I'm just really curious to read your different experiences with your protagonists! Do you identify with them or are they a separate entity? Do you envy them or worship them? Are they an idealized version of yourselves, would you like to become them? Just tell me whatever you've got in your mind upon reading my question!

And for who's curious, here's my personal answer:

My main character, Morgane, is a separate entity: I'm not them, they're not me. Everything about us is different and sometimes even opposite! I think of her as a creature that lives through me, that is able to have a presence in this world of ours thanks to my mind. I don't know if it makes sense. It's like I'm a shell, a medium through which Morgane and all my other characters, and their story, can exist on Earth, even if in an abstract and immaterial way.

Many aspects of Morgane are everything I'd like to be in real life, and yet, I wouldn't want to be them. She wouldn't want anyone to be her either. So, I just idolize them. I often have images of her as a some sort of deity or emperor, or someone that is equally glorious and divine. I find joy in listening to some very solemn musical pieces and just imagining Morgane being Morgane, in all their resplendent self. I am always in awe of her strength and beauty. I am truly glad she decided to exist in my mind, I feel blessed. And I try my best everyday to refine and upgrade their story in order to make it worthy enough. I often feel as if she's not my own character anymore, but a presence of her own inside my head.

I hope this little ramble doesn't sound like there is something wrong with my daydreaming work. I am fully in control of my imagination and aware of what's real and what's not, but I find comfort in pretending things are like I described before. I'm always amazed at how incredible the human mind is.