The ultimate fictional dinner

What if your favorite character sits right in front of you? 

Imagine you're throwing a dinner party and you get the chance to invite three fictional characters. Who would they be and why? 

Yes, I know it is a very random thing to ask, but I was thinking about what kind of people I would like to be surrounded by if I ever had the chance to be with a fictional character. This is actually very funny because delusional life and world creation is one of my favorite activity in the free time. Plus, I felt nostalgic and while going through an old list of "100 questions about me" I found this one and felt like it was cool to talk about it. 

This is not easy to answer because I was thinking about what criteria should I use for choosing. If I would give space to my delusional brain I would go for a whole good-looking dinner party - never waste your best chance, ladies! But if it was asked in a deeper way I would give three names:

1. Nihal from an Italian fantasy book series called "Cronache del Mondo Emerso" by Licia Troisi
2. JJ Maybank from Outer Banks
3. Caroline Forbes from the Vampire Diaries series

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cover from the Feltrinelli website 

First, Nihal. She is the main character of a series of three fantasy books. I have grown up with a deep love for fantasy stories and fictional character who were created as real human beings. I don't really feel engaged when the characters don't have a personality that resemble the normal human beings and I can't see myself in them. So, about Nihal. She is a half-elf who has to fight with the emerged world army to defeat the oppressor who aims to get the whole kingdom. Yes, if I explain it like this I cannot be taken seriously, but trust me if I say that I read the three books twice and in two different moments of my life, as a kid and as an adult, and it sounded different to me. Her character looked completely different to me. Her personality is literally the alter ego I have always wanted to have. She is brave, confident and a fighter, but she is also human. She is scared, insecure and she doesn't trust many. She is loyal and determined, but she is also trying to find her own identity and role in the world.  I think that without any doubts I see myself in her so deeply and so painfully that I can't clearly explain why. Nihal represents a character where both my younger self and my current self coexist and are in balance and peace together. The silly, impulsive and messy side that was a huge part of my personality when I was a kid, and the insecure, in search of a place to belong to and determined side that became inevitably part of me when growing up. I feel like I would be very pleased to sit next to this half-elf girl at a dinner party, seeing her looking around and trying to find any kind of threat in the room, with her black sword on her lap. 

from the Outer Banks fandom WIKI

The second name on my list is JJ Maybank. My choice is easily led by my eyes. I won't say it too out loud but I won't probably lie if I say that having him sit in front of you can be a very very good experience. Am I wrong? But anyway, I chose him because the Outer Bank series got me twice. Not only the first time I watched it but also the second time I watched it while waiting for the final season (I am not over it yet, just saying...). JJ character is such a good mixture of what a troubled human being and a good friend looks like. He has that kind of look on his face that always says "I don't care, I don't think, I just do" and this is how he lives his life, but at the same time, deeper in his soul and heart, he is hurt and struggles with accepting who he is. Not just because his personal life is messy and his family too, but also because his behaviors sometimes make things harder than they would have been. I would love to sit with him and just casually chat about whatever comes to his mind, talking about surf, a life with no responsibilities and the happy paradise of Poguelandia. I would listen to his silly stories and never questioning any kind of his thoughts. I feel like it would be so fun to have him around. His carefree personality and that loyalty he always shows for who he loves is definitely a side that, maybe or maybe not, everybody wishes to have. At least, I wish I had. 

from Pinterest

The last character I mentioned is the one and only Mystic Blondie Queen from The Vampire Diaries: Caroline Forbes. She IS my favorite character in the whole series and I will never change my mind for anybody else. She is the best friend everybody wishes for, and I would love to hang out with her. Besides the fact that for a dinner party I imagine Caroline doing the whole organisation thing because she loves doing it. I would follow her lead for sure. Needless to say that this is not the only reason why I chose her. Behind her obsession for control there is a girl who just wishes to be someone's person and someone's first choice. She hates being the chosen one for her appearance, but she always wanted to be chosen for her skills, her personality and her value. She just wants to be the one without always proving herself. I see myself in her a lot sometimes. She is there for everybody else but it is not that simple for others to let go on everything and be there for her. She sacrifices her life and she always put others before herself. It is one of those characters who never sound trivial to me. Not to mention the fact that she is funny, she is smart and she is such a perfect friend for everybody. And, as said, she plans the best parties with the best themes and costumes! If she comes with Klaus I would be so happy to invite them both in :) (yup I said it)

from Pinterest

A bonus character that I feel like mentioning, since until now I have spoken about who I would like to be, who I feel closer to and everything else, is also Jo Yi Seo from a very famous (and very dear to me...) k-drama, Itaewon Class. Jo Yi Seo is the perfect "cherry on top" to my beautiful party invitation. Why? She is the absolute queen of "I don't give a single thing". She is that kind of character who embodies the perfectly balanced personality of someone who really wanna to live their life happily without always waiting for the permission. She is determined, she is strong, she is picky with the people around her, she is deeply ambitious. She wants something and she works to get it, nobody gives her nothing but she knows her skills, she knows her values and she does it herself. It doesn't necessarily mean she doesn't care about others or that she doesn't feel the pressure of judgments, just that she learns how to deal with it and she keeps going without making it an insecure side of her personality. I loved her forEVER. She can be loved and hated at the same time, she is written not for being loved by everybody, but for being kinda different in a world where everything has to follow specific social standards. 

And with this last bonus character I feel like I have clearly expressed my own perfect fictional character group to invite at a dinner party. I imagine them getting along each other and speaking about their fictional worlds and mentioning things that don't exist in all of them. It would be so fun, I am sure about it. Surfing, vampire, dragons and a food company to manage. A perfect match for a party, right?

That said, I'd like to know what are your chosen fictional characters and why. Let me know! 

Thank you for reading this far, see you next time! bye ~ 

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