Did you ever wish a fictional character would be real? Did you ever feel lonely after finishing a game? Then let's explore together why you feel that way....
This phenomenon has something to do with building parasocial relationships with fictional characters and experiencing post game depression, after you part from them.








Most important articles:

Playing for Love in a Romantic Video Game: Avatar Identification, Parasocial Relationships, and Chinese Women's Romantic Belief:
https://sci-hub.ee/10.1080/15205436.2...

Parasocial Interaction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasoc...

Mass Communication and Society:
https://sci-hub.ee/10.1207/s15327825m...

The PSI-Process Scales. A new measure to assess the intensity and breadth of parasocial processes:
https://sci-hub.ee/10.1515/COMM.2008.025

Parasocial Interaction: A Review of the Literature and a Model for Future Research:
https://sci-hub.ee/10.1207/S1532785XM...

Valar Morghulis (All Parasocial Men Must Die): Having Nonfictional Responses to a Fictional Character:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/08824096.2...

“They May Be Pixels, But They’re MY Pixels:” Developing a Metric of Character Attachment in Role-Playing Video Games:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1089/cpb.2007.0137

Social surrogacy: How favored television programs provide the experience
of belonging:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.jesp.200...

The Player’s Parasocial Interaction with Digital Entities:
https://sci-hub.zidianzhan.net/10.114...

Parasocial Interaction, the COVID-19 Quarantine, and Digital Age Media:
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

Psychologists on how to fill the emptiness you feel after bingeing a great show :
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/p...

Self-insert survey:
  / otome_selfinsert_survey_results  

A great video about post game depression:
   • Post Game Depression Explained  


Games:
Piofiore
Cupid Parasite
Variable Barricade
Olympia Soiree
Collar x Malice
Cafe Enchante

Movies:
Cast Away (2011)
House of Cards (2013)
Get out (2017)
A few good men (1992)
Revolutionary road (2009)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
GLUED (2012)

Music:
Travel (Lukrembo)
Cupid Parasite OST: It's like a romantic movie; Exciting Adventure; Heartbreak parasite
Olympia Soiree OST: Awayuki Iro; Saikou
Shuuen no Virche OST: Main Theme; Memory

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