the rest of the characters. I’m just going to  do them higgledy-piggledy in any order. So first   up I want to talk about Darian. Now, you meet  Darian in Glitterland by Alexis Hall. Darian is   an absolute ray of sunshine. I’ve never met a  sun-shiney character that sunshines as hard as  

He does. He is from Essex. He says, “awh babes,”  and speaks like that. He’s a model, and he just   comes into Ash’s life and changes it. And I think  everybody deserves a ray of sunshine like Darian  

In their life who’s just so sweet and honest and  just so lovely to be around. He is the character   that I could definitely see being my best  friend. I also want to mention Isabelle, Izzy,   from the Mortal Instruments. This is a series that  I grew up reading as a teenager and Isabelle is  

My favourite Shadowhunter. I think that she’s  got quite a discreet character in terms of how   much she loves all of the people around her and  how much she sometimes kind of pushes them away,   but only because she loves them so much. And I  think her relationship with a certain someone is  

Really lovely and beautiful. But I just think Izzy  can really kick butt in a way that I admire. And   I just — I think she’s tough as nails and I just  love a girl who’s as tough as nails. On this list  

My favourite villain of all time is Queen Levana.  Again, from The Lunar Chronicles. Queen Levana is   one of the few villains in books that I’ve come  across who actually petrifies me and actually   scares me. She is so strong. She is so powerful.  And she is a manipulation Queen. I don’t think  

There’s anything more scarier than the power  of gaslighting and manipulation and psychology   mind games, and she embodies that to the T. Queen  Levana is the only Queen in my life. She’s the one  

That I would just like — I would do anything she  wanted me to do. I would do anything at any point.   But also I would love to stand next to her and  rule the world with her, and watch it all burn.  

Like, for her, I would watch the world burn. I had  to choose a favourite character from Artemis Fowl   series and so I went with Butler. I have a thing  for loyalty. Loyalty is the trait in a person that  

I think is the most important and the thing that  I value the most. So loyalty is something I really   like in characters. And that’s why a lot of my  favourite characters are not the main character   but they are the like, the main secondary  character or one of the main secondary characters  

Who is always loyal to their friends and their  family and their groups of people. And that’s   why I think I love the found family trope so much.  And Butler embodies that because he is the butler  

To Artemis Fowl. He is so loyal to him. He’s kind  of strong and bold and very very protective. And   I just love that. I just love how much he  just does anything — not only for Artemis,  

But also for his sibling who’s kind of involved in  this book. And yeah, Butler deserves happiness and   he deserves it all. And his unwavering trust in  Artemis is absolutely fantastic. On this list — a   very new entry to my favourite characters — is  Embry Moore from the American Queen series. The  

New Camelot series by Sierra Simone. Another  thing that I really love in my books is angst.   All of The Angst. Bring me angsty characters and I  adore them. Adam parish is definitely one of those  

Angsty boys and so is Embry. So is Embry. He is  the vice president of the US. He would do anything   for his president. There are lots of sacrifices  he has to make for his president, and there are  

A lot of sacrifices he has to make for the people  that he loves. And he totally gets the short end   of the stick in a lot of the situations that they  end up in in the book, but he is still there. And  

He is pushed and he is tested and he is always  trying to do the right thing. And I love him for   that. And sometimes you can see that what he wants  to do is a little bit misguided but you know what;  

He has feelings. He’s okay. Like, I love sad boys  or like, angsty boys being angsty and Embry gives   me that and supplies it. Also he’s super hot and  also his steamy scenes are super hot. On this list  

I had to put my very first book boyfriend ever.  He will still always be like a treasured part of   my heart . H’s no longer a book boyfriend friend  for reasons I cannot explain. But the first time  

That you read a book and you see a character and  you’re like: oh my gosh, I love this character,   would do anything for them. That’s such a special  feeling. That’s how I felt the moment that I met  

Edilio from the Gone series by Michael Grant.  Now, I don’t know about if this series has reread   factorbility because I know a lot of people who  I recommended it to. And they’re like, “This is   actually rubbish! The representation of this is  so bad.” But then there’s some people who if they  

Like, ignore the representation, really like the  story. And I do think in terms of plot the whole   series is genius. And Edilio, he’s the second  in command to Sam in a lot of ways. Who is the  

Main character in a lot of ways. And he just is so  supportive and so loyal. But he’s also so logical   and like, precise. He’s got a good head on his  shoulders and he’s calculating and he’s cool. But  

