*This can also be found on deviantARt. I came up with this shortly after starting The O.13.*
What is 'real' anyway? How do we decide what is fact or not?
If nothing is nothing, then why does it have a definition? Let alone a name?
Then there is the slang term nobody....how can one not exist yet still feel?
Fiction is a matter of what the author creates.
It has a form, in ones mind.
If not for that little matter, would it not exist?
Ideas are as much there as mass and matter.
They take up much space, and can be weighed by importance.
If not for them, there would be no imagination.
If not for the imagination, what would we do?
We need it to give us live, shape, and form.
Personality; a character to love or hate or whatever.
So...are the characters in a fiction 'real' or just there?
Whether they are based off a person or not, they exist.
Once they are written down, or typed up.
*Update: To answer the question of "What's real and what's not real", my apologies that I failed to mention that I wrote this from a Nobody's view. They don't exist in nonexistence, or do they? In my story, The O.13, many characters we know to be "not real" suddenly become quite real in our world. This started a whole new way that I think now. These characters may not exist in this wolrd, but they do in theirs which was created in this one. So, in essence, they do exist in a way.
*This can also be found on deviantARt. I came up with this shortly after starting The O.13.*
What is 'real' anyway? How do we decide what is fact or not?
If nothing is nothing, then why does it have a definition? Let alone a name?
Then there is the slang term nobody....how can one not exist yet still feel?
Fiction is a matter of what the author creates.
It has a form, in ones mind.
If not for that little matter, would it not exist?
Ideas are as much there as mass and matter.
They take up much space, and can be weighed by importance.
If not for them, there would be no imagination.
If not for the imagination, what would we do?
We need it to give us live, shape, and form.
Personality; a character to love or hate or whatever.
So...are the characters in a fiction 'real' or just there?
Whether they are based off a person or not, they exist.
Once they are written down, or typed up.
*Update: To answer the question of "What's real and what's not real", my apologies that I failed to mention that I wrote this from a Nobody's view. They don't exist in nonexistence, or do they? In my story, The O.13, many characters we know to be "not real" suddenly become quite real in our world. This started a whole new way that I think now. These characters may not exist in this wolrd, but they do in theirs which was created in this one. So, in essence, they do exist in a way.