But fictional characters are created by writers and artists? Just because somebody imagined something, that means it exists in one of infinite parallel universes? That implies one of two things: either humans are Gods who can create new universes by just imagining whatever, or fictional characters existed before the writer/artist imagined them and it’s not actually their creation. They’re both absurd, and the second one is actually disrespectful.
It implies neither. A truly infinite multiverse demands that not only any fictional world can exist, but that all fictional worlds must exist, including every possible variation of those worlds.
I am a writer and creator myself, so please don’t try to pull the ‘offensive to writers’ thing on me. I have written two novels, and a 1000 page webcomic. Writing is hard, frustrating, amazing work.
Because of multiverse theory,anything I create, or anyone else creates, already exists somewhere else. Not that we’ll ever see it, or get there, necessarily, but it does exist.
However, its mere existence doesn’t take away from the creativity it took to write about them. No one is saying that (most) authors somehow channel information from some other world to create their writing. No. They spend time thinking about characters, motivation, plot, setting. They carefully chose their prose, and their narrative structure. All of it is hard, amazing, creative work.
You can read more on my website: http://fictionkin.net/multiverse-theory/
or http://fictionkin.net/for-those-who-have-a-hard-time-understanding/
Or go ahead and read Robert Heinlein’s novel Number of the Beast.
