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Although, I know this totally and completely unrelated and you're probably never going to read this, I have something to say about that.

I'm currently writing a visual novel (currently, most of the art swamps my homepage http://buttercupsaiyan.deviantart.com/) that is both writing and drawings ... and I have one avid fan that confuses me deeply.

The series is mostly kid-safe, save for adult themes of war and violence and some very gently implied things.

Yet, privately, I feel quite differently and write stories and art for myself that I do not distribute, knowing that it would trouble others.

What I can understand is this: how can a fan become more attached to the character than me? I've had one or two people just tell me that I was "wrong" about Yukina or Matthew's personality in regards to their sexuality, if the topic ever comes up! [sorry, I was trying to avoid mentioning specific names of characters, but it slipped in]

So, my question to you is, knowing that the creator of such a series probably considered these things but opted to leave them out to reach a wider audience .... would you still consider it platonic if you had access to the full range of their concept material and private doodles/deleted story chapters?

I don't dare compare myself to Abe Yoshitoshi, but it's just some food for thought ... please don't think badly of me ...