BlackHeart Biohazards

There are absolutely many writers for whom this happens, but there are just as many who think the idea is complete nonsense.

Again, the level of autonomy that a character has, and what that autonomy means, is different for every creator.

I’m not trying to push a narrative, I’ve just been writing and rping for decades, and in my experience this type of character autonomy is common in the some creative populations and extremely uncommon in others.

Especially in online circles where the goal is to be professionally published, there is a LOT of pushback to the idea that characters are ever outside of a writer’s control

antishipping:

Note to “that” Side of the Proship Community:

• Suicide-baiting or harassing antis doesn’t make you any better than they are. No, it doesn’t become justified even if “they do it first”, it still makes you a shitty person regardless.
• Not every anti is abusive. Yes, most of the anti community is pro-harassment, but there are antis out there who are just simply against ships and mind their own business. If they want to call themselves an anti, fucking let them.
• Antishippers still have every right to be in fandom as much as the rest of us. Shut up and leave them alone.
• Not every adult anti is a pedophile. You are watering down the term as much as they are by saying this, and it’s as hypocritical as it is dangerous, stop it.
• There are bad proshippers out there. There are proshippers that are abusive, there are proshippers that are pro-contact, there are proshippers that are capable of doing everything the anti community has done. Every community has it’s bad side, stop acting like ours is an exception.
• Tag your ships. Somebody asking you to tag your art or fic isn’t entitlement, tag it if you’re going to use the main tags.
• Stop forcing labels onto people who aren’t comfortable using them. Nobody appreciates proshippers trying to force their own label onto them if they don’t like to use it for safety reasons or anything related.
• Ex-antis belong in proship spaces. People fucking change, grow up.

It’s an atypical experience.

Most writers and RPers will look at you like you have two heads if you say your characters really have thoughts and agency of their own.

Most writers are making things up and making conscious decisions about their writing and characters at all times.

There are authors, professional authors, who experience the kind of characters we’re discussing, but it is not the norm.

If you have a character that genuinely seems to have agency and existence of their own, you are having an atypical experience.

The specifics of what this experience means to you are yours to figure out and decide on, but experiences like these are often considered to have something in common with some forms of plurality, soulbonding or fiction based alterhuman experience.

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