i’m questioning fictionkin at the moment; is it okay to know that if you were x character it was a long time ago and to be okay in your own body? i mean the character is a human so i’m not expecting dysphoria but like i don’t feel discomfort about being alive now it’s more just like since i found this character i’ve found part of me, like a lost memory? idk it’s all weird

Its absolutely okay, anon ^^ For some people body stuff is not as big of a deal as for other people. Some people experience heavy…

sorry if this is a weird question. i’ve been having memories that have been slowly seeping in over the past few years. however, it never occurred to me that i could be kin because i attribute my memories to mental illness, not to the multiverse theory, even though they definitely feel real to me. is this what psychological kin is, or is that something else?

It sounds like it could fall within psychological kin to me, though I’m by no means an expert.

I very strongly resonate with a character, but I don’t really understand yet what it means to be kin with one or if the feelings I have can be counted as being kin. I don’t consider myself to BE said character in any different timeline or reality, but I do very much feel a deep connection to them. Would it be okay to ask for some advice?

Hey anon, I’m happy to help. Since you don’t consider yourself to BE this character, then the connection you’re looking to describe wouldn’t be called…

Do you know if it’s possible for someone who is -hearted to experience extreme emotional or spiritual instability because of a connection? (I.e. Being -hearted with Asriel Dreemurr of Undertale, and feeling crushing guilt, regret, or absolute loneliness). If that’s not being -hearted, then what would that be?

I think that sounds like a hearttype to me, but I’d definitely like others opinions. I know my own hearttype effects me emotionally a lot.…

Okay so something has been bothering the hell out of me for MONTHS and I need a second opinion. Ever since Silent Hills PT came out I’ve been *beyond* drawn to it, I keep watching and re-watching videos of letsplayers playing it over and over, and I’ve been obsessively looking for games like it, but nothing is close enough to satisfy me, not even Layers of Fear, which actually took directly from PT. I just deduced it to being a kin thing but I don’t feel as if I’m anyone from the game. So.. ????

Maybe you’re someone who experienced a haunting in some way? Try looking at other haunting media, if you’ve looked at other games. (You’ve checked out…

(Anon from /post/143658539862/) I was partly referring to *insert incoherent screaming of kin panic here*, but I also felt “immediately slapped over the head with Kinfeels” and tried to convince myself I’m not fictionkin of the character I probably am (guess I failed at that). Fortunately, I don’t feel the *insert incoherent screaming of kin panic here* as much anymore (though I definitely did feel it in January).

I’m glad you’ve managed mostly to get through it, anon ^^

I hope this doesn’t cause more trouble for you…but have you noticed that one of those people in the hskin tag being the kin control or whatever is kin with Peeta? Y’know a canonically poc character who was whitewashed in the films? And the person who is kin with him is white? Idk man I just needed to share this somewhere because the hypocrisy is real.

I hadn’t noticed that, anon. That’s very interesting to note. Its sad, but sometimes people are hypocrites. 

Where’s the line between fictionkin and otherkin? For instance, if we define otherkin as “non-human soul” and fictionkin as “soul of a fictional character”, there’s still a ton of overlap. Dragons and elves are fictional, but elf/dragonkin are otherkin. Homestuck trolls are non-human, but they’re fictionkin. Yet, both of these could qualify for either label. How do you differentiate the two?

Its a very fuzzy line indeed, and someone can be both otherkin and fictionkin at the same time. For instance anyone who has a fictotype…

I see a lot of people saying how much they want to connect to the people from their canon and they see themselves as still the character or thing they were kin with, while I just want to put it all behind me and try to disconnect from it. Is this normal? Should I feel bad?

You should absolutely not feel bad. People deal with being kin in different ways. Honestly, the current obsession with finding ‘canonmates’ is… pretty new honestly, especially…

So I’ve been avoiding Harry Potter since I was little, for reasons even I couldn’t come up with. There was no reason, I just wanted to avoid it. But HP is important to my partner (who I discovered is Neville) and they sat me down and we watched all 8 movies together. At the end of the first movie, Harry returns to the Dursleys and I asked my SO ‘when does he move in with the Weasleys?’ They said ‘he doesnt’ which made me very confused because i had vivid memories of harry living with them. (1/2)

Vivid like, I could’ve -sworn- that he moved in with them during his second or third year. SO says no, I drop it despite knowing…