Awakening is a harsh yet rewarding experience. Especially when you realize you are one of fiction.

Things will change. You may be wrong about being fictionkin. You may be an entirely separate character. You may have more fictotypes. You may lose your fictotypes. How you believed your fictotypes have formed may change.

Do not be afraid to ask people to help you with your confusion. It's better getting the help of a guiding light than stumbling through a dark tunnel.

Do not let the presence of the fictionkin community pressure you into hiding or shaping yourself into something you are not, let it help you figure out who you are. If people didn't break out of the norm, we wouldn't be here today.

I would also like to provide a list of terms that I would recommend researching if you are a newbie.

Fictotype: A fictionkin kintype. Something you identify as.

Hearttype: Something you have a deep connection/bond with.

Hearthome: A place you have a strong emotional connection to. You may also have feelings of familiarity or longing for your hearthome.

Copinglink: A identity created voluntarily to relieve stress. Copinglinks are able to become kintypes if they become involuntarily (or a multitude of other reasons, anything is possible here).

Fictionflicker: A identity/shift that remains for a certain period of time and fades away. They aren't fake once they fade, you still experienced what you felt from that flicker. Do not be ashamed of accidentally labelling them as a kintype, as well as having them in general.

Vaguetype: Any identity that is messy, confusing, or just generally unexplained.