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Questioning a Specific Source (Questioning Guide Part 2)

There are two elements to discovering a kintype; questioning, which is a process, and awakening, which is an experience. Specifically, questioning is the process of figuring out if your experiences are elements of an awakening. Sometimes an awakening is so aggressive and obvious that no questioning process is necessary, however, most of the time when considering if something is a new kintype, it’s a good idea to go through a questioning process.

There is no right or wrong way to go through questioning; everyone’s questioning process is different. Questioning itself is an attempt at gaining deeper self-knowledge, and for many metaphysical fictionkin, questioning is a deeply personal process whose details are difficult to share or explain. It can involve meditation, journaling, astral travel, canon research, and anything else.

Here are some thoughts and ideas to get you started on your own personal questioning process, written specifically for metaphysical kintypes but applicable to other types of kin questioning.

Questions to ask yourself when considering a specific source media, (but not a specific character):

• What made you start questioning this source? 

Was it a feeling? A dream? A rumor? A compulsion toward it? A repulsion away from it? A connection to something you’ve felt or known about yourself?

• What does the world depicted in this source make you feel?

Does it feel familiar? Does it make me feel nostalgic? Homesick? Unsettled? An urge to escape?

• Are there unusual things that are inexplicably familiar about the world of the source to you?

Are there any rituals, traditions, food, clothes, animals, plants, geography, public figures or institutions, etc that you feel like you intuitively know or understand? Do any of these things seem like something that was missing to you in your daily life?

• Is there anything about the world of the source as described in canon that stands out to you as wrong?

Do you have any immediate reactions to finding out information about the source world that goes against what you intuitively understand or expect?

• Is there anything about the source world that you guessed or expected that was later confirmed?

Any strange ideas or ‘headcanons’ that you came up with before you found out that they were canon?

• Do you have any intuitive and immediate feelings about the way you would live day to day in the world of the source if you were there now?
• If someone asked you questions about the world of this source, would you feel confident, or find yourself answering them intuitively without thinking about it?

Every kin experience is different but in general, the more of these questions that you can answer ‘yes’ or have deep and involved answers to, the more likely it’s possible that the source you’re questioning could be the origin of a kintype.

View part 1 of the questioning guide here.

Questioning guide for specific characters coming soon.