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I love when people "love my avatar" and can't help themselves but try to interact with me because I've scratched every itch in our shared tastes, and knowingly channel traits of the character or archetype for our mutual enjoyment. 

And when I see someone else with the same base, I feel a guilty pleasure enjoying the superficial intimacy of wearing the same arbitrary form. Shallow? Vain? Absolutely.

But I'll be damned if it isn't a more reliable way to get self esteem and satisfy social needs than attempting some "authentic love story" and projecting all my insecure controlling complexes on to someone.