06-22-2006, 11:00 AM
Well I did read science fiction, so that says geek, but I hung out with the oatcasts, so that says misfit.
But we weren't like the ND misfits; we liked to celebrate our outsider status. They were more like the people in school who walked around with their heads down and never spoke in class, the people who no one wanted to talk to, and who no one even bothered to harass.
And that makes me realize that we never see what the main characters are like AT ALL. They are more just collections of odd behaviors than personalities. So maybe people identify with the characters because they can imagine them to be however they wish?
But we weren't like the ND misfits; we liked to celebrate our outsider status. They were more like the people in school who walked around with their heads down and never spoke in class, the people who no one wanted to talk to, and who no one even bothered to harass.
And that makes me realize that we never see what the main characters are like AT ALL. They are more just collections of odd behaviors than personalities. So maybe people identify with the characters because they can imagine them to be however they wish?
the hands that guide me are invisible
