character identification poll

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Quick and dirty, but of interest due to random convo with copperbadge:

[Poll #1541697]

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[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

I'm with pocketmouse too - I don't think what I do with characters is really identifying with them. I latch onto characters who interest me for various reasons, but I never particularly look for or see myself in them. I'm often drawn to flawed and morally ambiguous characters because I find their behaviour interesting and challenging. I like unwrapping complicated people. Sometimes I'm drawn to characters because they feel like a type of person I recognise, and sometimes I do see some things I've done or some situations I've been in, but there's never an entire character I consider an avatar for myself, even in the original stuff I write. I find characters intensely interesting in an abstract, and I think I wouldn't want to feel like I was them because then I couldn't see them properly. I like that whole canvas effect of fiction, but you have to stand back to see that whole canvas, so... I do. I suspect I might be weird in that respect, or at least atypical in fandom.