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// characters I carry. mirrors and otherwise.
These are the characters — from fiction, mythology, games, wherever they live — that I feel some inexplicable kinship with. They are not aspirations or ideals. They are recognitions.
The intensity markers below are a loose measure of closeness, not a ranking of the works themselves.
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A few sentences about why you kin this character. What in them you recognise in yourself. Be honest or be poetic — both are valid.
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What they carry that you recognise. The particular quality of their damage, or their hope, or the way they move through the world.
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Some characters you kin at full intensity from the first moment. Others creep up on you across years of rereading until you can't remember not knowing them.
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The complicated ones — the ones you see yourself in while wishing you didn't. That's kinship too.