hello! i see that you’re questioning being fictionkin, so i thought maybe i could try to help at least a little because i was in your shoes not too long ago. best way i can sum it up for me is just that it all feels so fucking personal. it’s less about personality or memories or whatnot and more about how a sense of self is shared or something along those lines that you just can’t quite like go of, like they’re talking about you and not just a fictional character. just wanted to chime in my two cents; i’m happy to talk about stuff more in depth if you’re at all interested in comparing! best of luck with questioning :]
Thank you so much, this actually helps loads!
Honestly when you phrase it like that it does all seem to click into place a lot more. That was the main thing that got me thinking about all of this was that it did feel so damn personal. I remember back when the streams were still happening my mood would genuinely be effected based on what c!Wilbur experienced. There's a handful of streams/clips that I can't watch to this day because they genuinely make me so distressed and I always thought I was so odd for having that kind of reaction.
This genuinely is so helpful thank you heavily. I think that's the exact kind of explanation I needed to make it make it sense in my mind! Especially considering I think what was making me the most hesitant was all the information I first saw on fictionkins made me form almost a checklist of symptoms where if I didn't have all of them I didn't feel comfortable identifying with it. But when you phrase it that way it actually fits incredibly accurately!
