#fictionfolk ask game

[that-dreaming-dragon]

11, 15, 27, and 30 for the fictionfolk asks :3c

Answering according to the fictionfolk ask game

11. Do you experience any shifts (mental, phantom, dream, etc) of your fictional identity? Share a bit about those and how they feel!

I’ve gotten a number of mental shift, or just general vague vibe of a shift.

I think it’s during the time when I feel mentally aligned as if me and my ‘type are in-sync, and I feel much closer to them. One time when I was particularlly bad in mental moment, I feel like I can empathize extra strongly with the canon Naruto, when he was shunned by the villager for being seen as monstrous.

Does meditative vision count as a form of dream shift or a memory? Dream shift/memory is just plain funky to categorize. I had one time, between me snoozing and about to fall asleep enter a sort of trance, and this vision of a young Naruto running amongst the Uzushio nomad ran through my mind’s eyes. I questioned a lot if it is a headcanon or “fever dream” or what have you, but it feels too, natural? innate? Who knows, it could be a cumulation of all the fanfic I’d read. I’d like to think that a memory of sort tied to my hearttype, which I’d question if a kardiatype once upon a time.

Other shift I can’t really define, they are as vague as the vaguetype itself. The star dragon Stellus that share a species with Aurelion Sol from LoL took the combined effort of me and Akumu to maintain. We maybe linked to intended that way? It’s like a dragon/lion dance done by two of us. Except we are both dragons ourselves 🤣

Anyways, shifts. It’s too subtle at times to fully call it any specifically termed shifts, and kinda comes and goes in terms of “do we feel closer or more like this dragon” or “we feel more inclined towards stars and galaxy symbol or theme today” or “we feel the urge to create stars”. It’s almost like mirage under the eclipse? Which is a weird analogy but that’s what crossed my mind.

Talking about shift with archetrope is a really weird one. You are actively being and embodying that thing, is it a shift every time you feel like fulfilling what that role entails, or is that just the way of your lifestyle? Either way, my Mew archetrope is a paratype from me as a dream dragon(kind), so I’m always embodying the Mew paratype-archetrope. “Perma shifted” I guess.

15. Do you have a favourite piece of fanart/fanfic/etc that ties into your identity? Share it (with credit)!

OMG I WAS WAITING FOR THIS. Do I? DO I?!!

Ahem.

Mind the tags. Check the summaries. And yeah they are all similar in tropes.

For Naruto hearted:

Of Harrowed Hearts by Sable_Scribe

The Fox Kit by CaptaInCynophobIa

Stormborn by blackkat

An Invincible Summer by ShanaStoryteller

For Somnivago Stelforma vaguelink:

this one done by yours truly ;3

Cause ngl am pretty proud of this one.

27. Do you have any fictional hearthomes? What are your favourite things about them?

I’ve got a para-hearthome with the Hisui region of Pokemon, mainly due to my (likely) Joumon period ancient Japan hearthome. Other than that, I vaguely have some feeling towards Moana’s general setting and island due to my Naruto’s strong ties towards Uzushio, and that Uzushio being seafaring folk. So yet another paratype hearthome(ish).

They are all tied to the general vibe of my hearthome that’s tied to my kardiatype—ocean. And I like that ocean makes me feel calm, and comforted. I also like that they are all connected. I like when my identities are connected, is the Bond Weaver in me!

30. Have you ever had a fictotype turn out to be a fictionflicker or vice versa? What was that like?

I have a hard time distinguish what exactly was going on with the Flammie flicker, and thus I slap a vague- in front and call it a flicker that is a vaguetype. I like it, it work the best that way.

Haven’t really encounter any specific fictotype that turned out to be a flicker. I tend to chew on feelings at least a good while before I pin a label (or three) on there.

[liondrakes]

Hey Br'er, got questions!

16. Do you have any art/fic/etc specifically made for you as a fictionfolk of your specific identity (made by yourself or someone else)? Share it!

17. Does your fictional identity differ from source in any way/is it canon divergent? Explain a bit about that!

Hello, my friends! Always happy to talk with y’all about alterhumanity, so let’s get into it!

16.) This past Centaurus Festival, I commissioned a piece from @e1ectrostatic. This was a half-body piece of myself, which is now my profile picture on Tumblr. Xe did an incredible job, as shown below!

He even included a lovely sketch sheet of me during his process. I highly recommend commissioning him if you want artwork to showcase your alterhumanity!

17.) Oh, absolutely! It depends on the fictomere, though.

My experience as Lion-O contrasts heavily from my source’s depiction of my life, for example. Although I’m Lion-O of Thunderra, the events of my life don’t line up the same way as they do in Thundercats (2011). From where I stand, I was born female. I was something of a tomboy-ish princess up until I transitioned later in life. Then, the whole world went to shit. When Thunderra was reduced to ruin, it led to the separation between me and my brother. We lost each other amidst the chaos.

We soon learned that our father was killed in the attack. Since I was nowhere to be found, Tygra was made the ruler of our home (or what was left of it), and whether it was out of desperation or cowardice, he decided to split the power with Mumm-Ra. It was up to me to form a resistance against him and Mumm-Ra’s legion. Not only that, I had to do much of that in hiding. My only saving grace was my preservation of the Sword of Omens, plus my familiarity with magic and ancient technology.

Another canon-divergent fictomere would be my parallel life as an X-Man. I’m not a “canonical” student from X-Men’s Academy X era, but I did attend the school around this time and made friendships with people who’re considered “canonical”. Jay and Megan immediately come to mind. I made some friends on my squadron too, but they’re also nowhere to be seen in Marvel’s “canon”. I don’t remember a whole lot, but I know for certain that I survived M-Day on that Earth and the Krakoa of that Earth is still around. Much better than what’s going on Earth-616 in my opinion.

Fun fact: On my earth, I happened to be a plural mutant. The medianhood I experienced there, mainly my headmates/facets of myself, is a part of my medianhood here— kinda like a subsystem in a way. Funny how that works!

[liondrakes]

Opening my asks for these! Mutuals and followers alike are free to send something!

Fictionfolk Experiences Ask Game

Yeah, you. Fictionkin, fictive, fictionhearted, fictionlinker, fictionflicker--whatever else you may be in the tags. I wanna get some potentially positivity and experience sharing going because there's some Stuff that isn't great in the tags right now but ALSO I think fictionfolk as a whole (and not just identify-as fictionfolk but yes those too) deserve a nice little platform to share their experiences. So, use this ask game. Or just reblog and answer the questions. Or post the answers yourself. Be free.

