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I don’t think it’s that weird? Your word choice makes it seem like you’re not entirely sure about Spring Bonnie though, maybe you were that suit but don’t ‘identify with it’ anymore in some way. 

I’ve heard theories that there were two sets of the springsuits, like how there’s ‘Springbonnie with bowtie’ and ‘Springbonnie with one button’. Though I don’t personally think that’s game canon, perhaps your AU was like that, a spare suit maybe?

 On terms of being ‘weird’, keep in mind how many people here are kin with robots, not the souls haunting them, so don’t worry about that -- its pretty normal in this community!

Hm... So like, a kintype that you feel a good bond to and feel comfortable with, but you do non kin-related general-fandomy things with them ‘as a character’? That doesn’t seem weird at all to me. 

It sounds sort of like, if they’re a kintype they’re a kintype, and anything CC related is just personal stuff? One way to look at it might be that you’re not physically/literally this character In This Life, so this-life stuff can easily be separate, but you’re still the character in other ways. 

Remember; a kintype isn’t always a character you like, and a lot of people actually hate their kintypes. Therefore it’s just as reasonable that you like a character a lot outside of being them, right?

It’s not really like these things have a lawbook, it’s more that there’s a lot of phrases and identifiers to help one another understand each other’s experiences, but then people get mad for some reason.

Onto the question, Synpath and Kin-hearted are both roughly defined as ‘Identifies with but not as’ (Unless someone went around updating terms again), and Comfort Characters are a character that brings you comfort, right? (Lightly avoiding semantics with the word ‘copingkin’ right now but mentioning it due to possible relevance.)

It sounds to me like a comfort character can be literally anything; plenty of people find comfort in kintypes of all kinds. 

If you’re sure of the connection to the universe, you could relax and think of yourself ‘as’ the other characters. Like mental roleplaying, sort of. Imagine you’re the night guard lighting up the hallway, a Bonnie in the vents, a Freddy, toy Foxy or Chica roaming the building ... you probably shouldn’t shove a flashlight in your face for Foxy, but you could imagine it! Just ‘test’ the characters closest to you, and see if the Marionette still feels the most ‘natural’. 

When testing connections in this way, it can be good to be thorough. Play ambience, keep checking on how you feel and your emotions, and don’t ignore any part of it. If it feels wrong, figure out in what way it’s wrong. Maybe you’ll realize ‘This animatronic was with me a lot, pretending to be my friend feels weird’, or ‘I didn’t like this person, I’m feeling a little upset’. Other times, though probably more rarely, this method might make you realize ‘This feels even more comfortable, in fact I think the Marionette was my friend and that’s why I feel so close to them.’

Although kin isn’t a roleplaying thing at all, this acting method is inspired by people who realized they were kin through roleplaying a kintype, and may be a smooth way to test how natural it may feel as well as prompt small memories.

Unusual, probably, yes, but I couldn’t rule it out as impossible.

It depends on how you feel your kintypes ‘became you’, really.

If the emotions are the only thing, it could stem from discomfort from the situation itself.  Do you feel the emotions came before or after you began to question the older brother? Do you have any other feelings or memories in regards to the crying child, or about things that maybe the game didn’t show (home life, the other kids/bullys, etc)?

We can’t really help in regards to questioning kin aside from sample questions to ask yourself, but as for feeling better about what happened… the past is in the past, and sometimes ‘a joke’ goes too far really fast. Although feeling bad for what happened is natural, try to not allow it to affect your current life too much. Everyone involved in the situation was very young, as well as peer pressure, and an adult should have been supervising, so it is not entirely any single person’s fault. 

If you feel connected to Toy Foxy / Mangle but not Funtime, or vice versa, that’s okay! You weren’t the same robot, not entirely (unless that’s how it was in your canon, but keep in mind people’s canons always differ).

If you feel connected to Toy Foxy / Mangle and Funtime, that’s also okay! It’s the same/similar design and name, and depending on placement, spirits can drift just as they could between Withered/Toy/Classics. 

And of course, seeing one that looks a lot like you can drum up kinfeels, so it’s understandable to be in some disarray until you’re more sure of yourself.

A lot of kin stuff is ‘This matches me, I know it in my soul’ sort of thing. It’s okay to be wrong, or drift, especially when there’s similar characters especially from the same series like this. 

Talking to people can be hard, especially if they’re basically strangers! Although your canon is a good reason to meet up, it’s important to make friends based on the current life before anything else. Even fictives might have some new interests! Not everyone may get along as good as you all used to either, as well as finding people sharing your personal canon is more difficult than you might think.