#they're not human they're something born of ink and paint and paper and the spark of something

[aparticularbandit]

also i half want to engage with the idea that like

current areas of fandom (not around me but to which i've seen reactions) and the integrity of how you treat your characters and your characters are real people so you have to be considerate of how you write them/use them vs. no, characters are fictional, they are not real, they are narrative devices used to tell a story, and what you write in fiction doesn't mean you're okay with stuff

in light of

the end of drv3

where tsumugi would absolutely be right that these are fictional characters and their suffering doesn't matter - even if it's real, as shuichi states; even if their feelings are real - because they're not real

except that in the world of drv3, they took those characters and made them actual flesh and blood people, which is. different. than just writing something. they took what isn't real and gave it substance and reality.

yes, they're just characters, but the moment they became living breathing people they stop. being. just. characters?

like it makes that line so murky.

tsumugi is right in terms of fandom culture but she is wrong in light of what they're doing in drv3 because she didn't make the people sacrificing themselves on the altar of danganronpa, she just made the characters, and the moment the characters became the people they became more than just fictional characters

but the people who became those characters probably signed a waiver and consented to all of this beforehand? even though the characters themselves didn't?

like where is the line here, and how exactly did team danganronpa cross it, because i feel like they crossed it somewhere