If I could be any fictional character, I would be Jane from Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. For those that don't know, these books are the sequels of Ender's Game.
(Yes, technically, Ender in Exile is the 5th, but it is set between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, and has no mention of Jane.)
If you've read the Shadow series, basically Ender's Game and the events following it on earth from Bean's POV, you know partly how Jane came into existence. She started out as the mind game, the thing that Graff and the other teachers used to psychoanalyze the battleschoolers. Upon Bean's suggestion, it was adapted to manage Ender's pension, using advanced self-coding scripts.
Somehow, the Hive Queens of the past used Philotes to read the mind game, and therefore read Ender's mind. In order to do this, they had to create a bridge of sorts, which piggy-backed on both the Hive Queens' and the Ansibles' philotic links. The bridge, combined with the evolving mind game, became Jane.
Her links to both of these, combined with the inherent longevity of a computer program, are what I like about her. She can communicate instantly, with anyone, anywhere. She can also insert herself into any kind of electronic gadget.
TL-DR: I want to be Jane because she lives for however long she chooses, can put herself into computers, and is borderline omniscient.
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