On your “kin vs. multiple” thing, you never really explained mental shifts (m-shifts) as such, only a “shift”. If I’m not mistaken, this is when one kintype becomes more prominent but you do not request name/pronoun changes, correct? (I mean, someone can still do so if they want to, but of their own accord.) I’ve experienced mental and phantom shifts both together and separately and while your explanation cleared up a lot I’m still a bit lost. Thanks!

I’m sorry if my explanation confused you. I tried to keep it simple for those who are not part of the community, and/or are questioning…

Hey, so..I’ve never understood kin at all until recently. I started playing a game and I feel very intensely for a character. Not that they are even my favourite which is likely due to my own feelings towards myself. But when I try to read fics of her, I feel like someone is writing about me and feel uncomfortable. Everything about them feels like me, like we’re one or connected. But I’m not a spiritual person, and I’m not sure I believe in souls. Do you think I could still count as fictionkin?

People believe in fictionkin in many different ways. Some people who don’t believe in spirits or souls believe fictionkin from a purely psychological perspective. I…

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As some of you undoubtedly know, I’ve recently been struggling with awakening to a new identity/kintype. Awakening is an intense, tumultuous experience mentally, and one…

thank you for all the information through your posts, it has helped me a lot. i want to say that i am fiction hearted with a character, but since not many people know what that is, how would i explain it simply? like how fictionkin people say that they are a character, would if you were to tell someone you are fiction hearted, would you say “I identify as”?

If it were me I would say “I am (character) in my heart. I take their identity on as my own.”

I made my last post private. Someone struck a nerve. I needed a minute. For the record, please don’t make assumption about anyone based on…

i’ve only learned about fictionkin recently from some friends who are kin for characters that i know, but as i started reading more about it, i felt really…. relieved? i don’t know if that’s the right word, but the things that people are describing sound familiar and i find myself getting excited whenever it’s mentioned but… i still don’t know if i really am fictionkin… is there someone who i can talk to about this, just to be sure? sorry for the awkward phrasing…

Only you will ever be really sure if you are fictionkin or not. Honestly, most of the members of the community I know still have…

Hi! So, I’ve been reading up on fictionkin vs fiction-hearted, and I was wondering if I could get your input on something? Based on what I’ve read, my feelings fall somewhere in between the two terms. I have no memories and no dysphoria (related to the character) and the majority of my feelings can be summed up by a strong, fundamental connection to the character, but even as a child before i was introduced to him I showed some of his traits that aren’t exactly common. Thoughts, if you want?

I suppose my thoughts are that from what you’ve said, it does sound more like fiction-hearted. Lack of memories doesn’t always mean you’re not kin,…

do you have any tips for being fiction/otherhearted in the otherkin community? are we welcome there? i’m fictionhearted with a character that i feel so deeply connected to i really do feel as if i am them, but i chose the character myself due to realizing my huge connection with them, and don’t have the memories of it being a past life like actual other/fictionkin so i’m kinda looking into my identity right now. thank you!

Interesting question! The fiction-hearted/otherhearted community is an evolving one, and I’m not sure anyone quite knows how we all ‘fit together’ as a larger community of…

I’m sending this on anon, since my mainblog is very separate from my kin stuff- I just wanted to thank you for posting about soulbonding. I’ve had bonds for a while now, and they are /very/ close to me, but they weren’t kin, nor were they headmates, and facets didn’t feel like the right word either, so I ended up calling them brainmates. Everything you’ve described with soulbonds though, has hit my experience right on the nose. So, thank you, from the bottom of my, and my bonds, hearts

I’m so glad you found a term that rings true to your experience! Soulbonding is really a fascinating experience and a deep part of my…

geminitacticians: Ok so I see a lot of fictionkin use the term “literally me” and I’m curious, what exactly do you mean by that. A…

hellfucker: i need an explanation for whether or not its racist to be kin with japanese characters (if im mixed latinx) from someone who is…

if you’re fictionkin/fiction-hearted with a character, personally wise, you wouldn’t have to be exactly like them right? So, for example, say you’re fictionkin/fiction-hearted with a character who acts calmly about mostly everything and goes about things with ease, but you on the other hand act the opposite way. Could you still be fictionkin/fiction-hearted with them?

This deserves a longer answer, but to be frank, Ive touched on it many times before, and its late, and I’m going to bed in…

I was hoping you could clarify something for me. There’s this one character that I identify very strongly with and have since the moment I was introduced to him. We’re extremely similar, so much so that I would say our energies align, and that if there was a modern-day AU written about that character, he would probably be exactly like me. Is this fictionkin, or fiction-hearted?

Tough call. From what I’ve heard, this sounds a little like what psychological identified fictionkin experience. But that is not my area of expertise. From…

If a character arises that you know you may be kin to, is it normal to begin having the same interests as the character in question? Say, if the character speaks a different language or likes a certain genre of books, you find yourself also interested in learning how to speak the same language and read the same types of book, is that any indication that you might be kin or is it just subconscious faceclaiming?

Its more likely that having the same interested as a character *before* knowing of that character would be an indication that you were kin. Emulating…

i feel very kin to a world but i dont know what character im kin to in it. i feel ive narrowed it down to two possible people but i am stuck there and i dont know if im kin to them or if i just like them as characters because a part of me is telling me my feelings are something more but sometimes your mind can trick you. is there any way that i can figure out who i really am or do i just need to give it more time?

Depending on the world, you might not even be a specific character from it. You may just be a person from that ‘universe’ who lived a…

So there’s a character I’m certain I’m kin with, however I’m not sure how he fits into my timeline (as in, the order of my lives) and I don’t yet have any memories, but every time I try to figure it out, I get this overwhelming feeling that basically translates into “We don’t like this”, which is weird since this is the first time I’ve had my kins and I referred to as “we” and not simply “I, me” or “they”. Thing is, he did do something VERY bad. It’s very weird, I’m not sure what to make of it.

I’m not certain what to make of it either, except perhaps that it was very traumatic, and blocked out for a reason. I suggest that…