Writer's Block:

1.What fictional character do you most identify with?

Let's start listin'!

The first and perhaps most accurate one might me:
Gandalf - old, wise, a leader, wise, uh... uber-cool pop culture icon?

I find Anakin's 'Ariesness' very close to that of mine - self-conscious, stubborn, loyal, drawn to the dark side - and the rest is history.
Same kind of decisiveness and boldness can be found in, none other than our lovely Capt. James. T. Kirk.
Also; Scarlett O'Hara.

That Basil guy in The Picture of Dorian Gray. The was artsy, and totally gay, and very 'beautiful things are to be kept secret, so that I can enjoy them just by myself'. Also, he got killed.

Dana Scully. Intelligent, scientific, woman?
Funny thing is, I also identify very much with Mulder. They're not that different, in the end, are they?

Ohh, hey! Scar from Lion King! 'I'm surrounded by idiots!' Only I can't bother to make those idiots follow me. And I wouldn't like to be a king.

Floyd Pinkerton. 'Pink', that is. 'Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel'. When life gets too difficult. People don't understand. And in the end you turn out to be the one thing you tried to fight - much like young Skywalker.

The compulsory Doctor Who bit - The cool-music-minded insane-since-childhood Time Lord the Master, I identify with him. He was intelligent, too.

Ellen Ripley - alongside with Scully, Ripley is the only female character I've ever really identified with. She's strong-willed, intelligent, and usually is made the boss against her own wishes. You also forget that she's a woman.

While I'm not the greatest Batman fan in the world, Dr. Jonathan Crane, aka the Scarecrow, who works at the asylum, and should more or less be an inmate, was, during 'Batman Begins' my favourite character. The intelligence. The eyeglasses.

Colonel 'This sketch is getting too silly' from the Flying Circus. I get that terrible urge to tell people they're talking stupid nonsense every now and then (nonsensical stuff isn't necessarily bad, only when it's stupid)

Snufkin, Moomins.'Nuff said, really. A loner, who occasionally enjoys people's company, eats fish, is philosophical, intelligent, wise, a restless soul.
While not being my favourite character, Hodgkinson (or however it was written) from the Moomin series by Tove Jansson has that inventor-drive on his side. He's not that adventurous, either. More of a thinker.

There was a fox in a book that my parents used to read to me - The Restless Fox, born in April, when the moon was at it's fullest. He received restless footprints as a gift from lady Moon, and ever since it has had to move from one place to another, and on those nights when the stars are close to earth, it can do nothing but to howl at the Moon.
That fox is me. For real. (In the end, the fox must be locked in a cage and kept under the boiling sun for a couple of days, so he can be set free. Hopefully my life goes easier on me.)

Would it be too much to say HAL-9000 here in the end?


*footnote: Question to readers: Which would be the defining word here?Hint, begins with 'I'

1. LotR by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Complete Works of E. A. Poe
3. Vaarallinen Juhannus by Tove Jansson (What's this in English? Ah. 'Moominsummer Madness')
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Oh. I'd love to hear Oscar Wilde read some of his Chidren's Stories. Or better yet, the Picture of Dorian Gray.


I'd also love to hear how John Lennon would read 'Spaniard in the Works' or 'John Lennon in His Own Words'.