When I identify with a fictional character, it's because of the tiny, subtle things that are intrinsically me. They're not circumstantial and they're not necessarily aspirations. They're certainly nothing current, and while past experience may have something to do with it, there may never have been an *experience* that builds that commonality.
I'm an old soul. I walk a particular spiritual path. I am not tied to sex, sexuality, or gender. I am a warrior at some subconscious levels that have nothing to do with physical strength or training at arms. My subconscious seems to run on the feudal system. These are the things that tend to build strong identification with a character. I don't necessarily need all of them to be there, but when most of them are, I get the oddest sensation of looking at a character and looking back at myself.
Or, as I explained to someone, meeting Jack Harkness was like looking into a funhouse mirror. I look at him and see myself--just twisted and pulled at some different angles. Not every case of identity is that strong . . . but then, I don't usually have that *many* points of commonality with a single character.
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Date: 2010-03-23 05:24 pm (UTC)I'm an old soul. I walk a particular spiritual path. I am not tied to sex, sexuality, or gender. I am a warrior at some subconscious levels that have nothing to do with physical strength or training at arms. My subconscious seems to run on the feudal system. These are the things that tend to build strong identification with a character. I don't necessarily need all of them to be there, but when most of them are, I get the oddest sensation of looking at a character and looking back at myself.
Or, as I explained to someone, meeting Jack Harkness was like looking into a funhouse mirror. I look at him and see myself--just twisted and pulled at some different angles. Not every case of identity is that strong . . . but then, I don't usually have that *many* points of commonality with a single character.