Why can't I choose? - Emily Sandford

My life is made up of moments fangirling over fictional people from fictional places and the people that portray them. The ability to live in any of this worlds would be incredible, to be one of these people unbelievable.

Now comes the time to choose who to be, to reinvent myself as an entirely different person. Should I live out my childhood dream of being a Disney princess? What about a witch at Hogwarts, or a superhero saving the world?

Now comes one of my fatal flaws, not being able to decide. I’ve narrowed down my impossibly long list of favorite characters to two. Both are equally as great. They’re different but incredibly similar. It is because I can’t decide that I shall explain both of them: Chat Noir, and Peggy Carter.

Chat Noir comes from the French “kids” cartoon “Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir”. Chat Noir is a European superhero. His whole “thing” is bad luck/ destruction. His personality is what really draws me to him, he is never afraid to be himself, and the puns are everywhere. I say that his personality and his superheroness and his frenchness, but we all know I’m here for the puns. I know pawful right?

Now for a complete 360 I would also like to be Agent Peggy Carter from Marvel. Headstrong, and fearless in 1940s America Ms. Carter is force to be reckoned with. She proves herself time and time again. I want to be her because she’s everything I’m not, outspoken, and not afraid to stand her ground.

Given the choice between being either of them, I’d probably stay myself and gain their qualities because it comes down to it I can’t decide.