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Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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December posting meme time! cosmic_llin asked "If you had to swap lives with a fictional character forever, who would you choose? (Bonus question, how do you think they would do at living your life?)".
This question required a lot of thinking about! The thing about the characters I love is that generally their lives involve quite a lot of peril, and also require them to be competent and physically capable and all that sort of thing, and I am not really good at any of that: if I swapped lives with Buffy, for instance, I'd be hiding in a corner within about twenty minutes. (Unless I would magically get all her skills and confidence too, in which case... sign me up!) So that ruled out quite a lot of characters. I thought about swapping with Naomi Wildman, because then I'd get to live in space and hang out with Seven of Nine, but I'm not sure how I'd deal with the "stuck in the Delta Quadrant" thing. And then it occurred to me - Dawn Summers! OK, still a certain amount of peril, but if we assume she settled into the research girl role she took up in season seven... yeah, I'd like that. Saving the world by looking stuff up! Plus, hanging out with the Buffy gang, that would be fun. I'd have to go back to school, but let's be honest, I'd be fine with that. More learning! And I'd automatically become a lot wittier if I were a Buffy character, right? That's how it works?
As to how she'd do at my life... I think she'd enjoy the break, at least at first. Not sure how she'd deal with being transplanted from nice warm California to a freezing Bristolian basement, though...
cosmic_llin asked "If you had to swap lives with a fictional character forever, who would you choose? (Bonus question, how do you think they would do at living your life?)".This question required a lot of thinking about! The thing about the characters I love is that generally their lives involve quite a lot of peril, and also require them to be competent and physically capable and all that sort of thing, and I am not really good at any of that: if I swapped lives with Buffy, for instance, I'd be hiding in a corner within about twenty minutes. (Unless I would magically get all her skills and confidence too, in which case... sign me up!) So that ruled out quite a lot of characters. I thought about swapping with Naomi Wildman, because then I'd get to live in space and hang out with Seven of Nine, but I'm not sure how I'd deal with the "stuck in the Delta Quadrant" thing. And then it occurred to me - Dawn Summers! OK, still a certain amount of peril, but if we assume she settled into the research girl role she took up in season seven... yeah, I'd like that. Saving the world by looking stuff up! Plus, hanging out with the Buffy gang, that would be fun. I'd have to go back to school, but let's be honest, I'd be fine with that. More learning! And I'd automatically become a lot wittier if I were a Buffy character, right? That's how it works?
As to how she'd do at my life... I think she'd enjoy the break, at least at first. Not sure how she'd deal with being transplanted from nice warm California to a freezing Bristolian basement, though...