Who Do You Relate To?

[star-warrior]

Calvin's dad. I see the Spiff in my child.

 

[FirePhoenix]

Well the Borg of course

Nah I think really when I was a kid I remember watching x-men on tv and thinking wow I felt like some of them did.. always feeling like a weird and strange person who no "normal" person wanted to be around. never really just one though, so maybe that doesn't count but thats mine.

 

[Treborf]

Hamlet. I was shocked by how completely I related to him when I read it, seeing as everyone regards him as a pathetic fellow.

 

[BFizzle]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Cherry Darling from Grindhouse.

 

[BFizzle]

Mariah Carey.

Get your lols out. I'm a fan, was hugely into her during my teens.

Now make no mistake, I don't claim that being a fan of hers makes me know her personally or anything. She's just written things about herself that I've connected with. Specifically these two things:





I battled a lot of depression when I was younger and the major feeling that I felt (which I hadn't yet learned to embrace) was the feeling of being on the outside. I'm still on the outside. I've just learned to embrace it a hell of a lot.

I realize now that any number of artists are recording songs about not fitting in and that Mariah is simply the one whose music I love, but that's someone I felt close to during my teens.

That's actually quite beautiful. I relate to Britney Spears in the same way.

 

[birddog7]

Charlie Brown. Like me, he's a downtrodden, insecure, loser who's been picked at, and maligned all his life.

 

[birddog7]

^

Not to pick on you or anything, but I'm amazed at your consistency and dedication to being miserable. Come on, lighten up!

I just tell it like it is...

 

[JayHawk]

Robert A Heinlein

Between his sense of duty and service and his incredible imagination I felt I always identified with his main characters and their sense of right and wrong. Then after reading "Tramp Royale" where he relays his perception of the world and his travels I could easily compare myself and my thoughts. An amazing man... I hope I have the desire and will to write after I finish doing this navy gig.

You know i dont know if I identify more with him or was influenced more by Heinlein....

 

[altlover85]

When I was a kid, I related to Cyclops from the X-Men TV show because he wore the visor (I wore glasses) and he used his brain to solve things. Wolverine always seemed to aggressive to me.

I also used to relate to Charles Wallace Murry from A Wrinkle In Time because he was intelligent, shy, and small, just like I was when I was a kid.

Recently I've related to Hyperion from the comic book mini-series Squadron Supreme who had a great idea for a utopia, but who used questionable means to get there. I've often wondered if the end (ends?) justifies the means and that miniseries provided ideas for me to ponder. If you like comics, I recommend it.

 

[Fe-Rod]

Dexter

I'm not a murderer but I tend not to show my true emotions just like he does. Also, he is always trying to be someone he is not for the world to accept him and that's the same way I feel.

 

[kevbo]

Tom Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie

Actually, Tennessee Williams in general...

 

[Lube]

I think we need a lot of hugs and kisses in this thread--so many of us felt like outsiders.

I also used to relate to Charles Wallace Murry from A Wrinkle In Time because he was intelligent, shy, and small, just like I was when I was a kid.

I love that book! I have to admit I furtively bought it as an adult so I could re-read it.

I remember in 4th grade (early 1970's) our teacher read us a couple books that I wish I could remember the name of. I remember parts of them so vividly. It seems like 4th graders would be kind of old to be read to, but I think she took books aimed at older kids (teens) and read selective parts of them to us.

One book was about werewolves and I think the main character was a kid who maybe turned into a werewolf? They were always trudging through swamps it seemed. I somehow related to him.

Another book with a main character that was picked on. I remember this because at one point the teacher was reading and suddenly stopped, and we realized she was about to read something she didn't want us to hear. Of course a friend and I went to the public library and looked the book up, and it was something about bullies pissing in this poor kid's shoes. I can really relate to someone who was constantly picked on, that's for sure.

I stood out like a sore thumb in my family.

 

[Ryuukie]

The poet Dante being lost in the dark woods.

 

[NineOfClubs]

Robert A Heinlein

Between his sense of duty and service and his incredible imagination I felt I always identified with his main characters and their sense of right and wrong. Then after reading "Tramp Royale" where he relays his perception of the world and his travels I could easily compare myself and my thoughts. An amazing man... I hope I have the desire and will to write after I finish doing this navy gig.

You know i dont know if I identify more with him or was influenced more by Heinlein....

Seems so cheap to say "me too", but I must.

Heinlein and Ayn Rand made me into what I am.

 

[MarquisOrias]

The two main starlets from the movie Lost and Delirious. It's the only movie that's jammed itself in my brain and never let go, despite the fact I am male.

When I was younger, I felt like Tori (I liked boys but I would never be public or open about it or even admit to myself that I was gay), but now I'm more like Pauly (love is love and it doesn't matter what's their gender).

Beautiful coming of age movie.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

Several of our recent discussions have led to me wanting to post this question:

What being(s) fictional or non-fictional have you found yourself relating to over your lifetime? What qualities have drawn you to them?

World spend much time ignore fa eons

so no point say

-

SALUTES!!!!!

 

[castoono]

Great topic and great idea. There go I:

BRAD DAVIS.
My all-time hero, whenever I liked something there he was, all intense, gay-inclined, small but beautiful, for a long time he was for me the face of America. When he passed away I felt that a family member of mine had gone.

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST.
My first contact with music was this annual competition where you could hear people singing different languages, dressing funny and you could make your bets and state the political alliances. Now they call it Eurovision Gay Contest, because many european gays relate to it.

Spain winning Eurovision in 1968


THE VISION.
When I was little, I came across Marvel Classics, the Avengers were my favourite, but above them all, this straight android, married to a witch.
He had a different mood than the other too-right winged superguys.

JEAN GENET.
With Walt Whitman and Samuel Beckett, my life-time guidance summums.

FASSBINDER.
My first times on Cinema alone, surrounded by dangerous adults, with naked men on screen, speaking about homosexuality and crime.
Dreadfully exciting.

BILLY JOEL.
His soft voice and unpretentious works, helped me out when I was learning English.
Most beloved for me, from then on.
Really beats me the low critics consideration he's got at home.

 

[TickTockMan]

Justin Furstenfeld (of Blue October)
Chris Nielsen (What Dreams May Come)
Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)
Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
Ben Cooper (Cooper and Fry novels)

Because we are much alike.

 

[blackbeltninja]

Non-fictional: I relate to my mom.
I tried to match my personality and spirit as close to hers as possible. She's really the strongest, most resilient person I've ever had the good fortune to know.

Likewise.

Famous and fictional people: most days I feel like Basil Fawlty, if I'm honest.

-d-

 

[Latimer]

The poet Dante being lost in the dark woods.

Why Dante? I see that your avatar image is of Virgil and Dante from Bouguereau's "Dante and Virgil in Hell", to my eye his most erotic painting, in which the two poets observe the intense and passionate struggle between two beautifully muscled men in the fifth circle of hell...