From matadin:

[shirenomad]

I've made a list of 10 characters and assigned them all numbers. Ask me questions about them ("Is 3 human?" "Who's smarter, 4 or 5?" "What would 2 and 7 do if they discovered buried treasure?") and I'll answer. Your mission is to discover which character is which.

1) Uryuu Ishida, Bleach (guessed by westmarked)
2) Yuffie Kisaragi, Final Fantasy VII (guessed by imaginari)
3) Gregory House, House MD (guessed by westmarked)
4) Mikuru Asahina, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (guessed by westmarked)
5) Noah Bennet, Heroes (guessed by chime)
6) Daniel "Oz" Osbourne, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (guessed by imaginari)
7) Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter (guessed by westmarked)
8) Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation (guessed by westmarked)
9) Eowyn of Rohan, Lord of the Rings (guessed by chime)
10) Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes (guessed by matadin)

You can get some ideas of other good questions (and pump matadin for information about his own ten) here.

Comments

In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

All five are listed in my interest list in some form.

2 is in your list. 9 isn't but should be. You're almost certainly also familiar with 8.

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

Correction. 8 is also in your list.

Re: In response to Chime:

[chime.livejournal.com]

2 is the most capable fighter of them all (unless there's some rock-paper-scissors action in there.) He (?) may be untrustworthy to allies, but is probably loyal. His greatest desire is to be strong enough to protect the country, but he isn't much of a rule-follower himself (CG/CN). Likes Japanese barbecue... may indicate presence in a Japanese-written setting.

Is 2 male?

Is 2 in a sci-fi setting, or fantasy? (or other)

Are any of your characters in the same canon as each other?

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

The only thing I'd correct is that I had a hard time choosing between 1 and 2 for the best fighter. Others might have a different opinion. With the exception of 1, though, 2 is definitely superior to anyone else in the list. (Oh, and the Japanese barbecue is not established in canon; it's just a guess on my part.)

As for your new questions, 2 is female. Her setting is... why the term "speculative fiction" exists to cover both categories.

No two characters on the list, guessed or unguessed, share a canon.

Re: In response to Chime:

[chime.livejournal.com]

I'm probably going to do a forehead-slapping "ohhh" when 2 gets figured out, by me or otherwise, but right now I just can't quite fathom it.

Lyta Alexander?

If not, how old is 2 (roughly?)

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

Re: forehead slapping: Oh, probably. I recommend not focusing so much on her fighting ability, though... I think it's distracting you.

Re: Lyta: No.

Re: age: Mid-teens when you first meet her.

Re: In response to Chime:

[chime.livejournal.com]

To borrow one of my sister's questions, has she ever met a vampire?

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

No, no actual vampires, though she sometimes wonders about that one guy.

Re: In response to Chime:

[chime.livejournal.com]

Is 2 Starbuck?

Hmm, I don't think so, I don't think I put BSG on my list. Also we didn't meet starbuck as a teenager.

I'm curious about what you said about her age, though. How old is she at her oldest, in canon?

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

No, not Starbuck.

Late teens/early adulthood.

Re: In response to Chime:

[chime.livejournal.com]

Is 2 from a video game?

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

Yes!

Re: In response to Chime:

[chime.livejournal.com]

Terra?

If not, is she from a Suikoden game?

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

Oh, you were doing so well!

No and no.

Re: In response to Chime:

[chime.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm looking at my interest list... unless I'm just glossing over something and not reading it, I can't think of any games where enough time passes for a character to age, except FF6. There might be another final fantasy I'm just not thinking of... (rydia starts younger than what you say, uhm, not enough time passes in ff7 or 8..)

There's a lot of time-stuff going on in CT, but the main two candidates I've thought as remotely plausible (Lucca and Ayla) don't age before our eyes, that I can remember.

Hrm!

Is it an FF game?

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

Yes!

Re: In response to Chime:

[chime.livejournal.com]

9 or a higher number?

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

No.

Re: In response to Chime:

[chime.livejournal.com]

I'm going to guess Rydia anyway!

If not: which game system?

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

Nope.

And... multiple. :P

Re: In response to Chime:

[chime.livejournal.com]

Do you mean multiple games, or multiple ports? If the latter, what was the first game system it was on?

Re: In response to Chime:

[westmarked.livejournal.com]

Is 2 Tifa?

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

No.

Re: In response to Chime:

[chime.livejournal.com]

Do you mean 9 isn't but you're aware I know about 9 so it should be, or 9 isn't but I should become interested in 9 coz it's good?

Re: In response to Chime:

[shirenomad]

The former (with a bit of the latter because it IS good).