(Yesterday 14:23)elinox Wrote: Have you considered that it could be a strong like/attraction to the character instead?
Writers create characters to connect with their audience, it's a very important part of media. If you don't connect with a character, then you likely won't care what happens to them and thus may stop reading/turn the TV or movie off, etc. So you're supposed to feel things the character feels or even see yourself in them.
Sometimes feeling a close connection to something is just that: a connection and not part of our identity.
That is a possibility, yes. I say I'm a gubby fictionkin, when in reality, I don't know. I'm still questioning it. I might not be, sure, but at the same time there are times I see myself in him, I remember things that I didn't remember happening before I saw gubby. It's not in my control if I am or not, but it is in my control to figure myself out