Hey is it…normal for your characters to sort of…take on a life of their own? (This ask gets kinda long, sorry) I’ve known for a while I’m both an age regressor and transmasc (not a guy, just…a guy, y’know?), so I tend to experiment with that in character creators in games, especially ones that let me change my look. Lately, this guy with wavy, lilac hair has been cropping up a lot. He’s a really soft guy, like personality-wise, and super sweet. Idk how I know that, I just…do. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I ended up accidentally making him yet again, but this time it was…different. This time, I could almost feel him in the back of my mind, excitedly watching himself on the screen. “Those clothes aren’t quite right, but look at me go!” he seemed to be saying, though I couldn’t actually hear anything. It was more like…a feeling? I wandered around, went into a Villager’s house, and she gave me a shirt. Putting it on not only killed the euphoria he had going, but it brought up…memories? Vague, distant, still-images like my own memories tend to be. I don’t see my past, so much as I…know it happened. I couldn’t tell you what the ball-throwing game at Chuck E Cheese’s looked like, but I could tell you I was fucking great at it. They weren’t…nice memories. I won’t go into detail about them since you seem to be having a bad night as it is, but I think he died? He didn’t like them. We put the other shirt back on and tried to forget about it. Idk, it’s a weird feeling.
Hey anon, thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
The honest, direct answer is that no, it’s not normal for characters to take on a life or their own. Especially not when it includes communicating to you, and having memories.
There are a few things that could be going on here, related either to plurality, or to fictionkin/otherkin/past live etc.
I recommend that you look into both phenomena ( @fromfiction is a great place to start). Please feel free to send us a follow up with more of your thoughts.
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