Fiction provides us with something that is imperative in times of political unrest: possibility. Stories, whether on the screen or on the page, provide the blueprints of potential, painting a future where tyrannies are overthrown by revolution or communities overcome centuries of oppression. Fiction can provide a framework for how we ought to be. As such, in this paper, I argue that fictional narratives present new versions of social blueprints, one that can assist in our self-understanding. On my own philosophical theory of understanding identity, I argue that in order to fully understand ourselves, we must be able to grasp the dominant social blueprints that are operating in the social imaginary and thus informing our self-understanding. These blueprints, or schemas that outline how we grasp gender, sexuality, and race identities, among others, are dominant because they are openly assumed to be normative and universal. What fiction can do, in outlining possibility, is to provide a visual or descriptive possibility of a new blueprint. When we see a character designed along some non-dominant blueprint, like women in power or queer acceptance, then we have the possibility of embracing that blueprint as a schema for our own self-understanding. In this paper, I argue that there is a social benefit in centering characters with non-dominant narratives and non-normative story arcs, especially in relation to self-understanding and pursuing new possibilities of who one can be when the limits of what we do understand seem limited and bleak.