old man moment: what exactly is this character ai thing?
There are like 2 reasons I can imagine someone selfships.
1: they are a very lonely person and pretending to date this person is good for their mental health.
2: hot fictional people.
There are a ton of reasons people self ship, and those are definitely two of them!
antis be like-
antis: you ship a minor with an adult so obviously you are a pedophile, groomer, and child rapist. i am morally superior to you
proshipper: actually i ship it because i was groomed and raped as a child.
antis: lol your rapist should’ve killed you, but since he didn’t you should kill yourself

By “stop this cycle of abuse” you mean stop bullying and harassing people over their fiction and art, right? Right?
Oh that’s not what you meant??
Seeing KFF-type people saying “stay away from me if you kin these characters” is hilarious to me as someone who’s been in the otherkin community for a while. Having a bonkers kintype only makes me want to talk to you more. Are you kidding