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Scott might make another game eventually, it’s always hard to tell with him. Plus, there are a lot of fangames that use the same ‘universe’ but different characters you may wish to look into.

It’s good to try breaking up your feelings. Are you an animatronic? Do you like animatronics? Maybe you hate them? Do you feel like you could build them, or even scared of them? Do you have any animal feelings that aren’t attached to any other kintypes, or perhaps memories of death?

It’s important to know that “Memories” with kin stuff isn’t always remembering exact scenes, and certainly not vividly, “Memories” can also be a feeling of familiarity. Perhaps a song from the 80s feels familiar even though you haven’t heard it before, our you feel a bit more at home at a Chuck E Cheese than most people should, but just can’t help wanting to be on stage. Checking these feelings against each other may help prompt better memories, and help find a clearer picture. Some may also turn to meditation (such as Past Life Regression) but be careful if you do. Many memories are presented as ‘just knowing’ some things!

Also important to keep in mind is

- Being noncanon is okay! A lot of people, especially in fnaf, find themselves noncanon, either asap or as soon as the next game breaks everything. This is just how we live. This goes for memories as well as entire characters.

It’s important to remember that ‘memories’ are a range of things, like familiar emotions, zoning out with your thoughts, just ‘knowing’, and more. It is equally if not more important to remember not everyone gets them, and they are not a requirement at all, nor are ‘canonmates’. 

Most people who talk about memories do so confidently about what little they’re sure about, but this by no means that memories are crystal clear or concrete either, this will also differ for everyone!

With that out of the way… here’s a list of things you can do to try to get something that can be considered a memory.

- Play fnaf games / listen to the audio / listen to similar audio (try these!)

- Partake in themed activity, like clothing, ambiance, or even checking out irl animatronics and see how they make you feel (old self care post with links)

- Be around and chat with other fnafkin. It’s important to be able to read other’s memories and keep them separated from your own, even from the same source material. You may also find yourself thinking ‘no, that wasnt right’ about other’s memories or even the official source games, which may in turn make you remember what Was right (’correcting canon’ is usually memories in some way)

- Roleplay with friends. A lot of kin may use their kin’s name and icon on social media and messengers, but if you’re a roleplayer you may find that acting out ‘your version of (kintype)’ in light RP may prompt kinshifts or memories. A person with good imagination may be able to let themselves wander through a scenario like this without involving others, if you’re not a roleplayer.

Searching ‘otherkin’ may get better results, though I think it’s become such a big thing lately (relatively) you’ll get piles of troll rage instead. There’s a FAQ on this blog though!

A fictive is a Fictional Introject. This is a headmate that kind of uses that character as a Base in some way.

They can look like their character ... but not always. They can act like their character ... but not always. They can identify as their character ... but not always. *

(* Just IDing as them can just be an ID/Kintype, what matters here is that they started as that character. This just means a fictive can literally not care about their source material at all, but it doesn’t mean they’re any less that character.)

Sometimes it’s just one of these but not others, or other ways ... a host/core/original cannot be a fictive though, unless your system ended up in some way where the host is not the original, but that’s your own system specifics. I personally do not fully understand the differences between ‘host/core’ so I cannot speak on this too much.

Anyway, some fictives are ‘all of the above’, like for example a Phone guy fictive that looks like him, acts like him, and can ramble on all day about his memories. Never really changing much, standard ‘looks’, ‘the informative one’, etc. Others can simply ‘start out as’ one of the above, like say, a purple guy that forms to terrorize others (Destructive headmate), can eventually end up just being ‘Oh that’s John he’s chill’ while he looks at stuffed animals on ebay. He’s still a purple guy, sure, but he’s got a new name, personality’s changed, he’s found stuff he likes, and he looks like any other person. Most people wouldn’t even know he’s a purple guy at all. But he’s still a purple guy fictive, that’s what he started as, and that’s what his roots are.

Super short answer because I’m zoning out really badly:Yes headmates can get new memories, as well as make new memories, or come with memories intact, or even have no memories. Headmates, fictive or otherwise, should be at least semi regarded as their own people entirely.

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Headmates can absolutely have ‘memories’. Not just fictives either, any headmate can come with a story. Sometimes they are preset, and they can tell you about them when asked, or they are not, they are very ‘bare-bones’ and can later remember specifics. Sometimes they are content without memories, and simply live however the body or in-space does.

Oh dear.

Kins do not front. Ever.

A Headmate / Alter is a usually a DID (/OSDD/DDNOS) split, it’s a dissociative identity disorder usually brought about from traumatic experiences where the brain needs to split off to protect itself. Fictives, or Fictional Introjects, are splits of your brain that have the appearance of fictional characters. The same can happen with Factives / Factual introjects, which can be headmate copies of irl abusers or irl loved ones. Fronting is when one of these splits of your brain take over your body, usually under stress.A headmate / alter is not you (per se), they share your body.

When people say their kins are ‘fronting’, they are terribly misinformed. Likely, they are in a kin shift, a period of time where their kinself feels like their main self, like how a Foxy might feel the need to present themselves as Foxy or feel ‘homesick’ for the sea / stage. A kintype is still you.

As for facets, they are the ‘headmates’ in Median systems (Closer to OSDD/DDNOS than DID). They are like ‘sides of the core’. A facet fronting is not really correct terminology, but it can be close depending on the person. Maybe ‘presenting’ is a better term, but that’s not really important here....

A facet and a very strong kin shift can be very similar, but that’s as far as it can really go. A kin can Not front, and otherkin/fictionkin/therian does not have anything to do with multiplicity. A headmate can have kintypes, but the same can easily be said for something like, a headmate can like the color green. They are not involved with each other nor share terms.

• If you are experiencing a loss of control, spotty memory / complete amnesia, etc when feeling extreme dissociation from yourself, that could be a headmate fronting. Some/many people go to doctors for proper diagnosis of this, but it’s understood that’s not possible for many.

• If you just feel really close to your kintype, that is a kin shift. 

• If you feel vague dissociation, specific moods, etc it may be a median facet, but I’ve never been quite good at explaining facets, apologies.

Yes of course! Heck, almost everyone who is in the chat, and all of us running it, are systems with mostly fictives.