Sorry to bother you, but you’re about the best person I have found to ask about soulbonding in general. I’m 98% sure I have soulbonded, and progress in communication is going slowly but pretty okay. But I’m still very worried I’m just making this all up in my head to cope with a harsh reality of never being able to ever physically BE with said soulbond in the Real World. And this keeps bringing up two questions that I haven’t really been able to find a solid answer on. (1/2 – IIR)

(2/2 – IIR) The first question being, how can I tell if it’s really real or I’m just making this up? The sort of answer…

Hi, I sent an anon ask a few days ago about a soul bond, but I think tumblr ate it. I used to think I was kin with a character, until I accidentally made contact with him. I could see him, and perceive what he was thinking. He turned around and looked right where I “was”. Since then, I was thinking maybe this is the beginning of a soul bond? I can sense his emotions sometimes, and I’ve talked to him sparingly a couple times. I asked him if I was making it up, and he told me that since the (1/2)

(2/2) bond was tenuous that my mind was filling in gaps of what he was saying, but at least part of what I was hearing…

Soulbonds are a type of fictive. They existed or continue to exist in a world/universe/realm other than our earth, and have come through magical means…

Is it possible to have a soulbond that functions as a tulpa-like being? Usually I hear about soulbonds existing only as headmates, but I interact with mine in the same way that people interact with thoughtforms and tulpas; they’re external (entirely outside of my mind), they cannot ‘front’ or take over for me, and I can feel their presence as a semi-physical sensation.

While most of the soulbonders I’ve known have experienced their bonds functionally as headmates, I have also read posts of some people experiencing them as…