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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Hard question. Thanks for getting me thinking. I checked some of the boxes above, but I wanted to add this in as well: I seem to relate (or not relate) to characters based on how they handle power, both having it and not having it. Insecurities, guilt complexes, despair. Folks who doubt themselves and are afraid of fucking up, folks who hate feeling underestimated but like to fly under the radar. People who bluff when they get scared. Also the ways a person acts with the person they care about the most, what role they play -- caretaker, friend, advisor, confidante, rival, sidekick, mentor, apprentice, priest. I definitely tend to identify more with a character's flaws and desires than with anything else. As a really general statement, the characters I've seen the most of myself in were dishonest and well-intentioned.