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my most recent comfort character is morgana from bbc merlin. i relate heavily to her abuse, how often she would experience abuse after standing up for her morals and was punished for this yet she stayed strong. this is often how i& #39;ve experienced abuse from my parents, +
so seeing how strong she is has meant the world. i also heavily find comfort because she is queercoded, and a lot of what she says about having magic resonates with me as a lesbian, which is why lesbian morgana is so important to me. +
she means the world to me, and while i didn& #39;t live with my systemic oppressors i did live with homophobic people and she helped me be strong enough to survive until i could get out.
my next character is lexa from the 100. she is similar to my other comfort characters, but what makes her different to me is that she& #39;s a strong and powerful lesbian. i relate to her as a canon lesbian, and while i hc all my comfort characters as lesbians, +
it& #39;s so important to me that she& #39;s a canon lesbian. of course it did fucking hurt when she was killed, but her strength and power and mean dyke energy gave me the strength to be a mean dyke irl.
the next one is a bit more obscure but it& #39;s major general olivier mira armstrong from fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood. she& #39;s my first comfort character that i can remember, and i first watched the show the summer before 8th grade.
she& #39;s very similar to lexa in why i find comfort in her because shes a strong woman who is powerful and yields to no one. in middle school i was heavily bullied, and especially my eighth grade year i pulled a lot of strength from her. +
i would tell myself to be strong and be like her when i was hurting, and this technique has not gone away and it did help me survive more of the abuse i had to endure my freshman year of high school.
the one that is the most out of place here is kurt from glee but he& #39;s a character i take great comfort in. firstly, he& #39;s pretty heavily bullied in the show and i watched glee for the first time at the beginning of my freshman year of high school. +
i heavily related to being bullied because you& #39;re different and weird. i didn& #39;t fit in and at some points that was a point of defiance for me, so i related that it was for him too. +
i& #39;m also a person with intensely strong passions and dreams like kurt, and at the time especially i was very involved with theater at my high school. +
when i watched glee, that time was some of the worst in my life. i lost the girl who made me realize i& #39;m a lesbian bc her parents are homophobic and stopped us from talking. she went to a different high school so we only reconnected recently. +
that had a large impact on me as well as during that period my parents were convinced that my sexuality was a phase and i was confused and were trying to force me to come out to my grandparents in order for me to exist as a lesbian at school. +
