friend: (looking at favorite character) ooh, he's good looking! who is he?
me: (fighting an urge to elaborate his whole history and woes and the hardships that he has to face and his relationships with other characters which in turn will have to be explained and how he is so fantastic and amazing and his character is so complex and i could possibly write a ten-page essays regarding him and oh the people who he is shipped with and my own OTP and how mine is the best but that's ok because he's that fucking badass that anyone would be happy to have him but i mostly ship him with myself and his favorite past-times and his style in clothing and pretty much a biography of him)
me: uhm, that's my favorite character. he's cool.
me: (fighting an urge to elaborate his whole history and woes and the hardships that he has to face and his relationships with other characters which in turn will have to be explained and how he is so fantastic and amazing and his character is so complex and i could possibly write a ten-page essays regarding him and oh the people who he is shipped with and my own OTP and how mine is the best but that's ok because he's that fucking badass that anyone would be happy to have him but i mostly ship him with myself and his favorite past-times and his style in clothing and pretty much a biography of him)
me: uhm, that's my favorite character. he's cool.