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…

KIN-ADJACENT EXPERIENCES (original post) I’m reposting this because it was originally posted before I heard the term alterhuman, and I think it belongs in that sphere.…

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…

I have this strange on/off kintype? I had a hard time believing if my feelings were genuine, so i decided to drop it and act like it never happened. But it keeps lingering back every other day or so, like it’s not something that ever went away, and I feel faith in it again. Then I tell myself I might be deceiving myself and it dies down again only to come back. When this happens I feel it’s me at core. I have only one memory and a little nostalgia but I disproved it so it can’t be real.

Hmmm, could be a lot of things. It could be a kintype that’s not very strong, so you think you’ve ‘disproved’ it. You could be fictionhearted.…

I don’t talk about it much, but besides being fictionkin I’m also: Otherhearted- Corvidhearted, since I was 10. I consider crows and ravens a personal…

before i knew what otherkin were i got into a series and immediately felt a very close connection to one of the characters, as well as certain feelings about the character that turned out to be canon, though i hadn’t gotten nearly that far in the series. this feeling remained and now i’ve started playing it more again, it’s stronger than ever, i feel really nostalgic about locations and characters and am now questioning it as a kintype. does it sound like it or could it maybe be something else?

It sounds like it is definitely a possible kintype, and worth exploring whether it is or not! If its not a kintype, it might also…

Different anon. The realmultipleadvice, by their own stance, doesn’t respect kin though. They deny it exists, which is fine there will be a difference in beliefs, but then they also say that it’s incredibly unhealthy to be kin even as a coping method. Which is insulting to the belief system and a major issue kin would have with the people running that blog.

That’s fair, and I can see where you are coming from with that stance. I’ll admit I find their position somewhat ironic, given that they…

Do you think it’s possible for a fictive consciousness in one system to jump to another system? And still have the ability to jump back? I’m a gateway system and I have a friend who is too. We have a few consciousnesses who have the ability to do that, but just between us. I have a consciousness who says he has the ability to go between me and his actor. I believe him, I’m just curious if this has happened with anybody else.

Yes, I believe this. It used to happen with me and my best friend back in the day, though our headspaces are more closed off…

wrt mistaking soulbonds for kintypes: I mistook a soulbond for a kintype for a solid month before I finally realized what was actually going on. It was especially confusing because I had cameo shifts of them and their memories were bleeding into mine as I awakened. It wasn’t until I read a post about soulbonding that really described my experience that I understood. I’d suggest you keep doing research on anything you think it might be and don’t cross anything off too soon.

Great advice, anon ^^

I don’t know if this is the proper blog to ask this, since you have the soulbond blog and this one…I was wondering, do you think its possible for your soulbond to have such an impact on your personality that you mistake it for being kin with it? I feel as though for a while I was a specific character and this one only, but after a while I really got confused and wondered if it was possible that all this time it was actually a soulbonds thoughts making me think that way? What do you think?

do you think its possible for your soulbond to have such an impact on your personality that you mistake it for being kin with it?…

autisticpeko: so i’m looking into more terms for connections w fictional characters and i’m wondering if anyone’s had a similar experience? it kind of seems…

What’s your opinion on forging a soulbond with your significant other from a past life? Also what are the logistics of this where timelines are concerned, considering the soulbonder has probably lived other lives since then? You would think the person in question wouldn’t be around to create a soulbond with anymore. I know it’s possible, I’ve seen other people with soulbonds to people who died not long after them or even before them in canon and I just don’t… get it? How does this work?

I’ve never gone out of my way to make a soulbond with my former significant others, because the idea makes me personally feel ‘weird’. However, I…

Hi, I’m pretty new to this kin stuff, and so I’m a bit confused over how I’m feeling. When I look at this particular character or think about them, I definitely get a sense of “oh that’s me” and I have a vague idea of who the character was outside of canon context. But when I evaluate their characteristics and mine, we seem to be two completely different people. How can I possible identify as a character when I am nothing like them? Am I something other than kin?