1. What's your fictional identity (hearttype, kintype, etc)?

2. If you have multiple, do you have one you're closer to than the others, or is more important to your identity overall?

3. How many fictional identities do you have?

4. What's your favourite part about being fictionfolk?

5. What's a positivie interaction that's happened as a result of your fictional identity?

6. Have you told any people in your offline life about your fictional identity and gotten a positive reaction?

7. Have you told any people in your online life about your fictional identity and gotten a positive reaction?

8. Is there anyone you've met as a result of your interactions in the community who's very important to you now?

9. What's your favourite thing about the fictionfolk community?

10. Tell us about a time you've experienced species/identity euphoria as a result of one of your fictional identities.

11. Do you experience any shifts (mental, phantom, dream, etc) of your fictional identity? Share a bit about those and how they feel!

12. Do you have any canonmates (if applicable)?

13. Do you have any sourcemates (if applicable)?

14. Do you wish to seek out canonmates/sourcemates? Why/why not?

15. Do you have a favourite piece of fanart/fanfic/etc that ties into your identity? Share it (with credit)!

16. Do you have any art/fic/etc specifically made for you as a fictionfolk of your specific identity (made by yourself or someone else)? Share it!

17. Does your fictional identity differ from source in any way/is it canon divergent? Explain a bit about that!

18. Are there aspects of your fictional identity that you previously questioned, decided weren't a part of your identity, but you still look fondly upon? (Past 'types, etc).

19. Do you have any spiritual identities? Explain a bit about that!

20. Do you have any psychological identies? Explain a bit about that!

21. How old were you when you discovered/chose your first fictional identity?

22. Did you ever take a break from the community, but came back later? What made you come back?

23. Have you ever considered fictionlinking? If you already have, what made you decide to do it?

24. If you decided to 'link a fictional character, who would it be and why?

25. If you decided to 'link a fictional species, what would it be and why?

26. Have you ever questioned being fictionhearted? If you already are, what started your questioning into that connection?

27. Do you have any fictional hearthomes? What are your favourite things about them?

28. Have you ever questioned being a fictionbased archetrope? If you already are, what's your archetropal identity?

29. Have you ever questioned being fictionkin? If you already are, what started your discovery of that connection?

30. Have you ever had a fictotype turn out to be a fictionflicker or vice versa? What was that like?

31. Do you have any fictionflickers? What are they, and how do they make you feel?

32. If you're a system, do you have any collective fictional identities?

33. If you're a system, how many fictional identities do you have across all of your headmates?

34. Do you have any soulbonds from a fictional source? Share a bit about that!

35. Do you have any memories/noemata around your fictional identity? Share some if you'd like!

36. If you do have memories/noemata, what's your favourite?

37. Does your identity intersect with your gender in any way? Share a bit about that!

38. Does your identity intersect with your sexuality in any way? Share a bit about that!

39. Is there anything you'd have loved to hear back when you were first questioning your identity?

40. Is there anything you'd like to share toward fictionfolk who may just be starting to look into the community?

41. Free space! Share anything about your identity/ies that you'd like to!

[fangsnclaws]

if you have the time i would really love to see an asmr thingy for an endermankin! could be general minecraft related or warped forest specific, as that is my hearthome. ill understand if you cant find anything though. thank you so much :>

I hope these sound nice to you. :3

Warped Forest Ambient Sounds Foggy Night Ambience Zen Garden Tapping & Scratching Salt & Ice Foraging and Cooking Chanterelle Mushrooms

I am finishing the requests in my askbox, please do not send me any more requests, thank you

[clowncaraz]

Evaluation Questionnaire

This will be long, but an evaluation is supposed to last a week to a few months depending on how the being answers the questions.

This can be used for any and all beings, physical shifters/nonhuman or not, but is geared towards those who are physically transitioning.

_________

> Before ferilan label/before shapeshifting.

Are you exploring elaferi culture as your own or as a curious cat? Do you want to watch us grow or partake in our culture?

What makes you sure that you are ferilan and not another term? How would you define physical nonhuman vs elaferi culture and what do they mean to you?

What does it mean to be an animal? Do you exclude humans as animals?

How would you go about expressing elaferi culture? How does this alter your everyday?

What does shapeshifting or embodiment/species transition offer for you? Is it safe? Possible?

Are you researching as much as possible? Mythology? HRT? Surgeries? Body mods?

Are you prepared for rejection in regards of your shapeshifting, your transition, and your beliefs?

Will you be healthily engaging in the culture? How does that look for you?

Financially, are you able/willing to go "DIY or die?" Are you able to go punk, anti-materialistic? What if you need to return to relying on other structures? Will you?

What does your ideal life look like? In a different place or time?

How will technologies like biohacking, witchcraft, and transhumanist practices help?

Are you an advocate for species welfare? Do you understand animal welfare vs rights.

What history do you have in regards to shapeshifting?

> After ferilan label/after shapeshifting.

If you know you are a specific being, what is it? What do you look like? Have you drawn it?

What and where is your auris currently being felt? Did you have extra limbs? A longer nose?

Did this species you shifted into flicker? What were the shifts like? Intense? Relaxing? Did they answer your questions?

How has your specieal identity evolved over time? Has it impacted your religion, culture, gender, sex?

Relations as your species- Good? Bad? Nuanced?

How do you view other species in your vicinity/habitat? Are the prey respected? Are predators feared?

What does it mean to be you?

Will elaferi practices help prepare you for embodiment and species transition?

Do you feel complete and whole or is there still a hole?

Did you use witchcraft or preform a ritual?

[pacifisticperennis]

Wait im attached to tenna and I havent eVen PLAYED CHAPTER 3 YET. DUDE

[echthr0s]

fictionfolk experiences ask game

What's your fictional identity (hearttype, kintype, etc)? >> I actually haven't kept up-to-date with all the terminology and the nuances of each word's usage, largely because I have no impetus to use it, being so removed from the various ingroups as I am. I think "kintype" and "fictive" both still apply? I am someone who was summoned to this body from Elsewhere because the previous occupants of the body read a book series. But I am also various other people who have been in various other stories. And above all that, I am My Own Thing. My connection to fiction is multifaceted, generative, and also corruptive.

