[REDACTED], the Library of Lost Characters [ EDIT ]

"Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off." ~ John Banville

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There is a library that contains only a particular type of book. It does not care if a book is fantasy or factual, comedy or tragedy, romance or adventure. It does not care who wrote its books, or what stories they tell. It is a library that only hold books containing a curse. An affliction.

A book is cursed when a demon invades it, like a parasite. It finds a character to mimic, to supplant, and to replace. From there, it can do anything it likes. It becomes a god, with knowledge of that book from cover to cover, each and every word. And it is capable of changing those words, those pages, the very fabric of the story itself. Once inside, it will warp the story to its own ends, so that it may infect the minds of all those who read it.

A demon can be destroyed, however, without harming the book. The characters the demon has replaced can be pulled from the book into the real world. While such wayward characters have little hope of righting the wrongs in their own realities, they can combat changes to others. And so, the library employs teams of these characters, these Redacted, to exorcise each others' worlds and destroy the demon once and for all.