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Which character best represents your personality? [W:78]

Summerwind

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Just exactly that. Given the wide range of characters in tv and movies, who would you say is the closest character to your own personality? I would like to exclude characters that only exist on the written page, since those are much more up to interpretation, whereas those on screen are interpreted and presented uniformly to all. Also is this the character you would have picked for yourself ten years ago, or twenty, or....

I think it's best here to discuss yourself and not try to equate other members. Clearly I have no control over that, but the intent is for us to discuss ourselves, not jab at others.

One other question might be, which characters would you most like to cohabitate with and how has that changed?
 
Summerwind said:
Just exactly that. Given the wide range of characters in tv and movies, who would you say is the closest character to your own personality? I would like to exclude characters that only exist on the written page, since those are much more up to interpretation, whereas those on screen are interpreted and presented uniformly to all. Also is this the character you would have picked for yourself ten years ago, or twenty, or....

I think it's best here to discuss yourself and not try to equate other members. Clearly I have no control over that, but the intent is for us to discuss ourselves, not jab at others.

One other question might be, which characters would you most like to cohabitate with and how has that changed?
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10 years ago I would have said John Galt. These days I feel more like a Rayland Givens:
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We even carry the same gun and check out that finger discipline, it just screams "I'm your Huckleberry"
 
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Lachean said:
10 years ago I would have said John Galt. These days I feel more like a Rayland Givens:

We even carry the same gun and check out that finger discipline, it just screams "I'm your Huckleberry"
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I think you missed the point of the questions. So are you saying you behave like that character does, and you think like he does, and respond to people and situations as he does? I didn't mean who you "feel" like being. Perhaps you do mean it that way, but just because all three of us carry (well I'm not allowed to carry in CA, but I do every where else I've been) the same gun and know how to use it properly doesn't really mean all three of us have that character's personality.
 
Summerwind said:
I think you missed the point of the questions. So are you saying you behave like that character does, and you think like he does, and respond to people and situations as he does? I didn't mean who you "feel" like being. Perhaps you do mean it that way, but just because all three of us carry (well I'm not allowed to carry in CA, but I do every where else I've been) the same gun and know how to use it properly doesn't really mean all three of us have that character's personality.
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It's funny to me that I thought that I was an evolving person and always getting more experienced and wiser. Of late, well, the last ten years or so, I find that most of the "evolving' that I had convinced myself was happening was only a system of avoidance in which the questions that used to occupy me were pushed to the side by the priorities and immediacies of the day.

I was as a child, adolescent and young adult a questioner of the things around me that others seemed to already know. I was then befuddled by the challenges of just knowing others. I find now that the quests of maturing and gaining the modest securities that age and luck may give that I am not in possession of any of the answers that thought I might have and that I am befuddled by the challenges of just knowing others.

That preamble is to justify this choice of mine.

While I am by no means a genius or even very smart, I am befuddled by the complexities involved in knowing others and by the things that others find to be insulting or why people are compelled to drive after those things that they do. I am impressed by those who navigate these questions with ease and gratified when they help me to see those things that are just not accessible to me.

Because of this, I would say Sheldon Cooper.
 
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Down, but never out... until the end.

EDIT: Close second is from Little Big Man

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Been there, done that... (almost)
 
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As much as I hate to admit it, I've always had a bit of a thing for villains (hence my Avatar). :lol:

While I can see some pretty definite similarities between myself and "egotistical schemer" characters like Loki, and the like, I think the one I'm probably closest to would be Walter White.

I'm not unreasonable or fundamentally mean spirited by any stretch of the imagination, but I do have a bit of an ego (and a temper, if we're being honest), and it can occasionally lead me towards irrational and self-destructive behavior. I try to keep this in check as best I can. :)
 
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Gathomas88 said:
I'm not unreasonable or fundamentally mean spirited by any stretch of the imagination, but I do have a bit of an ego (and a temper, if we're being honest), and it can occasionally lead me towards irrational and self-destructive actions. I try to keep this in check as best I can. :)
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Haha- you just answered your question regarding the dream. :lol:
 
lizzie said:
Haha- you just answered your question regarding the dream. :lol:
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Maybe so. :lol:

Frankly, I always found the Gov from the walking Dead to be sort of intriguing as well. Minus the blatant psychosis, of course, I actually do have some similarities with the character; especially in how he was portrayed in the first couple of episodes he showed up in before going completely off the wall.

I've had several people tell me that I posses a kind of reserved "even keeled pleasantness" in my public demeanor which might very well bely a little something more under the surface.
 
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Somewhere between Jules and Fonzie.
When I tell my medic students "be like Fonzie"-they dont always know what that means.
So they get to see this clip.

 
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Somewhere between Jules and Fonzie. When I tell my medic students "be like Fonzie"-they dont always know what that means. So they get to see this clip.
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Jules from which show/movie? Only one I can think of off hand is the one in Flashpoint, I doubt that's the one.
 
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