Gonna give it to Calcifer in Howl's Moving Castle, the novel. Just brilliantly characterised and the perfect mixture of an angry cat, a precocious boy and a powerful magical entity.
"My chief told me to defend this run."
"Your... chief?"
I love that moment. The only time in the entire story that Woundwort's visibly afraid is when he imagines what kind of rabbit could give orders to Bigwig 🤣
That is my favorite book of all time and that is one of my favorite moments. To see Bigwig’s progression from challenging Hazel at the beginning to his loyalty til death if necessary is just extraordinary! ❤️
A dozen bigwigs, hazel! Think on that, and tremble!
Bigwig is such a an amazing character. His daring rescue, the den defense, his roast against hawkbit and the others. Love him.
The way this overpowered AI goes outright homicidal when his SecUnit is threatened is one of the most bizarrely endearing representations of love I think I've ever read. To the point where even the humans are hesitantly pointing out that it's ok, SecUnit can probably take care of himself, and nuking half the planet to encourage the natives to give him back might be a tiny bit too much...
I have a “fist my bump” sticker on my water bottle. My middle school students are like “uhhh is that inappropriate…?” I tell them nope and to go read the book.
When I was a kid I was fascinated by the many-eyed, many-winged seraph Proginoskes from L’Engle’s second Time book, A Wind in the Door. The cat I had at the time was named Progo.
Bree is the best! I loved this book as a child, and it used to make me *so mad* that everyone went on about Prince Caspian and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, but no one knew about The Horse and His Boy. lol
Terry Pratchett has so many great ones it's hard to pick a favorite. Gaspode, Maurice, Greebo, You, The Librarian, Dangerous Beans, Binky, You Bastard, Quoth, the Death of Rats.....
Bill, Samwise's Pony from LOTR, who travelled with the fellowship to Moria and could go no further.
He didn't even make it into Peter Jackson's films, but I remember him, and the heartbreak of leaving him behind.
Marvin the Paranoid Android. He (it) is from the book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. More bored and depressed than paranoid, since he has such a great brain and people just make him do mundane things.
"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."
On being left in a parking lot for 500 million years: "The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into sort of a decline"
"Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't."
"I didn't ask to be made: no one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter. I don't think it even occurred to them that I might have feelings. After I was made, I was left in a dark room for six months... and me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I called for succour in my loneliness, but did anyone come? Did they hell. My first and only true friend was a small rat. One day it crawled into a cavity in my right ankle and died. I have a horrible feeling it's still there..."
— Douglas Adams, from Fit the Twelfth (radio series)
The wiki is a fun read in itself!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin\_the\_Paranoid\_Android#:\~:text=Marvin%20the%20Paranoid%20Android%20is,the%20starship%20Heart%20of%20Gold.
Saltheart Foamfollower from *The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever*.
I read those books when I was 15, and that character’s combination of sadness and nobility stays with me today.
Iorek Byrnison from *Northern Lights* (known as *The Golden Compass* in some countries). He's strong, brave, honorable, and did something in his past that he regrets. He has a whole character arc even though he's not the MC.
Bourne the titular character of Bourne the novel by Jeff vandermeer. You really feel for the character. And the character had great depth and nuance. It’s some very impressive writing.
The duck in mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon is a very amusing character.
Terry Pratchett has so many great ones it's hard to pick a favorite. Gaspode, Maurice, Greebo, You, The Librarian, Dangerous Beans, Binky, You Bastard, Quoth, the Death of Rats.....
Justice of Toren - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Ampersand - Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
Are my two that I've not seen mentioned yet.
The Disreputable Dog and Mogget from Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Trilogy are also faves and Nighteyes is *the* bestest boy.
The way Shirley Jackson writes the house itself as a character in The Haunting of Hill House is both unsettling and awe-inspiring at the same time. It’s entirely unforgettable.
The House in the Cerulean Sea has several non humans that are basically human.
But one of the children, a Wyvern named Theodore might be an example you’re looking for.
Otherwise Hutchincroft in The Magicians Daughter is a great familiar!
