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Do you know of any sicknesses that are unique to your fictomere's species or source?

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The only real one that is shown in the source specifically would be 'the common mold' in The Owl House, which is a viral illness that causes hallucinations, temporary personality changes and for mushrooms to grow out of the sick being's body. It's pretty harmless overall, though, and you just have to wait it out.

There is also despair disease, though. I'm unsure if it would count as a "real" illness, because it was just another motive in the simulation to get us to kill each other, and so was basically made up. But I and others were effected by it in a very real way. It's a disease which was supposedly transmitted by bugs, and was described as an endemic disease which was passed around easily. Those who get despair disease get a very high temperature, grow physically weak, and have very significant changes in their personalities. The way that it changes each individual's personality is different. I had a version which was nicknamed "liar disease". Owari had "coward disease", Mioda had "gullible disease", and Mikan had "remembering disease".

To be honest, talking about being Nagito is embarrassing for me, even in fictionkind spaces, buuut the liar's disease was a huge pain in my side for a little while, so I figured it's only suitable to bring it up.
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Is your fictomere nocturnal, diurnal, crepuscular, or something else entirely?

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I mean, a lot of my whole Thing as Macaque was being something of the darkness. I definitely thrived more at night. Otherwise, I was a day person, unless you counted my insomnia as Hunter.
bedes: An icon of Bede from Pokemon, smirking towards the camera. (Default)
Recall a time where your fictomere had to be calm in the face of adversity.

 
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My kintypes typically aren't exactly known for 'staying calm'. The main example I can think of who is able to do that, though, is Hunter; I was able to recognize that Luz posed no threat to me, after I was first unmasked in front of her. I was more analytical, in terms of combat. Being powerless in a world of magic will do that to you.
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If you could hit the road with anyone from your source material (yes, including yourself), who would it be? Where would you go and what would you do?

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To be honest, it would be a toss-up between Luz, Sal, or Mei. I feel like I'd get along with them great in this life!

What I'd do would depend on the person. With Luz, I'd wanna go to some nerdy anime or cartoon convention. I'd want to go to a concert with Sal (you know, in the alternate universe where there aren't currently any virus outbreaks), and I'd wanna go to an arcade or something similar with Mei!
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Is there anything related to your identity that makes you feel afraid?

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I become nervous about how my source self is perceived by fandom, in terms of fictionkinity. I know it doesn't actually matter, but whenever I see people talking about how much they hate my source self, it feels like they hate me, even when I know that's not rational. It's something that I'm trying to work on. More than anything, I'm afraid of my identity not being taken seriously, or people thinking that I am who I am by choice or that I take it lightly.
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What is your most exciting noemata?

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There are lots of different possible answers for this. My final battle against Gloria was very exciting as Bede, as well as my first few battles as a Gym Leader. All of the battles against Wukong as Macaque were super fun and adrenaline-fueled, of course, and playing with the Emerald Entrails was very fun and had me on edge as Hunter, and so on...

Compared to all of that, my most exciting memories as Travis as actually quite mundane. It was whenever Sal would bring me somewhere, like to get ice-cream. Or when I first dyed my hair. Doing tiny, tiny things to rebel.

I remember thinking, 'Loud music, too-sweet food and a pretty boy,' listing off all the things that I knew my father would hate for me to be enjoying... Apparently I was smiling or something, because Larry commented on it ('feels good to rebel, doesn't it?'). I told him to fuck off.

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Does your fictomere have a favorite food? Is it a dish that can't be found on Earth? Would it be considered taboo or gross by today's human standards?

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Well, as Travis, my favorite food was the school’s baloney sandwiches which, in the source material, was actually meat from… Ahem. Well, at least I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t that in my canon… (… Hopefully…)


… ANYWAYS, as for other kintypes…! I remember loving Toriel’s butterscotch-cinnamon pies as Chara, for which, thankfully, multiple fan-made recipes exist. I can’t say that any of them are exactly on the money for how it tasted, but, nonetheless, it’s very close… Baking it helps me feel closer to Toriel, too.

bedes: An icon of Bede from Pokemon, smirking towards the camera. (Default)
#4: What kind of weather does your source have? Is it very different from Earth, similar, or completely alien?

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The only kintype that has anything that differs from our Earth’s weather significantly is Hunter from The Owl House. In the Boiling Isles, we had weather similar to the human realm’s weather, but more hostile. The boiling-hot rain is what usually comes to mind first for most people, of course, but, in general, all weather changes were considered plagues rather than actual ‘weather’. There were regular incidents of hail taking the forms of rocks, tornadoes made of gore and guts, cursed rainbows, and floods from the water from the Boiling Sea (which, as the name implies, is also boiling-hot).

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#3: Is there a live-action movie or series based on your source? How do the actors and events match up with your noemata? Is CGI or practical effects necessary to represent the people and creatures from your source?


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Yes, Detective Pikachu is a fabulous live-action take on the Pokemon world! Of course, given that the draw of the franchise is the creatures that don’t exist in our world, CGI and such is necessary, but I feel like the movie did an excellent job bringing the creatures from my memories to life.


I’m unable to speak of if the CGI is accurate to how I remember the world, though; all of my memories are remembered in a stylized way. I have no clue if this is common for those with fictotypes from an animated or video game source or not (I would love some community input on this!), but all of my memories are ‘in the style’ of Pokemon Twilight Wings (the animated miniseries based on the Galar region).

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How closely is your identity aligned with canon events from your source?

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It depends on which fictotype you're talking about; I'll discuss two examples on opposite ends of the spectrum.
 
On one end of the spectrum is my Bede canon, which is actually surprisingly canon-compliant. I mean, of course, what you see in the source is only half the story, as it's told from Gloria's point of view, and I sort of just get yoinked by my future grandma halfway through the game and then don't come back until the end. (Thanks, Miss Opal.) But, nonetheless, the times where I am present in canon, I am more or less word-for-word canon-compliant, except for two very small instances of mild changes in my phrasing. I don't conflate my fictotype's canon-compliance with "validity", for lack of a better word (and neither should you!), but it does feel a certain type of satisfying to know that what players are presented with is, more or less, the real me.

(On the other hand, though, this also means that, if players hate me; which a lot do; they also hate said 'real me'... But that's a discussion for another prompt, I'm sure.)
 
Continue? )
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I love daily prompts and blogging my thoughts and the like, so I will try to respond to 1-3 prompts per day to work through the backlog! This'll be the prompt I'll do for tonight before I hit the hay.

What was the event that triggered your awakening? How did this process impact your life over the following weeks/months/year?

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I discussed this in my introduction post, but I think I could go into more depth here.
 
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