// Glossary
Emotional Investment / Empathy
6 topics
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When You Find a Character Who Voices Your Emotions
The act of overlaying oneself onto a character and sharing emotions. The immersive form that forms the basis for feeling voiced.
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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 We Feel Personhood in a Mechanical Voice
The process of feeling another's inner state as one's own. In synthesized voices, the listener's imagination plays a strong role.
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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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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.
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Is Immersion in Fiction an Escape from Reality or a Form of Richness?
Overlaying one's emotions onto fictional characters or relationships and feeling as if they were one's own.