[ SECRET POST #3382 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3382 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

And FF7 House was by no means an isolated incident! I got suckered into a DIFFERENT very similar cultish -kin situation, and I've met quite a few people over the years since who were also dragged into the same sort of things but had since got out. This sort of thing can be very predatory, especially toward young teens who are already struggling with identity issues, and even more so for teens with mental illness (like me) that can make dissociation even stronger.

You have a whole bunch of older adults, either with serious mental issues or just people running a long con, who've set up this mythical world where we're all just part of a big multiverse and you can be special like the characters you love. And they support all of this with a combination of fake "science" and peer pressure and often outright bullying, and it's really fucking easy to sucker people into it. And once you're in it's hard to get out, because you've already created this identity where you're a multiple/-kin/soulbonder and maybe even told other online or irl people about how you're really Sephiroth. Plus, being a fake victim is really addictive, which is why oppression olympics and munchausens are so prevalent. So the people who might want to get out feel they have to keep up the charade.

Plus there's just a shitton of really violent and scary people in the -kin community (big surprise when you're talking about a group of people who self-identify as people like Hannibal Lecter). Lots and lots of stalking and harassment happens behind the scenes. And they get really vicious about people who try to leave.

[lady_dragoon]

Agreed. I wouldn't exactly call it a "cult" but I was involved with a fictionkin/soulbonder clique that was very much like that. I'm still screwed up from it.

[(Anonymous)]

I would absolutely call it a cult. If you gave these people the means and the power to go create their own Jonestown, they would, I 100% believe that. Everything they participate in could be filed under cult-like behavior and mentality.

[lady_dragoon]

I guess. Though it's less Koresh/Jonestown/Heaven's Gate and more like the alt-med/"clean eating" cult mentality.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god, one of my close friends is into "clean eating"! I asked him outright: "Do you have orthorexia?"

[(Anonymous)]

Please stop. Swapping out sugary foods for non-sugary foods doesn't mean you have orthorexia.