Alternate Terms For Platonic/Familial F/Os
We’ve seen some discussion here and there about how people who self insert might not be comfortable calling fictional friends or family F/Os, as it stands for fictional other and is more associated romance. I was surprised no one has purposed any alternate terms yet, so I’ll give it a shot.
Reasons for these terms are the following:
1. It’s less clunky than writing platonic F/O, parental F/O, etc. The main use of F/O also feels like it’s prioritizing romantic relationships with non-romantic relationships as an afterthought.
2. In some cases calling a character an F/O can be unclear or confusing about the relationship.
3. Some may be uncomfortable calling characters they view as family a word that comes from significant other or is based on shipping.
F/F or Fictional Friend, a character who one views as having a friend relation towards them in self insert or other context. F/Fr or FFr can also be used to prevent confusion between FF as in Fanfic and F/F.
Exampe: Ribbot from Animal Crossing is my F/F, and I like to draw my self insert as being friends with him.
F/QPP or fictional Queer Platonic Partner, a character who one views as being a queerplatonic partner in self insert or other context.
Example: Viktor from Slime Rancher is my F/QPP.
F/R or Fictional Relation, a character who one views as having a family relation towards them in self insert or other context.
Terms can also come from this in F/CR being fictional child relation, F/PR being fictional parent relation, F/SR being fictional sibling relation, etc.
Example: I have an F/R with Ash from Pokemon, he’s my F/SR because I grew up with the series and I write us in self inserts as siblings.
