// Glossary
Emotional Investment / Empathy
6 topics
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Is It Natural to Mourn the 'Death' of a Character?
Projecting one's own feelings onto another's (whether real or fictional) emotions or situation. With VTubers, strong identification easily occurs through avatar and voice.
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Can Emotions Toward Creative Works Be Explained to Someone?
Overlaying one's own emotions onto fictional characters or relationships. As a difficult-to-explain 'felt experience,' it lies at the core of fujoshi culture.
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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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What Moves Us When We Are Moved by Fictional Romance?
Overlaying one's emotions onto fictional characters or events and feeling as if they were one's own. Heightens immersion in the story.
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On Encountering Stories That Put Your Emotions into Words
The experience of projecting oneself onto fictional characters or relationships and sharing their emotions as if they were one's own. Especially intense in fujoshi culture.