hi- just a question about being fictionkin.. I think I might be kin with ichimatsu from osomatsu-san, but I’m really not sure. I can relate to him 100%, I feel attached to him, and just generally feel like he’s apart of him, but I do know that I’m my own person.. but the character himself feels like he’s apart of me- am I kin or am I just too attached to a fictional character ??

Could be either one. Only you can tell. Make sure to take time to examine the identity– it can take months or years to really…

In 2004, a boy became obsessed with WoW. He wrote an 80,000 word “in-character” journal from the perspective of his character. He soon became overwhelmed with grief that he couldn’t be with the characters in the game, then committed suicide to “be with them”. Do you think he was fictionkin? Or that if the fictionkin community had existed back then, he might’ve had an outlet for his feelings and avoided suicide?

Hi there anon. First of all, the boy in question,  Zhang Xiaoyi was a 13 year old Chinese native, and the game he was addicted…

Er, hi, i’m the anon with 16 kintypes and I… -sigh- If you don’t mind, can I ask your opinion on something? So about a week ago, I saw an older pale blue car parked under a streetlight in the middle of the night and I felt intense fear, despite being in a car as well, and a couple days after that I suddenly got the extreme urge to look online for leather jackets, and I was extremely distressed that I couldn’t find any that fit me. My partner thinks I might be Ponyboy. I had a shift, but… 16.

Well anon, lets see. Personally, I’m, of the opinion that one ‘shift’ and some weird unexplained feelings don’t make something a kintype. For me to call…