u/ContestAntique2126

My characters are real people now and I love them.

This is an update on this post I made before.

Once upon a time, I started writing an a fanfic of a movie, in which I made the protagonist of the movie into a system host - and 4 headmate OCs for that character.

Despite the fact I am a singlet, I am alone in my brain, a lot of people really liked my fanfic and thought it was good! It became a really important project to me. And I ended up meeting some really cool friends over it. Among them, a system became one of my best friends.

Turns out, this fanfic mattered a lot to that system too. Over the course of the past two weeks, they introjected all of the fanfic's system characters. Now that they're here, they can read their own fanfic for themselves.

...they told me it was good... got me in my emotions for realsies...

How incredible isn't that? To be friends with my own characters, for my own characters to say they like my story. And to be friends with my friends, too!

Best part is that one of my headmate ocs in the fic is a self-insert. So now no one knows now whether she's a fictive or a factive. She likes the term "fucktive".

You can see the whole saga here, though it probably won't make as much sense to someone not in the fandom.

Exactly what it says on the tin. What's the best thing that ever happened to you because of fanfic? Directly or indirectly.

I met my boyfriend over fanfic! I also apparently helped a lot of people discover themselves and feel seen with my longfic. It made me really proud of myself.

Edit cause someone asked: my longfic, and the happiest thing that happened because of it.

My friends who are a system just recently introjected my self-insert OC Nisa from my Iron Lung fanfic, which is possibly the funniest thing to have ever happened in the history of plurality.

Afterimage is my Iron Lung fanfic where Simon is a system, host of a collective of headmates. Nisa is one of Simon's alters, specifically my self-insert. I originally got the idea to self-insert as Blorbo's alter from this post on tumblr.

When I started writing this fanfic, I had no idea of the ammount of positive responses I'd get. Thanks to it, I met really cool people, including those friends. But I had no idea they'd love the fanfic so much I'd get to meet my own characters. I had no idea my own self-insert would message me on Discord just to tell me my fanfic is that good.

Nisa, you're a menace. Thank you for being so nice to me. 🥹

To make it even funnier, she's already an introject in the fic itself. She's a factive in it, and now she's here again as a... I think this one blurs the line between fictive and factive, really. She's a double introject. An in-two-ject?