#canon countdowns

Hi! It’s… been a bit, hasn’t it? Eheheh. But regardless, I’m back! And today, I’m going to talk about something else: realising who you are.

Sooo… you know how recently, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet released? Well, you see, whilst playing through the game I felt as if the place seemed familiar - and the people, too. Almost as if I was a character from the game.

Then the game finished and, well… I realised it, who I was: Penny.

Well. Probably Penny. But, regardless, I was kind of surprised, given that I’d played through the entire game before realising I may have been her (mind you, it could be a flicker, but I doubt it.

So for my question for today: How long did it take you to realise who you were kintype-wise after getting into your source (or fictive-wise after forming, maybe, if that works)?

Your local purple pony princess,

Twilight Sparkle.

Regarding your recent question about how long it took to realize we were ‘kin, for us it took a few years.

We got into Undertale and the AUs back around 2018/2019 if we remember correctly, and we had always had a strong connection to a certain few AU characters: Nightmare Sans, Gaster Blaster Sans, and kinda Lust Sans. We didn’t think anything of it at the time since we were young , and just thought it was us really liking the characters.

Constantly imagining ourself with Nightmare and GB’s abilities, being part of Nightmare’s gang, and our somewhat strong attraction to Dust Sans despite us never experiencing any sort of attraction before, if we were older then, probably would have clued us in on something else going on.

These connections lingered for years, even as our hyperfixation on Undertale came and went. It wasn’t until June 12, 2021 that we realized we were ‘kin, and we kinfirmed Nightmare that October at a volleyball game of all places (we were a benchwarmer and had plenty of time to think lol). GB was later that year, and Lust was last month.

-Nightmare Sans/Gaster Blaster Sans/Lust Sans (Undertale Multiverse, #🌲⚠️💫)

First off, wonderful to see you again dear! Never feel bad for missing a scheduled thing, time is a weird soup. Your questions are always a delight and you should be at liberty to send them at your own leisure!

It's always a tossup how long it takes to awaken a kintype. Typically it's somewhere in the middle of consuming a piece of media, but I've had a fair amount of outliers! Celes, for one, was a kintype I awakened to long after I'd first read the original translation LP of Danganronpa back in 2013-- two years after, I think. It was only when I'd replayed the game myself on my Vita when it was localized that I realized what had struck me so strongly with both her and the game itself. I had a pretty similar experience with Tohru, though I'd first read Fruits Basket when I was a kid and always strongly related to Tohru and lived by many of her life lessons. It was less of a realization upon revisiting and more of a gradual retrospective "oh wait, THAT'S what that is".

For a stranger example, I've also had kintypes I'd known about *before* even getting into the source-- once before even knowing about it! I'd had the most vivid dreams of highly specific scenarios as a young child. While some things were changed as often is with dreams, it was downright eerie when the better part of a decade later I was shown a series at my college anime club that played those dreams out scene for scene. And almost none of those scenes were terribly pleasant. It shook me up for weeks-- call that a rude awakening, ahaha! I've never had it happen since where I knew about a kin before even knowing about the series, but sometimes you see a character's face from something you don't know and it just feels far too familiar.

Sincerely,

#🍙🗡🧁

In response to this question you posed, the longest kin it took me to realize after consuming the source media was prooobably link from legend of zelda(s). i mean, ive been a zelda fan since i was young, and when i found out about fiction kin as a teenager.. it just sort of clicked in my head after years and years of feeling weird about it! years as in like.. (checks notes) 8 years ?! usually im quick to realize, but another one that made me take a while to find out was ocean from ride the cyclone.. i was into ride the cyclone for MONTHS before i Realized like... last sunday HAHA. on the flipside, the quickest ive kinned someone was when i sort of automatically knew i was basil, way before the game even came out. just Yep. i kin him. thats me.

additionally, i still dont know who i am from splatoon, so theres that.

sincerely, #⭐❤️‍🩹🫧

For over a year now I have been kinsidering Pass!Sapnap but I have been beating around the bush about it till this day. A part of me don’t want to venture further into the source because I feel like it’s wrong of me to kin from someone’s fanfic/au. But every time I read snippets of the fic and fanart based around it, it touches me in a far more personal way than a fanfic should. Like the feeling of hurt reading that one specific scene hits way harder than what the average sympathetic reader should feel.

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oh boy this is an interesting question! this is probably going to make my identity so obvious tbh but i don't mind

kel: i was into omori for about a year before kinfirming kel!

sun: i'd been into fnaf almost since it came out, and when security breach came out, i felt. some sort of connection to sun, but i didn't know what fictionkins were until i kinfirmed kel, and even then it took a bit for me to kinfirm sun

lizzie (empires s2): i kinfirmed lizzie soon after the episode where she babysat hermes, i don't remember which one exactly

lizzie (not saying where she's from): this one was like the funniest shit because she's from a crack roleplay that i refuse to go into detail about however i started remembering things that happened to her...from her perspective. and i just had an oh shit moment/lh

duck (don't hug me i'm scared): a couple of days after i watched the new series i kinfirmed him!

shadow the hedgehog (sonic the hedgehog): i'd been kinsidering him for a while but i watched sonic x and played through forces again and just..........man

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that's really reassuring to hear!! i have a loooooot of instances of playing/reading all my kin's relevant content before realizing i was kin with them as well; also it feels very validating whenever it helps recontextualize my feelings about the character/source, like an extra bonus :) #🫖📕