I identify most with Phillip J. Fry from Futurama. I don’t know what this says about me though.

Naomi from The Expanse. Hence my username, if you know you know. Fleeing from a relationship with a narcissist landed me where I am now in my life, so I feel that episode (called Hard Vacuum).

My namesake - Rottcodd.

Rottcodd is a minor character in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast books. He’s the caretaker of the Hall of Bright Carvings - a gallery of statues high up in a far distant corner of the castle Gormenghast. He lives there contentedly and peacefully by himself and rarely sees anyone, but through a window at one end of the gallery, he can see the castle spread out below him, and can barely make out tiny-with-distance people scurrying around doing… whatever it is that they’re doing.

And yeah - for better or worse, I identify with him so much that I swiped his name.

Donald Duck

Elliott from Mr. Robot

Sam Gamgee

Mr. Peanutbutter from Bojack Horseman and Bandit from Bluey.

Chandler Bing, Bing!

The layers of sarcasm blocking real emotion. That’s what I identify with.

Konstantin Levin from Anna Karenina, or Henry David Thoreau in Walden.