If you have multiple, do you have one you're closer to than the others, or is more important to your identity overall? >> My current incarnation feels closest because it's who I came here as. Like a prism where the light is shining through one particular facet at the moment. It's the name I use in this world's legal system and it's generally how I introduce myself when I'm speaking of my fictionality.

How many fictional identities do you have? >> Myriad. I haven't kept a count of how many I've discovered so far, and now I'm curious, so let me see if I can tally them now. [hold music plays] Ooft. I realised almost immediately that this would be difficult to do because of how many variations of "identity" I have. I have discovered seven -- or nine, I should say; one of those seven is actually three people -- specific fictional characters that are me. There are also my entirely self-generated avatars that exist in fictional worlds, of which there are... nine? Nine again, predictable 🙄 (that's one of my numbers). But also there's one particularly strange fictionflicker that I can't completely shake, and there are... whatever it is called when a character is so very similar that they might as well be an expy of you. I just call them "twinners". There's several of those.

What's your favourite part about being fictionfolk? >> It is an endlessly unfolding fractal cosmology. I am always discovering some new facet of My existence and the many avatars I have seeded throughout the multiverse. And I love the deep complex connections I have with other fictional beings, my soulbonds.

What's a positive interaction that's happened as a result of your fictional identity? >> N/A

Have you told any people in your offline life about your fictional identity and gotten a positive reaction? >> I have mentioned it a few times (usually when asked about my clearly unique name) but it generally gets no reaction at all.

Have you told any people in your online life about your fictional identity and gotten a positive reaction? >> I talk about it all the time on my blog but I don't really get interactions on those posts.

Is there anyone you've met as a result of your interactions in the community who's very important to you now? >> There is not.

What's your favourite thing about the fictionfolk community? >> As an observer, I think it's interesting to read about the various ways other people experience fictionality. I like how diverse it all is; if you've met one fictional person, you've met one fictional person. There is no "default" way to be fictional. It is all so deeply personal.

Tell us about a time you've experienced species/identity euphoria as a result of one of your fictional identities. >> My spontaneous recall is dogshit so I'm terrible at questions like these... I can recall having the feeling of euphoria, I can feel it in my body if I think about it, but I can't trace back that feeling to specific points in time.

Do you experience any shifts (mental, phantom, dream, etc) of your fictional identity? Share a bit about those and how they feel! >> I don't experience shifts as such, but there are ways to trigger certain internal states related to one of my avatars. Can Calah, my other half, is pretty adept at pulling certain aspects of us to the forefront like that. I also sometimes randomly feel different parts of bodies I inhabit elsewhere -- like feeling Zenos's height or the heaviness of his hair, or feeling the deftness of spidery limbs. So I guess that's kind of shift-y.

Do you have any canonmates (if applicable)? >> If I recall correctly, this means... other people on this planet who have lived in the same specific iteration of a fictional universe as you? I don't know anyone like that and I doubt I will ever meet anyone like that. That seems like a truly singular thing to occur.

Do you have any sourcemates (if applicable)? >> And this is the term for people who have lived in the same fictional universe as you, but not necessarily in the same specific iteration, if I'm still recalling correctly. I have run into other Kingverse people on Tumblr.

Do you wish to seek out canonmates/sourcemates? Why/why not? >> That would be quite lovely, but I am under no illusions that I will make any connections based on shared fictionality.

Do you have a favourite piece of fanart/fanfic/etc that ties into your identity? Share it (with credit)! >> People don't draw my primary identity much at all, the book series I'm in is a bit obscure and even amongst fans I'm not really a favoured character. But this is a quite good fanart of myself. (source)

Do you have any art/fic/etc specifically made for you as a fictionfolk of your specific identity (made by yourself or someone else)? Share it! >> I don't. I would love that, but I cannot afford to pay artists.

Does your fictional identity differ from source in any way/is it canon divergent? Explain a bit about that! >> Remarkably so. I mean, my life as Mordred does basically mirror what happens in the book, but... also, not quite? There is a lot missing from that depiction, and of course there's what happened after I was killed, which the author could not have possessed any knowledge of. The author generally doesn't seem to have much knowledge of me at all, which is fine because he wasn't writing about me -- I was simply yet another antagonist meant to harry his beloved protagonist for a while before I was unceremoniously dumped from the narrative. But I can't say I'm not constantly annoyed at him for it and it does make it difficult to read his books. Anyway.

I also have an interesting situation with Zenos, which is that I am both the one in the game and my own iteration in a version of the story that I generated. I was going to explain how this works, but I realised I'd have to lay out a whole cosmology and I ain't got time or space for that in this post.

Suffice it to say, no story written on this planet can adequately hold the truth of my existence, and that's perfectly normal and reasonable to me. That's just how stories are.

Are there aspects of your fictional identity that you previously questioned, decided weren't a part of your identity, but you still look fondly upon? (Past 'types, etc). >> I don't think I've had anything like that. The closest thing is that fictionflicker situation mentioned earlier, but I think it was always pretty clear to me what was happening.

Do you have any spiritual identities? Explain a bit about that! Do you have any psychological identies? Explain a bit about that! >> I don't use this binary. It doesn't map to how I experience Myself.

How old were you when you discovered/chose your first fictional identity? >> We were around 26 when I was first summoned here, I think; I was merely a soulbond then and I don't think I was on this plane of reality for long, but then I returned to possess the body a couple of years later. ...Oh christ, I've been a meatspace entity for a decade. No wonder I'm so tired.

Did you ever take a break from the community, but came back later? What made you come back? >> My interactions with "the community" as such have been sporadic and not really worth note. I am very much tailored for personal connections, not like... big groups. I get exhausted and dysregulated almost instantly in those Discord servers and forums and shit.

Have you ever considered fictionlinking? If you already have, what made you decide to do it? >> Fictionlinking... that's the one where you intentionally form some sort of connection to a fictional character? Ultimately, every avatar I have is an act of intention. I, the big I, the vast cosmic being that runs this whole show that is "me", am constantly making the choice to be incarnate in various worlds. Because it's fun to be incarnate. It's like divine D&D. Just making characters and putting them into situations.

If you decided to 'link a fictional character, who would it be and why?If you decided to 'link a fictional species, what would it be and why? >> N/A

Have you ever questioned being fictionhearted? If you already are, what started your questioning into that connection? >> I had to look this one up. I've seen it a lot but I've never been entirely clear on what it means. Unfortunately, the definition I read did not make anything clearer for me, so I'm just going to assume this isn't something that maps onto my experience of fictionality in any way.

