I've fallen in love...with an NPC

[Gwenorai]

Lol you might be right, I've admittedly lost my touch with ID'ing troll posts over the years. Seen too many legit weird people. Figure if it is a troll post might as well laugh at that too, like getting caught in an April Fool's prank.

If it's sincere, hopefully OP manages to keep things light and fun with the fictional nature in perspective. Fantasy's fine, just need to remember it's a fantasy.

Exactly, I can't tell anymore! Times we live in, right? This forum, man - opens up the eyes xD

Yeah I mean I get like there are some people out there who'd go and burn down a building because their favorite character was killed off but like some people are getting way too dramatic to try and appear like an authority on "healthy behavior". It's really lame.

Hun, I studied Human Biology at Manchester University. We have a two-year course unit module in psychology. What 'authority' do you have?

[brasteir]

Exactly, I can't tell anymore! Times we live in, right? This forum, man - opens up the eyes xD


Hun, I studied Human Biology at Manchester University. We have a two-year course unit module in psychology. What 'authority' do you have?

Oh so then you know when you say "proven" you actually you know, provide proof, maybe from the papers you've helped publish?

See you when you get back from google lol

[Gwenorai]

Oh so then you know when you say "proven" you actually you know, provide proof, maybe from the papers you've helped publish?

See you when you get back from google lol

Oh, I'm sorry you mean I have to write them? Pity, just have some articles that already exist. You can trounce my argument if you happen to have also written a paper however, I think that's fair.
Just for you; I'll go there. Link for source.
For further reading Here; it's a paid PDF - if you have a university you may be able to access it.
Revalent material:- Baumeister R., Wotman S., Stillwell A. Unrequited love: On heartbreak, anger, guilt, scriptlessness, and humiliation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1993;64:377–394

As I know reading huge walls of text are a bit 'iffy' here.
7.Baumeister, Wotman, and Stillwell (1993) reported that 93% of males and females have been previously rejected by an object of passionate love and that 95% rejected someone who had such feelings for them. Romantic rejection has several negative mental health consequences: it sometimes results in homicide and suicide (e.g., Meloy and Fisher 2005; Wilson and Daly 1992) and regularly leads to clinically diagnosable depression (Mearns 1991).

Obviously, in most situations, the romance isn't real and is a scripted scenario between yourself and the NPC. Beyond that, it's fantasy. A fictional character can't return the love beyond its scripting unless you intervene and continue to take on the character yourself, at that point you're romancing your own imagination. In the end the NPC can't return the love or 'feels' the same way about you outside of the setting. You're not the WoL. Thus the love is unrequited - which is on par with 'rejection', as it means that the person rejecting you is not reacquainting that affection. Not being able to get that affection you may crave from the person you love is seen everywhere, today. All you have to do is look up, situations where there's an emotionally absent spouse or parents who do not give their children emotion. Finally, obsessions are obviously dangerous in regards to fiction; see below example. Case 1: Leonid Hmelev and the case of Taylor Gamboa Arronis. I'm not saying that OP is doing this, or will end up like this - but it has happened and is a cause of concern if a person falls truly in love with someone who doesn't exist. Like those guys who are in love with anime characters, or my little pony chars.

Have a read. I'm done here.
Obligatory mic drop.

[brasteir]

Just for you; I'll go there. Link for source.
For further reading Here; it's a paid PDF - if you have a university you may be able to access it.
Revalent material:- Baumeister R., Wotman S., Stillwell A. Unrequited love: On heartbreak, anger, guilt, scriptlessness, and humiliation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1993;64:377–394

Have a read. I'm done here.
Obligatory mic drop.

Umm these things are only tangentially related. Unrequited love is not the same as loving a fictional character, it could be an OUTCOME of loving a fictional character but that's not a given and not proven in any of your sources. Mic drop indeed.
Actually if you could find studies about men who own and live with real dolls, I think that would be way more comparable to loving a fictional character. Thanks hon!