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queenluastolen from kradeelav; "nine characters i relate to"
balthier (final fantasy 12): like balthier i am a flighty bitch and quite familiar with "flying several thousand miles away" as a means of dealing with problems. probably not as funny and charming as him but i try
noct (final fantasy 15): wants to do the right thing, and does it, but is kind of a little bitch about it. sleeps a lot. has a dreamy/distracted/detached/contemplative demeanor. while my default demeanor is very much the opposite of that—extroverted, chatty, rapt—people who've e.g. worked with me on projects are much more likely to comment that i'm a little space-cadet-y. people who have worked with me for longer are familiar enough to know that that's my deep-thinking-mode, and it's just how i process complicated shit. noct has a lot to think about; of course he's quiet and kinda pissy when interrupted. <3 noctis
l'arachel (fire emblem: the sacred stones): me at parties. fuck yeah
naesala (fire emblem 9/10): okay you knew this one was coming. to get it out of the way, the obvious things i don't have in common with naesala: culpability in war crimes, blatant sliminess, deliberate efforts to make people hate me, etc. but i vibe a lot with naesala's pragmatic-dude-surrounded-by-idealists deal. like all engineers i am profoundly impatient with theoretically-nice stuff that in practice does very little to fix real problems; i'll take little victories where i can get them because it's what i'm good at, etc. (and the other end of the spectrum—all pragmatism and no heart—drives me bonkers, too, but given naesala's unmasked contempt for all the Begnion senators he runs into during the endgame, i suspect he'd agree with that too.)there's other things here but it's even MORE projection so. sorry i've written a lot of fanfic about this man
claude (fire emblem: three houses): again, things i don't have in common with claude: mysterious secretly-royal ancestry, an inspiring life mission, off-the-charts level of charm, etc. but god i see a lot of my college-age-ish self in him. decent head on his shoulders and unflappable faith in the power of reason, understanding, good intentions, and #engineering for fixing Huge World Problems. ...annnnnd then i hit the real world, lol, and became more of a cynical bitch, but i still retain the good bits of that spirit, i hope!
rurouni kenshin: sanosuke. problems that cannot be punched irk me. absolutely have been #1 groupie for a friend before.
cowboy bebop: ed. c'mon this one's a gimme. also Faye but i'm not in a mood to write that essay
lightning (final fantasy 13): that moment when you suddenly realize Oh Fuck This Person Looks Up to Me and you're like Oh Shit I Dunno What I'm Doing Either, Dude and then you just gotta muddle forward by being—ugh—more open and honest and a little less posture-y? i've been there, like, many times, lol
wrt Battlestar Galactica, i was like, "damn i WISH i were Roslin but in my heart i know i'm like... Baltar." then i flinched with my entire soul because like, surely i wouldn't be that much of a lying sleazebag. and i don't think i would be, but... idk, there's something kinda relatable in just how much that dude likes being alive. for good and ill. but i'm still not gonna commit to that, so i'm just leaving this paragraph here out of, idk, honesty or something, did i mention Roslin is great and i wish i were her
kradeelav; "nine characters i relate to"balthier (final fantasy 12): like balthier i am a flighty bitch and quite familiar with "flying several thousand miles away" as a means of dealing with problems. probably not as funny and charming as him but i try
noct (final fantasy 15): wants to do the right thing, and does it, but is kind of a little bitch about it. sleeps a lot. has a dreamy/distracted/detached/contemplative demeanor. while my default demeanor is very much the opposite of that—extroverted, chatty, rapt—people who've e.g. worked with me on projects are much more likely to comment that i'm a little space-cadet-y. people who have worked with me for longer are familiar enough to know that that's my deep-thinking-mode, and it's just how i process complicated shit. noct has a lot to think about; of course he's quiet and kinda pissy when interrupted. <3 noctis
l'arachel (fire emblem: the sacred stones): me at parties. fuck yeah
naesala (fire emblem 9/10): okay you knew this one was coming. to get it out of the way, the obvious things i don't have in common with naesala: culpability in war crimes, blatant sliminess, deliberate efforts to make people hate me, etc. but i vibe a lot with naesala's pragmatic-dude-surrounded-by-idealists deal. like all engineers i am profoundly impatient with theoretically-nice stuff that in practice does very little to fix real problems; i'll take little victories where i can get them because it's what i'm good at, etc. (and the other end of the spectrum—all pragmatism and no heart—drives me bonkers, too, but given naesala's unmasked contempt for all the Begnion senators he runs into during the endgame, i suspect he'd agree with that too.)
claude (fire emblem: three houses): again, things i don't have in common with claude: mysterious secretly-royal ancestry, an inspiring life mission, off-the-charts level of charm, etc. but god i see a lot of my college-age-ish self in him. decent head on his shoulders and unflappable faith in the power of reason, understanding, good intentions, and #engineering for fixing Huge World Problems. ...annnnnd then i hit the real world, lol, and became more of a cynical bitch, but i still retain the good bits of that spirit, i hope!
rurouni kenshin: sanosuke. problems that cannot be punched irk me. absolutely have been #1 groupie for a friend before.
cowboy bebop: ed. c'mon this one's a gimme. also Faye but i'm not in a mood to write that essay
lightning (final fantasy 13): that moment when you suddenly realize Oh Fuck This Person Looks Up to Me and you're like Oh Shit I Dunno What I'm Doing Either, Dude and then you just gotta muddle forward by being—ugh—more open and honest and a little less posture-y? i've been there, like, many times, lol
wrt Battlestar Galactica, i was like, "damn i WISH i were Roslin but in my heart i know i'm like... Baltar." then i flinched with my entire soul because like, surely i wouldn't be that much of a lying sleazebag. and i don't think i would be, but... idk, there's something kinda relatable in just how much that dude likes being alive. for good and ill. but i'm still not gonna commit to that, so i'm just leaving this paragraph here out of, idk, honesty or something, did i mention Roslin is great and i wish i were her
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Date: 2021-04-21 10:57 pm (UTC)also in a weirdly contemplative mood and am so amused that both of ours is a *lot* of like ... 'slightly worn down idealist with a deeply cynical but self-aware/humorous thread stitched all in there'. s'a good combo in all honesty.