I had to google what "Tulapmancy" is and I was truly impressed by the very concept of it. I can indeed see that there is some cynical humor behind how society approach the term and concept, however I do believe that it is quite close to reality.
Was it in his "Metaphysics" that Descartes proposed that all ideas originate from the outside, that a human mind cannot create anything independent of external influence? I am myself a believe that ideas are independent and that they chose us, as opposed to us choosing, let alone developing, them. They modify us, we do not modify them. Our minds are too underdeveloped to understand the ideas in their complete form, our minds butcher them and absorb the small pieces that they can, reflecting them in different processes (speech, writing, physical creations).
As such, ideas, and characters being ideas, would be independent, not a reflection of us, rather we produce an imperfect, partial reflection of them. Like a tiny piece of glass that can only show your nose, the corner of your mouth, being too small to reflect your whole being.
