Which fictional characters (from any form of media, be it anime/manga, videogame, novel, film, etc.) do you identify with? If any? It is likely that I've made a thread similar to this in the past, it feels familiar. But if I have, I cannot remember/cannot bother to check. And, as we've plenty of newer members now, this thread is worth a shot anyhow. Pictures/descriptions of your character(s) are not required, but appreciated. I will not like to describe my characters, in doing so I will have to describe myself... I don't want to, but I damn well realise that if I don't, the repliers (you) will likely not. And I am interested in who the people identify with. A price to pay, obligated to speak of myself. So... prepare for some half-assed descriptions. Feel free to wing it, too. Lain ~ Serial Experiments Lain depersonalised/realised, multifaceted yet simultaneously nondescript, critical & sadistic, lost, somewhat lonely, totally bewildered, childlike Tsukasa ~ .Hack//Sign deprecative, cynical, easily hurt, flighty, fragile, unreliable, fearful, repetitious, gender dysphoric, lonely, lost, expectant, self-centered, gentle, kind at her best ...they are similar to me in emotional range. Still, I can't help but feel a very key trait is missing. Curiouser and curiouser. Curiosity. They can be, but they couldn't be any more curious than your average person. And curiosity is a very defining trait, for me. I am often told to stop asking questions. I don't.
i don't know. i think i have to say Cloud (ff7) because he looks strong on the outside but is hurting on the inside. as tifa said in the movie "look at you, you think you have it so damn hard. Well you hate being alone so let people in." i am kind of like that, i don't really like being alone but i tend to push people away. i think that is why i like the game/movie
Oh goodness, there are a lot. Right now the most prominent is definitely the character Allison, from the book Adverbs by Daniel Handler (pretty sure I've smeared my love for that book about the forum already). She appears in and out of the book (which is a set of connected but not connected but connected short stories); once, having a last drink with a dying friend and discussing their past loves and friendship; another, after a poetry seminar for gradschool; and last, on a vacation without her husband. She's soft-spoken, dependent on those she loves, but she's unable to learn that until she's without them, sarcastic, but quietly so (not always by choice), pretty quick to get disgusted with people for small reasons, doesn't trust herself much... I can't really even explain it. I do have a habit, I find, of relating to a great deal of characters but she is the one that just hit me from the get go as "oh my god, this is me." Other minor but mentionable ones are Bastila Shan (of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic) and Elizabeth Bennet (of Pride & Prejudice, because who doesn't relate to her? tragically I am early-book Lizzie right now).
Curious. In response to a user inquiring about my profile icon (Cloud): Such fine literacy you possess, and you are of such mature taste it puts me to shame. Here I am, going on about anime/manga characters and you bring up characters from classics. The ignorant one, I am just a tad jealous.
My friends often refer to me as Sora (my friends on Skype anyway). I can see where they come from, anyway. Most of the time, I'm optimistic about life, and try to keep others happy. I also care for my friends a lot. In fact, it really are my friends who are my power (lately, one special friend more than others). I'm also a bit head strong and sometimes go into situations without fully realizing what the consequences would be. I'm also a bit naive about life, but I like that about myself. Over trusting is another aspect that Sora and I share; I know that it's foolish to be so trusting of people, but I don't really want to be a pessimist; not my style. A person I find myself identifying as is L from Death Note, mainly the anime series, since that's the one I am the most familiar with. I'm not saying that I'm super smart or good at deduction, it's his other aspects that I see in myself. For one thing, he thinks very differently from the norm, and through his altered point of view, he can see things that others can't. He also double speaks, saying one thing and meaning another, which is something that I catch myself doing a lot. L is also reclusive, and rarely allows people into his life (before the events in Death Note, he rarely would leave his room and only a handful of people knew him personally). While I did say I was trusting, I am very recluse in allowing people into my life. It's contradictory, but that's the way I am.
Enough posts from me, she should shut it. Oh, she should. Misty has inspired me to post some from a book. Let The Right One In, Eli. I can think of no other book characters that I strongly identify with. It would do me good to read some more, or at least, to read something other than children's books. I am still in that phase. Anyways, Eli. Elias. "She" is a male. Spoiler On the right.
Hm.. I suppose identifying with a murderous, treacherous lion with a childhood grudge doesn't exactly scream great personality.. But I am so posh and witty, plus I enjoy singing. I also have an extreme amount of destain for the song "It's a small word". Scar we have so much in common including appearance.. just not the throwing siblings off cliffs part. Complete character trait wise I don't really know, I can't really peg anyone off hand who I really identify with. I try to be a very friendly and helpful person, I'd do most anything for the import people in my life. Fairly good at talking to most anyone. I'm a deadpan sarcastic around the people who know me better, I think I've got a good sense of humor. :lolface: Eh, I'll think of it later.
