continuing on the train of thought of "these connections to characters are because they can express things that i want to but can't."
Real Life Kitsch is a cognitively impaired, tired, talentless, asocial deadweight in a capitalist country.
so she doesn't get opportunities to be snarky, or bubbly, or clever, & so on, though she _is_ those things. (?)
i guess it could be framed that these connections function as a sort of extension, then? with variable "closeness," explaining why they sometimes function as a "self," sometimes a "representation," & sometimes a soulbond-thingy.
i might be looking at the cause-effect backwards, though.
identity borbling Afficher plus
from a plural framing, i've heard feelings and thoughts that get repressed or distanced from can gain life of their own. i suppose this could be similar, but, hmmh.
from a more alterhuman framing, i can see how there'd be a push-pull of "this is what kitsch is, but this obviously isn't kitsch."
i mean, i'm sure there's multiple angles and core factors.
like rhea being tied into my internet image, and lion developing this feeling of separate coexistence. both of those would probably cause Weird Feelings in any case.
maybe i want to separate those from self-expression? would that actually make it any clearer or possible to process?