[ SECRET POST #3025 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3025 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 019 secrets from Secret Submission Post #432.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

14. http://i.imgur.com/Hkb2p2l.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, not even going to be hate. It can be fun to wonder stuff like that.

[(Anonymous)]

Abort this mission. This is not a road you want to go down.

[(Anonymous)]

It's okay, you're still on the healthy side of delusional. "Soulbonding" enthusiasts are just going through the same obsessive phase you are, but they're just a leeeeeetle crazier, and don't know not to take it seriously. You'll be fine.

[kallanda_lee]

Dude, I talk to fictional characters in my head, and I feel connected very strongly to some, but that doesn't mean it's "soulbonding" or whatever. Us humans, we're MADE to seek human connection and empathize. In fact, we're so good it it, we do it with non-humans things as well - pets, stuffed toys, even fictional characters.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think you're right. I think it's just that I've never really felt this way about a fictional character before (I do feel connected to a lot of characters and love them dearly, but never to the extent of feeling the need to write fanfiction about them), so that made me wonder a little bit.

[(Anonymous)]

I've started to feel a weird connection to this character, have conversations in my head with them when my mind is idle, pictures/gifs of them give me warm fuzzies, etc. They, in general, make me feel happier about the world.

This still doesn't sound like soulbonding to me. It just sounds like love. Not even necessarily personal or romantic love - aside from the conversations-in-your-head part, that sounds like how I feel about several fictional characters, cute animals, sunshine, my favourite tree, and several family members (maybe don't tell them I compared them to a tree, though). Things/people that just make me happy because they exist. Soulbonding to me implies something rather more intense. Binding part of your essence to someone seems a bit stronger to me than 'they make me happy'.

I don't know. How'd you make the connection?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I'm not sure how, but as soon as I've started watching the show I've felt like I knew this character. It was a bit odd. I shoudn't have even liked them, given how rubbish they are personality-wise...but, somehow, I've started talking to them in my head and vivid little snippets would play out like a movie in my mind. Like I said, that became a tad overwhelming so I just started writing them down to get them out, which makes the matter worse while I'm writing but, in general, does help a lot.

However, when you say 'binding part of your essence to someone', that wording does sound a bit too much for how I feel, so you are most likely correct and this is not soulbonding -- just as well, because I imagine this would be a pretty awful character to soulbond to.

[othellia]

Go write some Twilight-esque fiction staring you guys and make millions, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

So you have a connection, OP?

Good for you! So do a lot of other people. It's pretty normal.

Write some indulgent self-insert fanfic and get it out of your system.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, is soulbonding still a thing in fandom? I remember LJs devoted to this over a decade ago, back when no one had (original) characters, they had Muses who spoke to them instead.

Feeling attachment to a character isn't weird at all, OP. I bet this character's creator would be delighted to know you felt this strongly about them and that they meant so much to you.

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is a natural part of writing a character for a long time. Not just the plot, but the character. I had a chunk of my psyche given over to a fictional character for years, trying to get into her head.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's normal as long as you know there's a difference. I used to be like that about a fictional character myself. Then canon ruined him and I got over it. My point is, I wouldn't worry too much unless you honestly believe this character is real. That's what soulbonding is, I believe.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't believe the character is anything more than fictional, but I did wonder for a bit there.

[(Anonymous)]

If you look at soulbonding as a mental illness (and I believe it can be part of one), then look at it as finding traits in a mental illness. I'm a writer; I have characters in my head all the time. But I know they're characters.

[(Anonymous)]

as the possible anon who mentioned soulbonding, i was referring to a secret in which the secret-maker's friend seemed to believe that she WAS her character and seemed to make no distinction between herself and that character.

the term i really should have used was 'otherkin' or 'fictionkin', since they more specifically identify as fictional characters.

you don't sound like you're soulbonding, but you would be correct (and sane) to assume that all fictional characters are, indeed, fictional and nothing else.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Text: In the last week’s comments, souldbondin was mentioned. I have never heard of this term before and looked it up, and now I feel really weird.

See, I’ve started to have a thing for this character a few months ago, nothing unusual - I crush on characters (never on the actors playing them, though) often and sometimes daydream of them, too - except these daydreams have become so intense that I had to start writing them down - a fanfiction of sorts. I doubt it’s the best thing I’ve ever written, but it gets the job done. Thn, I ‘ve started to feel a weird connection to this character, have conversations in my heas with them when my mind is idle, pictures/gifs of them give me war fuzzies, etc. They, in general, make me feel happier about the world.

I didn’t think much of it, but after reading about “souldbonding,” I feel slightly weirded out.

I should probably mention that I can hardly buy into this theory. I’m almost certain fictional characters are just fictional and that the only way I can have any sort of connection with them is by using me imagination.

But, still…I can’t help but wonder.


B!S Of all the characters I ever liked, it had to be this one I feel this inexplicable connection to…as a person, he has a very few, if any, redeemable qualities and I’m pretty sure I’d have a hard time putting up with him if he actually existed IRL. Still adore him, though…he’s as cute as a button and everything about him gives me happiness.