30 Book Characters You Most Likely Have Related To Or Will Relate To At Some Point In Your Lifetime

If stories told your life, it would probably look a little bit like this... :)

1. Harry Potter

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(Harry Potter series)

Whether you read Potter books as a kid or not, you’ve most likely felt like him at school – zero understanding from environment, never quite fitting in, popularity was both a yes and a no, and you never managed to get through your homework load.

You probably didn’t fight a Dark Lord off all by your onesies, but the exams probably still made you feel you’d do anything instead.

2. Frodo

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(Lord Of The Rings)

Welcome to your life as an adult. It was all dandy while you were at your comfortable Shire, in your own comfortable home (only it was really your parents’ or your guardian’s home, really, even if you inherited by now, one way or another), but enter workforce, and you’re suddenly feeling you are inept during meetings, your workload feels like you’re totting around the One Ring (which accounts for the mood swings, let me tell you), you constantly feel surrounded by enemies, who probably want you dead or fired, and your paranoia has become so bad that even the one trusted friend or partner feels pushed aside. But let’s face it – you’d rather have your finger bitten off by that nasty intern you’re coaching now than have them have your job.

3. Robin Hood

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(Whichever book or legend – choose your poison!)

You have been promoted. Hooray!!! You are no longer just a regular office monkey, you are a gallant, if much hated outcast. Downside – everyone hates you. But that’s ok, you’ve actually got money enough to pay taxes, live a cool life AND give to the poor.

4. Daenerys Targaryen

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(A Song Of Ice And Fire Series)

You have been treated like everyone’s bitch, and then that one relationship that seemed to be working ended up in tears. Probably not exactly the same way, but now you’re a heartbroken mess. Heads up – you’ll still come out on the other side the Dragon Lady (or Lord, let’s not split hairs).

5. Katniss Everdeen

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(The Hunger Games Series)

You’re on thin dark ice over helping out a person you love, like, love a lot, like, love to die for, which you just might, even if that death is going to be more social than society caused. But you’ve got skills – you’ve gone from a cute innocent thing to a huntress with great many skills, and you totally don’t mind leaving behind a trail of blood and corpses (hopefully, that’s a figure of speech and it means, again, a social trail, not one that the Feds are after you for). Because you will triumph. You will protect the ones you love, even if they are just so damn inept at doing it themselves. But hey – in the end, you’ll win this battle.

6. Ned Stark

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(A Song Of Ice And Fire Series)

You have worked in this company for enough years to know how it works. You have been a good person, minding your own damn business, even though you know full well who sleeps on the job, who cheats on their wife/husband, who says things about others behind their backs and who fucked whom at the Christmas party. You damn well don’t want trouble, you’ve got a family of your own, dammit, so you DON’T WANT TROUBLE.

But shit happens, trouble appears bold as brass, and suddenly you’ve got more than you can hold inside you and a very uncomfortable feeling because you know you have to tell the boss, but you’re not at all sure they’ll be that understanding.

7. Roscus

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(The Raven's Wing)

You’ve got a kid. You didn’t expect you’d have a kid. You’re trying to do your best by them. They’re asking one helluva lot of questions, and you’re doing your best to answer, while not being that sure you are doing a good job.

8. Malaya

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(The Raven's Wing)

You’re different. You’re somewhat dark, but it’s more the perception of others, not what your parents or friends or anyone thinks. Really, seriously, no. You’re a very decent, nice person, and your friends may not know it, but you’d do anything for them, including fight a losing battle. They’ll learn to never judge a book by its covers.

9. Sheriff Swan

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(Twilight Series)

Your child has just fallen head-first in love with a kid you thought was pretty decent, until they broke your baby’s heart. And then, they dance back into their life, act like nothing happened, and you have a feeling that a lot is going on, but no one is telling you what. Now you’re grumbly and reserved, especially towards that kid, and while you are trying to be really decent, you really are, deep down, you know you’re probably the only person who can make them disappear without a trace if they pull that stunt on your baby again.

10. Aragorn

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(Lord Of The Rings)

You have decided to fucking leave your job and become a tour guide in an idyllic location. It was supposed to be a blast, but then, you came across poachers, and you turned more into a vigilante ranger than a tour guide.

11. Ana Steele

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(Fifty Shades Of Grey Trilogy)

You may be average, but you have a huge crush on someone very complicated, who will fuck your life up in so many ways it’s not even funny. But they may be worth all the fuss, because incidentally, you know that you can discover and make them see all that is good about them. Period.

12. Snow-White

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(Grimm's Fairytales)

You totally rock, and you did totally rock at the party. But the influence of all the elderly people around you makes you feel dead, and it’s pretty bad that The One has to see you in that sad state. Heads up – he/she may still see that you want to live.

13. Eowyn

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(Lord Of The Rings)

You have done everything to prove you are capable of doing this job, but they still won’t believe you, even if every other idiot is doing it, and not doing it nearly as well as you can. I mean, WTF???!!!

Seriously. And then you fall for the wrong one, while the right one is a step away from you, trying to stop being inconspicuous.

Oh, and you have a stalker.