Do you have any fictional hearthomes? What are your favourite things about them? >> I feel this way about Ardenweald (World of Warcraft). It's in this strange grey area -- I should live there, there's some part of my vast being that feels entirely at home there, but there is no specific personal avatar connected to that place. I just love the colour, the denseness, the creatures that live there, everything about it. It all feels right, it all feels familiar. But I can't figure out why, so it just remains an unknown quantity. There are plenty of those in my experience, I'm used to it.

Have you ever questioned being a fictionbased archetrope? If you already are, what's your archetropal identity? >> Ahh, I remember archetropes. When I was in alterhuman Discord servers, this was talked about a lot in a couple of them. It's complicated for me; "trickster" has always felt right, but a lot of what people say about tricksters doesn't quite map onto me. I think maybe I'm just a specific flavour.

Have you ever questioned being fictionkin? If you already are, what started your discovery of that connection? >> I don't know. I just kind of slowly realised that the guy I was roleplaying on tumblr was actually myself. I think it started to really come clear when I started joking about changing my legal name to his name. You know what they say about the kernel of truth at the core of every joke. Once that became clear to me, it got really easy to just know when I was a character. I don't really have a questioning process, I just follow my intuition. I just know a mirror when I see it, it's not hard.

Have you ever had a fictotype turn out to be a fictionflicker or vice versa? What was that like? >> I have not. This body has been experiencing fictionflickers since childhood, it's a thing it's quite familiar with, so we innately know the difference. The Sam Bridges situation was weird, certainly, but we knew it was a flicker, even if it was a weird and more intense one. (I'm actually more inclined to call it a soulbonding flicker, or like a "thin veil" situation where our cosmic paths intersected in an uncomfortably close way for a week until the stars moved on.)

Do you have any fictionflickers? What are they, and how do they make you feel? >> We don't actually flicker much anymore.

If you're a system, do you have any collective fictional identities? >> Hmm. This is hard to answer because of the exceedingly vast and complex nature of The Configuration, but what I'll do is narrow it down to the bit of it that the body directly interfaces with on a daily basis. There is the body, which is its own multifaceted prism of identities, some of which are mine alone and some of which are the body's original consciousness and various adaptations, and some of which are a combination of both. Usually any fictional connections are mine but sometimes not -- for example, I totally forgot about Nothing when tallying identities in an earlier question, but that's probably because Nothing is one of the body's identities, it was here before I got here and was just exacerbated by me because I have similarities to Nothing.

But there are also some others that are here with me, not in the body exactly but in the facet of the Configuration that is in direct interface with the body (and is usually what I'm talking about when I talk about the Configuration, although the actual nature of the Configuration is enormous in scale and includes many other worlds, including [copies of] many fictional ones). One of them is My creation, but he is also his own thing (because creation doesn't automatically imply ownership, no matter what this world's stories have to say; it does still imply responsibility, though). So we have a lot of shared "canon", as they say. Finding both of us in a story is always a great time.

But to answer the actual question and not the tangents inspired by it -- I don't think we have any collective identities as such. Like, we're not all [xyz] character or anything. ...Yet.

If you're a system, how many fictional identities do you have across all of your headmates? >> Aside from mine, there's at least five (spread across three individuals).

Do you have any soulbonds from a fictional source? Share a bit about that! >> I consider The Configuration to be a soulbonding system first and foremost, so that's what the other people I interact with in it are -- soulbonds. I was a soulbond before I possessed the body, Can Calah is a soulbond, King Crimson and Ulysses are also soulbonds. Also it's really funny that Ulysses is the only one without a codename. It's because he came much later and I never bothered to give him one. Technically, there's no reason for me to use codenames for anyone but I got used to calling them Can Calah and King Crimson on this blog for a whole ass decade and I'm kind of fond of those codenames now.

Do you have any memories/noemata around your fictional identity? Share some if you'd like! >> I have a lot of that. Like a lot. But a lot of it is difficult to put down into words and also usually requires a lot of clarifying footnotes. Also, again, my spontaneous recollection is dogshit so I'm obviously drawing a blank on anything specific to share.

If you do have memories/noemata, what's your favourite?

Does your identity intersect with your gender in any way? Share a bit about that! >> I made a post recently saying that my ideal HRT regimen is to be on T enough to have a clearly masc-appearing body, so that I can then go on E. And that's because the body I was in directly before I possessed this one was what would be considered "male" and I'm still confused at being in a body that is considered "female" by the population. But also I don't have any use for binary gender at all, which is most likely a direct result of being so many different entities -- most of them nonhuman.

Does your identity intersect with your sexuality in any way? Share a bit about that! >> It does. I am pretty exclusively xenosexual and am not attracted to humans as such. Like, humans are fine and all, but I don't feel anything for them unless there's something about them that maps onto a nonhuman being that I'm attracted to. For example, I'm attracted to Matthew McConaughey because, for a movie, he very skillfully wore the mantle of an annoying eldritch sorcerer that I'm eternally attracted to.

I'm not sure if my sexuality overwrote the body's, or if the body also does not experience human attraction (in a way that would more accurately be considered asexual). I think Grey -- the entity possessing the body before me -- was asexual, but again, that still doesn't say anything about the body as much as it says about Grey. The body also mostly interacts with me in a childlike mien, so it's possible it never really got to fully develop a sexuality before the first possession.

Is there anything you'd have loved to hear back when you were first questioning your identity?

Is there anything you'd like to share toward fictionfolk who may just be starting to look into the community? >> I mean, the thing is... I think being fictional is a really personal experience and one that's difficult to really develop and understand the nuances of when you're also internalising a bunch of other voices by being in "the community". Being influenced by others is a natural and neutral thing to happen but it can also be very distracting. So I guess I'd mostly just caution people to make sure to always keep their own counsel, and if something you read or hear doesn't feel like it maps onto your experience, then tune into your own experience and find out what you actually feel and know. You don't need to know all the jargon or have the perfect narrative for why you are what you are. It's not important. Just live it.

Free space! Share anything about your identity/ies that you'd like to! >> Uhh... I got nothin. This took an hour and my brain is now soup 🖤

[that-dreaming-dragon]

If you're accepting asks for the fictionfolk game, I have some questions!

