Emotionally Invested in TV Characters

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    Does anyone else seem to get emotionally invested in TV characters that you relate to or those who you think you would really connect to in real life? First it was Bette and Tina on the L Word... now it's Lena and Stef on the Fosters. it seems I can only get interested in a show if I can connect to a character, but I get so upset when I finish watching TV shows and my emotions go crazy.
     
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    Absolutely lol, for me it's Arizona and Callie on Grey's Anatomy and now Arizona and Eliza since Callie left. Grey's Anatomy in general always gets me right in the feels though!
     
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    OMG, I thought this was just me and I was crazy (well, I kinda am but you know). So it's not just me? I know how Bette and Tina ends and I'm getting invested. I have pretty much stopped watching current TV because I can't handle the emotional ups and downs. Ross and Rachel on Friends, Niles and Daphne on Fraiser, countless ER storylines, etc. I handle it better if I know what I'm getting into ahead of time.
     
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    Two words. Can you guess them?
     
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    Not because I relate to her, but Carol from The Walking Dead is one of the main reason why I still watch the show. I saw her drastic transformation from a helpless widow to a badass woman and I still want to see her grow. I feel intense emotion when she's in trouble or when she's happy (because its rare to see her smile)
     
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    It's a very typical thing to do for people with high empathy.
     
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    I can't think of an actual TV show character that I can relate to on that level. Not sure if this counts because he's not a character but I'm in love with Danny Sexbang, I just love listening to him talk and I'm sad that I'll never meet him in real life.
     
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    I'm a writer, so I'm more likely to feel this way about my own characters....
     
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    I get waaay too attached to characters!! I could talk about my favourite tv shows and ships for houres :wink:
     
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    I try not to get too close to my characters, because it stops me from killing them if the story requires it.
     
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    The funny thing is that I've gotten close to mine and was still able to kill them :lol:

    Maybe I'm just that heartless.....
     
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    emily fields: pretty little liars
    books are way better than the show tho
     
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    I feel like I can see myself in some of these characters positions, or I have faced some of the things that they are facing and I wish I could be real life friends with these people... Even though I know they don't really exist in real life... But I feel like I relate to them better than I do people in real life.
     
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    honestly though, Im the exact same way
     
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    I get really emotionally invested in Grey's Anatomy characters, and I have full out sobbed over deaths and things like that. And if there is any opportunity to talk about that show I could do it for hours!!!
     
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    This is me as well. I get so invested in shows and characters that others get annoyed by how much I care about it.
     
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    Yeah my friends are probably very annoyed about me not being able to shut up about fictional characters!

    It's also one of the reason I've started question my sexuality, I was like, is it normal to be THAT invested in some queer storyline or every lesbian couple out there :wink:
     
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    Poussey from Orange is the New Black. 'Nuff said. :cry:
     
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    Yeah at least to the point I've bawled my eyes out watching anime

    Plus sometimes I unintentionally copy their mannerisms for a short time
     
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    Also a sign of high empathy! It's like starting to copy a person's dialect and/or speech mannerisms when you spend a lot of time around them.
     
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