i'm very firm on the fiction part of real person fiction for a reason, yeah. and i would hope other people would engage with me in the same spirit - even if privately we have different ideas of what the members' relationships with each other look like. my default is: i don't know until they tell me themselves, and that's the place i'm coming from in my engagement with rpf. i don't know! and i'd like it to stay that way unless one of them wants to say something of their own free will!