I'm gonna have to agree. People form attachments to fictional all the time. -- Sent from my Palm Pre using Forums
I'm gonna have to agree as well, although they need to realize how much of an emotion they are giving to something fictional and be self-aware when it turns into more of an obsession.
In fact, we are fall in love with ponies, althouth it is not LOVE really ^_^ I think it is a kind of obsession about everything we'd like to become
Actually, people can straight up fall in legitimate love with anything, even fictional characters. I personally don't see ponies as anything more than an aspect of a cartoon I quite like and something to use in art, but it's understandable that it's more than possible to form romantic attachments to characters from a TV show.
I know what you mean. As far as myself is concerned, it can be said that my feeling towards these toys (in case one has got MLP merch) is to protect them. I don't want to be excessive but I know how I feel.
Yes, in fact, I have a crush on Rainbow Dash, and that is not the first time that happened. Though it should be noted that personality is the most important factor for me.
I'm going to say personally no, but I'm sure others feel affection for character concepts. I don't think it's unhealthy so long as the person recognizes thier affections are being placed in fictional characters that can't love them back.
I would agree as well. Most people may like or love a pony because their personality fits what one would see as an ideal partner. It's like that with any fictional character. So I suppose you could say I love Twilight for her nerdy personality. It's perfectly healthy and normal. Just don't let it turn into an obsession, that can become dangerous.
Can someone love what is not real? No, because everything is real when we perceive it. It is simply our choice whether we define it as real or unreal, and when we love something, we tend to acknowledge it's existence to ourselves. Thus, by loving the unreal, it becomes real, making the technical answer to OP's question no.
Sort of what Dan said, How can you love something that isn't real, its not real if you can't think of it, so how could you know you love it if you cannot imagine it?
Ideas enamor us. It's very possible for us to twist things or only view certain aspects and interpret what isn't shown into something complete that we fall in love with. I don't think it's a bad thing. It probably follows along fetishes with a similar concept to imprinting, at first at least. That's one way I see it.
Hmm, I don't think 'real' is the right word here. Fictional is probably closer to the mark. And yes, of course it's possible to love a fictional character. But 'loving' and 'being in love with' should be recognised as two different things. I love the whole cast of MLP, but they've been obvisouly been forged from a writers mind and created in a way that incites an emotional response. We engage with the characters because they have depth and can protray realistic emotions that we recognise. But to say that I was in love with Twilight or Pinkie Pie, knowing full well that they're fictional characters and can't reciprocate? No, of course not, that would be silly. And yes, in some cases probably dangerous.
Yeah I think it's possible, some pony are so adorable Not bad but sad, because this is an unrequited love.
I don't really think it's so bad, but you need a different perspective. Perhaps it leads us to finding out what traits we like in others. Honestly, how many times (when you were younger) did you say, or hear your friends say, "man [character] is so [gushing adjectives of why they like them]!" and then someone else, or you joins in?
