Who is your fictional self?

[00Syd]

I honestly can't think of a fictional character that I am similar to. I can think of characters that I would LIKE to be similar to, but none that actually resemble me. Uhm. Hm. I'll think about it today and then come back. Suggestions are appreciated.

 

[notalwaysweak]

LOL

I don't know if I'm like anyone in a book. Meg from Little Women comes to mind immediately, but I'm not as ladylike as she is.

I wanna be like Anita Blake. *sigh*

Stephanie Plum from the Janet Evanovich novels is definitely my fictional self. Her attitudes, views and clumsiness match mine.

Who would I like to be? Anita Blake or Doc Jane from JR Ward's Lover Unbound.

Do y'all want to be Anita for the vampire hunting or the vampire humping?

Better than being Merry Gentry, considering the whole 'must get pregnant or else' thing, but I do think that her men were on the whole preferable to Anita's. But Anita and Merry were both straight. I couldn't do the straight thing.

I've never really seen anyone in fiction who I related to, except maybe Luna from Harry Potter

 

[graceanne]

Do y'all want to be Anita for the vampire hunting or the vampire humping?

Better than being Merry Gentry, considering the whole 'must get pregnant or else' thing, but I do think that her men were on the whole preferable to Anita's. But Anita and Merry were both straight. I couldn't do the straight thing.

I've never really seen anyone in fiction who I related to, except maybe Luna from Harry Potter

That's all just an added benefit. I wanna be Anita Blake cause she's so brave and kick ass; all things I'm not.

 

[dexwebster]

I think if I had to pin it down, I'm a cross between Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice and Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantis. Make of that what you will.

 

[BiaTcHiNFiRe]

Hmmz I somewhat between mustang from the Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and Chobit's Chii. lol

A bit of both.

 

[Netzach]

In Annie Prolux's "Wyoming Stories" which contains Brokeback Mountain but also a totally delightful story called "The Bunchgrass Edge of the World" there is a main character named Ottaline. I feel a kinship with her. She gets advice from a talking tractor.

 

[Keroin]

These are such diverse responses. Some of the characters I know - Grace I love thinking of you as Meg! - some I've never heard of. I guess I should have asked everyone to tell a little bit about the characters. Please feel free to elaborate.

Talking tractor, huh? My kinda gal.

 

[DiscusDave]

I feel a kinship with her. She gets advice from a talking tractor.

Guess the new commercials for John Deere tractors would have to be... "Nothing runs it's mouth like a Deere."

You said you feel kinship with her. What, then, do you get advice from? (this is actually a serious question... I'm interested)

 

[Keroin]

Guess the new commercials for John Deere tractors would have to be... "Nothing runs it's mouth like a Deere."

Ggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooaaaaaaaaaan.

 

[Netzach]

Guess the new commercials for John Deere tractors would have to be... "Nothing runs it's mouth like a Deere."

You said you feel kinship with her. What, then, do you get advice from? (this is actually a serious question... I'm interested)

Oh, from my homies, good books, but I've always thought that inanimate things have a kind of wisdom, too, actually.

Keroin, I think you'd like the whole book a lot.

She's a non-girly girl in a very mapped-out-for-her world, but not in a tomboy way in a quiet way. She finally meets a mate when someone comes to negotiate with her to buy her father's cattle, the cattle dealer is a kind of blunt introspective guy who gets her and relates to her as something desireable. I just like the story and I liked her.

 

[Keroin]

Oh, from my homies, good books, but I've always thought that inanimate things have a kind of wisdom, too, actually.

Keroin, I think you'd like the whole book a lot.

She's a non-girly girl in a very mapped-out-for-her world, but not in a tomboy way in a quiet way. She finally meets a mate when someone comes to negotiate with her to buy her father's cattle, the cattle dealer is a kind of blunt introspective guy who gets her and relates to her as something desireable. I just like the story and I liked her.

Sounds like it's my kind of read. I enjoyed The Shipping News. Will add it to the next Amazon order, thanks!

Have you read any Alice Munro?

 

[graceanne]

Grace I love thinking of you as Meg!

Thanks. I wish I was more like Jo.

Anita Blake is a vampire hunter in Laurel K Hamilton's books. The only thing about her that bugs me is the constant introspection. But she's totally kick ass, doesn't take shit from anybody, person.

 

[Keroin]

I recently realized that most of my role playing villains are various facceted personifications of my own inner tyrrant.

Kinda disturbing actually, though i suppose for some people thats a "well duh."

As for characters not of my own fiction, I have long associated strongly with Crowe, of Mike McCormack's Crowe's Requiem.

How would you describe this character? Why do you associate so strongly with him?

 

[00Syd]

My mother suggested that I was like Emma Peel from The Avengers, but she's just another fictional character that I wish I was like, not who I actually am like.

 

[Keroin]

My mother suggested that I was like Emma Peel from The Avengers, but she's just another fictional character that I wish I was like, not who I actually am like.

Holy crap! Seriously, that was the first character that came to mind for me when you asked for suggestions.

 

[Netzach]

Maybe Smaug from the Hobbit.

 

[00Syd]

Holy crap! Seriously, that was the first character that came to mind for me when you asked for suggestions.

Yeah, but I'm not actually like her, you know? I just aspire to be.

 

[00Syd]

Maybe Smaug from the Hobbit.

Ooh good choice. If we were going from characters from The Hobbit I might be similar to one of the dwarfs. I'd need to read the book again to pick out which one, though.

 

[Netzach]

*chuckle*

That or the witch from Into the Woods.

 

[graceanne]

*chuckle*

That or the witch from Into the Woods.

Depends on who you're asking?

 

[midwestyankee]

I've been sort of half-assed pondering this thread since its inception and I am drawing a blank.

I've read virtually anything that can appropriately be called American literature and still, I draw a blank. Some days it seems to be Julian English (John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra) and other days it seems to be Ben Braddock (Mike Nichols, Dir.; The Graduate) and yet other days it might be Robert Dupea (Bob Rafelson, Dir.; Five Easy Pieces).

And none of them really come close. Or I don't really come close to any of them.

 

[Keroin]

I've been sort of half-assed pondering this thread since its inception and I am drawing a blank.

I've read virtually anything that can appropriately be called American literature and still, I draw a blank. Some days it seems to be Julian English (John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra) and other days it seems to be Ben Braddock (Mike Nichols, Dir.; The Graduate) and yet other days it might be Robert Dupea (Bob Rafelson, Dir.; Five Easy Pieces).

And none of them really come close. Or I don't really come close to any of them.

What about characters in film? Anything there? Failing that, is there a character you wish you were like, (see OP)?

 

[midwestyankee]

What about characters in film? Anything there? Failing that, is there a character you wish you were like, (see OP)?

Did you not notice mention of The Graduate and Five Easy Pieces?

 

[Keroin]

I only discovered my fictional twin a few years ago, a moment which still amazes me and which prompted this thread.

My fictional self is Sabina from The Unbearable Lightness of Being. For those unfamiliar with the work, Sabina is an artist who lives very much on her own terms.

This quote still gives me goosebumps:
"...in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable."

 

[00Syd]

Did you not notice mention of The Graduate and Five Easy Pieces?

Well, you could have been referencing The Graduate, the novel written by Charles Webb (published 1963), right, right??

(A good read. I'd recommend it if you've not had a chance to pick it up.)