denim

I was going to say my current favorite is Miles Vorkosigan, but NOT if you insist on "someone who's life you'd like to live" because I wouldn't. He spends entirely too much time on the sick list, or getting ready to go back on the sick list.

Someone whose life I'd like to live? Maybe Doctor Dolittle or a member of the Long family other than Lazarus. The problem with the Real Heroic Characters is that they get beat on a lot. That's what makes them heroic. It's the old Chinese curse: may you live in interesting times. They're fun to read about, but not to live in. And it follows for the most interesting people, for the same reason.

I don't know about you people, but I think that, even with all my own problems, I wouldn't give up my life for anyone else's. You don't know how another person really is until you are them. For instance, I expect that Bill Gates spends a lot of his time stressing out about what to do next. If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't, but he built that fortune so I doubt he can stop thinking in the sense of continuing that way.

If you don't want to look that deeply at it, maybe Storm or ... (smirk) Mistique. Yeah. Mistique could be a fun person to be, even with all her anger. NOT Spiderman. Even with all his smarts, he acts like a total idiot too often for my liking.

I really like the idea of being one of the Long family other than Lazarus, especially Hilda. Yeah. Hilda's the bomb, though being Zed might be slightly better.