You probably won’t believe this, but here it is: I strongly suspect I was Ken Ichijouji too. You and I seem to be from wildly different ‘universes’ and the circumstances surrounding our ‘evil turnover’ aren’t even remotely similar; I was never genuinely ‘good’, and the Kaiser was a violent exaggeration of me. Though I have no emotional investment in meeting anyone I knew back then, it’s intellectually interesting to find someone else thinks this way.

Oh that’s fascinating! I honestly have no reason to disbelieve you. In fact, I’m quite curious to compare notes. If you ever want to, please…

im toonkin, and recently, i watched who framed roger rabbit… its one of my favorite movies!! my only complaint was that at the beginning, the humans were quite rude to toons. i can understand it, but it upsetted me a bit. however, (from what i remember) the toons didnt seem to have a problem with it. am i overreacting?

If I remember correctly the discrimination towards toons in Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a somewhat unsubtle metaphor for racism. So I feel you would…

Hi! First of all – you are the first person I have met to share my stance on evertything regarding people of fiction origins, and your writings have struck some further feelings inside of me. Firat and foremost, I have realized that both of the fictional entities i am are actually villains. Many parts of my life have entirely echoed theirs in either a literal or metaphorical way. My primary soul is a person(?, he is actually a cat, of all things.) is someone I am, and have always have been. —>

(part 2) He is very much a part of me and even before i awakened I realized that in a way, his traits have carried…

this is really embarrassing but is it possible to have a crush on a character and then later realize you ARE that character? its not like i just liked them so much i wanted to be them, i think its the other way around actually. they were so much like me i just felt like i could relate so well and because of that i liked them so much. but then i realized oh shit thats actually me wtf. can that happen??

Oh trust me this happens. This happens a lot. I imagine that it has a lot to do with vanity, and confused feelings of desire.…

I know that I should take it as a compliment, which is why feeling uncomfortable about it has me a conflicted mess… Fictionkin in general don’t bother me, and not even fictionkin associated with all of my works- just certain works… It’s sort of a weird situation, and I wish I could stop feeling uncomfortable and awkward about it.

This may sound like an odd question- but have you considered that you may be kin from the works that make you feel this way?…

Hello, I recently discovered that I might be fictionkin. I’ve always had a really deep connection with the character and thought of us as being super similar, but I didn’t really think I was kin until I thought of myself as him. Suddenly, I started feeling like I was kin and had a few memories but I also feel upset and embarrassed because it’s a show I genuinely enjoy. I don’t want to think I’m kin and have it turn out I just like the show and relate to the character a little too much.

My advice is to just take it slow and not rush into any beliefs. Take some time to explore your feelings and memories through deep…

Thank you… Like, as a content creator who IS kind of uncomfortable with the idea of fictionkin of their work, I just wanted a little advice? It’s mostly because I identify very strongly with my works- they’re a part of me, and I, it… So it feels weird to me, like people are identifying as ME on some level. Hearing what you had to say really helped a lot though, thank you. I hope you have a good day.

I’m glad I could help. Personally, I would take it as a compliment. If someone identifies as kin from a fiction of yours, its becasue…

So I think I might be fictionkin. There is a character I feel a close similarity to and people who know both him and me have actually commented that we’re alike. I feel at home in the canon world he’s from and I think I even feel the same for a different character… But the thing is, I don’t have what many fictionkin described, that they look at their fictype and think THIS IS ME, see? I don’t know what to think. Does that nean I can’t be fictionkin?

(Anon who doesn’t get the IT’S ME feeling) I also may possibly have memories of being this character? Difficult to say whether that’s just overactive…

Since I was little I had this strong ‘I don’t belong in this world/I’m not supposed to be here’ type feeling. I found the canon I’m apart of when I was thirteen. Memories started coming back to me almost immediately and I cried almost everyday because of how painfully bittersweet it was to remember. I miss my world a lot. I miss my friends and I miss my lover. I went through a lot with them, we went through so much to be happy and now I’m not with them. (cont. in another ask)

( cont.) In my last life I was lonely in the beginning and then I met them and things got better. In this life…I don’t…

Hello! Recently, I discovered that I’m kin with a guy who was… Really bad. Like, bad enough that he murdered a lot of people and ruined a lot of lives. And recently, I also found a few people who identify as people I wronged horribly back then. I’m too scared to approach them as I don’t even know how to begin to ask for forgiveness (which is something I feel is necessary). Do you think they would hold it against me since I’m (literally) a different person now?

