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⌈ Secret Post #2121 ⌋

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[Darths and Droids]

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[Captain America & Iron Man]

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[The Walking Dead]

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[Divergent]

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[SPN RPF]

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[Sanctuary]

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[Person of Interest]

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[Last Exile]

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[Hugo Weaving / Sam Neill]

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[Type-Moon]

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[Spec Ops: The Line]

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[Quantum Leap]

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[Tom Hiddleston]

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[Labyrinth]

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[Trent & Mariqueen Reznor, How to Destroy Angels]

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Is this a thing that happens to other people? Do you find yourselves reading loads and loads of fanfic for and discussing and fangirling over a certain character, but your favorite character is someone else entirely who you don't obsess over much at all?

I'm in Avengers fandom, and even though Bruce is my favorite character if I'm measuring it by how much I like a character, the character I obsess over most is Tony, even though I don't love him quite as much as I love Bruce.

I also had this in Stargate fandom. My favorite character was Jack, but my folders were crammed with fic about Daniel, and I was much more interested in reading fic about him than anyone else.

And even though I like Marshall, Lily, and Ted from How I Met Your Mother way more than I like Barney or Robin, I'm far more obsessed with Barney and Robin and Barney/Robin shipping and the other three barely get mentioned in my fannish participation.

This happen to anyone else?

this has never happened to me lol. i almost always fall hard for one character, and everything revolves around them. most of the time i won't read fic unless they are in the main pairing (if there is a pairing anyway) or a main point of the fic.

i always get a really bad one track mind with characters :x

Same here!

Oh yeah, definitely. I do that all the time.

At the moment I'm in the Homestuck fandom. Favourite character is Equius, but I look for more theories, art, and fanfic of Gamzee. But I guess the reason is that Gamzee has much more intrigue and mystery around him right now? So it's more fun to read about him. Maybe something similar is going on for you?

But yes, I cannot limit myself to just one character I obsess over in any of my fandoms. I just love them all so much!

Edited 2012-10-24 03:10 (UTC)

Not that I can think of, at least not on purpose. The only reasons I might not focus on my favorite would be if there wasn't much fanmaterial on them or if what did exist was poorly done.

I never really have a single favourite. It's usually a mix of central characters, and ones with really minor roles. Usually the latter interests me more because I DON'T know as much about them, haha.

Never happened to me. In your case, though, it might just be because Tony is more popular and thus easier to fangirl over with any random Avengers fan. Plus, we know more about him, his previous movies weren't total shit, and he's played by RDJ. :)

My favorite character changes with my mood. And I tend to read the fics that exist.

I had a weird experience with something similar: Coulson was my "favorite" character in the Avengers (I had absolutely NO clue he was a huge phenomenon before I saw the Avengers. I wasn't in the MCU fandom at all until after I saw the movie, so I thought it was just me), but when I came to the fandom and saw oodles of fanfic and shit, I was like "uh, no thanks" because I loved him as a minor character, not a main character. Would much rather read about the Avengers thanks.

This happens to me too.

In Avengers, Natasha is my favorite but Thor is the one I'm most obsessed with. In Potter, my favorite character is Neville (or possibly Minerva), but I'm most obsessed with Lucius and I tend to read mostly Harry-centric AUs.

A big part of it is attraction. I don't base who my favorite is on who I find most attractive, but I do tend to read more fics about the ones I'm attracted to. Part of it is that who my favorites are change so often I have less fics for them.

Characters become my favorites because I'm interested in them, so they tend to be my focus in fandom.

Normally my favorite character is the one I find most interesting. But there are a few exceptions.

Madoka is my favorite character from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, but I think Sayaka's character arc is the most interesting, and the one that best represents the show's themes overall. And her penultimate scene in the train is my favorite in the whole series. Fic-wise, what I read the most is Homura-centric character study fic.

My favorite character from Phantasy Star IV is a minor character, but if I ever got around to writing fic for PS it'd probably involve the main character because I like him a lot too and there's a lot more unexplored, interesting material to work with.

My favourites are the ones I obsess over... they're not always the ones I think are the most complex or the nicest, they're the ones I just care about the most.

Well, if my favorite character is one that's discussed a LOT, I tend to be more obsessed with a character that's less-loved. For example, Chrono is my favorite character in Chrono Crusade, but lately I've spent much more time on meta and fanfic about Joshua because he doesn't get as much attention.

I'm just weird like that, though. In fandoms where I equally love two characters I always declare the less popular one my "favorite" even if it's not always 100% true.

I can't think of any examples in fandom character terms (although I'm pretty sure I've done this in the past), but I definitely do this with fandoms as a whole! I'm not in the fandom at all for three of my current favourite shows, because I love the shows so much that I don't feel fandom would enhance my experience of them. They're awesome enough on their own.

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