[ SECRET POST #3034 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3034 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[were_lemur]

My theory is that it's due to a glitch in the human brain, which evolved to deal with a world filled with people we interact with by seeing and hearing, rather than text on a screen.

Even though we know consciously that the character on the TV screen is not an actual human being, and there is an actual human being who wrote the fanfic, our subconscious treats the character (who we can see and hear) as a real person, and doesn't acknowledge the writer of the fic, who we can't perceive in the same way.

So when someone kills off the character to keep her from getting in the way of their preferred pairing, or has her act horribly so her canon love interest will be justified in leaving her for the non-canon option, that feels like an injury done to an actual person. But since the writer not perceived directly, it's easier to justify calling her a bunch of names, because to the subconscious, she's not "real."