[ SECRET POST #6875 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6875 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

DA

I think saturation works against them in this regard. There are plenty of middle aged white male characters that I like, but I can also name a dozen dozen others that are similar to them in theory that exist. When there are so many, it kind of can't be helped, since uniqueness or genericness is dependent on comparing them to all the others.

What's the most unique middle aged white male character you can think of?

[iff_and_xor]

I do get what you're saying about saturation.

I think I'm realizing that I don't naturally group characters at that level. It's much easier for me to say what a "generic" grizzled detective is like. Or a depressed suburban husband. Or a workaholic father. Or a quirky private investigator. Those are character types that I can feel I'm sick of when I see too many of them that don't distinguish themselves from the average. Age, race, and gender doesn't feel like a narrow enough category to be a natural grouping in my head.

The most unique middle-aged white male character off the top of my head? Of course, as soon as you ask, I feel like I'm just forgetting huge swathes of what I've read and seen. But of things I've talked or thought about recently... maybe Cadfael, as a Crusader-turned-herbalist monk with shockingly idiosyncratic ideas about theology. Maybe Alfie Solomons from Peaky Blinders, as a Jewish gangster caught between Italians and Brummies, who has very odd but very fervent politics and morals and (huh, again) religious beliefs.

But maybe I'm also thinking about character "uniqueness" in weird way that isn't what others mean.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly? harry dubois.