WT: I wasn't totally sure if this was directed for the characters or me...at least up until the end, still, I decided to kind of...cover both angles I guess...
In terms of the first scenario posed, I don't think I'd be truly devastated...of course, I am writing a universe wherein I have a villain redeem herself whereas there's a good chance she'll be completely cardboard cut-out evil in future Zoot content. I think what would be the hardest thing would be seeing those characters and having to remind yourself that they might not be who you think they are. Is the villain you've read stories about, or watched films featuring someone to be wary of? Or someone to befriend? Do you take the risk? You wouldn't really know who to trust, everything would be in flux. And it would be exceedingly hard for me not to take that risk on Dawn. Lol.
With your second question, it's actually something I've pondered before. I can't possibly imagine what it would feel like ending up in another realm to find that your life, however accurate or inaccurately it was portrayed, was nothing but another universe's form of entertainment. You are nothing but a character from a story, at least as far as you could tell. Are the differences between your portrayal and who you actually are enough to give you some semblance of feeling that your world was just as real as the new one you inhabit? Or would you think the nuances got lost in translation between the fabric of the universe? Is every bad thing you've experienced in your universe...or that your world has endured, something that happened organically and was simply portrayed via a game of telephone through the world of the Realsies? Or did the 'creator' or 'author' of your story make you and your people suffer simply to make an interesting story?
It would be mind-breaking for many, and there'd be a broad spectrum of disagreements on all sides as to the answer to everything. I suspect many fictions would find the naming convention for them offensive and argue as to what makes them any less real than the Realsies whose world they now inhabit. There would be a lot of civil warring among nations, factions...everything...I imagine it would chaos for quite a while after it first happened until slowly but surely things began to equalize...but I imagine that slow grind to co-existence would be built atop the corpses of many realsies and fictives alike...
Anyway, that's my spin...let's see how D & V would answer it.
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Dawn: Oh my...I can't really...it's a rather strange and interesting line of thought if I'm being honest...
Vernon: Same, though I can't think of too many...fictional characters I got heavy emotions hangin' on...
Dawn: I imagine our BnB characters would count though...
Vernon: *Chuckles* I hadn't thought o' that...Mam' now that'd be strange to begin with...seein' as how they'd essentially be alternate universe versions of ourselves...at least in essence...then to take it one step further they might not behave anything like we defined 'em to...
Dawn: It would be pretty heartbreaking to find out that Esmerelda Di Rivini was some sort of evil sorceress rather than the wily, sassy, but kind mage I developed her to be.
Vernon: Imagine if ol' Aldus Thane hated her guts instead o' bein' her close friend and confidant...
Dawn: "Close friend" is a nice way to sugarcoat that we've extensively shipped them together...*Giggling*
Vernon: Gus actively benched my character and forced me to play a whole arc as a new fella just to punish us fer flirtin' too much...*Chuckles*
Dawn: Of course...there's a broader question to consider...exactly...how many permutations of a character would end up being brought to life? Esmeralda has been through a number of design changes and total reboots throughout my life...do all of them exist or only the newest version? Do fanfictions count as brand new takes on established characters? If so, are all the variations coming along too? If that's the case you'll always find a version of the same character that's as depicted, or at least a nice, honest mammal.
Vernon: Sweet Sawgrass...takin' all that into account, imagine how cramped fer space Animalia would be? *Chuckles* It'd be standin' room only...
Dawn: Perhaps when a Fictive gets brought over, every permutation of them merges and thus it becomes a roulette wheel as to what depiction will win out? it'd make for a good explanation as any as to how it works...
Vernon: As fer yer second question...I mean...it'd shake me up real bad...to find out my life before all this was just...window dressin'...what if Dawn didn't come over too...er' my family? Would I even be able to feel like I was a real Hunter knowin' we was all...crafted by someone else?
Dawn: I think I'd just be terrified at the possibility that...I mean...what if I was just the villain in someone's story? What if...my whole role in the night howler plot was just...as you called it Puppy,' window dressing' to facilitate a narrative? Maybe I was a secondary character in Nick and Judy's story, and I have no other purpose than to help them tell it? If so...what does that make all of this? Is this truly my own life or have I long since gone off-script? What happens to the characters after the principal tale is told?
Vernon: Y'all mean like a single movie...er' a show er' what not?
Dawn: Yes. In the context of being a 'fictive', what happens to you when the story ends? What happens to your life, your whole world? And if I, as a fictive in this case were dragged out of that narrative...well...I mean what if I was dragged out of the middle of...that whole story...the evil me...the bad me?
Vernon: Maybe the reason all the characters who come over from that whole 'Amalgalm' thang are different then what we had 'em pegged as cause they're the product of havin' lives and experiences beyond the stories that were told...That almost every livin' thang is more complicated than a simple story could ever really tell...and so it's never gonna be totally accurate...
Dawn: I...I guess...*Sighs* But if I turned out to be a fictive...and I was...old me...if I didn't have you? I...well I'd probably be one of the fictives that would commit suicide...
Vernon: Y'all wouldn't be her...I know it in my gut. Yer you Honey Lamb...nothin' can change that...
Dawn: Aww....Puppy...
Vernon: And there's nothing that could split us up. Nothin' if I could help it anyway. *Chuckles* The only thing I'm obliged to let split us is when we grow old and pass over to Valhowlla. And even that'd be temporary, cause we'd be reunited in the end...
Dawn: *Hugs Vernon's leg* I wouldn't want it any other way.
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