Like Please Please I Want To Know But I Can't Just Go Up And Ask People Questions Like That - Tumblr Posts

It's so funny whenever I see creative people (most often in the style of comics, for some reason) talk about characters getting them to do things or reassuring them or even just talking to them because I always just sit there like. Do they know? Am I looking too deeply into this? Is this some kind of bizarre metaphor? Hey. Hey author. Do you know what a system is. Please answer my silent question. Do you know how plural your work is?