I’ve noticed there’s a breed of self-proclaimed kin who don’t fit any of the standard definitions. They’re not fake, or trolls, but they’re not spiritual/psychological kin, nor are they synpath or copinglink. They take on “kin” identities for the sake of aesthetic, IE that girl who claimed to be “cupcakekin” (she wasn’t a troll). Can we come up with a new name for these individuals?

I think that falls best under the heading of “non-kin IDs”.

My dad believes strongly in the concept of infinity and past lives, and we were talking about how it might be possible to be multiple fictional characters in past lives. I really, really want to tell him I’m fiction/otherkin because I hate not being able to talk to him or anyone else I’m close to about it and I know I will be safe if I explain it the right way, but I don’t want to say something wrong. I’m not the best at explain things and I don’t want to mess up. How should I come out to him?

I think if you have a good relation ship with your dad, and if he believes in the general concepts of infinity and past lives,…

My best friend doesn’t generally identify as kin. He doesn’t keep a kin blog, and he doesn’t, generally, write about his experience of being outside…

@vagabondwyrm just sent me a link relevant to those with interests in strange kinfoods, carnivores esspecially.  http://the-future-now.tumblr.com/post/144977692554/would-you-eat-it-yes-this-is-all-food-and-it  Its food that MOVES on your plate, and…

is it possible for sexualities to sort of like, for lack of better terminology, “come with you”? i guess? like, the character i’m fictionkin with is bi, and i’ve always accepted it. no big “realization” happened or anything, it’s always just been a part of me, just been there. ever since i was little i’ve kinda just ‘known’ that i’m bi. is that normal? can that actually happen?

Yep that can totally happen, anon ^^. Anyone else have this experience?

Do you happen to know of any blogs about copinglink and creating a copinglink identity? I love both this blog and your soulbonder blog, so I wish to find one similar (with the same amount of correct info, or at least no misinformation) for copinglink. Most of the copinglink tag is correcting people who think it is otherkin, which is good info, but frustrating.

Unfortunately I don’t know any good, dedicated copinglink blogs.  If anybody knows some, please reblog or send an  ask with the url! In the meantime,…

i dont act anything or even talk like the character im kin with but im still very sure i am kin with him. but most people who are kin with the same character talk and act like him. im kinda worried that this might be me trying to be the character rather than actually being him even if i have a memory associated with my canon. long story short, if you dont act like a character youre kin with does that make you less valid of kin?

Don’t worry anon, whether you act like your kintype or not in this life is irrelevant to being kin with them. People change. The life…

In my source material and canon I’ve got a wicked set of chompers and probably the longest and creepiest tongue I’ve ever seen. Is there any foods, sweets or not, that you may be able to suggest so that I can at least have the satisfaction of using those teeth again? ((A bit of a weird ask, I know, but I kinda wanna try out these teeth more on new and or obscure foods.))

Hey anon! I’m not much of a mouth-sensory person, so I asked a close friend of mine who’s dragonkin (with a particularly wicked set of…

So when I first realized I was kin of a certain character myself and the character were nothing alike but as the source went on and his character was fleshed out more I started to notice more similarities as if his personality was evolving into mine. It was odd but comforting. I was wondering if anyone else has any similar experiences?

Hey anon. Interesting experience. That doesn’t sound too far fetched to me, honestly. I’d imagine other people have had similar experiences.

well, i have a question. there’s one character i feel really close to, i don’t have any memories tho. i don’t feel like i’m emulating them in purpose (looked at fictionhearted, nor do i feel the need to. really feels like me, but somehow also not? or not anymore? i’m confused. i don’t exactly miss anyone, but it somehow also feels right. well, as much as it can, me being kin to the original canon of the character. (the character i’m talking about is an au version) is there something for this??

I can’t tell you what your feelings mean, I’m afraid, anon. You’ll have to take time and do more introspection. To me it sounds like…

ive been looking around but i cant seem to find any information on it, is there a form of fictionkin where its not like an alternate reality or any memories, but given the same situation as a character you wouldve been exactly like them? ive been relating a lot to a few characters and im questioning if thats kin or just relating way more than average. (sorry if this is phrased weird)

I’m not sure. This sounds a little like a synpath or a hearttype to me? What do my followers think?

Hey, I was wondering if you might be able to help me out with something. I know you specialize on fictionkin but… recently a person told me that they are factkin with me. Not as a joke like some people’s “I’m factkin with this” sort of thing but actually legit factkin with me. And it really has me freaking out a bit and scared because I have a very unstable sense of identity so it really ran me through a loop. How can I cope with this? What should I do? Any advice appreciated!

Hi there, anon. I’m sorry that it took me 40 minutes to answer this ask, since I was on lunch as normally this is the…

is it unusual to actively not want to meet anyone from your canon, but to want to meet people from other canons? I rather badly hurt the main characters in my canon and I’m sure they wouldn’t want anything to do with me (and I’d have nothing to say to them anyways), but I think I could be good friends with certain people from other canons.

This doesn’t sound too unusual to me, anon. I generally enjoy meeting people from other canons/sources than my own too. 

The Persona 5 game just got a release date, and with the new trailer I feel a little too much like they just put me in it with one of the characters revealed. I went through this with P4 and found out I soulbonded one of the characters and wasn’t actually kin (I was like super panicked about it for a while). Now I’m just like, ho-hum please don’t do this. Idk. Just wanted to share I guess, bc I don’t ever talk kin or soulbonds on tumblr. It’s just frustraing at this point. You ever deal w this?

Oh yeah, anon. I hear you. Sometimes I see a glimpse of something, in a trailer, or a list on youtube or something and I;m…

I saw a term recently that I thought would be helpful for the community as a whole. For characters that you relate to intensely/exemplify your personality and aesthetic in this life but are not kin with I have seem people call them Aesthetic Characters. It’s different from Comfort Characters in that while comfort characters bring comfort these characters are just kind of like pointing and going “same!”

That sounds like an awesome term. Thanks, anon!

Is it normal/common to be shifted nearly every day? I had a short mental shift yesterday and a longer phantom shift today into my fictotype, and most days I feel phantom body parts (but usually it’s cat-like ears or bird-like wings (but not both) that I feel, which are not a part of any kintype I know of, I only know of one so far). I’m not sure if this is the best place to ask, so sorry if it isn’t. Thanks in advance ~N.

Asking whats normal or not in the alterhuman community is a mixed bag. In my *personal* experience, I tend to shift a lot, and more…