Kintypes and awakenings
It’s been a hell of a couple of years. This is my first time talking about some of these kintypes. It always feels vulnerable to do so.
Captain Hook (Peter Pan (unknown specific canon))
Arguably my first awakening, but the kintype I was most reluctant to accept. Hook memories and feelings date all the way back to when we were four years old, but due partly to how ingrained they were, and partly out of misplaced reverence we didn’t acknowledge the kintype until the last couple of years.
Ken Ichijouji (Digimon Adventure 02)
First ‘official’ awakening; an extremely powerful, sudden. and traumatic experience. Nightmares and exotrauma forced us to stop watching the source of this kintype while it was airing, and we lived with the knowledge that we were ‘somehow’ connected to Ken for years before discovering otakukin/fictionkin.
Vriska Serket (Homestuck)
Spent several years denying this kintype despite obvious connection to it, and to the source due to an at the time (and in hindsight, bizarre) belief that you could only have one fictionkintype. Accepting this kintype I suppose is what opened the floodgates to other kintypes.
Pearl (Steven Universe)
Hated and avoided this source instinctively. Finally watched three episodes. Got extremely upset, hated it, and refused to watch any more. A year later was forced to watch more. Was hit by it almost immediately. Initially refused to accept the connection, and believed Pearl to be a soulbond rather than a kintype, but eventually had to accept that we were one and the same.
Griff (Slayers) (noncanon)
Another ‘early’ awakening with a lot of associated confusion and difficulty in acceptance. I’ve known I was connected to the Slayers ‘red world’ somehow since I was about 14, but my cryptic soulbond friend Xelloss never wanted to do much more than tease me about it. I’ve finally figured out some of the details in the last five years or so.
Nina Kaina (Pathologic)
This awakening just HAPPENED to me all of a sudden in a flash-shift. One second I felt like I had no connection to the source whatsoever, and the next second I was speaking as Nina with an understanding of the source without actually having played/experienced most of it.
“Joker” Kurusu (Persona 5)
Had an instinctive desire to avoid this source repeatedly. When I finally was exposed to it, we questioned Akechi for most of the story until we realized that Xelloss was actually Akechi and we were slapped in the face with the realization that we were Joker.
Jeritza Von Hrym (Fire Emblem 3 Houses)
an immediate connection with the source means I questioned just about everyone in the game before Jeritza. Things fell into place the second I really gave him a look; distressingly.
Victor “Sabretooth” Creed (Marvel comics)
This is another source I’ve known I had a connection to since I was a small child, really. But the universe being so broad, and the movies and cartoons so bad at reflecting it, I had no idea what I was looking at, or for. Things finally fell into place this year after I started looking into the comic. An intense dream pointed me in the right direction and after some denial, I came to the correct conclusion.
Karl Heisenberg (Resident Evil Village)
This awakening was a lot like my Nina awakening. It kind of just slapped me with a sudden and violent shift a couple weeks after seeing the source, and there wasn’t really any denying it.
Touko Fukawa (Danganronpa)
Being honest, I’ve known I was Touko since I first saw Danganronpa the Animation in 2013, but I didn’t want to have any part of that source or those feelings. In the last few weeks I’ve finally accepted it and stopped fighting with it. Probably a good thing because denying it never stopped the shifts anyway.
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