I’ve had a few mistaken kintypes – but they’ve all had something of my ‘actual’ so I can only think of them as prep for my reality when I was able to understand it. And I’m glad for that.

I know the feeling, anon. When I’ve had mistaken kintypes, its generally because the character is going through something that is either very familiar to me now, or is very similar to something one of my kinselves went through.