So I think I might be fictionkin. There is a character I feel a close similarity to and people who know both him and me have actually commented that we’re alike. I feel at home in the canon world he’s from and I think I even feel the same for a different character… But the thing is, I don’t have what many fictionkin described, that they look at their fictype and think THIS IS ME, see? I don’t know what to think. Does that nean I can’t be fictionkin?

(Anon who doesn’t get the IT’S ME feeling) I also may possibly have memories of being this character? Difficult to say whether that’s just overactive imagination though… Forgot to mention it, sorry.

While the ‘that’s me’ feeling is my usual litmus test for these things, sometimes it doesn’t happen for a while. I’d say if you have memories, then you should take the time to explore them further through meditation and self reflection. 

It may well be that you’re fictionkin, and something’s simply blocking the ‘that’s me’ feeling Maybe you have an exceptionally strong sense of self in this life, or the person you were is depicted in the ‘source material’ in a way that doesn’t especially resonate with you because of differences between yourself and the ‘canon’.

In the end, only you can decide what your feelings and thoughts mean, and if you’re fictionkin or not. I wish you luck.