For me, it's not so much that I identify with characters who share my actual flaws, but that I can understand their choices and actions through their flaws/weaknesses because in the same situation I can see myself doing much the same thing. It's a subtle distinction, and I may not be explaining it well. Also, I've discovered I have a thing for pretty, broken men. (Hi, Jack Harkness! Hi, Ianto Jones! Hi, strangely functional relationship that should be really fucked up but somehow isn't!) Also, flaws, and how one deals with them when they inevitably smack you upside the head at the worst possible time, are an awesome "in" to a character. Strengths make things possible; flaws make things interesting.
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Date: 2010-03-23 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-23 06:16 pm (UTC)I suffer from an interest in this too.