Hello, anon. I certainly understand how you feel as that describes my own ‘kintype’ to a T. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I haven’t had the luck…

I notice you put a lot of emphasis on identifying AS your fictotype. Do I count as fictionkin if I believe I was my fictotype in a past life, but I don’t currently identify as them? My apologies as I’m sure you’ve been asked this before, but I went through a few pages of your blog and read some of your links and didn’t see anything specifically about this.

Absolutely. When I put the emphasis on ‘as’, what I mean is, that its a part of your identity, or your past. Part of your…

Recently I’ve started to think that I may be fictionkin; I’ve never really ‘believed’ in fictionkin, but I recently watched the anime Haikyuu!! and one character, Kenma, just stood out to me so much. They were onscreen for less than a minute and I felt overwhelming emotion towards them, like I /was/ them. The fact that this was strong enough for me to accept possibly being fictionkin means its serious, but I’m still uncomfortable. Do you know any ways to make the journey to acceptance smoother?

The journey to accepting yourself as fictionkin, is, like any other journey of acceptance, long, and hard. I would say, longer and harder than many…

Hey Ken! I’ve been thinking.. I’ve kind of accepted it by now, but… I think I’m Digimon kin, DMW1 leaning Digital Monsterkin. I always kind of see my kintypes as half separate from me, so it’s a bit weird though. I see it as, since every Digimon can be hatched as a fresh, or reduced to pure data, almost all Digimon can become almost all other Digimon, in theory. Does it make sense? I don’t know any other Digimon, so I don’t know if this would be strange.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here, but its good to meet you ^^ Kin that hail from the Digital World in one…

hey, hi. I’m a non-binary thing in the world of tumblr and i don’t mean to be offensive, but are there any statistics or research about fictionkin/otakukin out there to see? i already looked through your info here, and i’m trying really hard to be open minded about this, but it’s extremely difficult for me to understand, since it involves worlds from peoples’ content and minds rather than religion or reality.

You have in fact, inspired me to make a proper survey.

Hello! I’ve been doing a lot of research lately, and everything I’ve read about fictionkin just seems to fit me. I know my “canon” as I think it’s called and everything, but there’s a problem. None of the characters feel like me, but that particular canon universe feels like my home and I’m positive many of the characters were my friends or acquaintances. Could it be possible that I’m not someone shown on screen or does that not fit the definition of “fictionkin?” Thanks so much for your help!

As I have said to many before, this absolutely fits the definition of fictionkin. Believing you are from, and have experience in a fictional world…

Hi! I would like to know if you could consider this being fictionkin or not: a soul exists for a few years and then one day, the soul of a character fuses with the first one. The two souls are still both distinct halves but there’s no way to separate them since they’re technically the same soul now.

If one of the souls is fictional then…probably. There would still be an argument that they were a fictive walk-in rather than a fictionkin, but…

Hahaha hi uh, kind of a strange question. My friend and I are both fictionkin from the same ‘verse, and their fictive kind of… Well, to me they just show up as a radiation signature. So… I don’t know where I was going with this but it’s a lil bit confusing because they’re my friend, but like… ???????

I’m afraid I’m not really sure what you’re asking here. Are you saying that its awkward to interact with your friend because of the mutual…

i have strongly identified as a crowkin for pretty much as long as i can remember, however i recently got into reading homestuck, and the character davesprite stood out to me on a completely different level. not because i like him in particular, but more like i felt i WAS him. some of his actions/things he said were almost like they were jogging my memory, as if it had happened to me before. could i be a fictionkin or am i just deluding myself?

I think there’s a strong possibility that you’re fictionkin. Frankly the earlier crowkin feelings could easily relate more specifically to Davesprite than to crows in…

In my personal experience think it’s pretty normal to find your fictiotype physically attractive, especially if they’re presented in a way that appeals to your preference and aesthetic (e.g. drawn in a really appealing style). It doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t fictionkin, just that you process the attachment differently.

I agree that one certainly *can* be attracted to their fictionkinself, however the previous anon made it clear that they were more attracted to the…