Proposes a new distinction in bleed phenomena in role-playing and AI character generation, suggesting implications for both.
Scholarship on bleed, the spillover between player and character in role-playing, has differentiated the phenomenon into content-type subtypes: emotional, procedural, memetic, and identity bleed. These typologies classify bleed by what crosses the player-character boundary rather than by how the crossing restructures the player, and that choice limits their transferability to domains where the relevant content types cannot be presupposed. This paper proposes a modality distinction orthogonal to the content-type axis: flusentio, the transfer of felt states, and fluhabitus, the restructuring of integrated perceptual-cognitive-motor orientation. The distinction was latent in the etymology of the original term (Temte 2014), built from fluere and sentio and therefore affective-specific by its own construction, though no contrasting term made this visible. We supply the contrast from fluere and habitus, drawing on the Bourdieuian sense of habitus as durable transposable disposition. The distinction earns its keep in two domains. In human role-playing it separates carrying a character's grief home from perceiving authority differently for weeks afterward, the latter being an integrated restructuring irreducible to any single content type. In AI character generation it dissolves the question of whether language models experience bleed by splitting it into affective transfer, currently unanswerable, and dispositional pattern persistence, empirically tractable and architecturally instantiated through conversation history, persistent memory, and project-level instruction. The Fylgja Ontology supplies the entity that occupies the player-position; the herosproxy framework supplies the mechanism that predicts when dispositional persistence should occur.
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Storm Bjørn Temte (2026) studied this question.
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