Have you ever read a novel, comic, manga, watched a movie, play, TV show etc., and you found yourself invested in a side character? Ever cared for and felt more intrigued by that side character than the mains? If so, what character was it and what are some.things that make you so interested in them?
When I was playing Resident Evil 2 as a kid, I was really invested in Sherry, the kind of annoying, little girl side character that you have to escort around.
The fact that this zombie apocalypse game trojan-horsed a family drama into its plot was fun, and 12 year old me, who always picked the boy character when playing Pokemon, because I felt like I had to, was confronted with a lot of confusing feelings when RE2 made me play as Sherry.
Anyway, I’m Transgender now.
Alex Louis Armstrong in Full Metal Alchemist. He was such a kind soul in a cruel world. He gets treated like shit fairly often and he is very earnest in his affection towards Elric Brothers, maybe too earnest.
I’ll keep an eye for him. I just started FMA last night. I’m a whopping two episodes in.
It’s an incredible anime. One of the best, imo.
Hell yeah - FMA has so many good side characters!
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Astrid from Fringe. She’s just the nicest person in the show and cool and smart. It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly, she’s just an extremely likeable character. And watching it more than once, it’s actually sad how little she really got to do in the show. She barely gets a backstory.
Also, I don’t know if it counts but in Walking Dead it felt like all of my favourites were side characters because all of my favourites died. I actually stopped watching after season 5 because both of my top favourite characters got killed within episodes of each other and I just didn’t really have a reason to keep watching. Everyone that was left was an asshole.
I love Asterisk!
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Four Weddings and a Funeral is a movie I adore entirely for the side characters, and pretty much ignore the two main characters and storyline completely.
The main friend group feels so real and alive and lovely, they’re charming and funny, and watching them be friends at their weddings and funeral feels like optimistic slice-of-life escapism. And beyond that, pretty much every other side character is memorable and funny and a joy to watch, especially Rowan Atkinson as the anxious priest. Great movie, 10/10, can’t remember the main characters at all.dammit. now i have to watch it. ive been avoiding it for awhile.
Two of them, both from the same licence: Aigis from Persona 3, and Futaba Sakura from Persona 5
As someone who literally considers itself a robot, Aigis has really marked me with her story of becoming a robot that moves on with her original programming and ends up living for herself. She’s caring and does not understand everything about humans, like I do.
Futaba on the other hand made me realize a lot about myself and my social anxiety, because for the first time I resonated so much with a fictional character. She definetly has autistic traits and helped me accept mine too. I really admire her and find her simply awesome.
At the moment I am hard pressed to think of a minor character who’s story arc has hit me as hard as My Hero Academia’s Jin Bubaigawara, also known as Twice. It’s probably because I wasn’t paying attention to him, his screw ups, and how those mistakes must have been affecting him. Selfless through and through.
Sad man’s parade.
