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I saw Captain America Civil War today.

And suddenly, a hypothetical future Felix from the Path of Perfection sandbox wanted to comfort bad guy Captain Zemo and give him a hug. I had like the strongest vision of Felix just walking up to Zemo, sitting next to him and putting his arm around the guy's shoulders, then tucking his head under the guy's chin

My reaction was like "WTF? This dude can kill you"

Also, when I read trials, Fenris developed an even more massive crush on Yvettes than he already did... It is sort of annoying >.>

Theos, Evs and Rachel have now developed opinions on what they'd do upon finding out they are fictional.

Depending on how evil I've been to the applicable Theo in their world, they'd either snap and go Goalie (if I was evil) or get super depressive about how their life is now ('and has always been') meaningless (if I wasn't evil).

Evs decide that they don't think they trust me about this, and if I have mystical truthiness powers or present them with good evidence, they assume I just have a strong magic to do that sort of thing and that therefore they should act as though they believe me.

Rachel decides that she really doesn't care, because if she's fictional she is and always has been fictional, so it doesn't actually change anything. Alternatively, if I'm wrong, she isn't and has never been fictional, so again, it doesn't change anything.

Theas act somewhat more like Evs and Rachels than like Theos in this scenario. Applying the "Literary Agent Hypothesis" (the idea that I, as a writer, am compelled to write about them but they're still real?), causes Theos to really dislike me, feel like they're being unfair, but want to punch me. From most Theos, this could result in serious harm to me. Evs find the idea creepy, and Rachels find it creepy but realize it's not my fault.

Brad and Thea (from Persona) spoke a bit and Brad suggested that Thea's template nickname be "Ego". And lo, it is.

Theos are apparently trying to rebel against the idea that I know them properly, and Teeth has decided to be a sociopath. He's varyingly good at it, since sometimes he seems like he really is, but other times he seems like he actually cares about people. It's kinda weird. Champion is depressive and decides that he hates his whole world, and really he doesn't care to ever return there after Milliways.

Snowflake (Proximal Theo) has decided that he also has a crush on an NPC named (approximately) Matt: "Matil", like Opal (Lapis Theo) decided for his Matt.

Lapis Theo was being ridiculously stupid and so very illogical upon deciding to escape from the hospital without being caught; it made perfect sense in his head and it sorta did make sense, but he had very skewed priorities, and thinks 'prank by high-school friends: drugged and left in a morgue' is possible (with some chance that it's a thing he legitimately thinks to have happened) as a scenario.

Rachel has kinda woken up a bit.

Characters are still weird.

Oh, and meanwhile: Goalie continues to be annoyingly attractive. ("Soccer" spoilers:) Link to the image in question.

Gren retires to a beach in some tropical island if she finds out she's fictional. Steels just go back to work. Nicks request some deus ex machina, please.

How do the Grens afford a beach in some tropical island? I got the impression that buying out one’s contract was expensive and they would at least need to wait until the fictional army released them. Do they also request deus ex machina?

Now you've got me thinking about characters finding out they're fictional too.

Reuben says a lot of theologically dubious stuff about the omnipotence and omnipresence of God, concludes God loves him even if he's a fictional character, and carries on exactly the same way he always has. Em is very offended by the existence of suffering and yells at me a lot. Faith attempts to pull a Sophie's World.

Jean ... stares at me for about three minutes and says "nope" and pretends he didn't hear me. Zari cries.

The Elements are uniformly amused and fail to give a damn. I'm not sure where that came from.

Jokers who know they're fictional fall in love with me.

Mileses who know they're fictional make passionate eloquent arguments for why I should give them and their entire universes nice things. I usually find them pretty convincing.

She has money and favors saved up. She could do it within a few taking-it-careful weeks if she really wanted to.

Edie and Emily refuse to consider the question, since any question of "how would they feel about something" has them responding as though they were real people with independent cognition and, as they inform me, that's not how being fictional works. Daphne abandons her studies of Biology on the grounds that I don't know enough about it to satisfy her that she's capable of meaningful expertise, living in my mind, and retires to a life of hedonism, assuming that since I wrecked her plans for a meaningful life I'll at least provide the means for her to live a fun one. She's...not really wrong. Jaromira tells me off for the reveal, since obviously their world was real enough for them, and what did knowing they were fictional gain them? Nothing whatsoever. Kanimir retreats even farther into his books and hopes this blows over at some point and he can pretend it didn't happen.

A related, but much more personal question you might not want to answer: what you do if somebody convincingly said that you were fictional?

I would probably wonder what genre of story it was and why anybody was writing about me. I haven’t done anything that interesting. I wouldn’t be too terribly surprised if I did in the future, but so far I don’t think I’m worth writing fiction about. Does my author just really like writing backstory? Regardless, if I were not a viewpoint character, I would try for some deus ex machina for the whole world at least on the level of connecting it to a non-terrible Keeper or Admin; if I were a viewpoint character I would need to do more to figure out whether everybody else was really conscious, and make decisions based on that.

I conclude that I can't probably meaningfully tell whether I am fictional or not, not /really/, and try for some deus ex machina and if it's given I guess I am probably fictional also yay, and if it's not they were doing an elaborate hoax of some kind #denial