shadow and flame

hope you like it

not sure but I think that makes sense to me

If so, then that's not necessarily anything to do with hearttype versus kintype/fictotype - you still identify as the thing, after all. It's a matter of, for lack of a better term, "canon compliance" versus "canon divergence" - and many, in fact most, fictionkin are canon divergent to some degree. Canon is almost always a story that shares an uncanny resemblance to you more than literally where you come from; it almost never matches up 100%, even when the differences are small. That doesn't make you not fictionkin. As long as the divergences aren't so drastic that calling yourself [x] is no longer useful in communicating anything about who you are and what you experience, which is ultimately a threshold you decide - and if that were true, you probably wouldn't see yourself in that character/creature/etc. to begin with - you're more than welcome to call yourself fictionkin.

let me know if knowing the specific something will help, another thought is that I still need to delve deeper into the lore of that something anyway

(Either way, the basic concept stands - if you identify as the thing, you’re fictionkin, regardless of how canon divergent (or canon disconnected, maybe?) you may be.)

This is definitely still a kintype thing, it doesn't necessarily mean that just because you are only connected and identifying as the thing and not anything around it, that it has to be a hearttype. Like me and a lot of alterhumans say, there's a million and one ways to be alterhuman and that means there's a million and one ways to be fictionkin. Just identifying as something fictional and not having a connection to anything surrounding it is still a fictionkin experience in and of itself.

not completely confident as of now so I'd still need to kinsider more however

not sure but I think that makes sense to me

If so, then that's not necessarily anything to do with hearttype versus kintype/fictotype - you still identify as the thing, after all. It's a matter of, for lack of a better term, "canon compliance" versus "canon divergence" - and many, in fact most, fictionkin are canon divergent to some degree. Canon is almost always a story that shares an uncanny resemblance to you more than literally where you come from; it almost never matches up 100%, even when the differences are small. That doesn't make you not fictionkin. As long as the divergences aren't so drastic that calling yourself [x] is no longer useful in communicating anything about who you are and what you experience, which is ultimately a threshold you decide - and if that were true, you probably wouldn't see yourself in that character/creature/etc. to begin with - you're more than welcome to call yourself fictionkin.

let me know if knowing the specific something will help, another thought is that I still need to delve deeper into the lore of that something anyway

(Either way, the basic concept stands - if you identify as the thing, you’re fictionkin, regardless of how canon divergent (or canon disconnected, maybe?) you may be.)

idk this is definitely too strange but I am a shadow demon no matter what happens - I simply am an otherworldly abyss of shadows