One character I can think of right now would have to be this guy Tsukasa Izumi from GE - Good Ending I feel quite similar to him in many aspects, however he doesn't like commitment, something I do. He doesn't take sh|t from anyone unless he deserves it, and if that's the case, he just takes it. He is very respectful, especially his friends and he just has a calming nature surrounding him, as well as an authoritative vibe. He is always honest - even though he is a ladies man, he never tells a lie in order to get anything from them; he is honest about if he finds them beautiful, and even if they aren't, he wouldn't tell them they were. He is smart, especially in sciences. He is insightful, and realizes how people will react, and know why they reacted a certain way. He is rather quiet. He does, however carry baggage, in the form of "lost love," sort of, but I won't get into that in case you want to read the manga, which I strongly recommend, once again GE - Good Ending. Another problem he has is that he can perhaps be a bit too blunt. Also, due to his way with women and words, women that know him don't trust him too well, undeservingly so. One of my favorite quotes by him is this one; (Regarding comforting a girl, even though you are in a relationship - not sexually/romantically comforting her) "I personally hate the kind of guy who would do nothing if he saw a girl like that in front of him." This kind of seems like somewhat of a masturbatory post, due to his desirable traits, but I can nevertheless relate to him, even though I have several bad traits that he doesn't have. The way he acts around his friends, how he is usually the one to come up with inputs on how to react to certain things and he knows how to act around different people. I can also relate to the way his mind works, as well as how to talk to women. He is also different from most of his friends, much like I am. He seems like a personification of something I strive to be more alike, even though I am similar to him in those aspects. There is really not that much information about him, as the Manga is just now getting more into his story. I'll add more characters later, but right now I have to study for my final.
I am Sokka from Avatar. I do not relate to him, I am him, and he is me. (Minus the ladies man thing, that'll never happen). As far as currently...I'm reading "This Boy's Life", and find myself relating to Tobias Wolff quite a bit. He hates who he used to be as a child, a liar, and has a jerkass stepdad to boot. As such I'm really liking his story of redemption. I recommend this book.
Characters that I identify with? Hm... There are actually quite a few, which is surprising given how rare it is that I meet someone truly like me. Try none... Someone that I get compared to constantly due to our similar personalities online and my using him as an avatar is Orihara Izaya of Durarara!!. Izaya is a young man who loves to manipulate others and see how they react to the situations he puts them in. His primary trait is loving humans and watching the way they interact. He expresses this love by putting them in horrible situations and playing with their feelings and relationships with others. He is an information broker who gives out only enough of the truth to make friends fight each other and then watches the fight with glee. He fears death or nonexistence more than hell and is willing to wage a war in order to be taken to heaven by a warrior goddess. He succumbs to the illusion that he is a god when everything goes his way, having a god complex that is a little more than deserved. He is a sociopath who nearly always gets his way and he knows it. I am like Izaya in my love for human interaction and lack of empathy for the people I play with, but my lack of empathy is not as complete as his. I value friendship easily as much as I enjoy the game and I dislike it when people assume that I am unfeeling or that I do not care about them even a little bit. I also do not fear death, though I prefer hell to it like he does; any existence is better than no existence. Most of the comparisons between me and him happen when I am making use of others as playing pieces, something I do most often when I am under duress. Next up is Claire Stanfield of Baccano!. DO NOT READ THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN BACCANO! OR HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH HAVING THINGS SPOILED FOR YOU BEFORE THEY COME TO LIGHT. Spoiler Claire is a cheerful young man with an unconventional but nonetheless rigorous concept of justice and a penchant for the dramatic. He also happens to be an assassin whose trademark is completely tearing apart his victims until they are little more than a bloody mess. His cheerfulness and optimism as well as his lack of empathy come with his belief in solipsism; he believes that he is dreaming, and that he cannot die, or that if he does die that he will simply move onto another dream. The reasoning he gives for this is that he is not very imaginative and cannot think of a world in which he does not exist. He is whimsical, extremely proficient and agile in both personality and manner and has no qualms about killing people to satisfy his sense of justice. He believes that morality is a privilege only granted to the strong and that he is strong. He is the kind of person who feels that only he has the right to decide who lives and who dies because he is the strongest person alive. In short he feels that he has more right