>>24479469 (OP)Some volcel heroes in works of fiction.
BOOK: Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
VOLCEL HERO: Hamlet
SEX OPPORTUNITY TURNED DOWN: Ophelia. (So gagging for it she goes mad & an-heroines when refused.)
REASON: Ay, there’s the rub. He’s basically a mummy’s boy, if you want the truth.
BOOK: The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
VOLCEL HERO: Philip Marlowe
SEX OPPORTUNITY TURNED DOWN: Finds Carmen, his employer’s nympho younger daughter, naked in his bed one evening. Throws her out.
REASON: She’s batshit insane.
BOOK: The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
VOLCEL HERO: Sam Spade
SEX OPPORTUNITY TURNED DOWN: Brigid O’Shaughnessy. (He samples the goods earlier on, but gives up the chance of a lifetime supply.)
REASON: When a man’s partner is killed he’s supposed to do something about it.
BOOK: The Passenger (Cormac McCarthy)
VOLCEL HERO: Bobby Western
SEX OPPORTUNITIES TURNED DOWN: Hot babe sister, to begin with. Then several, including the tranny, at least one cute waitress, and that woman called Bianca who is supposedly a sex maniac.
REASON: He turns his sister down because she’s his sister. He turns the tranny down because, duh. He turns the others down because he’s in love with his (dead) sister.