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Your Fictional Doppelgänger

 
  

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Murray Hamhandler
19:45 / 05.08.02
Enough w/the personality tests. Now it's time for you to come up w/a fictional analogue for yourself by yourself. What fictional construct, for better or worse, is an apropos 2-D model of you?!?

I'm not sure if it's necessarily a good thing, but I related pretty heavily to Rob Gordon, from High Fidelity (played by John Cusack in the film). And I wasn't the only one who's noticed it, either. Practically everyone I know who's read the book or seen the movie pointed out the similarities between him and myself. I, too, am somewhat obsessive about my music collection. I, too, am wont to obsessively compile mix tapes as a mode of commmunication. I, too, tend to be somewhat on the self-absorbed side and have my fair share of wrecked relationships, often caused at least in part by my own actions or lack thereof and my seemingly intrinsic emotional immaturity. There's, you know, a lot more to it than that (as the above probably acutely sums up a good number of people, I'm sure), but it'd be easier to point out if you actually knew me IRL. And it's probably more like who I was when the movie first came out than who I am now, but still...

Anyway. Okay, kids. Your turn!
 
 
Persephone
20:29 / 05.08.02
*gloomily*

Husb seems to feel that Stitch, from Lilo and Stitch, strikingly resembles me.

But that is not why I am gloomy. I am gloomy because I just drove the car against the side of a truck & dented the whole side of the car.
 
 
gridley
20:46 / 05.08.02
Tubcat!
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
21:01 / 05.08.02
*also gloomily*

A friend of mine once told me, the girl from A Start in Life by Anita Brookner. Most depressing, and probably still fairly accurate.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
21:49 / 05.08.02
Bridget Jones.
 
 
the Fool
22:00 / 05.08.02
Human Traffic, the guy with the cockney accent. I forget what his name was. Everyone who saw it before me went, "Oooh, your in human traffic! Its an exact copy of you!". I thought this was crap, until I saw the movie.

He was a pretty accurate copy. He looked like me, acted like me, took drugs the same way as me. Looked sort of nervous like me. Even down to having a wank after a party. It was fairly disturbing actually.

Its probably part of the reason I grew a goatee.
 
 
Saint Keggers
04:05 / 06.08.02
Personality of Hawkeye Pierce; looks of Radar O'Reilly.
 
 
Stone Mirror
04:19 / 06.08.02
Gnossos Poppadopoulos, from Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me...
 
 
that
05:33 / 06.08.02
Daria.
 
 
Sax
06:06 / 06.08.02
No way! I wanted to bag Gnossos! Damn.

In that case, TS Garp.
 
 
Rage
06:21 / 06.08.02
Cross Brad Pitt's character from 12 Monkeys with Mila Jovovich's charcter from The Fifth Element, and BAM BAM. You've got a Ragel sandwich.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
06:54 / 06.08.02
The Host of the demon cabaret bar from 'Angel'.

Although he can sing and I can't.
 
 
Ariadne
07:37 / 06.08.02
Minnie the Minx.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
07:42 / 06.08.02
Ron Weasley grew up to be me (having first dyed his hair...)
 
 
Sax
07:46 / 06.08.02
I have a small plastic toy of Minnie the Minx on my computer monitor.
 
 
Ariadne
08:01 / 06.08.02
Seriously? that's a bit spooky. She's the image on my AIM screen too.
 
 
lentil
08:19 / 06.08.02
Yeah, well, I'm just like King fucking Mob I am! Yeah! Supercool badass world-saving sex god! With a scorpion!

No, sorry, I'll be serious. I actually am.... WOLVERINE!

Oh God, the self-delusion never stops... I can't think of a fictional character who's just like me at the moment. I'm reading "Crime and Punishment" and Raskolnikov is reminding me quite a lot of myself at ages 17-20, but hey, that was then.
 
 
Cat Chant
08:20 / 06.08.02
Bernard Black. My best friend, my mother, & people who barely know me all agree.
 
 
Seth
09:36 / 06.08.02
Ben Sisko from Deep Space Nine. We both bear grudges, are musicians, and have our lives toyed with by beings of infinte power. We both scrabble round in the dust of prophecies, grappling with how everything seems pre-ordained. We both see visions and wonder about whether we're imaginary characters. Our exteriors cunningly conceal a poiling pit of violence in our bellies, just waiting to come out. We're both wildly, uncontrollably obsessive, and both enjoy tinkering with shit for hours on end. We're both megalomaniacs. We both fight trinitarian clone races ruled by shapeshifting overlords whose allies consort with demons. We both have fucked up friends.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:42 / 06.08.02
Series 3 Avon, but I'm working on being series 1 Avon.

Everyone else seems to think I am either Francis or Henry from "the Secret History".
 
