This week’s prompt from the Top Ten Tuesday list is “Book Characters I Wish Were Real People”. I’ll have to put on my thinking cap for this one, because the answers aren’t coming to me very readily — but I’ll give it a shot.

1. Maia Drazhar (Edrehasivar VII), from The Goblin Emperor (Katherine Addison).
   Just because he’s a favourite, really! And not too good to be true: he struggles with a lot of negative feelings, with difficult history with others around him, with anger and spite — but he rises above. If only more people with power were like him!
2. Harriet Vane, from the Lord Peter Wimsey books (Dorothy L. Sayers).
   Quite simply, I’d love to read her books!
3. Greta Helsing, from the Dr. Greta Helsing books (Vivian Shaw).
   Okay, we’d have to also have various folklore creatures in order for her to actually have her usual job, but… even if she were just a normal British GP, it seems like she’d be pretty awesome. She has the right motivations to be a doctor, and will help everyone because she feels she has to, no matter what they’ve done. Excellent qualities in a doctor.
4. Lady Isabella Trent, from the Lady Trent books (Marie Brennan).
   A pioneering female scientist to look up to? Yes, please. Also… I wouldn’t mind a few dragons to come along with her, to keep her from getting bored. (Maybe also bring her husband Suhail along too. She’d be a menace if she got really bored, so let’s give her plenty to keep her busy.)
5. Shen Yuan, from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System (Mo Xiang Tong Xiu).
   Transmigration and all, please! If the webnovel can be in English and I can be one of the readers who so torment him by pushing the change to the genre, that’d be hilarious, too.
6. Masaru, from Dinosaur Sanctuary (Itaru Kinoshita).
   A real dinosaur I could actually visit in a zoo? Yes please! I’d love to see all of them, like Trom and Benki, too, but Masaru’s a special one.
7. King Arthur, from the Arthurian legends.
   If he could make his prophesied return to fix the world (or at least Britain; if we start there, maybe it’ll make a difference?) now, I’d love that, please.
8. Chief Inspector Macdonald, from the Macdonald mysteries (E.C.R. Lorac).
   And his whole team, to be honest. If cops were all actually like Macdonald, we at least wouldn’t see the abuses of power etc etc that we do. It’s nice to imagine.
9. Phryne Fisher, from the Miss Fisher mysteries (Kerry Greenwood).
   Okay, she and I would have very little in common, but I’m pretty sure she’d be a net positive to the world all the same.
10. Breq, from the Imperial Radch books (Ann Leckie).
    Breq knows a fair bit about dealing with tyranny, after all. She could sure shake things up!

In most of these cases, I don’t think I want to meet these people (I’m shy anyway), I just want them to exist! They’d do some good in the world.