# Who in fiction are you? (Book Week Scotland Personality Test) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2013, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907 "2013-11-27T11:40:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/81 "2013-11-28T17:05:12Z")
I got Mary-Jane Watson too! ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/82 "2013-11-28T17:13:42Z")
Another Aragorn, which would be cool if I didn’t have a co-worker whose nickname was “Hobbit”. Now it just hits too close to home, and sounds like a whole lot of work. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/83 "2013-11-28T17:41:54Z")
Hercule Poirot. Not too bad a match, all in all, although I’m not nearly that fussy. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/84 "2013-11-28T18:56:55Z")
I’m Elizabeth Bennett, from Pride & Prejudice. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/85 "2013-11-29T03:46:12Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Hercule Poirot. Not too bad a match, all in all, although I’m not nearly that fussy. Same here, and I’d generally say the same about myself. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/86 "2013-11-29T03:53:36Z")
I’m Mary Poppins, which is excellent because the book Mary Poppins was awesome. I do not like that Disney Mary Poppins at all. ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/87 "2013-11-29T04:03:07Z")
I got Batgirl. 😕 I know I should probably find that cool, but…yeah, that’s not me. > [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Apparently I am Mikael Blomkvist from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. > > Having neither read the novel nor seen the film, I have no idea how to feel about that. In the books, almost every woman that Blomkvist meets immediately wants to have sex with him, so at least you’ve got that going for you. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/88 "2013-11-29T04:03:34Z")
I say, I’m Dr Watson! More a detached observer than an active participant. Quite right. Jolly, jolly good! ---
**Author:** ![Donegal\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Donegal\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donegal_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/89 "2013-11-29T04:15:49Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Apparently I am Mikael Blomkvist from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. > > Having neither read the novel nor seen the film, I have no idea how to feel about that. > > \*A generally happy person, you enjoy your own company and the company of others. With an excitable nature, you have a tendency to seize upon and get really passionate about new people and ideas, but you do need time alone to process your experiences. > > Emotional excitement is indeed a large part of your life leading to boredom with mundane tasks – much to the chagrin of your family, colleagues and friends. On bad days you can switch from gregarious to over-bearing. But, given flexibility plus time with people and ideas, your enthusiasm can help almost anyone overcome seemingly insurmountable problems.\* > > Doesn’t seem all that far off, though. I got that one too. Very mixed bag ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/90 "2013-11-29T04:22:14Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Apparently I am Mikael Blomkvist from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. > > Having neither read the novel nor seen the film, I have no idea how to feel about that. > > \*A generally happy person, you enjoy your own company and the company of others. With an excitable nature, you have a tendency to seize upon and get really passionate about new people and ideas, but you do need time alone to process your experiences. > > Emotional excitement is indeed a large part of your life leading to boredom with mundane tasks – much to the chagrin of your family, colleagues and friends. On bad days you can switch from gregarious to over-bearing. But, given flexibility plus time with people and ideas, your enthusiasm can help almost anyone overcome seemingly insurmountable problems.\* > > **Doesn’t seem all that far off, though.** bolding mine :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/91 "2013-11-29T04:57:36Z")
Holden Caulfield you phonies. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/92 "2013-11-29T08:19:14Z")
Scout, from To Kill A Mockingbird, and no way. It’s very unfair that they wanted to know my age and sex before assigning me a character. Maybe they were looking for someone old enough to have read the book, but everybody has to read that book in school at some point, even now. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/93 "2013-11-29T08:39:14Z")
I’m Atticus Finch. I haven’t actually read To Kill a Mockingbird, but the description accompanying him was pretty spot on. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/94 "2013-11-29T08:41:36Z")
“Trusting your instincts and intuition” and “using logic and analysis” are opposites? Damn! Having gone “eenie minie” in that one, apparently I have to call **Jragon** “Daddy”, as I’m Scout (they’re definitely not taking age into account). ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/95 "2013-11-29T08:46:07Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > “Trusting your instincts and intuition” and “using logic and analysis” are opposites? Damn! Having gone “eenie minie” in that one, apparently I have to call **Jragon** “Daddy”, as I’m Scout (they’re definitely not taking age into account). There were a lot of false dichotomies. I had a lot of trouble with that question too. I mean, I use logic and reason – but I rely a lot on intuition as both a starting point and a means to “just pick something” when it’s clear that in depth logical analysis isn’t really worth it. Hell, intuition is the way you find the next step in analysis a lot of times. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/96 "2013-11-29T08:49:34Z")
Yeah, a finely-honed intuition is logic that’s working faster than you can see it, that’s all. Separating the two is akin to separating writing from spelling. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/97 "2013-11-29T16:20:18Z")
A lot of those either/ors I wanted to select both. I ended up with Mikael Blomkvist as well. So where are all those hot ladies supposed to be trying to jump my bones? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/98 "2013-11-29T17:50:13Z")
I am Coraline?! Well. Let me do it again. Great, Lisbeth Salander. Can’t I be someone who isn’t an emotional cripple?! Sheesh. At least if I were the female from Silence of the Lambs I would have some emotional depth. ---
**Author:** ![Gilbert1984](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Gilbert1984](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilbert1984)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/99 "2013-11-29T19:14:10Z")
The site is down, so I can’t take the test. Fortunately, I know who I am. I am Keyser Soze ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907/100 "2013-11-29T21:37:10Z")
> [@Doyle](#): > > **Aragorn** from The Lord Of The Rings Color me jealous! But apparently, I’m Dr. Watson: \*You might prefer the company of one good friend to a crowd but, despite this introversion, you maintain an offbeat sense of humour your friends and colleagues love. Even though you place trust in a sense of law and order, you are flexible enough to blur lines should your friends ask for a spot of burglary in an excellent cause. On tough days, when you’re suffering from certain over-bearing colleagues, you might feel inadequate and defensive. However, you balance this with good intuition and often surprisingly good people skills, not least your fierce loyalty to friends.\* Not too far off the mark. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-fiction-are-you-book-week-scotland-personality-test/674907.md?page=6)