My favorite part of fiction is the character development. I love to meet a quirky person on paper and find all my assumptions about him were wrong as he unfolds his complex nature before me. It fascinates me that people in fiction can be so much more passionate than anyone I've every met. Their torment or joy send them down almost inevitable paths, with the journys purpose becoming clear only in the end. I read manga vary occasionally, Fullmetal Alchemist manely, and the auther of that series once said in one volumes forward that she had been watching documentaries of late, and she was depressed that she couldn't, claiming even no one could, recreate such real drama. When expressing this sentiment to a colleague of her's, he responded with, "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would other wise have no salvation at all".
This is what fiction is to me, the salvation of the pointlessness. Whether a tragic, or hollywood ending, the cadence of the words, and the meanings, and the philosophies that permeate through them, give the struggle a beautiful face. A face that the ages will gaise upon long after it's creator dies.
Ok a little emo, I konw, but you don't know my real name. So...neaner neaner. : p
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