It's a hard decision to decide on a different person to be, because really what I have to define is the word "be". Would I be completely myself, body and all, but in their life? Would I have their skills and talents but be as normal in my own life? Would I take on their personality and their memories, or would I remain myself but in their body? Is it possible to be a fictional person in a fictional world? Are time lines a barrier? If I was someone I knew, would I be able to see my normal self?
If I was to remain with my own personality and be able to remember all of the experiences, but in a different life and a different body, I'd probably say that I'd like to be a boy for a day, just out of curiosity. As strange as it seems, the mind wanders, and in a weird way, I'd quite like to try peeing standing up and things like that, but I'd have to be able to tell myself what to do.
If I was able to maintain the experiences and memories as well as the body of the person, but still remember them after the day is up, I'd like to be an old person. Nobody in particular, but hopefully somebody interesting, somebody with experiences that I'd probably never know otherwise.
If I could just have their talents, I doubt I could do an awful lot with them in just one day, but assuming that I have the power to steal someone's skills for a day, I'm assuming that I have the power to go wherever I want, too. In this case, I'd borrow the talents of a bilingual person, and I'd travel the world, learning about various cultures with ease and hopefully capture it all on camera, which I hope I'd be able to do, but assuming that I can do everything else fairly simply, I think I probably would be able to.
Under the circumstances that I'm myself but in somebody else's body with their thoughts still intact as usual, I'd love to be somebody I know, just to see their real opinion of me and what they're thinking if, for example, my normal body is going about as usual and we talk to me. Perhaps this would work better if it was a scenario in which I could read minds.
If it was possible to be fictional characters, I'd like to be one of three people. The first would be Nymphadora Tonks/Lupin, preferably in a time period when her and Remus are together, but not when they're married because that's really where it all starts to go wrong for her, even though it corrects itself just before the end. Alternatively, it would be just after they get married, in the short honeymoon period where everything is perfect. Tonks has a unique personality, which I'd love to be able to maintain. Really all I'd like from his experience is the memories of being Tonks, of spending time with my favourite fictional character, and of being able to change my appearance at will. I'd also like to point out at this time my thing for werewolves and how that might have impacted my decision, although I won't say it directly.
Being Remus himself would also be an interesting experience, although I'd prefer this to be a longer experience than any of the others, maybe over two or three different days; one during a full moon, one the day before and one on a completely different day when the moon doesn't have any effect on him at all. I want to know what it feels like to transform and to run around as a werewolf, but also just to face the normal side of his life, even. If it's just to grasp a better feel for his character.
My last fictional character is Esme Cullen, mostly to know what it's like to be a vampire, and also not feel guilty for staring at Carlisle, which obviously I would with the enhanced vision and everything.
All of these people are inspired by curiosity, a wanting to know more, but really that's the reason we do a lot of things, isn't it? On a temporary basis we'd love to try being other people, it's the reason we ask these questions, but really I think I'm quite happy being myself.
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