If fiction kin is real
Then every single story and character anyone (even people not famous that only have stories on the back of used napkins) has written ‘exist’.
Every single character written exist in another form in this world. Your stories characters exist in this world.
Right?
So why dont we have people going around identify as those characters? Why dont people identify as pablo from the story written on the stall of a bathroom? Why dont we see people saying how they think they are Mike from the story that’s written on some piece of cardboard in a city dump?
Why do people only identify as popular characters? How many Lokikin are there? Zeuskin? Stephenkin? It seems the only time i encounter fictionkin it is from a well known and well circulating movie/book.
Well, I mean, for one: You need to have seen that media, that writing, to realize that your experiences and memories and feelings are related to that in the first place. If I had never read my canon, I’d have feelings and memories I wouldn’t know what to do with and would ultimately have no idea that I was fictionkin.
And people *don’t* only identify as popular characters. I’m from a 19 year old short story, I know two or three people from Thomas the Tank Engine, I know a Bugs Bunny and a Donald Duck, I know people who are side or background characters in a canon.
Honestly do all anti-kin think we aren’t self-aware and haven’t discussed this ourselves in our own spaces? We have. A lot.