 
Sax
10:04 / 06.08.02
When I was a kid I used to want to be Terry from Brookside. True. I even had a perm.
 
 
Ariadne
10:15 / 06.08.02
Harriet The Spy - she was, and is, pretty much me.
 
 
Saveloy
10:32 / 06.08.02
That character in The Fast Show who can't make up his mind which side he's on:

A: "I think blah blah blah"
Me: "Spot on, mate. I've always said that."
B: "But what about wing wang woo?"
Me: "Ah, good point, yes, you're right. Cuh, stupid me!"
A: "Don't be daft, you can't ning nang nicky noo!"
Me: "Oh, of course not! B, what were we thinking?"
B: "Guh, the reason...etc"
Me: "Dead right! Can't argue with that."
 
 
imaginaryboy
11:23 / 06.08.02
Interestingly (&, perhaps, frighteningly), I've been compared to a number of fictional characters.

I've been told I'm like Chandler from "Friends", "only shorter & less neurotic." Another person told me I reminded them of Oz from "Buffy", except I know I'm not nearly that cool or laconic. ("It's more about the way you look at things.")

And some people have said that I look like Harry Potter. Hrm.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
12:52 / 06.08.02
Fucked if I know. I got given the Chandler thing once, but they're now supporting a freeway.

Hell, these things are better when other people do them for you. Suggestions?
 
 
Persephone
13:04 / 06.08.02
Rothkoid, I always think of you as Humphrey Bogart wearing a fez.
 
 
Trijhaos
13:06 / 06.08.02
Not a one. I can't point to a book or movie and say, "That character is just like me". I'm not sure if I should be happy about that or not.
 
 
Loomis
13:19 / 06.08.02
Don't know who you are now Rothkoid but you'll definitely grow up to be Ed Kuepper.

I've been compared oddly to people from Daniel Day Lewis to the blonde guy from Room with a View. Dunno why. Rothkoid likes to flatter me with references to Wyndham Lewis, but I think that's more because of Lewis's stratospheric level of bastardy rather than his artistic genius but I'll take what I can get ...

I think there's a great deal of me in the narrator of Zorba the Greek. Though I'm more of a combination of the "philosophical" narrator and the "life experience" Zorba, when I'm hanging out with friends who are truly Zorba, I feel like we're living a scene from the book, especially when we're eating olives and drinking wine and dancing on the beach.
 
 
Stone Mirror
13:32 / 06.08.02
Sax moans No way! I wanted to bag Gnossos! Damn.

Ya snooze, ya lose.

I was tempted to say "Citizen Pain from Violent Messiahs", but I just can't pull of the nine feet tall, five fee wide thing...

 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
13:50 / 06.08.02
Its a reasonably reguar thing that someone makes a Kristin Hersh comparison. without the musical ability, obviously.

Otherwise, a mishmash of the 3 protagonists of Generation X (the year that came out I recieved 3 copies for buthday, 2 for christmas. gah.)
 
 
Bill Posters
14:23 / 06.08.02
I am told I look like Satan (hang on, he's real so he doesn't count). I am told I look like the Joker. I am told I am like Withnail from the UK cult film Withnail and I, to which I am duty-bound to respond with, "What fucker said that?" My Uni mates used to say I was Henry from Donna Tartt's The Secret History, but that was only cos they'd not met Haus. The fictional person I really am like though is the lead feller in the UK TV series Teachers. When I was teaching last and I saw the programme stoned I'd have brief but intense moments of paranoia that someone had made a series about me without my permission or knowledge.

Even down to having a wank after a party. It was fairly disturbing actually.

Hang on there, did you're mum actually catch you though? Eeeewwwwwww!!!!!
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
14:27 / 06.08.02
Damn, I'm not like anyone, so I'm going to have to whip up a Mary-Sue and become rich and famous.

I'd probably like to see myself as BtVS Xander but don't even make it as far as Jesse...
 
 
bitchiekittie
14:29 / 06.08.02
Damn, I'm not like anyone

me too. I cant think of a single fictional character that Ive ever related to. I suppose that means Im too boring a personality to make a story about!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:48 / 06.08.02
An ex-girlfriend of mine, who's one of my best friends and probably knows me better than anyone in the world, phoned me while the first series of "Spaced" was on, and said "has it ever occurred to you... Tim's you?" I was somewhat taken aback.

Personally, I identify with the (unnamed) narrator in Martin Millar's "Ruby and the Stone Age Diet". For so many reasons.
 
 
Saveloy
14:56 / 06.08.02
That reminds me, I have been compared to Brian, the neurotic artist character from Spaced, by a couple of friends/ex-flatmates with big "ha-ha, I'm sorry but it's true" grins on their faces. F***ers.
 
  

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