i want to begin a conversation. let's start a list of the ways that fictives are, for lack of a better word, regularly dehumanized:
the fear of getting into any media because you might split a fictive
being used as a trophy to show how much someone liked a media
being spoken to like we're characters without permission
being held accountable for source actions
being shamed for being introjected ("why did it have to be THAT character?"); being shamed for being fictive-heavy
trans and otherwise not-the-same-gender-as-source fictives being misgendered because of the assumption that they must be the same gender as source; being called "a trans [character name]"
the assumption that we're all exactly the same personality as source
feel free to add on, i know i've missed a world of bulletpoints i could make
not a callout on anyone, we're guilty of all of this too. just bringing attention to some things i've noticed that we should probably stop.