Reading through the comments, I decided to extrapolate.
I stopped identifying with characters since I stopped playing RPG, both live-action and text forms, because I identified too deep. Though role-playing helped me to develop some very useful traits through identifying with characters which were very much unlike me as I saw myself, but which people playing with me thought suitable for me. (Really, being a shy introverted girl and playing a cool domineering man? Helped me a lot, but also broke me in some places I had to mend later.)
Now, I still find that there are characters I identify with - the characters through the eys of which I watch the show, whose storyline rings like 'I could be him/her', 'I understand'. In this case, it's mostly love relationship. I have a very bad history of love relationship, and I seem to look for stories both alike to mine and/or more successful. Because of this, I identify with Ianto in Jack/Ianto storyline and with Jack in Doctor/Jack storyline (for example). Similarities can me almost invisible, and I admit that I can project a lot more that is actually in the show.
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Date: 2010-03-22 10:47 pm (UTC)I stopped identifying with characters since I stopped playing RPG, both live-action and text forms, because I identified too deep. Though role-playing helped me to develop some very useful traits through identifying with characters which were very much unlike me as I saw myself, but which people playing with me thought suitable for me. (Really, being a shy introverted girl and playing a cool domineering man? Helped me a lot, but also broke me in some places I had to mend later.)
Now, I still find that there are characters I identify with - the characters through the eys of which I watch the show, whose storyline rings like 'I could be him/her', 'I understand'. In this case, it's mostly love relationship. I have a very bad history of love relationship, and I seem to look for stories both alike to mine and/or more successful. Because of this, I identify with Ianto in Jack/Ianto storyline and with Jack in Doctor/Jack storyline (for example). Similarities can me almost invisible, and I admit that I can project a lot more that is actually in the show.