Relating to fictional characters...

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...is this a common experience for others - to find some identification, either of self or experiences within self, through reading fiction? If so, any experiences that stand out? Michael Valentine from "Stranger in a Strange Lang" (Heinlein), R. Daneel Olivaw from Asimov's Robots stories, and Meg from "A Wrinkle in Time" by L'Engle were three that come to mind at the moment... and that can be changed with a stiff breeze, so... I'll post more as they come.


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In D. Gray-Man, the way Miranda Lotto thinks and feels about herself, and the self-depreciating way she talks about herself is almost exactly the way I am in real life.

Also, back when I was a Narutard I noticed that I was just like Hinata as a child.

When I was about ten, Mr. Spock from "Star Trek" and Phileas Fogg from "Around the World in Eighty Days" were my two role models. As a teen I tried to imitate Oscar Levant's brand of cynicism. As an adult I got hooked on the characters in "Married With Children" and "Red Dwarf".

i remember when i was five and very angry at my mother
for whatever reason, i used a line i saw in a local soap
opera where the orphan girl was crying about how people
don't listen to her and stuff...i shouted it at my mother
just to get my point across, coz at that time she wasn't
paying much attention to me.

im too tired to do my list of anime but i will say Kazan from cube and Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV from cowboy bebop

Yes, several characters in "Middlemarch" by George Eliot, both Gollum and the entire quest/mission in "The Lord of the Rings", David in "I am David" by Anne Holm, Charlotte in "Charlotte Sometimes" by Penelope Farmer, the boy in "A Dog so Small" by Philippa Pearce, the heroines in "Surfacing" and "The Edible Woman" and both of the girls in "Cat's Eye" by Margeret Atwood, "The Great Gatsby", Arrietty in "The Borrowers" by Mary Norton, the girl in "The Tombs of Atuan" by Ursula le Guin, red haired boy in "The Shape of Three" by Lilith Norman, Jim in "Lucky Jim" by Kingsley Amis, ( and he was lucky), Heidi in exile in the big city, both Marco and the boy called Rat in "The Lost Prince" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the man in "The House on the Strand" and both heroine and anti-heroine in "Rebecca" by Daphne de Maurier, Brat Farrar in book of same name by Josephine Tey, and many others.

It's how/why I got into reading in the first place I think, because I found myself, experienced myself, in books. It expressed my life for me, made it appear, visible. As if without them I lost consciousness of most of me, or don't feel very real/solid. Some books make me feel like I exist.

Which is why I love them.

Yeah, Ophelia from Hamlet, Death from Sandman and Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye.

Ishmael from Moby Dick.

When I was younger I was a big fan of Ed from the Cartoon Network show "Ed, Edd and Eddy" and wanted to be just as silly and weird as he was. I loved that kind of weird and silly humor, but I had to learn the hard way that I shouldn't act like that in public.