Isn’t fictionhearted feeling a familial relationship to that character? I’m not fictionhearted myself, but I am dragonhearted and I describe that as seeing the dragon spirits around me as my true family. So, wouldn’t fictionhearted be less of “I want to be that” and more of “I feel that character is very close to me”?

It can be a familial connection, but it also can be feeling like you empathize so much with that character that you feel like you ‘are’…

hey ok so I’ve been really ffreakin out here, man, like when I see things like fanart or a post about this one character I just really, intensely feel, just a Really intense feeling, like it get hard to breathe a bit, I make small noises, pressure in chest, feels like a panic attack but /different/??? idk I’m just, really confused, like maybe am I kin? ddid I have some weird feelings for this character? any help is appreciated if possible

Its possible you’re kin, or that you are fictionhearted, or that the character is a synpath. What is clear is that the character effects you…

new word: alternormal Alternormal adjective denoting events, experiences or phenomena (such as shifts, anomalous memories, phantom/astral limbs, headmates, soulbonding, unexplained urges and feelings, etc) that…