In cases like this, its up to you to decide what word suits you best.

My advice would be this:

If you, as a singular system member, have a singular identity and consider that to be the entirety of your ‘self’, then I would say that fictive might be the word that suits you best.

If you, as a singular system member, experience kin shifts into different identities, or memories from multiple lives, etc, all of which are you–not other members of your system– then I would say the word fictionkin suits you best.

If you are fictionkin, it is normal and correct to refer to yourself as “I” when you want to, when speaking about yourself as your kintype.

Because that’s who you are.

Thank you, you’re very kind. ^^ I’m doing well, personally, at the moment.

I’m sorry you miss the blog. Sometimes I miss running it too.

Admittedly, after a while I started to feel rather unwelcome. If other people want me to come back and be active again, I suppose I could try.

Those definitely sound like experiences that could be part of being fictionkin to me.

Experiences that happen to the character that seem familiar to you that aren’t part of your current life, and nostalgia and sorrow for it is definitely a common fictionkin experience.

This has been asked many times before, and will be asked many times again, and that is completely okay.

It can be normal to not have memories of your kintype.

However, it is important to make sure you know what memories are.

Not every memory is a visual recollection of events one after another.

Sometimes a memory is a familiar smell.

Sometimes a memory is “just knowing” and being sure of something.

Sometimes a memory is an impression of a face.

Sometimes a memory is a recollection of touch.

Sometimes a memory is music you don’t know where you heard it.

Sometimes a memory is knowing the sound of someone’s voice.

Memory is different for everyone, and not every memory is something that plays out like a flashback. This is as true for regular memories as it is for kin memories.

There’s nothing unreasonable about that at all. I know plenty of people with very unusual names that were selected by their parents.

It’s normal to feel good when someone calls you the name of your kintype because that’s YOU. That’s your name.

They’re memories you have from the lifetimes of your kintypes. Things you remember from past lives/other worlds, etc. They’re just like memories of this life, but from other lives.

A shift that you’re almost always in. A very long shift.

What are kinshifts?

You can think of kinshifts like different settings on a machine. The ‘machine’ is the totality of your ‘self’; your internal experience and ways in which you express it outwardly; different kin shifts are like ‘settings’ that temporarily alter these expressions and experiences. 

Just like your television doesn’t become a different machine when you change the color or volume settings on it, you don’t become a different person because of a kinshift, it’s just the operation of the same machine–the same self– that has been altered in some way. 

A shift is a temporary augmentation or alteration of your base experience and expression.

There are different kinds of shifts, and each of these types of shifts is like a different setting on ‘you’ that can be affected by these shifts.

• Mental Shift: I shift affecting your mind and conscious thoughts and unconscious thought patterns.
• Phantom Shift: A shift affecting your perceived body-map and the way you experience sensory data through non-physical limbs and body parts.
• Astral Shift: A shift affecting your presence on the astral plane.
• Aura Shift: A shift affecting your aura and the way you and others perceive it.
• Dream Shift: a shift affecting your perception of your self while dreaming.
• Sensory Shift: a shift that affects how you perceive and process sensory data ; touch, smell, hearing, sight etc.
• Spiritual Shift: a shift that affects your spiritual body; similar to and may include astral or aura shift.
• Cameo Shift: Any of the above shifts, but not mapping to any known kintype the shifter has uncovered
• Mixed shift: Any of the above shifts, but including elements of more than one kintype at the same time.
• Overlapping shifts: experiencing multiple types of shifts to the same kintype at the same time, such as mental, sensory and astral.

Let’s imagine a person who has two kintypes (we’re keeping it simple). We’ll imagine those kintypes are cat, and vampire. (Again, simple, basic, everyone should have an idea of what to expect about a cat or a vampire).

If a person experiences a mental shift to their cat kintype (a cat shift), they would experience conscious and unconscious thoughts that are more like their cat kintype than their thoughts are outside of that shift. They might feel more easily distractible, have thoughts about chasing and eating mice, be more fastidious about grooming than usual, or feel alternately aloof or cuddly. 

In a phantom cat shift a person might have the sensations of a tail, or of retractable claws.

A sensory cat shift would mean that the person would pay more attention to their hearing, or smell, and experience those senses as if they were heightened or more sensitive than when not in that shift.

Astral, aura, and spiritual cat shifts would make you appear as a cat to people perceiving you in these ways.

A mixed shift would be if for instance the person was having both a sensory vampire shift, and a phantom cat shift; experiencing for example a heightened smell of and desire for blood, while at the same time experiencing having a tail.

A cameo shift is if the cat/vampire person has an unexplained one-off shift where they feel like they’re a dog.

Overlapping shifts are very common; many kin typically experience more than one ‘type’ of shift to their kintype at once.

Kinshifts can be voluntary and intentional, or, more often, are involuntary and happen either randomly or in response to external and internal stimuli.