And it got me thinking about the literary potential of the Internet and the kind of shared artisanal reality we postfurry and fannish types excel in. I like the idea of a character who unjustly gets killed, but then gets to live out a perfectly rich fulfilling life in memes & fanlore---because they meant something to us they didn't to their creators.
Guess I just like the way it would all play with notions of what "canon" means--a topic on which most fandom really NEEDS to be challenged, IMO.
why did it have to be plurality
@zebratron2084 some might accidentally take this to, uh, extremes
*shoves the fictives under the bed*
*thinks for a moment and pulls them out to hide the factives behind them* >_<
And it also makes me wonder if we might see more of this phenomenon. People taking up characters who got exiled from canon, and letting them live on as a wandering tourist of the Internet. Or even, within a few years, setting up bots from quote databases. Just one more thing to weaken that membrane between stories...