Well, that's a depressing thought. But I can't quite believe real people would react in that way.
(I mean, to be fair, I have that objection to a lot of canon!Pern...)
Can't think why F'lar would care about fiction. It seems beneath him to try to stamp it out, but irrelevant to prove its existence-- he doesn't seem to go around being curious about things that aren't politically or militarily useful...
Wait a minute. Have we ever seen F'lar have any feelings about anything that isn't either Lessa or his job? He used to be a womaniser, but evidently not anymore... he occasionally snarks, e.g. at F'nor about Canth eating a lot... and it's probably a mark of Anne's bad writing that I can't tell whether we're supposed to read him as a real workaholic who doesn't bother to have outside interests, or whether Anne just forgot to give him any. And other than that... he occasionally thinks mean, gossipy things about other people, and that's pretty much it.
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(I mean, to be fair, I have that objection to a lot of canon!Pern...)
Can't think why F'lar would care about fiction. It seems beneath him to try to stamp it out, but irrelevant to prove its existence-- he doesn't seem to go around being curious about things that aren't politically or militarily useful...
Wait a minute. Have we ever seen F'lar have any feelings about anything that isn't either Lessa or his job? He used to be a womaniser, but evidently not anymore... he occasionally snarks, e.g. at F'nor about Canth eating a lot... and it's probably a mark of Anne's bad writing that I can't tell whether we're supposed to read him as a real workaholic who doesn't bother to have outside interests, or whether Anne just forgot to give him any. And other than that... he occasionally thinks mean, gossipy things about other people, and that's pretty much it.