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⌈ Secret Post #6006 ⌋

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[Youtube channel "Hello Future Me"]

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[Monark]

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09. [SPOILERS for Across the Spiderverse]

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10. [WARNING for transphobia/standard JKR stuff]

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Are there any habits you've picked up from fictional characters?

considering I basically assimilated a character’s full personality to survive high school bullying, I KNOW I still got some of his quirks

That doesn't seem terribly healthy but I guess whatever gets you through a tough time! I'm so curious what character and how it helped.

as an adult I know it was less than healthy but it helped in a lot of ways and stopped me from the downward spiral one particular incident caused.

probably going to get laughed at but the character in question was Knuckles the Echidna. I drew strength from knowing he was able to handle being alone and isolated and was strong in ways I wasn’t. I was able to keep a stiff upper lip around my bullies because I saw him standing up to people that sought to cause problems for him and what he protected. Even now I’m able to handle being alone because of this and don’t mind having few friends I don’t see too often.

AYRT

That is actually really sweet. I'm glad you had something like that to help you out!

Honestly, Knuckles is a really good choice for that! And even if it's not healthy to like... 'become' a character at the expense of being your own self 24/7, I think it IS healthy to have characters who are strong in the face of problems like the ones you face, and to say 'hey, if X could survive this, I can survive this'. And if you sometimes have to play pretend a while to get through the hard times, that's not at all a bad thing.

Coping mechanisms only become unhealthy when we cling to them past the point that they help us.

I did, too. More in middle school for me, but I still used that character's traits to hide my personality in high school and be perceive as stronger and "more normal".
Now that I'm an adult and I'm in therapy I discovered that my sense of ego is extremely fragile due to bullying and neglectful family and that's why I change my personality a lot. ☆The more you know☆

The occasional idle animation from various video games. Heh. (I'm trying to break this habit)

I do FFV8's Selphie checking her boots movement when I'm waiting and I'm bored. It amuses me and as far as habits go, eh, no need to break that one.

I still do Sonic’s foot tapping idle animation while waiting

Not a habit really, but when I was young I got a collectors card of one of my favorite characters and it had their height/weight on the back and I just decided that was my ultimate goal for height and weight. Sadly stopped growing before I made the height, and the only way I made the weight was an eating disorder. Recovered and now I am way over that weight and occasionally I think about that character stats and get a little sad. Which is just so silly.

Probably. My personality is just a collection of quirks, sayings, and mindsets of people I've thought were cool.

I'm sure there are, just because that is... how my whole thing works? I definitely pick up posture stuff from characters I'm into.

But the only one I can think of is that sometimes I scratch my face the WAY that a character I used to be obsessed with does, and I don't think I picked that up from him, because... I scratch my face whenever it itches, a thing it has done since long before he was my blorbo. But now I NOTICE whenever I do it.

I learned some fake curse words from Rugrats. XD I used dagnabbit for years.

Braiding my hair like Edward Elric. I didn't start braiding it /because/ of him, but seeing literally a couple of frames of him braiding his own hair helped me figure out how to do it for the first time.

Thanks to all my British fandoms, I've picked up some British slang and way of talking.

Absolutely. I made a secret many years ago about how The Nanny influenced me growing up. I've been told that people admire my confidence and outgoing personality but in truth my public persona (even with friends) is basically just a toned-down version of Fran Fine to hide my social anxiety and self-esteem issues.

I shake water off my feet the way the Boris the goose from Balto does, especially when getting out of the shower.

It has been twenty five years.

Yes. I now solve crimes from my Baker Street flat with my colleague. While doing cocaine.

Actually I just do cocaine.

Heh.

Thanks to lots of anime I have a tendency to push my glasses up dramatically to emphasize a point I'm making.

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