Are we crazy…?

Sometimes I read comment sections debating about a fictional character being like “she would never do this… she’s just mentally depressed and I feel like she’d be the type of person to keep things to herself…” and then I realize that we’re all just discussing the non-existent personality of a character that an author has written. Like at the end of the day it’s just a drawing on a screen. I don’t know how to explain it

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Cruchy_rollers 04 10,2024

I understand what you mean, but sometimes, I feel like readers understand characters more deeply than authors themselves, like sometimes, authors unknowingly write characters deeper and more complex then they want them to be so they may make them do things that we as readers wouldn’t expect the character to do because we can understand them more ...... 1 reply

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Delano 04 10,2024

Eh...this is completely normal human behavior. It's the same as theorizing about celebrities and shit when you don't actually know them, they're essentially just characters you're projecting your own desires and beliefs onto. I think it's pretty powerful that fictional characters are able to fill the same spot in our brains as real people (I'm a n...... 2 reply

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jaes snakes 04 10,2024

on god...its like reading a word over and over again till it starts to sound weird and u wonder "why is it like that??" 1 reply

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locallesbiantook2L's 04 10,2024

this begs another question are we crazy or are we all just deeply ridden on our emotions that we understand how a fictional non existant character feels to the point we over analyze and we think of how they would react to a certain situation, it may be a drawing on a screen but somebody a person a human being drew it. To me art has deep meaning loo...... 1 reply

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