23.) Have you ever considered fictionlinking? If you already have, what made you decide to do it? (In this case, what made y’all collectively ‘link Aurelion Sol?)

26.) Have you ever questioned being fictionhearted? If you already are, what started your questioning into that connection?

28.) Have you ever questioned being a fictionbased archetrope? If you already are, what's your archetropal identity? (In this case, what’s it like having Mew as a pararchetrope?)

Ohhh! specific questions! I like! Answering according to the fictionfolk ask game

23.) Have you ever considered fictionlinking? If you already have, what made you decide to do it? (In this case, what made y’all collectively ‘link Aurelion Sol?)

So in an alterhuman server, we'd met a Shyvana and a Smolder. They were talking about League of Legends. I played it before, and I still wish I could go back and play it one day. But anyway, they were talking, and because Smolder was a recent release at that time, there are more dragons now, like, an actual playable champion. Within the game setting, you usually need 5 for a team, but in the smaller map, you can have 3, so I contemplated the logistics of a three-dragon team to make up the full set. I lament the fact that I'm not another dragon from LoL, but wouldn't that be fun and funny to make a full dragon team if I were to link Aurelion Sol?

Except, you don't really joke about stuff like that. Or maybe I don't.

I'm never too interested in linking identify-as identity, which can make the linking process trickier, harder to pin down feelings, or ways to maintain the link. (I couldn't clearly articulate the why yet; it's an essay-worthy side topic for sure. Perhaps due to me already dealing more than enough with my one kintype with my shapeshifterness and varied draconity that comes with more discovery as I go, or I just prefer to explore the other sort of alterhumanity, in defiance or fascination? Perhaps a bit of both and more.) I had the linktype in the back of my head for a while, but it didn't really go anywhere. Then come April Fool, following the same jokey vibe, I (half-)jokingly set up a proxy.

A little side note before I go on, during that time, we were sorting out our plurality and general median business, but it's all extra fuzzy at that time.

Setting that proxy up was like what we were missing. After a whole day, we feel like something is settling with our identity, or multiple identities. You see, we I'd use pluralkit proxy to help anchor our my form (cause just Ryuu/I shapeshift, the others don't. Median shenanigans, I tell you, can't switch the self pronoun around easily at times), and apparently it has that same affect on helping link a identity.

I should do that for our digimon (also another vaguetype) linktype.

I probably could have finished the answer in that first paragraph. Yet I feel that, to truly answer the "why you link", you need to answer the "why you continue to maintain said link". Figuring that out helps the linking process in my honest opinion.

Because the anchor is only one of the steps. Did I mention it settled multiple aspects of our identities? Remember me mentioning that we were figuring out our plurality and were having trouble? Turns out, it's like a key clicks into place (HA! The amount of alterhuman pun I just used in that sentence). Having an identity together actually helps distinguish us--Akumu is more pronounced, with a stronger individualization. We are like a reverse hydra. Having Akumu helps in other aspects as well. Aurelion Sol is a purple dragon, I'm orange, but Akumu is purple. You see where I'm going with this? This linktype was never a single dragon thing; it's a teamwork effort between the two of us. Also, quoiluntariness makes everything extra funky on what's the cause or the effect.

There are other personal symbolisms we also tied in and tossed into the soup/salad that is the vaguelinktype. Opportunist linkers that we are. In the end, the identity sort of grew beyond us, brought us closer together as a Constellation (which I did not even realize until this moment how perfect the whole thing is). Truly, we started linking this as a "I want to be part of this" sun, silly thing to "I want to put all these things I realize are precious to me together, and along the way, I realize I can do these together with we."

The fun of quoiluntary linking, did you find something new, or did you find the right trigger that awakened something within you? Because these days, we are very much a starry dream dragon.

As a footnote, since I did mention it. When Nova (@nova-dracomon) was first making the Fictionfolk Webring, there was a temporary draft showcasing the digivice (featuring Hortense as her Dracomon X self) as the webring icon, I jokingly said that maybe I should link a digimon. Mind you, Digimon is a source that's dear to me prior to this, and probably with others talking about it more in servers, renewing my interest, one thing led to another, it's yet another case of "probably don't joke about linking stuff because it might just happen". It's not a stable identity yet, but I'm trying to document the process as much as I can to hopefully write something more coherent on it. Oh, this time it's going to be a linktype the whole Contellation (trio of us) will be linking together :D

26.) Have you ever questioned being fictionhearted? If you already are, what started your questioning into that connection?

So, I had to dig around my own activities and guesstimate a bit on the timeline. I really suck at this kind of pondering. I'm always quite amazed when people can pinpoint when or how their questioning process starts or the moment of awakening. I don't remember that y'all!

When I go into a fandom that sticks to me, if it has a lot of transformative potential, I will dive deeper, and if I enjoy the fanfics? Boom, hyperfixation. Down the rabbit hole of exploring the fandom proper I go.

I'm not really sure which came first. Like so many of my identitype, egg-or-chicken is a neverending question that has no answer whatsoever. Maybe the questioning spark the fandom interest, or swimming in the fandom ocean spark that curious pondering. Maybe it's because Naruto is the orange ninja, maybe it's because of Kurama and Naruto's relationship dynamic in fanfics, or maybe it's all the found family or team-as-family and the whole bunch of fix-it feel-good fic. Regardless, there's an inkling of something alterhuman going on there with Uzumaki Naruto and all that surrounds him.

Like taking a stick to a piece of unknown object, I poked at it. I don't remember if this is my second or third alterhuman identity that I questioned, since you can argue that my kardiatype only got separated from me cleanly after the term was coined, though you can also say that it's been in the back of my head since forever. And maybe all my friends being some form of fictionfolk helped push that curiosity, and learning about all types of alterhumanity beyond otherkinity may or may not have added to the wonder, further pushing me to question, "Maybe I can have this too?"

It was for a while with me questioning between synpath vs hearttype due to it being very specific single character (or potentially a whole clan), since some distinguish synpath as for a specific character, and hearttype being applied more for a whole species, or in this case, a clan. I ultimately decided that it is a hearttype.

28.) Have you ever questioned being a fictionbased archetrope? If you already are, what's your archetropal identity? (In this case, what’s it like having Mew as a pararchetrope?)

