Fictionkin Q&A
From a discussion I had with someone earlier via message. Touches on multiverse theory, author/creator dichotomy, how doubles exist, the perception of kin only being ‘popular’ types, etc.
Question: If fictionkin is being spiritually connected to a character then how do you see the writers who created said character?
For example, Andrew Hussie creator of homestuck and the character Vriska Serket. How do you view him, since he is the creator of the character you share a soul with?
Answer: I view him as the creator of a story, which is separate from the real universe that I lived in as Vriska.
With Hussie specifically sometimes I wonder if he’s also kin of that universe, or one like it, but typically I view creators as not having anything to do with the universe they’re coincidentally writing about.
I’m a writer myself, and I write plenty of things that I’m not necessarily kin of or even connected to, they’re just cool things that I write about. But I always remember that somewhere out in the multiverse, whatever I’m writing about is happening.
Q: So if I may ask why do you think is it mostly characters that have been popularized by media that have kin associated with them?
A: Firstly, I don’t actually think that’s the case. But I think the perception of it comes from the fact that its much easier to recognize that you’re kin of something if you’ve actually seen/heard of it. And that happens mostly when a work is popularized.
I think there are probably a lot of otherkin out there who are actually fictionkin, but haven’t found their ‘source material’. and I think a lot of people who don’t consider themselves kin are but haven’t been awakened because they haven’t had the ‘trigger’ of seeing their world depicted in fiction
Q: Okay so as a writer and a fictionkin you said that you see your writing as something happening in another universe does that technically mean that you are the creator of this said alternate universe in which this characters are alive
A: I do not believe that I, or anyone else (in this world) creates universes by writing. I believe that the multiverse is ALREADY infinite, and therefore anything that one can write already exists somewhere in the multiverse.
It’s sort of like writing a character named Bob who’s a fisherman, and has brown hair, and then you find out that two towns over there’s a guy you never met named Bob who is a fisherman with brown hair. But much, much more specific and detailed, because of multiverse/infinity.
Q: So you don’t see yourself as the actual creator of the character, but instead someone who has just happened to be inspired to write about said character.
A: Pretty much, yes. I would say I develop characters/plots through normal writing methods (part inspiration part hard work) and those characters just happen to exist elsewhere.
Q: How can more than one person be kin to the same character?
A: Multiverse theory. There are an infinite number of universes with subtle (or larger) variations of events as they played out. Different people are simply that character from a different universe.
