[ SECRET POST #1989 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1989 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 048 secrets from Secret Submission Post #284.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[elaminator]

Not sure I've ever heard anyone say they liked a character because they share their worst traits. Usually people hate characters for that reason. (I can see why it would be easier to relate to them, but...still.) Going against the grain, OP.

Er...good luck with that?

[thewordlovely]

One of the reasons I love my main OC is that she lets loose with some of the flaws that I am too aware of not to keep in check. Sort of a liberating thing, I guess. However, my very flawed character is still a protagonist rather than a villain.

[elaminator]

To me the secret makes it sound like the OP celebrates those flaws. Maybe they meant (like you) that it's liberating to see someone with similar flaws or that his flaws make him easier to relate to but...idk, that wasn't how I read it.

[diet_poison]

To me the secret makes it sound like the OP celebrates those flaws.

I didn't get that vibe. But of course, there's no way of knowing with the given information.

[(Anonymous)]

I like a character because I know I have better control over our mutual bad traits than they do.

Whenever I have a shitty day I'll watch an episode and think to myself, "at least you weren't that bad."

[elaminator]

Ahhhh, okay, now that makes sense. Maybe that's what the OP meant then. (Unless you are the OP?)

I like that!

[aiffe]

I personally adore characters that have my flaws. Not only is there a lot of, "I know that feel, bro" (especially since a lot of bad things that happen to characters tend to be character-driven, so shit happens to them and it's all their own fault) but it also kind of helps me understand myself to understand them, and in some cases, even see how they overcome those flaws.

I think people who hate characters who share their worst traits might be in denial about those traits in themselves, or at least ashamed and not like to think about them. I'm pretty open about my flaws. I know I have them, and I know they're ugly, but everyone's got flaws, and I don't mind looking at or talking about mine.

[elaminator]

The overcoming thing makes a lot of sense, yea.

Idk, while I think there are certaintly people out there (a good many of them too) in denial about their flaws and that sometimes tend to hate characters that are similar to them, I think there's probably just as many who are aware of their own flaws, ashamed and disappointed in themselves because of them, and have a certain level of self loathing going on that gets transferred to the character. Especially if the character has better success on transcending their flaws than they do.

Who knows man...people are complicated.

[broadwaybabe11.livejournal.com]

I do think that people who adamantly hate any sort of thing have some kind of issue. Not just normal hate, but adamant hate.

[broadwaybabe11.livejournal.com]

I have liked characters in the past that have had my worst traits. It did make it easier to relate, and it made me feel like less of a freak.

[elaminator]

Well...obviously I don't know you, but I doubt you have any reason to feel like a freak. Everyone has faults; it's just human nature.