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⌈ Secret Post #2125 ⌋

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I just realized. There's this character I love, who is a bit dim, likes to talk a lot, makes a lot of bad decisions, a mess it up pretty bad in the end. Still, I like it because he's utterly funny and seems to be a nice guy despite all those things.

Now, one of my coworkers is just like him, almost exactly, only she's a woman. But, she NEVER SHUTS UP, has the compulsion to speak whatever she's thinking right in that instant without really thinking in what she's really saying, makes lots of mistakes and bad decisions at work (and people usually facepalm around her a lot), and she tries to make a joke of everything.

And I just realized. They are alike, painfully alike, so why I love one but I despise so much the other?

Have anything like this happened to you?

For one, it's always different when you get to watch/read about a character versus interact personally with a real person like that character. It might be more your involvement in the situation rather than peering into the world from beyond the screen/page that does it.

For another, which is REALLY important, fictional characters have authors who can control their actions and edit their work after the fact. Something the character said is a bit too annoying? Cut it out and replace it with something more tasteful. Something the character said isn't as entertaining or meaningful as it needs to be to get a point across? Tweak it until it produces the right effect. Something the character does doesn't quite pack the right amount of pathos or humor or irony or situational appropriateness? Rearrange the entire fictional universe and the laws of space and time and probability to make sure the action and its context conveys the right message to the audience. Real life people don't have the option of warping reality around them for the exact right effect or taking back something they said or did.

ayrt

Well, that's a perfectly logical explanation. I hadn't really thought of that, but I think you're right. And maybe it also has to do that I can swtich the screen/close the book whenever I wanted, whereas in real life I have to put up with them whether I like it or not.

Plenty of things are more tolerable in fiction than in real life.

There was a guy at work who reminded me a lot of Dr. House. Liked to complain about everything, thought he was better than a lot of people, but was actually smart and good at his job. Except instead of thinking he was hot I mostly thought he was a jerk. (Well, I liked him OK but I saw why a lot of people didn't.)

I actually told him he reminded me of House and he freaked because apparently he hated House. I meant it as a compliment, too.

(Of course eventually I got to where I wanted to smack Dr. House too, but this was back in the first three seasons.)

Playboys, womanizers, and cads. Usually love them in fiction, can't stand them IRL. Mostly because the ones I've met IRL or seen in action are all jerks.

All the time. There are a ton of characteristics and characters that I adore in fiction but would not put up with in reality.

Most of my favourite fictional characters are people I'd want to smack in real life.

A lot of my favourite characters are the type of people who I would be terrified to end up in a dark alley with. So...yeah. XD

But it's understandable for harmless characters too. Like characters who are womanizer types and it's played for laughs, whereas in real life I would want to punch them. Or characters who always interrupt people or make things awkward or something. Blunt characters who don't try to be nice. People like that.

They're easier to deal with in fiction because you know more about them. Like the asshole dude who's blunt, in a story? You know he would pick up a sword and risk his life for what's right. Or you know it's his way of dealing with crippling self-esteem. Or you know he's sweet to his daughter. In real life though, he's just an asshole.

It kind of reminds me of that secret a while back where OP worried about the fact that the persona Dean Winchester projected would make her hate him in real life, and she wondered how many other brilliant people she wrote off because they were jerks.

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