fannish 5 - identification

[rivendellrose]

Today's fannish5, gacked from nolivingman: Name five characters that you identify with the most.

Only five? *Pout* Oh, fine...

1. Dana Scully. Cynical, snarky, occasionally ill-tempered, a rational mind who still has the ability to believe deeply in things beyond the knowledge of science. Just... you know... nothing Mulder believes in.

2. Morwen from the Enchanted Forest chronicles. A practical, plain-thinking, straight-minded witch who loves cats and has a grudging fondness for men who are entirely too academic for their own well-being. Infinitely more tidy than I could ever be, though.

3. Jenny Calendar. I empathize intensely with the one who tries really hard to figure things out, gets flustered, and never quite has all the necessary information. Also, I need someone as cluttered and messed up as me to fill out these intensely sane girls early on in the list.

4. Susan Ivanova. Love's bitch to the Nth degree, in addition to being everything I said about Scully. I more than recognize her tendency to back off the instant somebody starts getting close, and the way she grumbles and gripes. Also, the fact that there isn't enough coffee or liquor in the world, sometimes. And being canonically bi endeared her to me immensely.

5. Elphaba, AKA the Wicked Witch of the West. Not just because I made this icon last night. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, your better nature just isn't good enough to keep you safe.

Honorable Mentions: Zoe Alleyne-Washburne, River Tam (yes, really), Eowyn, and just, occasionally, Buffy Summers. It's the size thing. I can't help identifying with someone my own exact size, particularly once you throw in snark, relationship issues, abandonment issues and... well, pretty much all the non-slayer-related issues, really. I can identify with Issues. ;)

Back to the writing.

Comments

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

I like Jenny Calendar a lot. I was so bummed out by what happened to her.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I've kind of felt like a dork, because I completely adored her (even knowing what was going to happen), and since seeing "Passion" have been on a somewhat psychotic quest to write fic that brings her back. I'm about 3/4 of the way through with the darned thing, and it's been eating my brain for months.

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

That is a fic I'd really enjoy reading. And I suppose I am beating a dead horse if I again say how bummed I am that Joss needs to destroy good couples.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

You can bet it'll be up here when it's done - I'm glad at least one person other than my roommate will want to read it! ;)

Beat that horse all you want - I'm right there with you. I love Joss, and I think he's one of the best writers in television, but I really do wish that just once he could leave a good couple together.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

I want to hear the blurbs on the Honorable Mentions--if you want to type them!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

You betcha! ♥

Zoe: I always kind of feel connected to the rational, sane one of the bunch. Even if I'm not that, I always feel like I have to at least pretend to be.

River: Part of this might be the size thing (Joss likes his tiny heroines, and I like them, too!), but sometimes I feel exactly that kind of crazy - the random, the way things make sense to me that don't make sense to other people necessarily, and not being able to express what I mean. I'm nowhere near that kickass, but I identify with the feeling of not being in control of oneself and one's actions all the time, too.

Buffy: I guess I already said a lot of what makes me identify with Buffy. We're both small blondes, exactly the same height and roughly the same build, but the bigger thing is that I really get the desperation, the feeling like she has to be the responsible one (to the point of apologizing to her mom that she can't make the monsters go away), wanting someone else to take care of things, and always being afraid that the people she cares about are going to disappear on her.