#so I finally finished pokemon legends arceus and I uhhh

[pennumbra]

A quick Volo!

[monochrome-m0use]

howdy! im wondering how you figured out your kintypes? mainly zoroark since im questioning if i may be one (unovan) but any advice overall would be a great help!

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Aaaa sorry I didn't see this sooner, I didn't expect anyone to send asks to this blog ! /pos

Saw this earlier today but just now able to get to it (in fact it unintentionally triggered a zoroark shift so hell yeah, plus that makes answering this a bit easier)

Soo please bear with me cause I'm not the best at explaining / wording stuff, plus my experience is a big all over the place cause uh,,, full disclosure: I repressed a lot of my kin experiences cause I thought I was just weird / faking it, and I used to pretend to KFF. it felt like a "safer" way to connect with that side of myself, at least a little bit, without disapproval.

Plus uhh general memory issues, that's a problem.

So I always kinda attached myself to zoroark - mostly thinking it was a cool pokemon. But tbh I was a bit,,, envious ? Jealous ? Of every zoroark. I dunno, it was kinda along the lines of "I wish I could use illusion powers, I could feel more comfortable with myself."

I dunno how I confirmed it - I think I added to my kin list cause it was like "Yeah that's me, I wanna be seen as that." This was back when I thought I was the unova variant. Once I finally accepted I was ACTUALLY kin, a lot got removed from that list, but zoroark I just,, couldn't. It still felt like me, not like I just related to zoroark, but I wanted to BE that.

Memories came after that, but they're still pretty vague. I could remember treading through a snowy environment, with those pine(?) trees strewn about. It wasn't flat surface either, there were raises in the ground (slopes? Is that what they're called?). I NEVER went into a snowy forest area before in this life.

I'm still playing legends arceus, and got to the part where ingo gets introduced, and so searched to figure out where I could catch a zorua,, annnd turns out the portion of the game they're in? EXACTLY what I can remember

So that was a major realization that I was hisuian instead.

Granted, I'm also questioning the unova variant myself! I also have some memory of hiding in a forest area next to a city. I dunno if it's a separate life, or part of my hisuian one (cause let's be real, how can a species "die out" if they're already spirits ?)

That's my experience but obviously yours would be different. I'd suggest looking into the media your kintype comes from in order to find something. I myself am planning on replaying black and white, since it's been a while. (And ofc finish up legends arceus).

Ofc there's meditation but I can't get myself to do that fjrrjejee. Mostly just uhhh feel it out ! It takes a bit to REALLY be sure, and it's not an issue if you turn out to be wrong. But honestly with a lotta my kins, I just get the feeling of "that's me" or "I want others to see me as this", and if that feeling persists I look into it.

And also memories help, but that's not a requirement. I had memories of only two kins (mickey / sad mouse and RXQ) before I kinfirmed with myself. The rest of my memories are just slowly coming back with the others.

Sorry for the ramble oops-