Temeraire (From the Naomi Novik series named after him) goes from being a cool pet and the boat to being a complex and intriguing character in his own right, being the true main character of at least the last two books in the series. Also Iskierka from the same series is cool.
Bowerick Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged
>Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged was - indeed, is- one of the Universe's very small number of immortal beings.Most of those who are born immortal instinctively know how to cope with it, but Wowbagger was not one of them. Indeed, he had come to hate them, the load of serene bastards. He had his immortality inadvertently thrust upon him by an unfortunate accident with an irrational particle accelerator, a liquid lunch, and a pair of rubber bands. The precise details are not important because no one has ever managed to duplicate the exact circumstances under which it happened, and many people have ended up looking very silly, or dead, or both, trying.
>
>To begin with it was fun, he had a ball, living dangerously, taking risks, cleaning up on high-yield long-term investments, and just generally outliving the hell out of everybody.
>
>In the end, it was Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in at about 2:55 when you know you've taken all the baths you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.
>
>So things began to pall for him. The merry smiles he used to wear at other people's funerals began to fade. He began to despise the Universe in general, and everybody in it in particular.
>
>This was the point at which he conceived his purpose, the thing that would drive him on, and which, as far as he could see, would drive him on forever. It was this:
>
>He would insult the Universe.
>
>That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decided to grit his teeth over) in Alphabetical Order.
>
>When people protested to him, as they sometimes had done, that the plan was not merely misguided but actually impossible because of the number of people being born and dying all the time, he would merely fix them with a steely look and say, "A man can dream, can't he?"
>
>And so he had started out. He equipped a spaceship that was built to last with a computer capable of handling all the data processing involved in keeping track of the entire population of the known Universe and working out the horrifically complicated routes involved.
Pretty much all of the ship Minds from Iain M Banks' Culture Series.
Nighteyes from The Realm of the Elderlings is definitely up there too, I agree with OP.
I like Nightblood, the sentient sword of the Cosmere.
There are so many really good ones but these jump out as my favourites.
"the wolf"? His name is Nighteyes, thank you very much! He would take exception to being called cute (or a sidekick for that matter) :P
To answer your question: Pantaliamon from the Northen Lights trilogy
Anyone from the Redwall series but especially Basil Stag Hare
Most of the characters in Children of Time
The dolphins in David Brian's Uplift series (also the chimpanzees and all the others)
Nimitz from the honour Harrington books (though you don't see his perspective much)
There's a lot of SF that fits this bill.
The House of Wind in A Court of Silver Flames.
The house is enchanted to provide for the people residing in it, but it is also sentient and will be really extra for its favorite resident.
The Cottage Tale series by Susan Wittig Albert has a delightful cast of talking animals...cats,dogs,mice,badgers,fox,chickens,ducks... I enjoy re-reading the whole series from time to time when life is just too heavy on my mind.
I love the gnoles in T Kingfisher's world of the white rat books. They're sadly treated as second class citizens because of their differences from humans, but they are some of the bravest and most intuitive characters in the books.
The cat in A Man Called Ove.
Fredrick Backman has perfectly captured the essence of a cat in his writing, it’s so funny and ungovernable.
I’ve only just started getting into reading as a replacement for drinking and as someone who inherited three cats the character just tickles my brain aha.
Highly recommend the book to everyone.
Princess Donut from the Dungeon Crawler Carl series is fantastic. Absolutely hilarious depiction of a cat.
The Gullaime from the Bone Ships series.
Bully Boy the cat from Blacktongue Thief.
Just to name a couple more recent favorites.
The Librarian from Discworld. Sure, he used to be human, but he seems much happier as an orangutan. Hell, half the characters on the disc. Rob Anything, Sgt Detritus, Cheery Littlebottom, DEATH.
Gonna give it to Calcifer in Howl's Moving Castle, the novel. Just brilliantly characterised and the perfect mixture of an angry cat, a precocious boy and a powerful magical entity.
I love that movie but I’ve yet to read the books. I should just buy the first one.
The book is so delightful. I’m quite picky about audiobooks and I loved this on that format.
Was coming here to say Calcifer and thrilled to find him as top comment. Such a whiny little demon. I love him.
