// Glossary
Emotional Investment / Empathy
6 topics
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Are Emotions Toward Characters the Same as Emotions Toward Real People?
Overlaying one's emotions onto fictional characters and feeling as if they truly exist. A core experience in fujoshi culture.
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Do We Overlay Reality onto Fictional Relationships?
The act of overlaying oneself onto fictional characters or relationships and sharing emotions as if they were one's own. Creates a strong sense of immersion.
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What Happens When You Deeply Empathize with Another's Creation?
Overlaying one's emotions onto another's creation and feeling the characters' joy or pain as one's own. A psychological process that advances both self-understanding and understanding of others simultaneously.
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Is the Emotion Toward One's 'Oshi' Friendship, Love, or Something Else?
Overlaying one's own inner emotions and experiences onto characters or stories. The core mechanism of a fujoshi's 'oshi love.'
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Why Do We Feel Attached to Leftover Materials We Can't Throw Away?
Projecting emotions or meaning onto inanimate objects. The phenomenon of feeling that 'memories from that time' are packed into leftover materials.
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Where Is the Body When Empathizing with an Avatar?
The act of feeling another's emotions or state as one's own and resonating with it bodily. In VTuber contexts, it refers to overlaying one's own emotions onto the avatar's expressions, voice, and movements.