to judge things than everyone else and he likes to have his hand in things personally rather than sit by and watch things unfold. If you know anything about me, you can probably already see how Claire and I are alike from this alone. I share almost all of Claire's traits and I would definitely say that Claire is very much how I am when I am dreaming. We are both solipsists who believe that we cannot die, we both have extremely rigorous senses of justice and we both feel a need to have a hand in everything that happens around us. The only thing that separates us is that I am more of an intellectual about the things that we have in common, and that he is too perfect to be real. Lelouch vi Britannia of Code Geass. Lelouch is a young man and a brilliant strategist with a sense of justice and determination that leave everyone around him standing in awe. He is incredibly good at strategy, what you might call a chess master, and he would do anything to attain the world that he wants. He views the people around him as pieces in order to attain his goals. Unlike Izaya, Lelouch has feeling, and while he might play the villain, he truly cares for most of his pieces and the reason why he wants to create the world he does is so that those he loves can live in a place worth living in. Lelouch is ruthless, vengeful, determined and intelligent, but in the end he cares for people and he does regret his losses, however much he must repress his feelings in the pursuit of his goals. Because Lelouch will stop at nothing to attain the utopia he wants, his status as a fake Complete Monster and his reasons for stopping at nothing to get his utopia, Lelouch is more like me than all of the previous characters combined, though he is still only a facet of me. I have the potential to become just like him, but I am not fully like him as I am right now. If I released the inhibitions on my feelings or were given the powers that Lelouch has, you could expect me to do what he did almost to a T. Huey Laforet of Baccano!. Huey is a scientist and an observer who chose immortality because he felt that watching the world unfold from the sidelines would be interesting. He is an intellectual sort who views other people as numbers but somehow fell in love with a woman whom he loved dearly. After his lover is taken away from him, he loses almost all of his feelings to science and even treats his own children as experiments, unto having children just to have new subjects to test on. He is deified by those who seek his intelligence and immortality, but he cares not for them. He is very picky and a perfectionist about everything, including who he mates with for their genetic advantages (after his lover dies). Huey is probably more like me than both Claire and Izaya because while I like to have a hand in things, I am far more reserved than Claire and far more of a rational scientist than a whimsical assassin. I have the potential to go Huey's route if I lose the things I love just as much as I have the potential to go Lelouch's if I gain the power to create the world I seek. I consider Izaya to be Huey and Claire's lovechild, so to speak, concerning personality. Next is a character from my favorite book series, Kvothe from The Kingkiller Chronicle. SAME DEAL. Spoiler Kvothe is another young man who is extremely clever and easily picks up anything that he sets his mind to, and his favorite skill is most definitely his acting. Kvothe is a young prodigy from less than humble beginnings who excels at everything he does and picks up even the most complex things very quickly. He is extremely proud and never backs down from a challenge, always managing to get the last word and reply with a witty remark. Kvothe was born as a trouper, into a culture of traveling entertainers who are very free spirited and solid. Troupers believe that all men are family, if only they would realize it. They are treated as worse than bandits, as the scum of the earth, and nothing sends him into a rage as much as slandering his heritage. He also has a very strong sensibility against rapists such that he will do worse than kill one if he finds one. The only thing he is not confident about is love, and he is so cautious in romance that you would think we was thinking about how to stroke a flame. Kvothe and I have more in common the more I know about him. We are both abnormally clever, we both belong to and take great pride in being a part of noble groups that are as hated as Satanists, we both have very strong convictions regarding rape, and we are both so cautious that it is hard to get close to anyone. I cannot think of a thing that Kvothe and I do not have in common, so he wins this list hands down. Tom Ripley from The Talented Mr. Ripley. Tom Ripley is someone that I will not spoil by explaining his character here. Watch the movie if you want to know, and do not look up anything on him beforehand, or I will never forgive you. Tom is a character that reminds me of my childhood self and he represents my deepest emotional being more than any character I have witnessed. Throughout every turn of this movie, I felt all of his feelings fully and completely, as if I was doing the things he was doing, for the same reasons he was doing them, and then reacting the same way to them. I cry every time I watch this movie, while none of the above characters have made me cry. And that is something. Please note that I mean the film version of Ripley and not the book version; for the sake of clarity.
