A strange fate has befallen me, as a #fictive person who quite deliberately established and hammered into solid place a set of associations between myself (and my own departed real-life family) and a set of fictional characters from #Undertale. I both knew and did not know what I was doing. I made conscious decisions that I later could not remember making; I had to rediscover my own work, much as Zaphod Beeblebrox had to rediscover the violent psychic surgery he did on himself in order to investigate the true nature of his Universe.
As a result of this, my #plural headspace is full not merely of fictive introjects but of #factive ones, mostly departed scholars and scientists. Perhaps some of the Heroic Spirits I know have a similar dual identity as fictional AND historical figures. Was there an Arthur and a Mordred, in real life? Perhaps not, but there are an Arturia and a Mordred Pendragon in my imagination, and they are my friends.
When it comes to reading #CSLewis, therefore, I run into a powerful and painful phenomenon that I can only ally to musical discord or optical interference or "heterodyning" of closely similar radio signals. His fiction and my "factives" interfere badly with each other and this causes me pain.
~Chara