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I’m a soulbond who is a prince back in my home world, and honestly, I use “royaltykin” as a blanket term like the other anon, but I’ve found that it really doesn’t help on tumblr because, like you said, most of the people on this site who use the term “royaltykin” aren’t actually kin with anyone who was or is royalty, you know? It’d be nice to connect with someone who shared similar responsibilities to mine, but it’s pretty hard to do on this site thanks to those spoiled kids.

I’m sorry to hear about that, anon. Maybe try creating a network for fictionkin, whose kintypes were also royalty, instead of stressing royalkin?

old tumblr postsJune 23, 2016

I’ve heard the term Aeslink or Aestheticlink for people who identify with purely surface level characteristics of a character (ie their clothes, their mannerisms, essentially their “aesthetic”) Is this an okay term to use?

That sounds like a fine term to use, anon!

old tumblr postsJune 23, 2016

I’ve always thought of “royaltykin” as just a term that meant “people who are kin with characters or beings who were/are royalty”. As in, just a term used to find people who are kin with characters who happen to be royal. But I guess I’m not really surprised that Tumblr doesn’t use it that way

I’m sure there are some people who use it that way, but on the whole, no, “royaltykin” on tumblr appear to be people who believe they…

old tumblr postsJune 23, 2016

Yeah, but kin isn’t all about biology. If you identify as Ash Ketchum, you’re not saying “I should have been born a human child in the Kanto region”, you’re saying you’re a particular person with a particular personality and set of experiences. Likewise, a royalkin probably isn’t identifying with royalty as a physical organism, but how royalty exists and the intense feeling that their existence should match.

hany0u: fromfiction: If you identify as Ash Ketchum, you’re not saying “I should have been born a human child in the Kanto region”, First of…

old tumblr postsJune 23, 2016

Since realizing I’m kin with this one character, it feels kind of weird when I say I’m a fan of her and that I love her in canon. But I mean, regardless of the fact that I am her, she still exists in the television show she’s part of independent of me and I really enjoy seeing her in the show and I think she’s really cool, and thought that before I even knew what fictionkin was. Would you say this is a normal kin experience?

I’d say its pretty normal. Some kin are definitely able to enjoy their source material separately from their kinfeels.

old tumblr postsJune 23, 2016

In response to previous anon, I totally get what you mean! For both of my kintypes I used to dream and wish that I could be a part of their world and not this one. I would constantly imagine myself with the other characters in there, and it was such a relief to realise I was kin?

old tumblr postsJune 23, 2016

You know it’s funny, I could never figure out why I had SUCH a strong connection to this one show, to the point that I felt like I belonged in that world and could never get it out of my mind and felt nostalgic thinking about it… until this one character shows up in a later season and it turns out I’m kin with them, and suddenly it all makes sense.

I feel you, anon! Glad you figured it out!

old tumblr postsJune 23, 2016

Would demonkin have to be tied to any specific religion?

Nope, there are demons in different mythologies all over the world, and in folklore that isn’t considered to be religious.

old tumblr postsJune 23, 2016

Yeah, but kin isn’t all about biology. If you identify as Ash Ketchum, you’re not saying “I should have been born a human child in the Kanto region”, you’re saying you’re a particular person with a particular personality and set of experiences. Likewise, a royalkin probably isn’t identifying with royalty as a physical organism, but how royalty exists and the intense feeling that their existence should match.

If you identify as Ash Ketchum, you’re not saying “I should have been born a human child in the Kanto region”, First of all, there…

old tumblr postsJune 23, 2016

Couldn’t you pose that argument about animals though? That any animal could think it’s a different one if it’s raised by another one? Like dogs raised by cats, humans raised by dogs, etc? So there’s no validity unless you remember seeing your own reflection and being able to recognize the animal now?

A duckling raised by dogs may love and cuddle with dogs, and may even think of itself as one, but it still can’t survive by…