Quite easy to tell with me. Just look at my (current) avatar and signature Spoiler Squall Leonhart [Final Fantasy VIII] Began his story as introverted and cold. Resented leadership, yet dutiful. Much of my my life I've felt the same: apathetic, distant from people, found difficulty in expressing my feelings I've become a lot more open since my last 2 years in High School, and I've often been made a leader figure in small groups We both spout lines of humor from time to time, though Squall less so. And admittedly my personality has changed due in some part to girls I've admired... Zuko [Avatar: The Last Airbender] We've both shared some very mad, angst-filled phases in life However, we both learned to open up and let people in better, and our lives have greatly improved due to friendships Though we both believe that we can change our own fates, we've both cited feeling very unlucky And oh yeah we can both Firebend...I wish. Simon [Gurren Lagann] I'm gonna admit, watching Gurren Lagann really helped me with my self-confidence The way Simon felt worthless and weak, I felt that same way too But then we both found things to strive for, and fight for, and we became braver men Simon's character development left a great impression on me, and it got me to feel hopeful about myself Got a few more I could include, but these guys are the main three right now.
On an almost daily basis, I manage to identify myself or one of my traits with at least one character, but now that I'm finally asked/wanted to answer, I find that I have a hard time finding a character/s I truly resemble. That, and I had a huge mind block, haha. ;; But I suppose I truly resemble these characters the most. There could be a better choice out there, but as I said. Mind block. ;;;; Uchiha Itachi. (from Naruto) A man who is kind and caring, yet still leaves lots of room for just as much logic and calculation. Basically, he's a balance between both the "heart" and the "mind". He can be loving, as he was for his younger brother, and he can be merciless, as he was with pretty much the rest of his clan. He is also, above all, a patriotic man who is willing to sacrifice himself for those he is loyal to given that there is no other choice. He picks those he associates himself with rather carefully (or at least, the way I see it. Not much regarding social life was actually said on the poor guy...) and leaves a soft spot for them. The rest, he is polite. For those he dislikes, well... He possesses a short temper for them. He has a way with words; he knows how to use them to demoralize a person easily. This way, he finds no need to go physical on people so long as his words are enough to turn the situation in his favor. Along with his patriotism and willingness to sacrifice himself when need be, he has a good sense of justice, but his means of getting said justice aren't necessarily... Well... Truly right, given the setting of the series he's from. He weighs the pros and the cons and smothers his emotions when the choice requires him to. Also, Itachi is wise for his age, despite being only 21. How am I like the guy? I could easily replace every "he" and "this/the/a man" in those paragraphs up there with "me", "myself" and "I", and the two paragraphs will still be pretty accurate (except for the obvious and disregarding inevitable grammatical errors). I based this all off on my own analysis of myself and what I was told by other people regarding the more "serious" things. Itachi is from a series wherein almost all the main characters just get on my nerves and he is easily my favorite character. I suppose this is only so because I can relate to him so well~ Ventus (from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep) Need I enumerate? Oh well, I will anyway. Ventus is pretty much the epitome of happiness, of light, of everything sunshine and sunflowers, yet he still has the capability to be serious. He is innocent (or at least, a child at heart) in nature, yet he's still aware of the complexities of the world. He constantly looks at the bright side of things, always having a sense of hope while at the same time, providing said hope to others. He's charitable without realizing it, he's child-like without meaning to, and he's just downright adorable without exerting any effort. His sense of justice is, I would think, is similar to Itachi's, only a little more heroic and "being the better person"-like. There's also the fact that he's rather strong-willed. I mean, I don't remember Ven crying at all. And if he did, it wasn't like he was wailing or anything. Ven is also very honest, standing by his principles and avoiding conflict. So yeah, in addition to the first character, I also have this guy that I believe I relate to the most. I know they're both pretty opposite, and I'd love to explain, but I think I've just said too much, haha. ;;
People, and a lot more recently, have compared me to Cloud. I keep my emotions to myself, but I help others before I try to help myself.
This was kind of a tough one. After some thinking, I think I mostly fit with Raiden from Metal Gear Solid. [DURHUR BIG SURPRISE RITE] But seriously, it mostly has to do with his reaction from players to his first appearance and his last. Raiden started out young with a decent enough knowledge, but most players rejected him because he looked odd and saying he's trying to replace Snake. Spoiler Hell even the main characters in the game rejected him, including Snake and the president. Then came MGS4, and people respected him more because of how he was able to save Snake and the things he did. Spoiler This goes in my life because there was a large amount of time when I was rejected. Then people saw that I was funny and was kind to them, and took me under their wing. In fact, the people that I used to despise are actually my best friends now. That's about all I could think of though.
Honestly...? Spoiler :| Daisy has a low work ethic and procrastinates. Despite this, she is quite ambitious and loves to travel. She can also be excitable and has a tendency to 'say the wrong thing'. Perpetually poor and looking for a job~ [video=youtube;HL7WTIb6rqw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL7WTIb6rqw[/video]
