What Would We Do Without Our Fictional Characters?

[cuddyclothes]

I just said that to a fellow fan. And then I thought, what would we do without our fictional characters?

Which also made me think, what sort of comfort or coping mechanism do you get from your characters/pairings?

For myself I find writing fanfic (lately only in my head) helps me escape from the hellscape that is America these days. And reading fanfic about my favorite pairing is soothing in a way TV and other forms of reading aren't. It's like getting my emotions massaged.

How do other people feel?

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[onlysmallwings]

In a bizzarro world without my faves? I don't want to contemplate that. I write fic in my head to tell stories I can't see in the games (dragon age has a limited number of options for main character origins, so my headcanon is for something different), to tell stories that linger on things that aren't addressed in canon (the traumas, the joys, all manner of things that get glossed over), and I read fic for all of those reasons and more. Fic lets me focus on sadly underrated women, or on those minor queers, or it allows me to state that certain characters are queer.