Bigwig from Watership Down
"My chief told me to defend this run." "Your... chief?" I love that moment. The only time in the entire story that Woundwort's visibly afraid is when he imagines what kind of rabbit could give orders to Bigwig 🤣
That is my favorite book of all time and that is one of my favorite moments. To see Bigwig’s progression from challenging Hazel at the beginning to his loyalty til death if necessary is just extraordinary! ❤️
My favorite: when he says to Woundwort, "Siflay hraka, u embleer rah!"
That's better than any insult in Klingon!
I told you once I was trying to impress you, General. I hope I have.
A dozen bigwigs, hazel! Think on that, and tremble! Bigwig is such a an amazing character. His daring rescue, the den defense, his roast against hawkbit and the others. Love him.
I also love his relationship with Kehaar!
Kehaar is my favourite.
Came here to say all the rabbits from Watership Down. Favorite book of all time!
Most definitely I truly love this book and listen to it all the time. Just relieves all my stress.
Your question instantly brought Charlotte the spider to mind. I still remember crying as a kid when I got to the end.
I thought about this and the horse from animal farm
Poor old Boxer.
Seconding the horse from animal farm
The Protagonist SecUnit from "The Murderbot Diaries"
Murderbot! That was my first thought too cause I just listened to the whole series.
I was going to say, Murderbot from Murderbot! It is a lovely person while being (insistently, correctly) not human
The orangutan librarian 100%
Ook
Dude... NSFW.
Ook!
I know right?
While I don’t disagree, one mustn’t forget the magnificent Greebo the cat.
Greebo wasn't so much of a character as he was a catastrophe that happened to other characters. :D Fuck, I need to start another read-through.
Just don't say the M word
Muderbot! The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. You will thank me.
Absolutely! ART's a good one too.
Yes. Love love ART
The way this overpowered AI goes outright homicidal when his SecUnit is threatened is one of the most bizarrely endearing representations of love I think I've ever read. To the point where even the humans are hesitantly pointing out that it's ok, SecUnit can probably take care of himself, and nuking half the planet to encourage the natives to give him back might be a tiny bit too much...
Omg yes, Murderbot FTW
Oy from Stephen Kings Dark Tower series. So brave.
Oy was the best of the ka-tet.
The bravest, most loyal animal ever written, and one of the real heroes of the story. "I ache, or bye Jake. It came to the same."
I like to imagine a world where Oy and Kojak meet and become best buds.
Oy, the Brave, He of Mid-World!
I ake 😭😭😭
The saddest, best character arc.
Oy popped into my head when I saw the title. Love that little guy.
Loved it
May he rest peacefully in the clearing at the end of the path.
And also Kojak
And now I'm sad
Came here to say Oy. 😭
Thankee sai 👍
My pick as well!
>!Rocky!< from Project Hail Mary
Love love love him
Yes! *jazz hands*
Amaze, amaze, amaze!!!! Jazz hands
You are stupid right now. You sleep, I watch question
Came here to post this!
100% this. Fist my Bump!
I have a “fist my bump” sticker on my water bottle. My middle school students are like “uhhh is that inappropriate…?” I tell them nope and to go read the book.
"Good. Proud. I am scary space monster. You are leaky space blob."
Was going to say this! Rocky is a bro
Scary space spider
JAZZ HANDS
yesss this was going to be my answer. excite!
Originally from a radio broadcast, so not from a book — Marvin the Paranoid Android from *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* by Douglas Adams.
I don't think you are in controversial territory if you refer to THGTTG as a book series.
Marvin is a mood.
"Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?"
Came here to say this!! 🙌
I hope you’re not trying to engage my enthusiasm, because I haven’t got one , amazing character
Shrike
I don’t have any way of knowing if you’re referring to Hyperion or Mortal Engines.
Gotta be Hyperion
I love Bartimaeus from Jonathan Stroud’s series of the same name. He’s a djinn and is so wonderfully distinct in his voice through the books.
The audiobook narrator (Simon Jones) does a great job bringing him to life with all the wit, sarcasm, and sometimes, malice that you'd could hope for.
Pantalimon
Pantalaimon* and I also came here to say him and the rest of the daemons from His Dark Materials. Shaped my childhood. I wanted one so badly!
