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I dislike very personified characters. They speak the same language, make and obey the same rules, sleep at the same place, and don't eat each other. That's crazy. There's no nature in there. If they were things made by humans, I could understand. But animals ... Why do we expect them to be human?
That's our ideal ... our fantasy.
I also dislike humanlike machinery characters, but I can let them be. Because most of them may be made by humans, and humans like making their creation humanlike. Why? I think humans can only recognize things that resemble themselves. This "humanlike" I mean, the characters do the same, what humans want to do, what humans believe. The characters have no identity, no ideals they think ... though there must be those. What they can see is different from ours, but if they are learning us and trying to talk to us, they are imitating us. Because, after all, the reason why we can't understand each other is that everyone is different from others. All are unique. That all are the same is our fantasy. The difference is our destiny. The same is our creations' destiny. They're our ideal, and we're making the ideal.
We love people who resemble us. That's why the creation resembles the creator. Is that why the God resembles us, huh?
Anyway, I don't know if the creators who make personified characters are satisfied with their expression. But they seem happy, so they're making the characters. I want to ask them, why do you make the characters who do what humans do, what do you want to express by your characters? If the characters and humans are alike, what's the difference? Desire? Conflict? Race? Love? The problems and answers are the same as we have? No kidding!—However, perhaps the characters are the try to see humans from the outside; the creators try to tell us how foolish or wonderful we are.
I find and expect the difference, in other words, the reason for existence. Stories need it ...
Yes, I like The Lion King that is a 1994 animated film, and think it's amusing story, but ... I can't understand why there is a king in a savannah and why the only lion is the king. What does the king mean? Why do they need a king? Why only lions? Did the creators need the animals who are similar to humans for telling us what they want to say?
I don't know, I may be an idiot who can't read any stories' intention. I'm just sad at the fact that I haven't been amused with films personified characters appear on lately.
I try to write non-human characters, such as programs, and they imitate humanity because they try to convince humanity that they are useful and cute, and humanity think things that can't speak in their language are inferior to them. I take care of rationality—yes, "the reason for existence".