Is it normal that my ex-girlfriend is in love with a fictional character?

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I posted this on Yahoo Answers and a troll was being abusive because I asked if I should be concerned for her and he gave me grief saying we're not together so I shouldn't be bothered about her then other members think it's totally okay and healthy and normal.

I'm worried about my ex-girlfriend because she's in love with a character from a video game series and is not dating and staying single because she actually believes she can have a relationship with the character.
We no longer talk to each other because her friends hate me and one of her friends even spent nearly a whole year following me online, watching everything I'm doing, stalking me and then she became an admin of this site and got me suspended on my previous Y!A.

My ex-girlfriend is beautiful and talented but I'm really worried because she was happy when we were together but then we broke up but she never gave me a reason why we broke up but now I think I know why, she's in love with a video game character, she's obsessed with him, she wrote a fan fiction story all about him and now she's a successful artist making a manga & anime series and she even put herself and him together in the storyline (in the drawing they were having sex).

Her friends hate me but one of them messaged me saying that even they're worried about her because they think she's got this idea in her head that some day she'll meet an actual man who is just like him.

Should she seek psychiatric treatment? Am I right to be concerned?

She's in love with that Bryan Fury guy from the PlayStation fighting game series called Tekken.

Oh yeah it's totally normal 8
You're right to be concerned, she needs help 13
I am in love with a cartoon, it's okay 4
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  • TurntechStrider
    5 years ago

    I like fictional characters but in a health way... this is BS... she needs help... maybe thats preventing her from dating anyone sain

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  • TurntechStrider
    5 years ago

    Shes probably one of those weird people that are some odd obsessive weeaboo... Yeah... those people are odd... ditch her... :)

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  • BagThatWasSwell
    5 years ago

    Lol nah, you're probably young like at least under 20, but I have been like this my whole life (attracted to fictional characters). of course I can tell reality from fiction, i just chose fiction, which Im guessing what your GF is choosing at this time. I doubt she will stick with and at least she has friends. Unless she is something like autistic, in which case that sh1t was bound to happen anyway. And btw if you though Y!A was trolls, this site can be way worse sometimes. Just sayin'

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    • MindInReverse
      5 years ago

      I'm 31, she's 32, we are both WAY out of our 20s. How on earth do people think it's healthy and normal for a human being (a living person) to be attracted to a computer graphic image of a fictional character that's not even a living person?!

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      • BagThatWasSwell
        5 years ago

        Aww cute. I didn't say it's healthy and normal but some people's minds just work that way. What exactly do you see is wrong with it? Not everyone is interested in being physical. And besides, Im sure you get off to porn which is also just an image on a computer that you will never be with in reality. I just google'd the dude you mentioned and at least he looks (semi-)realistic.

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        • IrishPotato
          5 years ago

          It's wrong because she shunned him out, him being someone that loved her, because he wasn't like a fictional character. It's wrong because it's drastically affecting real life.

          No OP. This is not normal and she needs a reality check.

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          • BagThatWasSwell
            5 years ago

            Correct if I'm wrong but this OP doesn't mention the reason they broke up (as anything other than his own conjecture) no where does it say she "shunned him out...because he wasn't like a fictional character", nor does it say he loved her? he could have been a total d1ck for all we know (hence why her friends hate him) and so she is now tired of being in a relationship because of him. Plenty of people are asexual and attracted to fictional characters, what is your idea of a "reality check", forcing her to feel attraction to someone? I'd love to hear your magical cure to this.

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            • MindInReverse
              5 years ago

              @BagThatWasSwell

              Actually, my ex-girlfriend dumped me because she was in love with that video game character. And thank you for your "kind" words, she actually got her friend to hack my bank account and transact £400 which belonged to my bank and left me in huge debt. If I was such a terrible boyfriend to her, why would I have saved nearly 2k for a ring she so much wanted with her favourite flower shaped onto it, all made from expensive metal and if I didn't love her then why did I went all out of my way to get her other ex-boyfriend to back off and leave her alone? Her friends hated me because she wanted me hurt and they threatened my family which wasn't fair and I received threats for over year and had been harassed and stalked and had become broke because I had to pay off the money her friends stole and spent. They didn't even give any of the money to charity, they even thought it'd be amusing to post pictures on social media of what they bought: New shoes, drinks at Starbucks, drinks at nightclubs & bars then buying stuff off Amazon and eBay. Do you even know how many years you get in the UK for stealing someone's identity in order to take money and money that actually belongs to the bank branch and not the victim? Do you want to know? Because my mother worked for prisons and I have friends and family in the police force. I did NOTHING except loved my ex-partner and all she ever did was made my life hell for a whole year over a fictional character which she will never have a relationship or children with. And FYI, I don't look at pornography, I prefer the real thing with a real woman, I'm not a loser.

              And you admitted that he looks "semi" realistic. That video game character is actually supposed to be a violent thug in the game that gets off from hurting people so the jokes on you, it just proves that my ex-partner is definitely a basket case because she clearly wants a man who is aggressive and enjoys hurting everything around him and is pure evil.

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  • lordofopinions
    5 years ago

    I didn't vote because if she's an ex why would you want to get involved? She sounds like someone to stear clear of.

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  • McBean
    5 years ago

    My friend in the chat room is in love with a poster boyfriend. She is very normal other than failing to stay cool in hot weather.

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  • jethro
    5 years ago

    Well don't let her go to Comicon.

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