Polar opposite or not?

Which one would you'd rather be: polar opposite or stay in character?

  • Polar opposite: take a look over the fence

    Votes: 2 50.0%

  • True nature: stay in character

    Votes: 2 50.0%
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    4
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Ton Lew Lepsnaci

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Following up on a thread (what character did you ever want to become):

if you could become a favorite character: would you rather go for a completely different personality (to take a look over the fence) or stay in character?
 
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Might I suggest Office Party for threads of this sort, as they don't really have anything to do with writing.
 
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I'm going with polar opposite and Gail Wynand again, except that I'm like Gail Wynand in some ways*, so it would be a little of both.


* Good in bed, for example. ;)
 
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IdiotsRUs said:
I'm confuddled (not hard to do)

If I stayed in character, surely I'd be me?
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Mmmh the poll might not be well formulated. It came from a discussion on a different thread, querying whether readers ever identified so much with a character they wished they could be them at one point. Then the question arose whether the identification might be with characters close to one's own personality or perhaps someone with a (very) different personality. Maybe I should pull the plug on this one (if possible) and relaunch once I find a better formulation :)
 

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Ton Lew Lepsnaci said:
Mmmh the poll might not be well formulated. It came from a discussion on a different thread, querying whether readers ever identified so much with a character they wished they could be them at one point. Then the question arose whether the identification might be with characters close to one's own personality or perhaps someone with a (very) different personality. Maybe I should pull the plug on this one (if possible) and relaunch once I find a better formulation :)
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When I identify with a character, it's because I already am pretty much like that character. Only the details of the situations they're in are different.
 
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Jamesaritchie said:
When I identify with a character, it's because I already am pretty much like that character. Only the details of the situations they're in are different.
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I guess that would be the case for me too, though sometimes a character can extend character traits to such purity it must be a unique experience to view things through their eyes.
 
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