[ SECRET POST #4740 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4740 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I feel you. No one ever took "Harry" as the correct answer to "Who is your favorite Harry Potter character". It was like he didn't count. But he's still my favorite!

[(Anonymous)]

He was my favorite too. And a good self-insert POV char, imo. I mean sure I wasn't regarded as savior or enemy, but even the smallest amount of attention at that age felt like too many eyes on me, and outside of that I felt as average as they come so the whole "I feel too average and teen angsty to save the world" somehow caught me at the right time.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I feel as if some people discredited him as a favourite character because so many people saw him as a self-insert.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

For me a lot of it was that we both started out as well-meaning, polite kids who were subsumed with rage in teenhood. And we stayed well-meaning, we were both just so pissed off. It didn't help that both of us had rage that came from a feeling of impotence (Harry because he was never told the whole truth, me because no one took me seriously due to the fact that I was and am a tiny little woman who looks much younger + at the time I got ragey all my friends were having the "correct" feminine puberty which was all crying. I did not know anyone whose puberty operating system was set to Capslock except Harry.)

[silverr]

Aw!

(Anyone who tires to tell me that loving Fleabag is the boring and lazy choice gets a swift kick in the ass.)

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, it depends on the types of characters you like. A couple of books/series have given me lead characters that feel like they were tailor made for me and my narrative kinks, and they're gleefully and instantly my favourites. Other types of leads genuinely do bore me to tears (a lot of shonen anime, to be fair), but that's mostly just because they're not my type.

Some of it might come from genre conventions. Certain genres do have fairly set-in-stone types of lead characters, so maybe some people blanket-judge the leads of that genre, with a fair bit of justification. But even in the most formulaic genres you can sometimes get a gem.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, for some reason even if I like the main character a lot I'm just unable to see them as my favourite. There's no logical reason behind it, it just kind of feels like they don't count.
Honestly who cares if it's boring and lazy though, that friend can suck it.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, I feel like usually the main character isn't the fandom favorite anyway so it almost feels hipster to do so. Case in point, wouldn't liking Bakugou over Midoriya be the boring choice since he's like almost doubly popular?

[(Anonymous)]

That's a good point. But in that case, I don't think being considered hipster is any better than being considered boring or lazy.

[(Anonymous)]

Some of them can be, but there are a lot of very well rounded main characters. Though I tend to look in other directions for my favourites for the same reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

*shrugs* My favorite is almost always the lead - or more often both of the leads if there's two leads, which is a dynamic I prefer. If I don't love the lead(s), I'm usually not that interested in the show, so I go find a different show with leads I love.

I'm here to watch stories about my faves. I'm not that interested in watching stories about not-my-faves while I wait for my faves to have a few minutes of screen time.

Personally, it would never occur to me to be self-conscious about my preference for leads.

[catdetective]

I mean... main characters are the main character for a reason. There may be a cast full of colorful side characters who speak to different people, and some people prefer characters where they can headcanon more of their backstory etc as opposed to a more fully fleshed out main, but there shouldn't be any shame in saying 'yeah, I connected most to the main character'.