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In terms of identity? Eh. None.
I'm my own particular kind of screwed up. I'm a nerd that doesn't fit in with nerds. I'm an artist that doesn't fit in with artists. I love science but I'd never want to be a scientist.
Even characters I previously thought were pillars of my identity were darlings in need of killing. (Raistlin Majere in my mid-late teens as an example. He didn't survive my early 20's.)
Never met anyone quite like me and never read nor watched anyone quite like me. A favourite who'd be the closest answer to this question (who still is nothing like me, not even close) would be Drusas Achamian from Bakker's Second Apocalypse.
To quote him,
He frowned at the lyrics of Protathis, finding them overwrought even though they had seemed to speak his soul’s own tongue twenty years earlier.
No one has spoken my soul's own tongue, not really.
In a completely opposite answer, in terms of life experiences? Hell this'll earn me some downvotes but it's amusingly/sadly true.
I think Ryan Reynolds callbacks and 4th wall breaks have a weirdly good habit of landing with me. We're fairly near enough in age that Deadpool and Free Guy gave me some chuckles. Him referencing Blade 2 was a deep cut lol.