"I bestowed my affections foolishly"... hrm. Perhaps. Methinks, though, that where one bestows one's affections in a work of fiction is supposed to be up to the writer.

If I bond with the wrong character, it's either because the writer goofed in describing (or designing) the characters, or (more common of late) that the writer is Not Writing For Me, and wants readers to bond with some loathesome excuse for a person for no reason I can fathom.