character identification poll

[rm]

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

[Poll #1541697]

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[dsudis.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that I never or vanishingly rarely identify with characters (I'm like some of those above who mostly have favorites who are nothing like me, or at least nothing like my self-perception, but don't really look for an identification-character) except that I remembered that in my first few years in fandom I had at least one important personal epiphany by identifying myself with Xander--and, huh, Xander thereafter became somewhat the template for my favorites--and then channeled a lot of misery and confusion in complicated relationships into way, way overidentifying with Daniel Jackson.

So apparently when I do identify with characters it's because I need something from them. If that makes any sense.