Anon, its totally possible to be kin of someone that seems nothing like you are now. Especially if you believe in kin by reincarnation, people…

awhile back I was questioning a fictotype because I felt such a strong connection to them but it didn’t line up quite right. I stopped thinking about it for a while because I wasn’t getting anywhere with it. Then I saw that post about soulbonding and they kinda waved their hands in front of my face like “HEY! You’re silly!” So yeah, thanks for helping me learn I’m a soulbonder

There are definitely a lot of people out there who experience soulbonding, or are on the cusp of it, but don’t quite know what it…

I’m scared, I have a head mate that is fictional and that’s never happened to me, usually the voices in my head are just different variations of my own voice, I don’t want to scare him off but it also concerns me a bit since this is all new to me. He stopped my other voices from fighting randomly and it caught me off guard, but I’m grateful for what he did. Any advice for making new head mates feel welcome?

Hey there! First of all, no need to be scared/freaked out. It sounds like this headmate is here for your benefit, and you’re not in…

anon who sent the ask about soulbonding being different b/c fronting: If that’s the case, then what do you consider the difference between soulbonding and being multiple? Because to me this seems like a case of “well whichever word you want to use that one’s right!” with your definition and that really makes me uncomfortable.

Soulbonding and non-DID multiplicity in general have a lot of potential crossover. Here are the things that tend to make soulbonding ‘different’. All of these are…

In my experience through the soulbonding community – one of the major difference between soulbonds and headmates is the lack of ability to front or to front alone without the “host”. Just because you don’t have DID and/or have fictives doesn’t mean your multiplicity experience is automatically soulbonding.

This CAN be a decent indicator, but its not always the case. Soulbonding covers a much wider spectrum of communication than other multiplicty experiences generally…

inexplicablehanyou: hamiltoes: Why do people need to appropriate a mental illness so much that they say their imaginary friends are alters? Just get over the…

I’m considering creating a spin-off new blog from this one, specifically a soulbonding ask/informational blog. Considering this because of the volume of soulbonding asks I’ve…

A long time ago you touched on the topic of “fictional others” when an anon brought it up. What do you think of people who have multiple fictional others? I’ve found a friend who’s familiar with the concept and she has like, five. She IS polyamorous, but do you think that’s questionable? I’m not quite sure what I think yet. I’m still new to the concept, haha.

By fictional others, I gather that you mean romantic interactions with fictives/soulbonds/headmates. My personal feelings are that there is nothing wrong with having these relationships…

This is a stupid question probably, though I’m kind of new. With soulbonding, is it possible to accidentally become a soulbonder? I had this one RP character and every now and then I’d just start acting like her, and then I’d stop and not remember it. And there’s a drastic change in personality. I figured out kinda how to push it in the direction of happening, though it didn’t always work. And I left a note taped to my arm asking what was going on, and (1/3)

I got an answer scribbled in a different style of writing saying something about airships and crossing realms. And every now and then I feel…

What is the criteria for something being a soulbond? I have people that constantly follow me around and I can see, but no one else can. My friends who are soulbonds think I’m a soulbond, but I don’t think I am because everyone seems to be either in the headspace or right next to me in the weird projected form that only I can interact with. I don’t think there’s a word for whats going on with me. It is a confusing mess.

Firstly, you would be a soulbonder, and the people who follow you around would be called soulbonds. As for what the criteria is: A soulbond…

I am in a predicament and need an opinion. so i’m a soulbonder and recently tried tulpamancing and I made a tulpa. Fast-foreward some and I’m trying to call out to a soulbond of mine. The soulbond and tulpa are both there and then they? fuse? or something. I’m not sure. anyways, so they become one person and the tulpa/soulbond is in a situation where they act in a way that feels like simultaneous reincarnation, being both living the life of the soulbond in their world and being in my 1/2

2/2 headspace at the same time. It’s really weird and I want to make sure this isn’t something that just happens or that has a…