This is such a weird question to me because I don't imagine any existence of myself while reading. That's the point of reading for me. I forget I'm anywhere at all.
this new trend where people don't want their favourite characters to experience any kind of conflict or struggle or go through the lowest of lows... what are we doing here. literally what is even the point of storytelling then.
Media literacy in fandom today is projecting yourself onto a character, knowing little about them, using hc as facts, going into canon discussions, and yelling at everyone, including the author, for making them do things you don't like.