Questions for the Reincarnated fickin community??
I have a few questions for fictionkin, mainly aimed at people who actually know the true definition and all that? Yet again, mainly aimed at people who believe that they’re the reincarnation of a character? I’m just having a hard time wrapping my head around it and could really use some help.
Especially about how the author potentially knew about the source material? And does it not invalidate the artist? I’m having a rather hard time understanding it and I don’t want to invalidate their beliefs, but I’m very iffy about the whole thing.
Could this mean there is someone out there who is kin with one of my OC’s? And how did I get information about this universe in my head if it’s supposedly real??? I hope I’m not bothering anything, I am just very curious.It’s inaccurate to say that reincarnated fictionkin are the only “true” ones, but I’m one and I’d be happy to help you out. Unless by true you mean not tumblr fluff who use the fictionkin label incorrectly, in which case I’m glad I got to you before they did…
It’s possible that after being exposed to your characters and stories that someone might have an awakening as them – often we have feelings that we can’t understand or place until we find our source material and it all clicks. Or sometimes it triggers the whole event.
The thing is, there’s no proven “answer” one way or another for this, wrt the roles creators play in our pasts. It gets even trickier when you think about the fact that a lot of us don’t conform perfectly to canon – some of my source materials are fairly accurate, or not at all, or only up until certain points and then become irrelevant to me. And what happened to me is usually different one way or another from a different person with a shared fictotype. So, someone else who identifies as Ichigo from Bleach has different experiences from me, even with the same fictotype and similarities in our stories.
From my perspective, I think the creators of my source material were inspired by, and stylized, actual events. How that happened I can’t honestly tell you for sure. That’d be like claiming to know the meaning of life, really. Most of us tend to go with the multiverse theory – in an infinite universe on an infinite timeline, eventually, statistically, everything will happen somewhere.
No legitimate fictionkin would ever try to force this stuff on you though, it’s not required that you believe in it. It’s mostly an internal thing that we share with each other and intimate confidants. So even not being able to believe in it wouldn’t invalidate us. The only thing that’s a bother is when people harass us unprovoked, which is… a large portion of our internet history, ha.
Yeah I was talking about the fluff, I’ve been through the tags because I was suspecting myself of being otherkin (alienkin, haha) and the amount of fluff I had to dig through was kinda ridiculous.
But thank you for responding so kindly to my questions. I’m little more open minded about this stuff, still kind of iffy about it, but hey, I’m not these people having these experiences, so I’m not going to judge!
Thank you for answering my questions though!
yeah, it’s kinda bonkers in these tags. Good luck with everything though! Feel free to look through my blog for any info, or ask questions you might have later. @fromfiction is also a long-time community member and a good resource, with a recently re-vamped website for fictionkin you can look through.
Chiming in ^^
My personal belief is that the artist or writer isn’t required to know anything about the world he’s creating to create a world that already exists. Basically to me, its like painting an image of a landscape, and then one day finding a photograph that looks exactly the same. Authors generally write stories that are the same as worlds that already exist by coincidence, not design.
I’ve written about this a lot, since its a question I get all the time. If you’re interested I have an essay here: http://fictionkin.net/multiverse-theory/
