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Well, Bean is an interesting character that I can relate to personally save for the photographic memory. I can relate because of his problems with understanding why people do good deeds etc... Bean's philosophy was everybody does something for a reason that is selfish or along those lines, and if they don't they are crazy. I personally have that problem and do things generally for a selfish reason. Its the way I am. Whenever I do "good" deeds for someone for no reason usually its because of empathy. I think, "I've been through this too, I know how you feel." Whatever back to topic. Bean was born a prodigy just like all the other battle school students. I know he isn't the only prodigy but he was the most amazing besides Ender. And so I can relate to him there because I was atleast a prodigy with drawing realistically at age 5. It was weird because I never "learned" how to draw, I already knew what to do when I first drew. But I gave that up, whatevs. Bean picked stuff up like that naturally too. I could relate to his looking up studies on morals, I did too. When I read a book about the horrors of the Japanese rape of Nanking. I was wondering why so many Japanese did stuff like that to the Chinese. Why otherwise normal people when put into a situation with absolute power with no consequences do such atrocities--all the time. It took me like 2 weeks or so to recover from my obsession with finding an answer that had a selfish reason to be good in it. I ended up finding it though it was along time ago and I forgot. Other than that his thinking about situations was interesting, his rigorous self-analysis was something I can really relate to. Plus I had been interested in savantism, and he was a savant. So mostly I feel I can relate to him, and always wanted to be the best I could be, I always wanted to be great, and Bean is great.
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