Why is there a distinction between fictives & fictionkin but not nonhuman headmates/alters & otherkin? Nonhuman headmates who are literally animals can and do call themselves or get called otherkin, but headmates who are fictional characters or species can’t call themselves or get called fictionkin?
I honestly don’t know when or how this distinction started.
If I had to guess its because a non-human headmate in a human body fits the definition of an otherkin (a non-human in a human body) better than a fictive fits the admittedly more amorphous definition of a fictionkin.
I’m personally of the opinion that non-human headmates really shouldn’t call themselves otherkin, but that’s just my personal opinion.
You think that just because someone is a headmate they can’t be otherkin…? That even if they fit the definition, you think they shouldn’t call themselves otherkin…? Just because they are headmates and not singlet? Okay…
Yeah, that was a stupid thing for me to say, in hindsight.
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