Hello there. Kin-Assistance directed me here in regards to an ask I sent them. I was saying how I didn’t feel I was a reincarnation of my kintype and more that my memories feel more like visions of my future life after this one. They said the term for that might be fatedkin and that you could perhaps help explain it further? If that isn’t too much trouble.

Fictionkin fits just fine, though you can use fatedkin if you like I suppose? Kin understand themselves in a myriad of ways, and not all…

Hello Felix! I’m the host of an endogenic system, and we recently realized that many syscoursers take issue with us using the term system, rather than believing us to be fake. However, the term collective has also been used by DID/DDNOS systems, not that we’d really enjoy using that word anyway. It feels too.. unfamiliar? Whereas we feel (mostly) tightly knit. Is there a word already in the community for specifically endogenic systems? If not, do you have any ideas?

Hooboy. Uh, I started using the word collective to avoid “system” syscourse. If people are taking issue with that too, I don’t really know what to…

Out of curiosity, do you think it’s possible to receive a sudden burst of insight about your kintypes? Not discovering them all at once for certain, but periods of time where it feels like all of them are attempting to enter your subconscious and remind you of who you are? It’s hard to explain, but I believe I’m going through one of those right now, and it’s making introspection a lot more difficult.

I absolutely believe that’s possible. I think we all get ‘insight dumps’ sometimes.

Do you recommend watching the entire source of your canon before confirming/entertaining the possibility of a kintype? I have a memory of working with something like an elecmon but I don’t think that matches anyone in the anime anyway. But I don’t want to talk about what I remember and have anyone tell me it’s impossible because of something I haven’t seen? Maybe I should watch it to fact check?

Watch as much as is useful to you. No one can ‘fact check’ you and say your kintype can’t have done something just because it didn’t…

Hello there! I’m new to kin and I have a few questions of you don’t mind answering them! question 1) I think I might kin with a character and I’m not quite sure but I have extremely strong feelings toward said character and I’m not sure how to go about them. What does this mean? Question 2) Is it normal, when kinning, to think “that’s me!” when you see a character you have strong feelings toward? Thats all i have but thanks in advance for reading this and possibly answering! Have a good day!

Also I’m the anon from the last ask with the 2 questions. Sorry if i might have made any misconceptions! I’m very new to this…

Regarding “xenomnesia”: It’s possible you have a mental connection with a character. Or empathic. Some kind of connection that let you share thoughts or memories. Or maybe even: Is there any kind of otherkin “vessel” concept in use? Channeling someone? Or having them give you thoughts/memories somehow? (I’m an empath, and I know a lot of my synpath [non-kin, but very deeply understanding] connections have this effect on me, especially my primary “soulbond”.)

Absolutely. There’s lots of reasons that this phenomenon could occur. Fictionflickers come to mind too as a possible source for xenomnesia.

I think it’s cool how you treat people with weird kintypes with the same respect you’d treat anyone else. I’ve seen “elders” in the kin community talk about how they’d reject people whose kintypes were too “out there”, and I think that’s incredibly unfair. I mean, nobody HAS to accept anyone else, but… it’s just really hypocritical, you know? Even those “good” and “allowable” kintypes are batshit to people outside of the community.

Even those “good” and “allowable” kintypes are batshit to people outside of the community. Exactly, anon.  In my worldview, thanks to multiverse theory, there’s just…

Is there a word for identifying as a fictional species, or fictional race of beings? Not one that was in canon, but someone from their same world. Is that still fictionkin? Is there a word for “I identify as that kind, but not that individual”? Also, is there a word for identifying as a fictional animal species? Is that fictionkin or therian?

Is there a word for identifying as a fictional species, or fictional race of beings? Not one that was in canon, but someone from their…

This isn’t exactly fictionkin related but uh. How would one “channel” a character and mentally swap with them, for example to harness their strengths or something? To take on their identity for a while? What would that be called or like, do you know where I could start searching for information?

That’s called copinglink if you want to draw strength from and ‘become’ the character.  Check tumblr #copinglink for more information  Or if you want the character…