I mean, I suspect many of those muse gags really were the writers dealing with soulbonding feelings. The best way to make something less scary is to make silly jokes about it, right?

God, that's so horrible. I feel like having an intense big fandom of you would be the WORST. Talk about a head trip! Especially if it's like movie fandom, which seem short-lived but INTENSE. It seems like that could be really rough on a fictive, but if people have ever discussed it outside of, "ugh my fandom sucks," I haven't seen it, and it's not really something we could write about, since we've only had one instance of a fan faving two headmates before they came back, and said fan has been polite about it.