Was talking with a friend the other day and found out apparently (Atleast for them?) they say it's not often people will treat fictives like they're their own people, and compare them to the character from their soruce (including other systems)
I didn't know it was as often between systems I just wanna ask if anyone else has experienced this alot too?
We don't really have fictives so we're curious
It's super common yea, even in plural spaces. As far as I remember we haven't personally experienced anything we were uncomfortable with with the exception of one guy with self esteem issues having to tell a sourcemate from another system that he wasn't okay with the [lovingly] hateful remarks, but that's not really an issue, he just had to set a boundary. Needing to set a boundary doesn't mean the other person was in the wrong.
We're generally okay with a lot of what other systems/introjects take issue with though. Like we happily compare ourselves to source and doubles, we want people to ask us about our source and our exomemories. Our issues being sourced has come from fictomisic singlets in our source fandoms fucking. blocking us on here and Ao3 for existing.
There's still things we feel the need to worry about though. Like I'm worried about being kicked out of nsfw channels without question for being 12 in source, even though if they bothered to ask, I'm in my 20's, and also, that's not how age works for most systems. Or worried about people judging/protesting my relationship with my canon enemy, who tries to kill me all the time, and is way older than me because he's an alien. For me, these are just fears, these haven't happened to me, and I have no reason to think the people around me in particular would treat me that way. But we've heard a lot about it happening to other people, so we still absorb the fear of that happening, because while it's not based in our experiences, it is based in reality.
Oh also, naturally, the more popular the source the more likely the mistreatment. It's just that everyone is different and what one person considers mistreatment and has boundaries against, another person doesn't care about, and another person loves and openly invites, like sourcetalk and references and pointing out similarities to source. There's variance within singular systems, and there's variance in the community. Naturally.
If anyone wants to share their experiences with fictomisia, feel free to in the comments or reblogs. You can also submit your own ask if you want, but btw there's also @this-is-pluralphobia