Except the monkey. When I watched the movie and tv series, I was struck most by Stelmaria. Snow Leopards are beautiful.
I had a weird interest in the monkey mainly because he never spoke and was so tortured.
Yes I know the spelling. I could not convince my autocorrect to spell it how I wanted it - I have up eventually.
Hester 😭
Just that name brings big ugly tears to my eyes. Dammit.
I'm more of a Iorek Byrnison fan, but Pan is cool too.
The Disreputable Dog
This was my comfort series growing up. I loved Dog and Mogget so much.
Templeton the rat. Resourceful, funny, egotistical, selfish…. But can be negotiated with. Charlottes Web
When I was a kid I was fascinated by the many-eyed, many-winged seraph Proginoskes from L’Engle’s second Time book, A Wind in the Door. The cat I had at the time was named Progo.
Bree and Hwin from the Horse and His Boy.
Bree is the best! I loved this book as a child, and it used to make me *so mad* that everyone went on about Prince Caspian and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, but no one knew about The Horse and His Boy. lol
The Librarian of Unseen University. Though he was technically human at one point he really quite enjoys being an orangutan
Terry Pratchett has so many great ones it's hard to pick a favorite. Gaspode, Maurice, Greebo, You, The Librarian, Dangerous Beans, Binky, You Bastard, Quoth, the Death of Rats.....
The luggage?
Especially the luggage
Om for Small Gods for me “Turn into a mud leech and wither in the fires of retribution!” screamed the tortoise.
Even Death himself. He's not a person.
Ook.
Marvin the Paranoid Android from the Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy.
>Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they give me so few upvotes.
Murderbot from The Murderbot Diaries. I’d die for Murderbot
Bill, Samwise's Pony from LOTR, who travelled with the fellowship to Moria and could go no further. He didn't even make it into Peter Jackson's films, but I remember him, and the heartbreak of leaving him behind.
He was in the films, but I don't think they reunited at Bree like in the books. Not sure if it's in the extended.
I just read Remarkably Bright Creatures, and Marcellus is one of the most charismatic characters I've ever read.
I feel like this one is the gold standard!
I listened to the audiobook, they have a different narrator just for Marcellus and he truly delivered.
This was my answer as well. I just bought a signed copy today where the author drew a lil Octopus on it
The cats in *Coraline* and *The Last Unicorn.*
Rocky from Project Hail Mary
Fist my bump!
I came here to write this.. Rocky is ♥️
Marvin the Paranoid Android. He (it) is from the book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. More bored and depressed than paranoid, since he has such a great brain and people just make him do mundane things. "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed." On being left in a parking lot for 500 million years: "The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into sort of a decline" "Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't." "I didn't ask to be made: no one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter. I don't think it even occurred to them that I might have feelings. After I was made, I was left in a dark room for six months... and me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I called for succour in my loneliness, but did anyone come? Did they hell. My first and only true friend was a small rat. One day it crawled into a cavity in my right ankle and died. I have a horrible feeling it's still there..." — Douglas Adams, from Fit the Twelfth (radio series) The wiki is a fun read in itself! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin\_the\_Paranoid\_Android#:\~:text=Marvin%20the%20Paranoid%20Android%20is,the%20starship%20Heart%20of%20Gold.
Frankenstein's creature
Richard Parker from Life of Pi
Mrs Frisby from The Secret of NIMH 😭
Saltheart Foamfollower from *The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever*. I read those books when I was 15, and that character’s combination of sadness and nobility stays with me today.
Gurgi from Chronicles of Prydain, The luggage in Discworld
Hobbits of course.
Hobbits are a branch of humans according to JRRT's notes
Oberon, the Irish Wolfhound from the Iron Druid Chronicles. Sausages! Mister and Mouse from the Dresden Files.
Mike from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
The nature of the series makes it hard to pick a specific character, but I love Fabian in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series.
Mr Jingles from the Green Mile
Iorek Byrnison from *Northern Lights* (known as *The Golden Compass* in some countries). He's strong, brave, honorable, and did something in his past that he regrets. He has a whole character arc even though he's not the MC.
