jackofallgeeks | Characters and the lives we give them.

This, ventriloquism and it's implications in human psychology, in another one of many things that fascinates me. In particular I'm intrigued by the divorce case that named a dummy as a co-respondent, citing that the dummy insulted her and physically abused her. I think it's very much like the phenomenon of masks (which maybe isn't necessarily too different from the phenomenon of the Internet, or really the phenomenon which is simply inter-personal interactions). How much can a dummy be said to be separate from it's operator? How much life can be given to a character above and beyond what it's creator intends, or even understands?