I rarely have a character I can identify with myself. I don't think I've seen a single drama with a character I identify with, and if they show up in anime and manga, it's usually a supporting male character type in shounen stuff.

The identification thing, though, is something I see more and more as an explanation for slash: you identify with one male and find another hot, so you slash.

(It really doesn't make much sense to me, though...it would seem that you'd want the one you like the best and the one you think is hottest with girls, because that's what you are, and makes more sense if there's any "putting in the character's place/connection" thing going on. For that matter, if I do identify with a guy, it's almost never also the one I find hottest...but I generally want the hot guy to figure it out already and go make out with his love interest and wish the one I identify with had some nice girl of his own, as he almost never gets paired off...but now that reasoning-and the fact that it makes no sense to me, no matter how much I may like and respect some of the people who use it-is what I almost always think of now when identification comes up.)