I...identify about equally with males and females? At least in anime/manga. Pretty much always females in other mediums. But when I identify with males, I have no interest in pairing them with the guy I find hot...I always just want to find them a sweet girlfriend(or boyfriend, if that actually is what they prefer.) But even then, the angst/story of the females still hits me harder a lot of the time, even if I don't identify with them at all.
Like, Ishida, the guy in this icon? He gives me so many "me at 16" moments(minus the stick up the butt, I hope) that it's almost creepy. But I could never dream of slashing him with the two guys I like, Ichigo and Renji(even though Ichigo's way too young for me.) For one thing, all three would literally die first. I'm not about to make a character OOC(and even if everything else is perfect, if you change that, you are changing the character) in my head or in fanfic, just so the character I connect with can get some action with the person I find hot. For another, Renji is absurdly hung up on his childhood friend, Rukia, and Orihime, another girl I like, has a massive crush on Ichigo that he'll probably reciprocate if he ever grows the brains to notice it. (And while I don't really ship anything in Bleach, Renji/Rukia and Ichigo/Orihime are about as close as I come, simply because Renji and Orihime are so obvious in their adoration, and Rukia and Ichigo so dense about it.)
Really, though, 2 out of 3 times, there isn't anyone I completely identify with. I don't need a POV or identification character to care about the characters or be interested in them or the story.
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Like, Ishida, the guy in this icon? He gives me so many "me at 16" moments(minus the stick up the butt, I hope) that it's almost creepy. But I could never dream of slashing him with the two guys I like, Ichigo and Renji(even though Ichigo's way too young for me.) For one thing, all three would literally die first. I'm not about to make a character OOC(and even if everything else is perfect, if you change that, you are changing the character) in my head or in fanfic, just so the character I connect with can get some action with the person I find hot. For another, Renji is absurdly hung up on his childhood friend, Rukia, and Orihime, another girl I like, has a massive crush on Ichigo that he'll probably reciprocate if he ever grows the brains to notice it. (And while I don't really ship anything in Bleach, Renji/Rukia and Ichigo/Orihime are about as close as I come, simply because Renji and Orihime are so obvious in their adoration, and Rukia and Ichigo so dense about it.)
Really, though, 2 out of 3 times, there isn't anyone I completely identify with. I don't need a POV or identification character to care about the characters or be interested in them or the story.