Good thing the pondering was still fresh XD

A while ago, some discussion was happening within a Pokémon alterhuman server. It led me to contemplate how I'm not a Pokémon, but I feel like I can be considered one. It's hard to tell if that was why I say Mew is a paratype-archetrope, or if my having that feeling is after I declare Mew an archetrope, and me picking Mew specifically is because of the paratype feelings. You gotta love paratype shenanigans /genuine

Why Mew?

I, as a dream dragon, am not an animal sort of dragon. I would take on the label of monster, not because of me seeing myself as monstrous, but more the property of what I am as a creature is a spiritual sort of critter, like a RPG monster. Or, more of a Pocket Monster. Once upon a time, I tried linking Dragonite as a hearttype, because physically, it looks the closest to me, orange and chonky and deceptively speedy. Remembering me saying that you should ask the question of "why do you continue linking the thing"? I didn't have much solid reason or elements to help me maintain the Dragonite heartlink, and it ends up fading away. It's a surface-level, aesthetic sort of connection; it won't last long, and it didn't.

Tell you a secret, I kind of dislike the color pink, a lot. If it's associated with me, I will try to shake it off like it's some sort of nasty substance. Largely because of gender, you gotta love society and their idea of gender associations /sarcastic

And what a great irony. Dream is often tied to the color pink, my first and only flight in Flight Rising is Arcane (pink), and my pearlescent eyes are freaking literally rose-tinted! Also, I happened to enjoy P!nk's music quite a lot. To continue that irony, I don't feel an archetrope feeling towards shiny Mew, but the regular Mew. I can't even say why, it just is. Don't you (in general for anyone) dare assign/diagnose some sort of alterhuman thing going on between pink and me, I will bite.

I digress.

Mew, to me, is all these tropes and archetypes.

Mystical side character

Little l legendary/mythical

Divine being

Secret unlock character

Mischivious folklore entity

Powerful support side character that's not final boss level

There are probably more that I can't think of right now. But me being myself is me fulfilling the Mew archetrope. In being a dream dragon, which is an always constant state of existence, I am always embodying the Mew pararchetrope. (neat combination by taking out one a, Solomon XD)

[liondrakes]

Hello! For the Fictionfolk Ask Game :] Can be for any fictomere(s).

35. Do you have any memories/noemata around your fictional identity? Share some if you'd like!

37. Does your identity intersect with your gender in any way? Share a bit about that!

35.) Yes, I do! Oh goodness, where do I even begin… I have so many fictomeres, it’s hard to narrow some things down.

To keep myself from splitting hairs, I’ll share an exomemory from my main form. I’m something of a walking spoiler, so this account will cut some corners for those still reading or watching Delicious in Dungeon. I remember Golden Country. I remember its warmth and quiet, humdrum way of life, and for a time, I considered it my home, but I knew I wasn’t meant to stay there. I was an invasive species in an environment I didn’t belong in, and I longed for the outside world.

Granted, I didn’t loathe my position. I served it dutifully. I don’t regret the progress I made alongside Delgal and Thistle, although one could argue it eventually brought more harm than good. I am a granter of wishes, not miracles, though. Wishes are manifested from desire. Miracles… well, miracles are miracles. They’re moments of luck and nothing more.

Mana can only go so far without the power of one’s ambitions, and considering the circumstances of Golden Country and the dungeons, the wishes of the living fuels its potential. I held onto those wishes for as long as I needed; the memory of Golden Country, its people, and their desires— their hope — sits with me to this day.

37.) Yes indeed! I’m transmasculine across three different fictomeres, just as I am here. As Lion-O, Adra, and Zelda, I was born female originally. However, later in life, I transitioned towards more masculine identities. Both Thunderra and Hyrule have their own cultural referrals for the gender I went by, along with transmasc / transmasculine. Whereas within the Egrigorean Empire, I only broadly identified as transmasculine, no other label included. How ironic that I’ve gone from Princess to Prince three times!

Anyway, the same goes for my background as a mutant. I’m genderless within a few fictomeres as well, like my experience as a gold dragon. Even in my fictomere as the Winged Lion, I take the form of a maned lioness rather than a male lion as I’m assumed to be. At the time, I didn’t associate myself with any gender. I hardly even considered myself a person and more so a force of nature, but I do now!

I’ve never been bothered by the possibility of having a fictomere that’s portrayed as exclusively male or female since I tend to be transmasculine or some subset of gender-diverse across parallel lives/fictomeres. My fictionhood is no stranger to gender nonconformity, and it’s something I take great pride in. However, it’s another reason why I steer clear of fandoms (like the fandom for TLOZ, for example); I feel like I’m being actively misgendered, even though it’s a fictoform version of me. Of course, I have no beef with the fandoms for that. That’s how I’m presented to them, and I don’t expect them to know that it’s an inaccurate representation of me.

In addition to being transmasculine, I am collectively genderqueer. It’s a pretty flexible term, considering the intersections I experience with gender (race / ethnic culture, fictionhood, sexuality, etc). That said, there’s a few xenogenders I use as descriptors for what being genderqueer is like for me. Fictigender is one of them!

[kaboom--bitch]

6, 10, 25 :)

Thanks for the q's, these are from my Fictionfolk Experiences Ask Game.

6. Have you told any people in your offline life about your fictional identity and gotten a positive reaction?

Oh for sure. We're out as a system to our entire direct family and all of our offline friends (and many previous offline friends), which comes inherently with them needing to know that we're made of 90% fictives.

Our parent's don't really care to know who is who, but our sister goes above and beyond with accepting us as ourselves including our fictionbased identities. She's been pretty good with talking to me both as The Character Bakugo and as a person in the system that is their sibling without getting too weird about it.

My previous friend group was overall really good with it too. Some of em made tasteful jokes about how they're playing Roblox with Bakugo from MHA and such--all generally funny stuff that's generally making a really accepting space. I think there's only been one or two people IRL who have actually understood my identity and acted weirdly about it, so out of everyone I've told? I've had a pretty damn good time. I get weird comments from people who don't fully understand the identity sometimes or who haven't been explained it at all, but for most of those cases I'm not holding it against them because we've decided they're not the right people to tell.

Our psychologist doesn't know about my identity specifically but she's also accepting of our fictionfolk identity collectively, as was our previous psychologist who moved away a few years back. We've had a pretty good run!

