I used to think that feeling so emotionally invested in and protective of my favorites was because I identified so strongly with them, but I've found upon closer examination that I actually often DISLIKE people most like me in fiction. This is strange, because I'm not self-loathing at ALL. I wonder if characters that I love represent more of things I wish I could do/traits that I wish I had, and so attacks on them feel like attacks on my dreams and aspirations?
I'm somewhat the same way. The characters that resonate the most often aren't like me at all. Rarely do I like characters that are just like me, not that I've found any or that even resemble me. None of the characters on Buffy resembled me. I guess you can say I sort of identified with some of the attributes of Spike and Willow (shrugs).
It's hard to know why we love what we do. And harder still to understand why others do or don't as the case may be...at least that's what I think. ;-)
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Date: 2011-12-09 10:49 pm (UTC)I used to think that feeling so emotionally invested in and protective of my favorites was because I identified so strongly with them, but I've found upon closer examination that I actually often DISLIKE people most like me in fiction. This is strange, because I'm not self-loathing at ALL. I wonder if characters that I love represent more of things I wish I could do/traits that I wish I had, and so attacks on them feel like attacks on my dreams and aspirations?
I'm somewhat the same way. The characters that resonate the most often aren't like me at all. Rarely do I like characters that are just like me, not that I've found any or that even resemble me.
None of the characters on Buffy resembled me. I guess you can say I sort of identified with some of the attributes of Spike and Willow
(shrugs).
It's hard to know why we love what we do. And harder still to understand why others do or don't as the case may be...at least that's what I think. ;-)