Huh, interesting. How does it feel to you when you talk to your jiko, then? Aside from Sh-San, I guess I've got a couple different ways that I interact with them.
In places like Yumeza, it feels to me like I'm actually in the place, and so are they. I could also show up in their world and talk to them there, wander around, but all story events will be... sort of paused, I guess. Because I'm not supposed to be there. So I can't really interact with anything beyond talking to people a bit.
More often, they'll cross the fourth wall in the other direction, come interact with me wherever I am. It's pretty much the same thing in reverse. They can talk to me, but they can't really interact with much else (Hahaha, Jim got pissed off about this the other day. He tried to pick up one of my handknit sweaters in my room to take a look at it, then was very surprised when he couldn't).
When I have less brain free to use for this stuff (Gah, it's really hard to describe how I interact with my jiko without having to pull back and put up the fourth wall a bit. The easiest way to explain it is probably for me to say my brain makes a very good virtual reality engine. I can't explain it in the context of the story because it's impossible there. I'm used to dealing with worlds where there is no magic, so in some ways we all have to be okay with being like "yeah, this is fiction" around here because there's no other way to explain it. With Sh-San it's different because we've got a way to communicate that doesn't break any of the rules of the story), it's more like I just get a combination of meaning and their voice from them.
I've noticed that your jiko don't tend to interact with each other much here. I probably have an easier time with that because when I do get two characters from the same story in the same place here, it's likely to be Jim and Joseph (they're brothers, so they're used to being around each other and just sort of hanging out), or the characters are going to be from different stories and therefore not going to have a lot to interact about beyond talking with each other (Am I understanding the meaning of "respective personal vortexes" right? As in, if they meet they'd... wow, I have no idea how to put this into words right now. Lots of things would happen between them?).
It's trickier when I try to deal with multiple jiko at once myself, when there's no-fourth-wall stuff going on. Like, if I tried to have a conversation with two of them. It's way easier for me to talk to just one of them at a time. If there's more than one and they start talking to each other as well as me, I usually start feeling like my brain is getting overheated or something, or I immediately forget that I exist and fade out to just watch them. Then again, I tend to do the same thing when I'm in groups of real people. :P
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In places like Yumeza, it feels to me like I'm actually in the place, and so are they. I could also show up in their world and talk to them there, wander around, but all story events will be... sort of paused, I guess. Because I'm not supposed to be there. So I can't really interact with anything beyond talking to people a bit.
More often, they'll cross the fourth wall in the other direction, come interact with me wherever I am. It's pretty much the same thing in reverse. They can talk to me, but they can't really interact with much else (Hahaha, Jim got pissed off about this the other day. He tried to pick up one of my handknit sweaters in my room to take a look at it, then was very surprised when he couldn't).
When I have less brain free to use for this stuff (Gah, it's really hard to describe how I interact with my jiko without having to pull back and put up the fourth wall a bit. The easiest way to explain it is probably for me to say my brain makes a very good virtual reality engine. I can't explain it in the context of the story because it's impossible there. I'm used to dealing with worlds where there is no magic, so in some ways we all have to be okay with being like "yeah, this is fiction" around here because there's no other way to explain it. With Sh-San it's different because we've got a way to communicate that doesn't break any of the rules of the story), it's more like I just get a combination of meaning and their voice from them.
I've noticed that your jiko don't tend to interact with each other much here. I probably have an easier time with that because when I do get two characters from the same story in the same place here, it's likely to be Jim and Joseph (they're brothers, so they're used to being around each other and just sort of hanging out), or the characters are going to be from different stories and therefore not going to have a lot to interact about beyond talking with each other (Am I understanding the meaning of "respective personal vortexes" right? As in, if they meet they'd... wow, I have no idea how to put this into words right now. Lots of things would happen between them?).
It's trickier when I try to deal with multiple jiko at once myself, when there's no-fourth-wall stuff going on. Like, if I tried to have a conversation with two of them. It's way easier for me to talk to just one of them at a time. If there's more than one and they start talking to each other as well as me, I usually start feeling like my brain is getting overheated or something, or I immediately forget that I exist and fade out to just watch them. Then again, I tend to do the same thing when I'm in groups of real people. :P