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Fictional content is not a victimless crime purely because, with some very minute exceptions it is simply not a crime.

It is, simply put, not actually illegal, as in not actually in violation of a written, valid law, to write about a fictional character raping another fictional character. Or murdering them. Or taking their child as a slave.

And, yes, by reality's standards those things are horrifying and illegal, but those people do not exist. Those actions do not exist. Those laws have not been violated because other than as words on a page or pixels on a screen, they do not exist.

Much in the way that fictional characters cannot harm you, or rob you, or marry you or touch you or even speak to you, they cannot commit crimes or be victims of crimes. They are not real people. They are not entities. You cannot harm them any more than they can step out of a screen or off a page and violate laws that exist in real life.

They do not need protecting because they do not exist. They are not allusions to real people or proxies for real people. Nothing that you do to or make a fictional character do has any impact on real people. Actions against fictional characters do not equate to the capability for or desire to do the same to real people.

"But its disgusting to do that to [character]!"

No it isn't, because they're not real. They don't exist. They don't know what's being 'done' to them because they're fictional. They do not need your protection and your championship.

Real victims do. Real people do. They do not need you to start arguments on Tumblr about fanfiction. They need you to force change in the justice system and help increase funding for support outreach and efforts. Fictional characters do not.

“It is the height of fashion. I had to commit murder to obtain it.”