Apparently, this all started with some Star Trek stories and RPF or “real person fic” started in a Duran Duran fanzine. 2007, Ruadhan J. McElroy, Simple Man: The Autobiography of Peter West, S. H. S. Publications, →ISBN, page 196:
Much RPF is about celebrities' private relationships, just as most soap opera narratives concern characters' private relationships. 2011, Abigail De Kosnik, “Soaps for Tomorrow: Media Fans Making Online Drama from Celebrity Gossip”, in Sam Ford, Abigail De Kosnik, C. Lee Harrington, editors, The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 245:
The first known "RPF" is believed to have been authored by members of the Brontë family, who went on to become famous for writing the novels Jane Eyre (Charlotte) and Wuthering Heights (Emily). Based on a children's role-paying game about the Napoleonic Wars, the series featured the Duke of Wellington; his two sons, Charles and Arthur; and their archenemy, Alexander Percy, partly based on Napoleon. 2008, Miriam Segall, Career Building Through Fan Fiction Writing: New Work Based on Favorite Fiction, The Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 25:
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(Rwanda, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Rwandan Patriotic Front.
The moral stature of the RPF has recently been called into question by a French judicial report accusing Kagame, now president of Rwanda, and other RPF soldiers of having shot down Habyarimana's plane. 2004 April 3, Alison Des Forges, The Guardian:
Bugera had his first contact with the RPF through an affluent friend, whose family had helped fund the rebels since their creation. 2011, Jason K Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, Public Affairs, published 2012, page 73: