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Jun. 2nd, 2007 11:28 amThis is in response to a discussion that Mel's mun and Kips have been having for a while now and to Todd as well.
The meat of this discussion is that their various meta-pups would like to -long and short of it- break free from their muns and how I don't understand this desire because I have no desire to do so. It's not that I enjoy being in Kips' head, it's just that I'm not idiotic, stupid, insane, suicidal or any other hundreds of adjectives of the related sort to think about that. I rather enjoy being alive, and I know that as I am now, if Kips dies, so will I. Oh, there'd be remnants of me, memories and things like that, but for all intents and purposes, I'd be dead too. If for some gods forbid reason, Kips drops dead tomorrow, I'll be gone too.
This isn't to say that it's not possible to break free from your mun or what have you, it's just that killing them isn't the way the way to gain freedom. Perhaps I think this is because I know how stories work. Not just the putting the words down on the page part of it, but their effect on society.
The only way for a character to break free from their writer is to get published. Once they're published they enter the public domain and anyone and everyone helps keep them alive. Look at the characters Shakespeare has created, or even Beowulf. No one knows who created them, but they're still alive! Alive and free from their creator's grasp.
However they're still caught and trapped in other people's. The people who reinterpret them for every new play or story idea. When I get published, people will read about me and they'll draw their own conclusions about me that Kips may have never thought about. It's already happened when that one guy thought I should be played by Arnold Shwartzenager. I'll never be able to walk free, but I'll be able to travel from person to person in drawings and stories and movies all things written or created after I've been exposed to the public awareness.
Of course, I'll mutate and change (and fear the fan fiction), but that's how stories work. They're mutable.
And characters are immortal. Once they are in the public consciousness. Until then as soon as their creator dies, so do they.
So, perhaps, I'm not dangerous to Kip in that I don't want to kill her to break free and what not. But at least I'm not stupid enough to think that I can survive without her as long as she's the only one who creates me.
The meat of this discussion is that their various meta-pups would like to -long and short of it- break free from their muns and how I don't understand this desire because I have no desire to do so. It's not that I enjoy being in Kips' head, it's just that I'm not idiotic, stupid, insane, suicidal or any other hundreds of adjectives of the related sort to think about that. I rather enjoy being alive, and I know that as I am now, if Kips dies, so will I. Oh, there'd be remnants of me, memories and things like that, but for all intents and purposes, I'd be dead too. If for some gods forbid reason, Kips drops dead tomorrow, I'll be gone too.
This isn't to say that it's not possible to break free from your mun or what have you, it's just that killing them isn't the way the way to gain freedom. Perhaps I think this is because I know how stories work. Not just the putting the words down on the page part of it, but their effect on society.
The only way for a character to break free from their writer is to get published. Once they're published they enter the public domain and anyone and everyone helps keep them alive. Look at the characters Shakespeare has created, or even Beowulf. No one knows who created them, but they're still alive! Alive and free from their creator's grasp.
However they're still caught and trapped in other people's. The people who reinterpret them for every new play or story idea. When I get published, people will read about me and they'll draw their own conclusions about me that Kips may have never thought about. It's already happened when that one guy thought I should be played by Arnold Shwartzenager. I'll never be able to walk free, but I'll be able to travel from person to person in drawings and stories and movies all things written or created after I've been exposed to the public awareness.
Of course, I'll mutate and change (and fear the fan fiction), but that's how stories work. They're mutable.
And characters are immortal. Once they are in the public consciousness. Until then as soon as their creator dies, so do they.
So, perhaps, I'm not dangerous to Kip in that I don't want to kill her to break free and what not. But at least I'm not stupid enough to think that I can survive without her as long as she's the only one who creates me.