14. The Little Mermaid

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(Hans Christian Anderson)

You are in a relationship in which you are pushed into the background. He/she may be perfectly happy to talk to you, even just to hear themselves talking, because you obviously are never heard, and might as well be a mute, but they don’t value you enough not to friendzone you and go for someone completely stupid, while you are dying inside in silence.

15. Stuart Little

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(E. B. White)

You may be a happy, positive, happy-go-lucky type, but you are truly feeling dwarfed by everyone.

16. The Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert

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(Ivanhoe)

You’re skilled and seasoned at what you do, and what you do, you do well. It may have led to a teeny bit of an ego problem, but you know that if you don’t give yourself credit, nobody else will, or rather, some people might, but a huge heartbreak in your past has made you a bit troubled about recognition (in other words, you are trying to compensate for heartbreak by overworking yourself and trying to gain recognition there). Ok, so you are a bit of a cad/man-eater, but generally, you leave your partners gasping, satisfied, and begging for more, which you have no problem providing them.

You have a temper. It makes you say stupid things in the wrong moment, even if it hides a vulnerable heart that has been yearning for the right one since like forever. And now you’ve made a mess of your life, and you’ve no freaking clue just how it happened, but it’s happening, and it’s probably going to ruin everything, and you’re both trying desperately to salvage what can be salvaged, while being too damn stubborn to admit that this is, at least in part, your mess.

And while being a side-character in someone else’s story, or at the very least feeling like it, you occupy so much space for being way more interesting, that, in the end, everyone will be asking themselves “Ivan who?”.

17. Dr Ian Malcolm

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(Jurassic Park)

Don’t fucking make predictions that can kill you if you don’t have a comfortable, safe place to watch and gloat from (even though it totally sucks to gloat, and you know that).

18. Oliver Twist

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(Charles Dickens)

You are at Uni, you’re running out of money, and all you can think of is "Food, wonderful food" (even if that bit is strictly speaking from the musical).

19. Bilbo Baggins

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(The Hobbit)

You got this offer you couldn’t refuse, cause it was, like, waaay too good to refuse. You’re middle-aged and getting into a bit of a crisis over it, you’ve no kids or partner, so you’re like, what the hell, I’ll go, it will rock.

Then it’s all trolls and orcs and wargs and stuff, or, more likely, mosquito bites and sore feet. And you’re wondering, why the fuck did I go do this, while still enjoying yourself to bits.

Oh, and don’t get hooked on whatever it is you’re experimenting with.

20. John Hammond

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(Jurassic Park)

You know when you made people give you a huge amount of money to give you an option to start this huge project/business that is going to result in a lot of dead people, while you will still claim that it’s totally harmless? Fuckin’ stop that.

21. Dr. Marina Cox

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(Times Apart)

You’ve met this perfect someone, only they feel like they’re from a different century.

Trouble is, they feel the same about you.

But the chemistry is there, so go for it all guns blazing.

22. Mowgli

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(The Jungle Book)

You feel like you don’t fit in. It’s like everyone is speaking a completely different language. It’s like you were totally raised by non-humans.

You love nature and feel a bit caught indoors.

Insofar as you don’t start having your meat raw, you’ll probably be fine, though.

23. Beren

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(The Silmarillion)

You have had a difficult life thus far, and you just made it more complicated by falling for someone who seems to actually care that their idiot parent(s) don’t approve. And now you’ll try to do everything to make the idiot approve, even if it costs you anything (like, a hand, and maybe a life later).

24. Dr. Grant

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(Jurassic Park)

You were right. You were right all along. You knew it, whatever it was. You totally did. Really. And being in a bit of danger for it just doesn’t change this for you at all. You aren’t just doing the job, you are the job.

(But seriously, get some life too.)

25. Tarzan

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(Edgar Rice Burroughs)

You go to the gym. It rocks, and so do you. You look better naked than clothed, in your opinion, and you’re willing to show yourself off to anyone at the drop of the hat.

You might get arrested, but you shall still r o c k.

(And stay off the juice, you don’t need it, protein powder and awesomeness will totally do.)

26. Ronia, The Robber’s Daughter

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(Astrid Lindgren)

This is how it felt to go to a park when you were a kid. It was an exciting world full of adventure.

And this...

27. Captain Hook

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(Peter Pan)

... is how it feels to go to the park now. You’re surrounded by hostile toddlers who totally hate you for being a grown-up. You just don’t fit.

28. Frankenstein

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(Mary Shelley)

Let’s be frank (no pun intended)... this is not the first time you’ve done experiments in the bathroom – is it? Is it?

29. Dr. Jekyll

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(Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson)

You remember getting drunk, but afterwards, everything’s a blur. Why can’t you just be the one who wakes up with a busty (or muscled) hotness incarnate in bed, why??? (Traffic cones... also acceptable, but less sexy.)

30. The Old Man

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(as in The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway)

You totally still want to work, but you know it yourself – you’re no longer up to date with everything that happens. So it may be time to retire. But on the positive note – IT’S TIME TO RETIRE!! (If the guy in the book got it, if he only got it...)