He also makes choices for the greater good of the  large group of people. And it’s really hard to do   that in the world that they’re in, especially as  a teenager. And he manages to pull that off which  

Is why I adore Edilio. Ah, my prince! I don’t  usually fall for the royal characters in books,   but Prince Ali in the Daevabad trilogy by S.A.  Chakraborty really did that. I fell for him. And   this was one of the things where it was a really  interesting book boyfriend development because in  

The first book I hated him. I could not stand him.  I thought he was so naive and childish and making   silly decisions. But again, S.A. Chakraborty blew  that character development out of the water. and  

By the last book I was head over heels in love  with him. I wanted him to be the one and I was   fully supportive of all of his actions the choices  that he makes, and the things that he does to try  

His best to protect those that he can. He’s also  in the midst of a lot of political Intrigue and   has to make a lot of choices or sacrifices  based on that. And I am someone who loves   political Intrigue. Especially in my fantasy and  sci-fi books. Ao I think his stance in the royal  

Family and the choices that he makes and how  he grows. How he grows! Really made him grow   on me. This one might seem as a bit of a surprise  choice but one of my favourite characters of all  

Time is Poirot from the Agatha Christie books.  I have not read all of them but I really love   Poirot as a detective. He is my favourite mystery  man; my favourite detective that solves crimes,  

Of all time. I think my problem with a lot of  mystery books and why I don’t read as many of them   as I do in the adult fiction category anymore,  is because none of them compare to Poirot. Every  

Time that this man with his little mustache does  a dramatic reveal at the end of a book and he   pieces together everything and all of the clues  that he’s discovered, I am in awe of his brain  

And how it works and how he manages to make it a  whole dramatic scene. He loves to set the stage.   He loves to be a little bit of a drama king. And  I find that entertaining as well as seriously  

Intelligent and smart. And no other detective  since I’ve read a Poirot novel does it like he   does. He is the best. He is the best. One of my  favourite little teenage boys is Todd from the   Knife of Never Letting Go series by Patrick Ness.  Todd for me, is a really nice character because  

He is so flawed and imperfect and he symbolises  a lot of things that I find really important and   true. Things that are to like, true values to  have. So Todd in the Knife of Never Letting Go,   which is a dystopian sci-fi book that challenges  toxic masculinity and also just unlearning,  

Is someone who has been taught a lot of  things about the way the world works. And   in the process of the story learns that nothing  quite works the way that he’s been taught. Now,   a lot of characters I think in a lot of dystopian  books go through that. But Todd’s process of that  

Was the one that felt the most realistic to me,  ever. And the one that hit home the most. Because   his unlearning is so gradual and so intentional  and so difficult for him to do. Especially as a 12  

To 13 year old boy. And that process of unlearning  is so challenging but he really did that he really   put himself through it over the course of that  trilogy and I admire him for that. And you can  

See how he grows and how he struggles and how he  fights and suffers because he’s doing that. And   yet he never gives up. He’s relentless with it.  Todd is someone who everyone should be a bit more  

Like. If we all had a bit more Todd in our lives  the world would be a better place. We have a guard   on this list as well: Grey. So Grey is from A  Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer. I  

Have not finished this series, I’ve only read the  first two. So Grey is like my favourite character,   but I’ve only read the first two, okay. And I love  Grey. I think he is amazing. Because he is again,  

He’s a bodyguard. I think I haven’t mentioned  the fact that I love a good bodyguard as   well. The reason why I love bodyguards is because  they are so loyal to the person that they’re   protecting and they would do anything for them,  even sacrifice themselves. And again, it’s that  

Sense of unswerving loyalty. You’ve seen that in  Butler for Artemis Fowl and then you’ve got Grey   here who’s just incredibly loyal to the person  he’s protecting. And I just loved seeing that   loyalty. But also sometimes that loyalty takes a  certain sacrifice which you see in this series.  

And I appreciated that. And that’s why I think the  second book in the series hits so hard for me. And   that’s because Grey deserved happiness and I was  kind of glad to see — okay maybe not everything’s  

Happy in that book — but at some point he does  seem to touch a kind of happiness that he fully   deserves. And also he’s one of the book boyfriends  who I think would actually fall for me. My   favourite Shakespeare character had to be on this  list. Horatio from Hamlet by Shakespeare. Hamlet  

Is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, but I  do have multiple favourite Shakespeare plays so   I don’t know if that’s saying much. Again, I hate  to repeat myself, but Horatio is just so loyal   to Hamlet. Like, Hamlet is arguably, depending  on how you choose to read the play, losing his  