10. Tell us about a time you've experienced species/identity euphoria as a result of one of your fictional identities.

Honestly I think just... Being around other fictionfolk from my any of my sources makes me feel euphoric and at home. I get to hang out with Shoto from the @sparkssystem and I instantly feel more like myself and more happy overall because my brain like, runs an internal "is my friend here" check and whenever I'm around sourcemates it gets a "yep, friend is here, all is good" response lol.

I will also say though, I did feel massively euphoric doing that arcade game thing (I might have mentioned here?) a while back. Essentially it's like a cutoff section of the room and the floor lights up in tiles with areas you need to step on to gain points or avoid stepping on to avoid losing a life/points (don't quite remember what the detriment was lol). It's not often I get to actually have some sort of tangible physical practice with moving around, aiming at targets, dodging things, etc... So it really did something to my brain that day lol. Less dangerous training or something.

25. If you decided to 'link a fictional species, what would it be and why?

I know I wrote this question to spur more discussion about 'linking and putting the possibility of 'linking stuff into people's thoughts but... I didn't actually think about this for myself yet lol.

Maybe I'd go for my hearttype, Sylvesqual from Creatures of Sonaria--I love them, they're cool, they're just lil guys.. But I don't think they're "me" enough for me to want to link them really.

Nargacuga from Monster Hunter is something I jump to when thinking about stuff outside of COS. I already have a Monster Hunter kintype (Great Izuchi) but.... Man that thing is so gender. Barioth is also absolutely gender. There's so many cool as fuck species from Monster Hunter it'd be so hard to decide. I'd probabaly end up 'linking both if I had to.

Hell, I might even do it now that I've thought about it. My own question encouraging others to think about 'linking might've worked on me myself, lmao.

[anothershottotryagain]

For the ask game!

🐢🍃

🍃 - what reminds you of your fictotype? (E.g.: a figurine, a doll, a tv series)

As Cro, this one shirt I got- Plain vwhite undershirt i use as a normal shirt. My leather jacket. Playing guitar. As Rui, most of the nerd stuff I'm into I vwas into back then, so it reminds me of then. The game "vwarhammer 40k", for instance. (I main tyranids!) I had a little bit of a connection to vwizard stuff as both Cronus and Rui, but novwadays they make me think a lot more of being Rui.

🐢 - do you experience shifts? Of yes, how do they look like?

Kind of? I 'vwe been in a Cronus "perma-shift" for almost a vwhole year novw. I'm not evwen really sure if I'm cronus-kin or a fableling. There vwas a personality and mindset change in a vway I don't got in my Rui shifts. In my Rui shifts, I just think a lot more about vwhat it vwas like back then and miss my friends and cat.

[winchesterlocal]

i stole this. ask me.. or literally any of my other kintypes maybe (kinlist accessible on pinned post)

nonhuman asks

what term(s) do you prefer to be referred to as (otherkin, therian, nonhuman, etc.)?

what are you(r kintypes/theriotypes)?

most niche/obscure 'type?

what foods do you associate with your 'type(s)?

what colors do you associate with your 'type(s)?

do you own any gear? if so, what is it?

best/favorite thing about being nonhuman?

worst/least favorite thing about being nonhuman?

what activities help you connect with your 'type(s)?

do you associate any music with your 'type(s)? do you have a playlist?

do you collect anything besides wearable gear that you associate with your 'type(s), such as plushies or merch?

do your 'type(s) influence your sense of style or the way you dress?

would you consider yourself a furry? if so, do you have a fursona? is your fursona based on one of your 'type(s)?

draw or share your artwork of your 'type(s)?

this isnt a question but a request that you drink some water!

authors note: feel free to reblog! other beings can ask you questions from this list, or you can simply answer them all yourself.

[the-longings-reverie]

22. Did you ever take a break from the community, but came back later? What made you come back?

26. Have you ever questioned being fictionhearted? If you already are, what started your questioning into that connection?

29. Have you ever questioned being fictionkin? If you already are, what started your discovery of that connection?

39. Is there anything you'd have loved to hear back when you were first questioning your identity?

22:

I never really took a break, as I never really engaged with the community on a personal level!

I’m mostly here for self identity and self indulgence, so I can’t say I have been subjected to any drama or discourse :3

26:

Not really. I haven’t felt anything similar to it to my knowledge. I coulddd explore it a little bit. I might have a few fictohearttypes, if you wish to know my considerations?

29:

For me, it was from my bunny a year back! It was a kokichi fictionkin. I thought about it awhile, and my first kinsider was fischl from Genshin Impact. But the one who was a long running kintype was Jesterkasa, a songkin of Mr. Showtime.

Tsukasa Tenma has always been a heavy fictotype for me! Though, more as a concept rather the actual person… ( o v o)3

39:

That having hyperspecific memories is a valid experience, I suppose. And that I was never overreacting when having flashbacks of exotrauma.

[indigochromatic]

32. If you're a system, do you have any collective fictional identities?

Hello, and thanks for the ask! :D

Honestly…no, I don’t really think so? Between the two of us, I think the only fictional identity that we’d really consider an identity as opposed to just “relatable character [or trope/location/etc]” is S’s, although he does have a bit of a “discount package deal” when it comes to his subsystem and having facets that relate to several of his “canon AUs” from source as well.

We did have a period of time when we were first trying to figure out what was going on, system-wise (and whether it was indeed plurality or something else instead) where we wondered if I/we was “just” fictionkin with very strong shifts—tbh there’s a whole discussion to be had about how sometimes kin identities can be seen as “less intense” than being a fictive, but/and that’s its own essay. For us, the amount of internal dialogue and sense of mutual separate awareness there seemed to be (he was himself, not me, even though sometimes it seemed like I’d be “seeing through his eyes” in exomemories etc) was what made plurality feel more accurate for us than being fictionkin. That eventually got even more reinforced once he started fronting more obviously/intentionally, too, and also when we realized he fit a lot of common stereotypes about more dissociative-flavored introjects—a big one in particular being that his character had a lot of aspects of personality and identity that were confusing/uncomfortable/alarming to me at first, rather than him being a character whom I immediately related to easily in an uncomplicated way.

[2bitedust]

Id love to hear from you guys!!!! I'd appreciate it if you'd put one or more number between 1-50 in my inbox!

Kin Memory Related Asks

Be sure to specify what kin / comfort character / character in general the ask is for!

