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?

I’m pretty sure I’m kin with *something*, but i can’t find the right word for myself. I’ve been looking through common tags and i know more or less the definition of what i am, but the exact label evades me. It’s really frustrating and I’m not sure how to make progress on learning more about myself. I’m starting to doubt myself because nobody else seems to have this kintype. Help?

I’m so sorry your kin journey has been so frustrating, anon. Why don’t you send me another message with the “definition of what you are” and…

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…

This might be beyond your ability to answer, but do you have any advice for ‘kin who suffer with delusions? I don’t feel my kinness is inherently a delusion, but I do feel at times my experiences with it contribute to an inability to differentiate between fiction/reality. My grasp on reality can be fragile when I get into bad states, and I’m not sure how to keep infalsifiable memories and emotions from triggering a reality break.

I’m really sorry anon, I’m really ill equipped to give you advice about delusions and separating them from non-delusional internal experiences. Speaking from personal experience…

I’m kin with a character from a folktale. Would I qualify as fictionkin? I can’t find any evidence that the events happened in this world, so I assume it happened on another Earth and since it’s been written down and published, I feel like I qualify. On the other hand I’ve seen people use the term immortalkin and I was immortal for a while. (It’s complicated; Death eventually let me die after a while.) What’s the correct term for someone in my situation?

People use lots of little words to boil down their kin experience. Just because someone says they’re immortalkin doesn’t make them not otherkin. Think of…

is there such a thing as a ‘non-kin id’?? like you can point at a character and unironically say ‘me! thats me’ but you dont think you were them in a past life or anything?? is that chara a synpath or are you fiction-hearted?? what if you change and you no longer id as that chara?? can u have a crush on your own id?? im sorry if this question has been asked before but im just very confused

is there such a thing as a ‘non-kin id’?? like you can point at a character and unironically say ‘me! thats me’ but you dont…

Have you ever met anyone that was kin of someone from a joke canon? I have legitimate kin “pings” from a series on Youtube that is 100% parody and I have absolutely no idea what to make of it. I’ll probably never be able to tell anyone. If I said what it was right now, there’d be no way anyone would think I’m not lying. What I want to know is if anyone else has been in this situation.

I absolutely have. The first one who comes to mind is someone who told me their kintype was from a youtube ‘abridged series’, aka, a joke…

Oddly enough, I appear to be kin with characters who actually are or are affiliated to bulls. They are all different, I can tell that, they all have differing memories and astral parts, so I am almost certain I am not confusing one kintype for many. Is this something that has been know to happen? Folks being kin to a large group of characters with a similar theme?

This doesn’t seem that odd to me, anon. I think a lot of people who have multiple kintypes can follow a sort of ‘throughline’ of similarity…