- Shishka
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- Exalted Mythic Member
When you take classes for storytelling, it is explained to you that, if you want your characters to be understood by the reader/viewer/player, they have to be able to identify with them. The more different your character is from your audience, the harder it is to achieve that level of identification, and the harder it is to sell the character to the audience.
This is why anthropomorphism work so well; make animals into people and give them people-like situations, emotions, and reactions, and suddenly a bridge between your characters and real people is built.