'fictive character' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a character that exists only in a work of fiction (like a novel or movie). For example, "Harry Potter is a beloved fictive character that has captured the imaginations of readers around the world."
I remember when you started claiming that fictive characters are way better than friends, since they are less annoying, more interesting, and never die.
By providing us with such a daft model, he invites us to become one of those fictive characters whom we imagine make his drawings, which often look like the mental regurgitations of a madman or an idiot savant.
Disobedience is staged not only by fictive characters acting out in fantastic spaces: media such as comics and animation can themselves be considered disobedient in relation to other media such as the chronophotographic sequence and the live-action film, respectively.
With characters' fictive freedom comes a respect for chance and accident as the ruling divinities of history.
Behind an exuberant fictive spree that one character likens to "a board game co-designed by MC Escher on a bender and Stephen King in a fever", Mitchell has some very earthbound worries in his sights.
We cannot give Fields sole credit for building up this character's fictive world, in which no scheme is so transparently phony that someone won't fall for it.
Not to mention the challenge of making Jude Law look shady, fuzz away a measure of the pretty, but seductive enough with that gleam of secret knowledge mixed with mischief in his eye— to possibly be a hero, what I'd call a "fictive metaphornication," of his character.
For Babe, Terror the characters are fictive manifestations of the more abstract moods and emotions that making music provokes and stirs.
In a 1992 profile of the author for Vanity Fair, James Kaplan wrote, "With her Norma Desmond sunglasses propped on her dark bobbed hair, her striped boy's shirt... and her ever-present cigarette, she is, somehow, a character of her own fictive creation: a precocious sprite from a Cunard Line cruise ship, circa 1920-something.
His pictures, seemingly made on the fly, captured New Yorkers looking like "vivid characters in a sort of fictive drama," as Walter Hopps, the founding director of the Menil Collection in Houston, wrote in 1995.