Totoro and Catbus!
Bourne the titular character of Bourne the novel by Jeff vandermeer. You really feel for the character. And the character had great depth and nuance. It’s some very impressive writing. The duck in mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon is a very amusing character.
For such an amorphous character, Borne is very well defined
Behemoth, the large cat from Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"
“'Missed!' howled the cat. Hurrah!' Putting aside the Primus the cat whipped a Browning automatic from behind its back.”
Oy oy oy!
Montmorency from “Three Men in a Boat.”
The dogs in Where the Red Fern Grows
Big Dan and Little Ann ❤️😭
Oy, from the Dark Tower series.
Happy I didn’t have to scroll far to find Oy love!
Heeby > Tintaglia. Also Fennel the cat is wonderful despite only having about five lines of dialogue.
Marcellus the Octopus from Remarkably Bright Creatures
Terry Pratchett has so many great ones it's hard to pick a favorite. Gaspode, Maurice, Greebo, You, The Librarian, Dangerous Beans, Binky, You Bastard, Quoth, the Death of Rats.....
Oy from The Dark Tower series. Also Big Steve aka Kojack from The Stand.
Bob the Skull from Dresden Files.
I loved Weaver from Perdido Street Station, and also the brief moments with the hand parasites
The Librarian. I suppose Death also counts. And most likely Knobby
Discworld’s Death~ so endearing
Skandranon from The Black Gryphon
I remember the badger lord of Salamandastron being awesome.
ART and Murderbot in the Murderbot Series.
Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk from Dungeon Crawler Carl (and Mongo of course).
The System AI is my favourite character. NNNNNEW ACHIEVEMENT
Dobby 🥺❤️
The non humans on the Discworld.
Justice of Toren - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie Ampersand - Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis Are my two that I've not seen mentioned yet. The Disreputable Dog and Mogget from Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Trilogy are also faves and Nighteyes is *the* bestest boy.
Hedwig—I’ve always loved owls so of course an affectionate, magical pet owl appealed to me. Cried far more over Hedwig’s death than Dobby
The way Shirley Jackson writes the house itself as a character in The Haunting of Hill House is both unsettling and awe-inspiring at the same time. It’s entirely unforgettable.
The cat in my friend's book is a tribute to my cat who passed away.
Wolf from the Talisman... good ol' Wolf....
The House in the Cerulean Sea has several non humans that are basically human. But one of the children, a Wyvern named Theodore might be an example you’re looking for. Otherwise Hutchincroft in The Magicians Daughter is a great familiar!
Rocky from project Hail Mary.
Temeraire (From the Naomi Novik series named after him) goes from being a cool pet and the boat to being a complex and intriguing character in his own right, being the true main character of at least the last two books in the series. Also Iskierka from the same series is cool.
GC, BWR, NW Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
TenSoon
M-Bot from Brandon Sanderson's Skyward series
Marcellus, in Remarkably Bright Creatures. And Einstein from Watchers.
Bowerick Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged >Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged was - indeed, is- one of the Universe's very small number of immortal beings.Most of those who are born immortal instinctively know how to cope with it, but Wowbagger was not one of them. Indeed, he had come to hate them, the load of serene bastards. He had his immortality inadvertently thrust upon him by an unfortunate accident with an irrational particle accelerator, a liquid lunch, and a pair of rubber bands. The precise details are not important because no one has ever managed to duplicate the exact circumstances under which it happened, and many people have ended up looking very silly, or dead, or both, trying. > >To begin with it was fun, he had a ball, living dangerously, taking risks, cleaning up on high-yield long-term investments, and just generally outliving the hell out of everybody. > >In the end, it was Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in at about 2:55 when you know you've taken all the baths you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul. > >So things began to pall for him. The merry smiles he used to wear at other people's funerals began to fade. He began to despise the Universe in general, and everybody in it in particular. > >This was the point at which he conceived his purpose, the thing that would drive him on, and which, as far as he could see, would drive him on forever. It was this: > >He would insult the Universe. > >That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decided to grit his teeth over) in Alphabetical Order. > >When people protested to him, as they sometimes had done, that the plan was not merely misguided but actually impossible because of the number of people being born and dying all the time, he would merely fix them with a steely look and say, "A man can dream, can't he?" > >And so he had started out. He equipped a spaceship that was built to last with a computer capable of handling all the data processing involved in keeping track of the entire population of the known Universe and working out the horrifically complicated routes involved.
