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20. Who are your top three favorite fictional characters and why?

ooc: fff-- do you want me to write novels or should I try and condense this into something coherent because I don't even know but ok, wow, I know a lot of fictional characters by now so I want to start with the least-obvious and just.. work my way down to whatever is obvious.

Rick Deckard -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner. Ok, so this character was probably the first character I ever really properly bonded with when it came to re-imagining characters in my head from reading. Philip K.Dick, if anyone doesn't know, was an american novelist/philosopher/etc who is really well known for his sci-fi stuff and.. DADOES was and still is a novel which fascinates me. Rick is the main character of the story and there is just so much to talk about. It's set in this post-apocalyptic world where most of humanity (the privileged) have left earth and are living happily elsewhere, but the ones who are left are suffering under a copious amount of suffering and are being crushed under the ever-increasing weight of kipple. If anyone has seen Bladerunner, it was a loose adaptation of the novel starring Harrison Ford as bounty-hunter Rick Deckard, as he chases down six runaway cyborgs that threaten society. In the book however, it goes through so many themes that I gush over and Rick himself becomes the embodiment of all these things. Realty vs Unreality. Empathy vs Apathy. Mental Deficiency. The Indivudual vs the Collective. Rick questions all these things whilst questioning what it means to be human and discovers that humanity itself is some intangible thing that can exist within anything that bears any semblance of empathy. Rick himself starts off as a character that lacks it, and at one point I believed him to be an android, but I think his existence was to prove that even humans can lack human traits, or what we deem to be "human traits", that can exist in things which are not meant to be human at all.

Makishima Shogo -- Psycho Pass. Shogo is my other muse albeit I have not been able to do much with him due to the fandom being so small and my own struggle with balancing work with my recreational time. Maybe I am a little biased, for Shogo himself is captivated by the works of Philip K.Dick, and is also fond of another favourite writer of mine: Marcel Proust. When I first watched Psycho Pass 2 years ago, I instantly fell in love with this character. Maybe it was a mixture of some strange sense of familiarity because of what he was interested in, but also because I empathized with him to the point I was in tears by the end. I fear the world that he lives in. I fear the world becoming that way, where we lose our value because we have so many extensions of ourselves that transform us into something beyond human, but at the same time it intrigues me so damn much. I found Shogo to be another avatar of this sort of dystopian world. I could connect with his speeches and tag parts of the series which resembled something from one of the many novels that he carried with him-- AND I DUNNO MAN I GUSH SO MUCH ABOUT SHOGO.

Genesis Rhapsodos -- Final Fantasy. OK SO THIS WAS OBVIOUS. Why would I write a character that is not my favourite? I don't really want to let this become any more long-winded than it already is, but Genesis really stuck out for me despite how many people within the fandom and beyond actually don't like him. I have a terrible bias for bookworm characters that contain some instinctive knowledge of the great unknown that my brain just HAS TO pick apart for my own pleasure. On the outside I think most people see him as some babbling jackass that reads bad poetry, and he is, but with my own exploration of him and my own attempts at filling in all the holes in the canon, I feel as if I've shaped him into something which I consider to be a lot more fleshed out from what we perceive on the get-go. He's intelligent, manipulative, and is someone who will ask the impossible question when everyone else will shy away from things they are too scared to understand. I guess you could find this trait in both Shogo and Rick, but I think Genesis is a lot more forceful and a lot more aggressive with his philosophies and the fact he does not want to die and merely wanted to be free of this terminal illness just wraps him in this gushy mushy aura of tragedy that I eat for breakfast.

バカ Chris.: It was Spira vs Assholandia.

It was a grueling fight.

Both sides gave everything they had.

But Spira kept dominating.

Knocking Assholandia down to the ground. Givin’ ‘em the one, two. One, two. One, two.

Until finally.

On the hills of Mount Gagazet.

A lone troop of Assholandia by the name of Don Blackfoot strode proudly into enemy territory.

He took everything Spira had to give and asked for more. Came back for more, my friend!

Like a stone statue. Like a tree that wouldn’t budge against a hurricane. He kept fightin’. He kept standin’. He kept a-runnin’.

He met the opposing army at the Calm Lands, and he won.

He took on their chocobos, and he won.

He stode into the hive of Luca with his head held high, met the enemy at the blitzball stadium, and he won.

And Old Don Blackfoot went to meet the commander, El Mohon, at the infamous Thunder Plains.

Oh, it was a fierce battle. Some say it lasted for a week with neither side giving a break.

But on that final day, under the intense rainfall…

Don Blackfoot, beaten, bruised, and bloody, climbed up the highest point in the flames, held all of Spira’s Sigils in his hand, and ROARED in triumph as the heavens cheered, as the thunder chanted his name.