[ SECRET POST #2638 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2638 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get how people can only enjoy something if they do identify with characters, so.

[(Anonymous)]

Robert McKee goes into this in detail in his book Story, but really, if the audience doesn't identify in some way with a protagonist, your story's sunk. It doesn't have to be in a huge, "This character is exactly like me!" way, but there has to be some kind of resonance to make a character stick.

[(Anonymous)]

See, I'm usually the most interested in the characters I don't identify with at all, because I want to know and understand what makes them tick. Why do they act the way they do? What drives them? That's what makes a character interesting to me.

Characters I can connect with easily are characters I already understand. There's no interest in delving deeper there.

[gondremark]

This.
I read and watch fiction as a window into another world, not as a mirror in which to see myself.
I already know how I work; what's interesting is seeing how Our Intrepid Hero works.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, I'm way more interested in characters who are nothing like me. The things I go through and want out of life are not what I want in a fictional story.

[gondremark]

And I don't get how identifying with a character has anything to do with the character's likability.
We like real people based on their actions or values and not on how much they remind us of ourselves, so why not like fictional people in the same way?

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of people have strong reactions, whether good or bad, to behaviour which reminds them of themselves. The character thing mirrors that imo.