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Hey F!S-- what are the narratives you identify with the most? They don't have to be your favorite types, just ones that you feel resonate with you deeply for one reason or another. For bonus, explain why you identify with them!

For me, it's the beleaguered protector narrative. The character who's been in service for so long, they don't know anything else. (Extra for having a rough origins story that shaped them into the character who wants to defend because they've been through a lot. +1 if they die in service.)

Uh, I guess I just feel deeply about this kind of narrative. I feel like this is the direction my life is taking, and I find it awesome in fiction, and admirable in real life.

(As some meta: where I live has been through a lot recently, and it's jaded the popular opinion of a lot of different things, and pretty much wiped morale. It's hard to be idealistic about anything-- but I still believe in protecting people, and keeping them safe, to the bottom of my core.)

This concept gets a lot of hate, but I really like and identify with and enjoy "bootstraps" stories.

Lots of stuff that focuses on father-daughter relationships. Particularly Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, and chapter 37 of Gunnerkrigg Court. I can kind of see my relationship with my dad reflected in them even though they're not exactly the same.

Marceline icon isn't totally irrelevant, either.

The character who works hard but gets overlooked all the time... but only if they're not resentful and jealous about it. I love stories about the dedicated support-type characters getting the recognition they deserve and stories with support-type characters as leads who aren't the big badasses or super brains. I'd rather read stories about Alfred than about Bruce Wayne.

Caveat: the above doesn't apply to yet-another ingenue with a heart of gold who charms everyone around her with purity or yaoi boy with the big innocent eyes who everyone falls deeply in love with or whatever. DNW

Caveat: the above doesn't apply to yet-another ingenue with a heart of gold who charms everyone around her with purity or yaoi boy with the big innocent eyes who everyone falls deeply in love with or whatever. DNW

That's beautiful. A+

The one that instantly comes to mind is Kid Survivor stories? Like Island of the Blue Dolphins, A Boy Called Courage (or something like that), Week in the Woods... Super self indulgent stuff, but they felt so adventurous and exciting to me. Like maybe one day I could live in the woods and not rely on anyone. Obviously that will never happen, but.

Characters who get kicked down, and shat on as much as possible [even to the point they just break down and almost give up] before rising above.

Caveats: 1. Any help they get can't be the 'super magical all your problems are solved!' kind. They have to work for their endings, not have it handed to them. 2. Their problems can't be solved by love. I don't mind if they happen to find it along the way, but unless it's a fairy tale [and not, say, a novel based on a fairy tale, an *actual* fairy tale] then their problems can't be solved by falling for the 'right person' or having the 'right person' fall for them.

The person who's been broken/lost everything/become a monster but is still human, maybe getting more and more human every day. People who can totally pwn their own miserable backstory. (A lot of them are undead - Gray Fox, Aradia Megido). It just makes me so damn happy and hopeful to see them do that, goddamnit. My past might have been mostly shit but life's never been better, and I am enjoying it.

The angry person who doesn't actually wants to hurt people. :/

Or the angry person who jitters all over the place

or the angry self destructive person

and I ID with them, tend not to like the character though :/

Anything where someone is under an assumed identity of some kind, and overhears, talks to, or in some way has some interaction that is about their actual identity. Like if, say, a very famous powerful person was incognito and had a conversation with someone in a bar where they defended their own motives or heard someone praise them or something.

Or things where someone who has actual knowledge of something rare and well-known talks to someone who doesn't when they're both just people on the street.

Or things where two people didn't realize something about each other and they totally bond (like that one scene in WoT where Mat and Birgitte hang out).

All those kinds of things really.

Characters that have a lot of trouble over feeling like they don't fit neatly into a box the way they're supposed to, and characters that fake a persona to please others. I'm not 100% sure why, but that sort of thing always draws me in.

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