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Originally Posted by AuraTwilight
But all what-if scenarios are fiction, because by virtue of not having happened, they do not exist unless someone tells the what-if scenario.
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Not really. A fiction is not a fiction in its own universe. Let's take your standard eroge. You can say it's fiction, but you can only say that in this world. Inside the universe the novel describes what happens is reality not fiction. Now in a standard eroge there are many "routes" you can follow depending on the action you make. You can consider these routes the same of many "what-if" scenarios. While there is often what people call a "true route", it is not mandatory and normally it is implicit that every route is as much "real" as the others.
Conversely if inside this eroge one of the characters writes a story and this story gets somehow briefly narrated, that story is fiction even inside the universe described in the novel and
it is by no means to be considered the same as an alternate route.