At first I liked feeling special, but then it felt really scary, almost like he'd planned for bad things to happen to me, just to make a good story.

Most of them aren't very nice, unless their real-person's not very nice to begin with. Then the Mirror might be better, but they still all serve the Queen of Hearts. And she hates us, or at least she seems like she's angry most of the time, whenever she bothers with us?