Question: What do the Guardian characters remind you of?

[mekare]

Or: how have you been primed via previous characters to fall for them?

For me it definitely was the dynamic between them that made it inevitable to fall in love. It reminds me so strongly of two previous (and current) fandoms:

Batman/Superman
Benton Fraser/Ray

Aka duty,justice,reservedness, loneliness, sacrifice tendencies, quasi-superpowers + sunny nature, quick wit, big open heart, Notice Me behaviour/wheedling

With both parts partly hiding behind masks, personas.

What about you?

Btw, Guo Changcheng reminds me so strongly of Sailor Moon in the first episodes. And Zhao Yunlan's sprawling reminded me strongly of John Sheppard.

Comments

[rheasilvia]

Yes, absolutely. Even characters who do share a lot of traits with others are unique - or definitely should be, at any rate. ;-) It'd actually be impossible to create a character who didn't share many traits with others!

Still, I think that similarities to other characters are just not something I look for in the way you describe. Regardless of how many traits characters who've caught my eye share with others, they won't actually remind me of anyone.

I've been trying to think of an instance where I've thought "oh hey, character A from B is a lot like character Y from Z", but literally the only cases I can think of have been in CLAMP canon crossovers where the authors re-use characters as alternate universe versions of themselves. :-)