Identifying too much with a fictional character is never a good thing.
The simple reason - All fictional characters are screwed up.
In their own right.
Now if all fictional characters are screwed up, and these characters are but figments of the author's imagination, we can say that the author's imagination is screwed up. If the author's imagination is screwed up, part of his brain is screwed up, and since, seeing how brains function, you cannot have only a PART of your brain screwed up, therefore whole brain must be screwed up. Since we think, therefore we are, so if our brain is screwed up our thinking is screwed up, and so is our existence.
I really am quite bored. That made absolutely no sense I can't even construct a proper argument, with all the weak links and unsteady foundation this one has. I suppose there has to be fictional characters that aren't screwed up, now lets see. Hmm. Oh dear the "screwed up brain" seems to have shut down that thought branch as a defense mechanism against its screwed up logic.
Can you? Even Snow White had her moment of stupidity, Cinderella and Rapunzel had poor lots in life, The Three Little Pigs had to lose two houses, Aladdin longed for a love that had to be wished for by cosmic mystical genies, and Beauty and the Beast was a premature love story.
What happens after Happily Ever After? Does Snow White develop an irrational phobia for Apples? Does Cinderella become pampered and spoilt, after rising to riches from rags? Does Rapunzel ever cut her hair? Do the three little pigs suffer domestic violence? Can Aladdin deal with the inferiority complex that every street rat who marries a princess must go through?
And most saddening of all - What if Beauty doesn't love Beast anymore because he isn't hairy and scary? If you ask me Prince Charming looked really pussified. I liked Beast better. At least the Disney one. With the furry mane and the regal purple cloak. So much more majestic and dignified.
I'm rambling nonsense again.
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