Describe Yourself Using an Amalgam of Fictional Characters

[Will]

In the interest of community building and general merriment, this thread is here in order for you to present various aspects of your personality that are similar to characters in fiction, be they in a book, magazine, comic book, tv, movie, or internet. Be sure to explain WHY you are represented by this personality. Otherwise it's just boring.

I'll begin:
I believe I'm a combination of Jack Bristow from Alias, Hank Moody from Californication, Bill Gorton from The Sun Also Rises, Don Quixote, and Dr. Strangelove.

Jack Bristow, for those who may not be familiar, was a character on the TV show Alias. He was best known as a bit of a maverick when it came to game theory. He loved games and puzzles and was very capable. While I don't like to brag, I am pretty good at solving things and reasoning things out. I suspect this is a trait many on HAF share.

Hank Moody is the melancholy main character on Showtime's Californication. He's a writer who is separated from his wife and seems to have this wonderfully dark and yet honest take on life. He's so in his own head, though, that he has trouble living life in a consistent and conventionally normal way. I see this mirroring my response to the unbearable lightness of being that comes from the separation from religion. Once the umbilical was cut, I had to piece together a makeshift perception and from time to time that means not being on the same wavelength as everyone around me. Still, I know it'll be okay because I love and do my best.

The Sun Also Rises is by far my favorite book of all time. My favorite character, and the one that represents a very particular side of me, is Bill Gorton. I've never been the anchor of any of the social circles I've run in. I'm not the life of the party, I suppose, but I'm usually not only the wingman to that person and I mange by simply being me to keep them from tipping over or going too far. Not only that, but I never end up falling for obvious women. Far be it from me to say I'm not attracted to them, but more often than not they lack that certain something I need. I'm not sure why, but I feel like those two traits are linked in some way.

Don Quixote, eternally tilting at windmills, represents my inexcusable optimism and playfulness. I had to grow up rather early in life due to certain circumstances, but that gave my inner child the opportunity to meet and develop a healthy relationship with my adult persona. This helps to maintain a positive outlook even when my pragmatic side says otherwise, which inevitably lends itself to helping to offset my inner Hank Moody. I won't bore you with fluffy statements about how life should be balanced, but combining playfulness with heavy philosophical melancholy makes for a rather unique outlook, I think.

Ah Dr. Strangelove. Strangelove represents that hint of madness that I've occasionally had to face. It's not a dark side per se, but it can manifest as rather alarming thoughts. I'm constantly proposing bizarre hypothetical situations to myself, not unlike that of the 1000AD thread, and working my way through them. Sometimes I do it without even thinking. Not only that, but somewhere along the way my innate requirement for proof developed into mistrust, which develops occasionally into paranoia. It's nothing serious, mind you, but some might see doing 4 weeks of research before allowing my girlfriend's daughter to get a flue shot as a bit excessive.

So there's a big slice of me.

[Asmodean]

I'm more or less Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy VII games/movies on a normal day (I'm not too fond of using my own voice so I compensate by posting  

[Will]

PERFECT, that's exactly what I was hoping for. I look forward to further posts.

[MommaSquid]

Color me with bits of…

Edith Bunker for her ditzy behaviour, quiet wisdom and unfailing love…


Angelina Jolie for her fearlessness and love of tattoos, her children and hot men…

And famed pirate Mary Read, a tough woman surviving in a man’s world (Yes, I have been known to dress as a pirate wench for the renaissance festival.)



I am also uniquely my own woman.  Just when hubby thinks he's got me figured out.....



Edit:  Yes, I know Angelina Jolie is a real person, and not a fictional character.  But since I only "know" her via her public persona, I figured 'what the heck'.

[myleviathan]

Here goes...

[afreethinker30]

Claire Fisher (from Six Feet Under)  We both have a great love of art.She is crafty ,as I try to be.And shy but speaks her mind when she is being taken advantage of.

Vicky Robeson (Children of the Corn) Trapped in a small town of freakish religious children.Adults to in my case.Always searching for a way out.And I'm surrounded by corn,which makes it all the more freakish!

Any and all objects and people on The Mighty Boosh. I see the lighter side of things.Have a odd sense of humor.Am known to change clothing style almost daily.And tend to be a bit obsessive when it comes to keeping things in their rightful place.