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thread explaining my comfort characters
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'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'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'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's so important to me that she'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's major general olivier mira armstrong from fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood. she's my first comfort character that i can remember, and i first watched the show the summer before 8th grade.
she'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's a character i take great comfort in. firstly, he'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're different and weird. i didn'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'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'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. +
this was the time period of the worst abuse from them, and i'm not sure that if i hadn't watched glee if i would've survived it. so i'm thankful for kurt every day and that's why i'm so defensive of him specifically. also i want his relationship with burt pls.
