I’m seeing fictives and fictionkin used a lot interchangeably and I’m just here to say they’re not the same thing. Although they have similarities, the actual experiences of them will be much different.
For example, when someone first realizes they’re fictionkin, there is a spark of realization. It’s like “Oh, I’m this character, I didn’t know that before.” They lived as that character as a past life, or still are that character, but they’ve been acquainted with living their current life in this world, and not from the character’s world.
When fictives come into a system, they’re taken from their world into this one. Most don’t know how they came here. Usually there’s a lot of confusion, and sometimes they even panic. They don’t know anything about this world, and don’t know anything about other members in the system, or the body’s family members and friends, or how life in this world functions day to day. (Sometimes, fictives do intentionally go into systems, but in those cases there’s usually less panic.)
This is just one example of how fictives and fictionkin are different. There’s a lot more different experiences from the two. So I’m just tired of seeing them lumped together.
