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"That lifetime was so lovely and uncomplicated for our relationship. Except for my horrible and untimely death."

"You say that like that's not a big deal!"

"Is it?"

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Do not allow an ordinary world convince you that you are not a strange, magical creature.

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Craigslist missed connections really has it all, eh?

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How do you square away the fact that there are other people claiming to be “you” in a system source or fictionkin way? It’s started to make me feel odd lately

(Sorry if this is out of nowhere— you seemed like the most knowledgeable person I could think of on the subject)

Hi, pal! Thank you so much for sending this question our way. It is, perhaps, the question we've gotten the most in our 20 years of being fictionkin online.

We have always had an easy time with this "problem" because some of the earliest media we were exposed to involved the "multiverse" and "many worlds" theory. And that's simply what we believe.

We believe in an infinite multiverse with an infinite number of variations between timelines, some minute and some huge.

So if I'm (💀🎂) Jane Crocker (and I am), and someone else I meet is also claiming to be Jane Crocker, the answer is simple - neither of us is wrong, or fake, we're simply two different Janes from two different universes both incarnated here on earth, in the same timeline where we could have the very strange and amusing experience of meeting one another!

Does that make sense?

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alterhuman coded tes headcanon: i think dragonborns get phantom limb shifts out the ass. the phantom shifts get more intense, and sometimes indistinguishable, after they discover dragon aspect.

for example, i think miraak has a hard time differentiating his phantom limbs from actual draconic limbs. he'll instinctively duck super low as to not hit his "horns" on any doorframe, tuck his "wings" in tight spaces, watch his "tail" when closing a door. i feel like his phantom/dragon aspect tail is really thick like a gator's tail, and he sometimes tries to use it to trip enemies in battle; of course, it does nothing.

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My later fictionkin awakenings actually make my original isekai experience make so much more sense in hindsight.

At the time, everyone, including myself was like ''wtf this machine was supposed to bring us a great warrior, why'd we get a random ten year old??"

Well it turns out that random ten year old used to be the Death Knight and so on, so ya'll are in good hands. (And they were.)

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My first alterhuman experience was something that would now be called a spontaneous, unintentional case of reality shifting.

For a period of several months when I was 10 years old, in 1996, I was isekai'd back and forth to another reality.

There was a cartoon that was airing at the time. Samurai Pizza Cats. I didn't even like it to begin with, I thought it was stupid. My dad and brother were the ones watching it. But after a while, even though the feeling that it was stupid didn't go away, I was compelled to watch it for some reason.

And then the isekai started. 

It wasn't dreams, even though I was most often pulled into that reality when I was in bed. It was whenever my attention wandered. I wasn't asleep. It was, if a dream, then a waking dream. Continuous, without looping, or changing. When I was there, I was there, when I was in our reality, time continued there, and I'd return to find that things had happened in my absence. 

I laugh, every time I see the isekai boom in anime, because that wasn't nearly as much of a thing in 1996, but it happened to me.

The villain of the series had built a machine to summon a warrior from another universe who could defeat his enemies.

And he got me. A ten year old. And all the stupid bullshit that came with it.

They ended up training me, since they couldn't try again, and there was supposed to be some 'destined champion' thing going on.

I spent months of time training and fighting battles.

And then, after we achieved our goals, I went home. I had to go home, or they told me I wouldn't be able to. I was adapting to that universe, my body was changing.

And I will tell you when I was in our reality, I didn't quite believe what was happening to me when I was pulled into the other reality. It couldn't be happening, right?

But it wasn't a fun daydream! It wasn't intentional! I wasn't doing it on purpose and that stressed me out! It scared me.

So I said my goodbyes, and I came back.

And sadly, despite all my reaching out in the years afterward, despite all the other alterhuman experiences that I've had, I've never heard from anyone from that reality again. I've never been able to go back there. That door that was open to me has been forever closed.

And somehow that's one of the biggest things that makes me sure it was all real.

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is it normal that sometimes when i get a kin memory i sometimes feel physical pain? - Spud!

Psychological and emotional stress, both of which can come from a kin memory, are something that can cause real, physical pain. So yes, it's not out of the ordinary to feel pain when you get a kin memory.

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As a fictionkin/fictive, it's the highest honor and stamp of approval when I reblog someone's OC x Canon art about me.

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Whenever someone compliments the character writing in my fanfiction, and the character they're complimenting is myself, it's like I've gotten a good grade in 'being me'.

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i feel so left out. like everyone around me knows how to be a human and i don’t.

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Another day where I'm reminded that my soul is deeply incompatible with the human animal body.

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Hi I’m Vincent, I was wondering how long you’ve been kin for. I’m not fictionkin, I’m a soulbound that went into this body after my passing. I see fictives in other systems drop their identities all the time, and honestly it makes me nervous. I AM V, like it’s not something I feel like I can opt out of. I have cptsd from my old life, I struggle with grief and triggers everyday. But I’m scared to death that in 20 years, I’ll somehow realize it’s all delusion or childish and then not be V anymore. I’m scared in 20 years, this identity I have of V, and all my past life, won’t mean anything anymore. You got any advice or reassurances or statements on this?

Hey pal. I feel you. I understand that nervous feeling.

Back in the day, people used to tell me all the time that it was a phase, that I'd be embarrassed in a few years. That it wasn't real.

But I'm still here. I still know who I am. My understanding of myself as kin is always growing and evolving. I still get new memories. Being kin is still relevant to me in my daily life, every day. Probably more than when I was younger.

If you look at the archive for this blog, you'll see that it goes back to 2013.

But I've been here longer.

I've been here since the Livejournal days. If you look at my website, you'll see that I have an archive of my original website.

My original website from before the community used the term "fictionkin".

My original website from 2007.

I'm still here 20 years later. I know you're still gonna be here in 20 years, too.

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the process of confirming a kin happens in two parts, ‘hey look at this little guy’ and ‘oh no’

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Stricken with the weight of lifetimes' old grief, and nothing I can do with it. All I can do is see it over and over again. In my memories. In the story.

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"I don't believe in fictionkin"

That's great. Being fictionkin is part of my identity and part of my life that affects me on a daily basis regardless of whether you believe in it or not.