How Do You Like Your Heroes?

Dark and brooding? Flirtatious and carefree? Athletic? Artistic? The best friend turned romantic interest? The mysterious stranger with ice cold skin?

When you’re reading or watching a romance, what kind of hero makes your heart flutter? What kind of hero makes you root for the not-yet couple to fall in love?
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Since I write romance, this question intrigues me.  And as I was thinking about it, four incredibly popular heroes popped into my head.

Noah Calhoun from The Notebook. Jack Dawson from Titanic. Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice. And Edward Cullen from Twilight


These four heroes fall into two distinct categories. 


On one side we have Noah and Jack. Working class. Down-to-earth. Flirtatious. Untethered and carefree. One loves poetry. The other is an artist.
On the other side, we have Edward and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Rich. Untouchable. Mysterious. Brooding (for Edward, let’s skip brooding and go straight to tortured). The opposite of carefree.
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Millions of women have fallen in love with these four. Each one makes us root for the happily-ever-after.
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Yet they are incredibly different.  
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It’s almost impossible to find a common ground.
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Except for one thing.
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It’s not so much who they are as how they love. And one thing is certain. These guys love their women.
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They love them to the extent that all other women disappear. They love them to the extent that they would die for them. Suffer for eternity without them. 
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And that…..well that is just incredibly romantic.

Let’s Talk: Who is your favorite all-time hero in a romance (movie or book or even show)? Why is he your favorite? What quality does a hero need to have for you to fall in love with him? removetweetmeme