[ SECRET POST #2797 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2797 ⌋

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I both agree and disagree

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that identifying with a character is necessarily self-insertion (although I have seen it lead to this). But at the same time, I don't think you MUST identify with a character nor draw on your own experiences to get into their head. Oftentimes, I think a better avenue is to do research on that character and their life circumstances. For Draco Malfoy, I think rather than try to relate yourself to him, you'd be better off reading up on the views of white supremacists to understand why they believe what they believe and use that as a foundation for writing Draco's prejudice.

I read a really wonderful fan fiction about Steve Rogers/Captain America, for example, that had him trying to deal with his homosexuality by going to "conversion therapy." The author was very clearly disgusted by such "therapies" (and thought of them as abusive) and yet was able to characterize Steve's motivations and his "counselor's" motivations really well -- by painting them as people who wanted to hold on to something (a traditional family) rather than just being disgusted with non-heterosexuals. It was clear that she'd done a lot of research into such groups and it paid off splendidly in the fan fiction. Even though she herself was VERY pro-LGBT, she was still able to write three-dimensional and humanized characters who disagreed with her position.

Re: I both agree and disagree

[(Anonymous)]

This is how I see it. I actively try to avoid identifying too much with characters because I don't want my own feelings and life experiences coloring theirs. I want to focus on their views and the life experiences they've had that led to those views, which are something completely separate from my own. Just because we may have the same feelings doesn't mean the reasoning behind those feelings is the same.