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Before a character I have just recently created, I would have said that I feel like I identify with either Commodore Norrington or Alia Atreides (Frank Herbert's Dune). Alia sort of became a character I identified with because I played her since before I played so many other of my characters, and also because, in the Dune Universe, she is a character who is preborn, meaning that she was awakened to consciousness in the womb, with the memories of all her ancestors before her. And...she can sort of interact with them. While that certainly never happened to me, I identify in an almost reverse way. All my characters (all of them, including the nasty ones) have character traits that come from me, that can be identified with me. In my case, I simply like to associate some of those with other characters instead of me. And, in any given situation that I am in, I know exactly how my characters would react. Mostly from the different decisions I'm torn between. Mostly, I think this is the reason I've stuck with the moniker Alia online.

For James Norrington, a fellow RPer of mine said that when I said things (probably more accurately wrote them), and such, they could tell it was a completely Norrington decision or thing to say. I think I may have started out where Norrington was more separate personality-wise from me, but over time his reactions have grown closer to mine, and I think maybe even mine to his (my version of him anyway, no two Norrington Rpers seem to agree on such things). For most of my characters, I have to sort of "summon" them, put myself in their place, and really think about how they react, but with Norrington, it's really automatic now. I don't need to think what he would do. And most of the time, it is what I would do if in the same situation (barring all the awful stuff I put him in because I think it would force him to make really horrible painful decisions to make).

My newest character is a philologist, which is the roots of where my profession really began, so...in terms of interests professionally, his are exactly the same as mine. Well...perhaps not exactly, but the reactions he gives to hearing new bits of language I imagine will certainly mirror my own.