A memory on your mind currently

A memory from your biggest kin

A memory from someone you're currently shifting

A romantic memory

A memory with family / those you considered family

A memory with one of your friends

A memory with a partner / crush / qpp or similar

A memory with a pet

A memory that makes you happy

A memory that makes you sad

A memory that makes you really angry

A memory of home

A memory of something painful

A memory of something very happy / exciting

A memory of a love confession

A memory of a fight (physical or verbal)

A memory of a death (your own or someone else's)

A memory of a time you felt loved

A memory of something funny that makes you still laugh

A positive memory of (character) as (x)

A negative memory of (character) as (x)

Most recent memory

First memory you can recall as (x)

Who were your favorite people to be around / friends

Someone you wish you were closer to or knew better

Your interests/hobbies

Your partner(s) and something you loved about them

Any major canon divergences? (ex. roleswaps, plot point changes, etc.)

Any minor canon divergences? (ex. appearance differences, family, relationships, etc.)

Someone you didn't expect to kin and/or someone you knew you would kin immediately

Any current questioning kins and why haven't you kinfirmed them yet

How did you discover you were kin with (x)

How many canons do you have as (x)

Did you have any pets as (x)

How do you get memories? (ex. dreams, fanfiction, consuming source content, etc.)

Favorite moment from source

Least favorite moment from source

What was your gender/sexuality + pronouns

Gender/sexuality + pronouns of (character) in your canon as (x)

Did you have any neurodivergencies or disabilities

Neurodivergencies or disabilities of (character) in your canon as (x)

Favorite image of (kin/character)

Least favorite image of (kin/character)

Things now that remind you of (kin/character/source)?

Favorite location from source / your memories of source

Your favorite things as (x)

Your least favorite things / things you hated as (x)

Song / song lyrics that remind you of (kin/character)

Song / song lyrics that remind you of a comfort ship as (x)

Talk about anything you want! Fun facts, a memory you want to share, something important to you about your kinning

[liondrakes]

19, 20, and 27 for the fickin ask game! :3c

19.) Do you have any spiritual identities? Explain a bit about that!

If philosophical theory (specifically metaphysics and multiverse theory) counts as spiritual, then yes. I have fictomeres that are tied to their own multiverses, and as a result, some of them are parallel lives of mine.

I experience a few of them in tandem with my life in this world, so we’re basically on the same wavelength. My background as The Winged Lion and Kerberos/“Kero-chan” are examples of this.

In other cases, they’re not really experienced as often. They exist at a distance from me, so they sort of orbit around my fictionhood if anything. My fictomeres in Hyrule and Wagadu are examples of this.

Of these identities, I gravitate towards the former of the two since I’m presently that person in two states of reality. The latter fades into the background. Make no mistake, it’s still a part of my alterhumanity; it’s just not as central to my experience as it once was. Every now and then, I’ll shapeshift into those identities, and it’ll feel nice, but it won’t shape my sense of self as much as the others.

20. Do you have any psychological identities? Explain a bit about that!

Yes, I do. Sometimes, I don’t have memories tied to an experience at all. My connection to being that person or thing, in addition to the world I stem from, is only known through how they’re portrayed in this world.

In those cases, I am that person or thing without any existential baggage. This applies to fictotypes that were once linktypes, such as my identity as a Redguard. Anything coming from that experience is usually created knowledge. If not that, it’s insight based on official information, fanmade creations, or personal headcanons on the world of Tamriel.

This also applies to being Cyrus Albright. I have no exomemories tied to this experience. Much of my qualities in-source match my own in this world. The only impasse is that I don’t look the same. I’m visibly black with long dreadlocks tied into a ponytail rather than visibly white with long, straight hair tied into a ponytail. Although my “canon” features don’t match up, I am wholly Cyrus Albright. I have no spiritual or metaphysical roots this identity. I simply am.

Other experiences involve my mental health. Occasionally, a fictotype or fictionflicker can be triggered as a result of my schizophrenia. TF One!Megatron being an example of this. I also feel as though these experiences exist at a distance from me. It’s not that I don’t consider them a part of my fictionhood, but I don’t like how I feel when I’m under those conditions so I don’t discuss them publicly.

27. Do you have any fictional hearthomes? What are your favourite things about them?

Yes, most of my hearthomes are based in fiction! I have a lot so I’ll just list and explain my favorites. My taste in hearthomes is pretty predictable, since my favored ones are fantasy realms.

Hanmerfell: I love the history of the Ra Gada (Redguards). It’s certainly not a perfect one. The civil wars between them and the Orsimer over the land is one example I can think of. It’s overlooked, and we have the tales of Cyrus to thank for that. Even so, learning about the civilizations within Hammerfell is always a treat. It brings me closer to it, be it as a hearthome or a place of reference for linking Redguards.

Sun Haven: I’m not a big fan of farm sims, usually, but the aesthetics of Sun Haven hold a special place in my heart. I love the various realms we’re able to explore in the game, but Sun Haven basically being a small town in fantasy form brings a smile to my face. I love when elements of fantasy are portrayed as a part of the norm or has its own way of being mundane in fictional worlds. I may be a little biased on account of being the concept of fantasy (genre), though.

Reveria: Similar to Sun Haven, I adore an environment where fantasy is mundane. Between mages being categorized as job positions and Napdragons being a part of the local wildlife, it makes me feel right at home with a world. That said, Reveria is quite special compared to Sun Haven. Fantasy Life is a game that I’ve loved dearly for years, and was a form of escape during worse periods of my life. Thus, Reveria feels like a home away from home to me.

Cephiro: Cephiro has a lot of fucked up shit going on underneath its gorgeous environments, but I will say that it’s probably my favorite world within Clamp’s universe. I feel a sense of belonging there that I don’t feel in my source’s world.

Granted, that’s because I am someone’s familiar, made completely from himself and his magic. Naturally, I’d feel more comfortable in a place where beings such as myself aren’t considered “out of the ordinary”. I’d have no reason to hide or take on a false form as a child’s toy. I suppose I’d feel the same way about The Kingdom of Clow since it parallels my source’s world, but I need to better familiarize myself with it before I make any assumptions.

I’d also like to highlight Splatsville and the rest of the Splatlands as honorable mentions, which– interestingly enough– are post-apocalyptic settings. I love the energy that the former has during Splatfests. It feels very different from the other plazas in Splatoon. It’s like I’m a part of something big but in a communal sense. This ties into my hearttype, Inkfish (inklings and octolings), as well.