Mind. And yet Horatio is there. He is calm. He is  steady. He’s consistent and persistent. And he is   there for Hamlet. But he’s also there to kind of  maintain the peace with everyone. And again, he’s  

Just one of those secondary characters that has  such a clear sense of calm within his body. And I   gravitate towards people who make me feel calm and  at peace. And I think Horatio definitely does and  

Therefore we would be best friends in a heartbeat.  And we would just like sit in the grass and like,   cloud watch and read books. Another favourite  character of mine is Jesper from Six of Crows   by Leigh Bardugo. So I have not finished reading  Crooked Kingdom. That’s entirely Jesper’s fault  

Because I didn’t care about any of the other  characters. Just Jesper. And it’s really rare   for me to have that: when the fact that I love  a character so much is ruining the experience of   reading the book because anytime you got anybody  else’s point of view I zoned out. I was like:  

Give me back Jesper. And so I have still not read  Crooked Kingdom. But I think that explains how   much I love Jesper. He’s a sharpshooter and he’s a  bit silly. He’s a bit reckless. He doesn’t always  

Make the best choices. But again, he is loyal to  a fault and I admire that about him. And even when   he doesn’t have all of the chips in his corner —  ironic that I’m saying that — he will still do  

What needs to be done for the people that he  really cares about. This is where I’m really   cheating because there’s three characters in one  here. But I see Margaret Rogerson’s books as one   big canon and I can’t choose. Like, her fantasy  books are some of my all time favourites and it  

Was really hard to choose one favourite character.  So I just took one from each book. We’ve got Rook   from An Enchantment of Ravens who is fae. I can’t  believe a fae made it onto this list! I do not  

Like books about fae. I’ve said this many times  before. And yet An Enchantment of Ravens overcame   that. Rook overcame that. I loved him. He was  silly and funny and entertained me. I literally   laughed out loud while reading this book. But he  also was super powerful and yet just gave all of  

That power to the girl in his life and I love  that. Just give me a little fae sub and I’ll be   happy. Secondly I put the demon from Vespertine  on this list. So, not the main character but the  

Demon who’s kind of possessing the main character.  Again, her sense of humour with this demon is   fantastic. I loved how this demon begrudgingly had  to care about the body that he was possessing and   I really liked their camaraderie. And so that  was a demon that got onto this list. Who would  

Have thought? And then last but not least… I’ve  literally forgotten her name which is super bad   of me if she’s on my favourite characters list.  But the girl from Sorcery of Thorns. I love her.  

I love how in some ways her relationship with her  partner in this one, or her love interest I should   say, is a role reversal of some of the stereotypes  we do see. She’s taller than her man, she eats  

More than her man, she’s the one who carries the  sword. And she also loves books. So what more   could you want? She’s like a scary girl who loves  to read. and then last but not least, the person  

Who has snuck onto this list literally in the  past week, is Gordo Livingstone from the Wolfsong   series by TJ Klune. I love Gordo Livingstone.  He is a mechanic. He’s also super loyal in a   way that you wouldn’t expect. He’s super loyal to  a certain someone in the series. I love that he’s  

So loyal. I love that he’s got his own garage and  he’s a mechanic. And he is maybe not a bodyguard,   but because of what he is he is almost the  bodyguard, and the glue holding together a certain  

Found family together. So basically he’s ticking  all of my boxes! He is just tough as nails… and   underneath it all he is a soft one at heart. And  I just again I love that ‘I’m super tough, I’m  

Super hard, I speak in like colourful language and  swear at everybody’ but deep down he cares about   them. He’s loyal and there’s nothing he wouldn’t  do for any of them. I love Gordo Livingstone with  

My whole heart. And he’s also super angsty. Like,  he’s a man — he’s older than me — and he’s super   angsty. And he’s book boyfriend material. Except  like I don’t think he wants me. There you have  

It! Those are all of my favourite characters that  I’ve come across. This is by no means a list of   my favourite books. I think favourite characters  and favourite books can be very different things.   Thank you for joining me and for watching this  video with me to celebrate my birthday. Here’s  

To another year of fangirling over books, reading  too late into the night, reading too many books   at once and just loving the imagination worlds  that authors create for us. Please let me know   in the comment section down below: who is one  of your, or some of your favourite characters  

Of all time? Don’t forget to give this video a  thumbs up if you enjoyed it, hit that subscribe   button if you want to see more and don’t forget  to hit that notification bell to be updated every   time I have a new video. And you know what  they say: onwards and upwards. Excelsior!