Favorite Book Character

Tell me, /book/, who is/are your favorite character(s) in a book and why?

>>13
This.

>>29
Nymphadora Tonks

>>39
Rand al'Thor is Harry Potter on Elephant Steroids.  Harry fights a reasonably evil, racist, snake-like bastard who terrorizes the equivalent of the population of Portland, Maine before getting beat down by a baby.  Rand takes on motherfucking Satan.  Harry has some neat spells.  Rand has flame swords, gateways big enough to drive an F40PH through, and MOTHERFUCKING BALEFIRE.  Harry gets the whiny, ugly ginger fangirl.  Rand has a harem, which includes a cross between Xena and Nabooru, a traditional smoking-hot princess, and a magic-less version of Tonks.

Drizzt Do'Urden
Is there really any competition?

The protagonist in The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway.
Nakata from Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.

>>42
Too bad all his character development ceased after book 3 and he was just the hard ass king after that.

>>43
You are one persistent troll.

Jack Shaftoe.

I like the Discworld novels by J. K. Rowling.

Edmund Talbot, from There Will Be Dragons, by John Ringo. Even if he is a mary sue.

Holden Caufield from The Catcher in the Rye. I read the book last year, and still I feel like I can relate to him.

Merricat Blackwood from We Have Always Lived In The Castle

Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces

Horse Badorties from The Fan Man

Harry Flashman from The Flashman Papers

Ford Prefect

Tyrion Lannister, Elric and Santiago (the Old Man from Old Man and the Sea)

Heathcliff

Kvothe.

>>53
Good choice, but imho you can't really decide yet - unless you know more than me at least (ARC? are they even out yet for book 2?).
He could be (and probably is) lying about a lot of things (and if he somehow isn't, I'd see that as a wasted opportunity by Rothfuss).

Motherfucking Holden Caulfield.

He was awesome.

Alyosha Karamazov
I would be gay for him if I met him

Philip Marlowe. Fuck you if you need a reason why.