Agreed, a lot of our earliest records of our alter headmates are the results of us presuming we were characters and trying to shoehorn each other into stories. It was about always a failure. That would indeed make for an interesting survey! Heh, we've got a paid account, we could make a silly informal poll...

Then again, some outsourced fictives seem to have a very different relationship to their media than we do. It sounds really unpleasant to have to watch an episode of a show to get your life story back, or to feel it or the fandom IS your life, rather than stories about it. Our fictives mostly view the stories about them with feelings ranging from embarassment to scientific fascination, but the stories are just stories to them... Maybe reminders of emotional times, but no more. (Though one of us gets way more ontologically uncomfortable when we're reading about the INSPIRATIONS for his fictional self; that woogs him out more than the stories themselves.)