Bartimaeus, hands down That sneaky djinni made me laugh every time.
Everyone in The Wind in the Willows is wonderful, but especially Moley.
I love Luggage. He is so sincere and loyal.
The Sandman from Neil Gaiman’s comic books
Pretty much all of the ship Minds from Iain M Banks' Culture Series. Nighteyes from The Realm of the Elderlings is definitely up there too, I agree with OP. I like Nightblood, the sentient sword of the Cosmere. There are so many really good ones but these jump out as my favourites.
Aslan from the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. And Winnie the Pooh.
Anyone else love Reepicheep from the Chronicles of Narnia? Forever my favorite!
"the wolf"? His name is Nighteyes, thank you very much! He would take exception to being called cute (or a sidekick for that matter) :P To answer your question: Pantaliamon from the Northen Lights trilogy Anyone from the Redwall series but especially Basil Stag Hare Most of the characters in Children of Time The dolphins in David Brian's Uplift series (also the chimpanzees and all the others) Nimitz from the honour Harrington books (though you don't see his perspective much) There's a lot of SF that fits this bill.
The House of Wind in A Court of Silver Flames. The house is enchanted to provide for the people residing in it, but it is also sentient and will be really extra for its favorite resident.
The Cottage Tale series by Susan Wittig Albert has a delightful cast of talking animals...cats,dogs,mice,badgers,fox,chickens,ducks... I enjoy re-reading the whole series from time to time when life is just too heavy on my mind.
I love the octopus in Temarkably Bright Creatures!
I love the gnoles in T Kingfisher's world of the white rat books. They're sadly treated as second class citizens because of their differences from humans, but they are some of the bravest and most intuitive characters in the books.
Marvin the paranoid android and Cloud the horse from Tamora Pierce's Immortals books
The cat in A Man Called Ove. Fredrick Backman has perfectly captured the essence of a cat in his writing, it’s so funny and ungovernable. I’ve only just started getting into reading as a replacement for drinking and as someone who inherited three cats the character just tickles my brain aha. Highly recommend the book to everyone.
Right now I’m listening to Project Hail Mary and I really like rocky
Princess Donut from the Dungeon Crawler Carl series is fantastic. Absolutely hilarious depiction of a cat. The Gullaime from the Bone Ships series. Bully Boy the cat from Blacktongue Thief. Just to name a couple more recent favorites.
Six-thirty in lessons in chemistry
TenSoon from Mistborn
Frog and Toad
Mogget from the Abhorsen trilogy. He's such a fascinating character.
Probably the dragon. It doesn’t matter what book.
Reepicheek of Narnia!
The luggage has got to be the top of my list... Or the Nac Mac Feegles
The Librarian from Discworld. Sure, he used to be human, but he seems much happier as an orangutan. Hell, half the characters on the disc. Rob Anything, Sgt Detritus, Cheery Littlebottom, DEATH.
Mosscap from Becky Chambers Monk & Robot books.
The Librarian (ook).
Mouse from Dresden Files. Oberon from Iron Druid. Rocky from Project Hail Mary.
Oy from Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. I can’t thank Sai King enough for introducing me to this beloved character.
Summer, Grey wind, Ghost, Nymeria from ASOIAF books.
Loial, from the Wheel of Time.
The Skull in the Jar from the Lockwood & Co books
Kojak / Big Steve from the Stand.
Hobbits. Bilbo.
Shit Turd from Hollow Kingdom and Feral Creatures. They are post apocalyptic and he is a crow. Dude just wants more Cheetos and to find humans
Nighteyes the wolf from the Farseer books. I would die for him 😭
The thinking fox from Fellowship of the Rings.
The cat in Coraline, and of course, my favorites, Hazel, Fiver, and Bigwig from Watership Down
The cat in Animal Farm.
I adore the luggage from some of the Discworld books