Fictional Character, Fictional Life- Kayla Beebout

              When I read this prompt, I honestly got super excited.  I’m a total nerd, and love the thought of choosing a fictional character’s life to have.  However, when it said to consider your favorite characters, I thought to myself, “that would be a terrible idea.”  See, my favorite characters tend to have early, tragic, sometimes rather unpleasant deaths.  So I went a different route with this.

              The first thing I did was think what fictional world I would like to live in.  The first things that came to mind were, of course, Middle Earth and Hogwarts.  The decision wasn’t hard; although I love Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings will win with me pretty much every time.  So, Middle Earth it was.  Now that I had that down, I had to think what character I would be.  I had already decided I would be a girl, because that’s what I am and I rather like it that way.  The first girl I thought of was Arwen.  She’s an Elven princess, she lives in my dream city (Rivendell), she has a great romance… oh wait.  If you really look into it, she ends up dying sad and alone on a hillside after Aragorn dies.  So I decided that wasn’t the best idea.  The next girl to come to mind was Eowyn.  Eowyn is really cool: she is a princess and a shield-maiden and she has this awesome moment where she gets to kill an unkillable Ringwraith (“I am no man!”) and she marries Faramir.  But the more I thought about it, the more I realized I would never be comfortable in a war situation, especially the kind she was in.  I decided maybe not.

              After a few moments of thought, a lightbulb went off in my head and I thought, “yes!”  The Lady Galadriel.  I don’t know how much people reading this know about Galadriel, but basically she wins at life.  OK, sure, she was exiled from the Undying Lands, but that was one time and she redeemed herself and got to go back anyway.  While in Middle-Earth, she witnessed almost all of the First through Third Ages, became queen of her own realm, Lothlorien (which, even though it isn’t Rivendell, is pretty awesome), had a daughter who became the Lady of Rivendell, had Arwen as a granddaughter, was a leading member of the White Council (the most powerful forces of good in Middle Earth), had a Ring of Power, was able to banish Sauron from Dol Guldur, was basically the most powerful Elf queen ever, etc.

              Yep, if I could be a fictional character, I would be the Lady Galadriel.  She basically gets to do everything and see everything, and then gets to live forever in the Undying Lands when she becomes weary of Middle Earth.  Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.