It happens so so often that I'll see characters in shows or books and stuff and rather than wanting to fuck them, or shipping them, or wanting to be in their world or whatever...
Usually I wanna give them a fucking hug. Like, I'll see a character get broken down again and again and have to keep going, keep fighting, because the story isn't done yet, and they aren't done yet, and so they keep going. And inevitably there will come a moment where I'll pause it, or put down the book, and just imagine the character in front of me. And I imagine I hug them so so close, so tightly in my arms. Press their face into my shoulder and hold them together so they don't have to anymore.