Do all fictionkin experience trauma or pain associated with thier canon? And does it make them invalid if they don’t?

Nothing is a hard and fast rule. I experience a lot of pain and trauma associated with my canons because they involve memories and experiences that caused me pain, and because they make me miss people I will never see or talk to again. Most of the kin I know well and trust experience at least some degree of trauma and grief related to their kinselves.

But can you be kin without experiencing trauma? Probably, yeah, because everyone’s different, and everyone has different experiences.

I’m really tired of the concept of ‘validity’ its really pretty useless in terms of kin discussion.