Patatitta wrote:
Achromalia wrote:
Patatitta wrote:
idk would you prefeer for them to stay fictional or for them to be real and for you to not be close to them?
- Marco - wrote:
she is real to me
lostsilver wrote:
that's actually a good point
they shouldn't be real bc then i would be sad that i'm not near them
it could be argued that if you believe you characters are net-positive benefits to the world around them and can reliably handle the raw messy reality of how people interact irl, you could still enjoy the thought that they're out there being wonderful people
for myself, i don't really need to be close to people/characters, i am entirely happy to just watch them from afar and be inspired by them-- in fact that's kind of already my relationship with people since i don't really talk to anyone and am basically afraid of everyone or being burdensome for people if we don't have a mutually healthy or meaningful connection
idk, I don't agree with this, I don't like really observing or really admiring real people who do not know that I exist, it's the difference between idolizing a waifu and idolizing an actual idol. I would choose for them to stay fictional
also, if the character had a tragic backstory, choosing for them to be real is kinda cruel IMO, since in a way, you're now responsable for that incident actually happening
mmn, i suppose i simultaneously didnt really describe the conditions of what i meant & i neglected to realize that it was readily demonstrable that it could just as easily represent and enable harm
at the same time, at least with regard to what you're directly describing, that does not really appear accurate to how i seem to believe i experience this... but i think you have a valid point in the voyeurism of it, which i have a sort of notable relationship with (because, importantly, i
do have the desire to watch what people think/feel/sense/experience in order to learn from them and live vicariously through them)
in practice, though, i don't mean to suggest that i would have been able to peer into the lives of the specific characters i think of any more than i would with other people/artists who actively share their thoughts and works online... but even then, it is understandably quite reasonable to be concerned with deeply violating someone's boundaries of privacy
i don't actually have a strong position on this myself for the specific characters i think of (almost exclusively being my own personal creations, as opposed to characters from other media), but frankly i don't think it would be fair to throw them into this world... i'm not sure if that's really safe or healthy for them to have to learn to integrate with. but i'm curious about what you're thinking, i'd wonder what you've considered with this and why that forms your position and how you interpreted what i described
