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FICTOMERES AND RELATABLE CHARACTERS
These are characters who I identify with or relate to! To be brief, if a character is my fictomere, than they are a part of my identity, similar to how someone might use a term like "bisexual" or "introvert" to name a part of their identity. Obviously it is a bit deeper and more spiritual-ish(?) than that, but that's still basically what I mean when I say "_ is my fictomere."
For a fictomere, I identify with every aspect of that character, and there is no part of them I would look at and go "well, that bit isn't me." (Other than, you know, I obviously haven't lived in the Octarian domes or fought a King trying to freeze a country in time.) Whereas for a character I just relate to, I might find one or two aspects of their personality or situation relatable, but not the rest of them. Unlike fictomeres, a relatable character isn't a part of my identity.
Fictomeres
Siffrin is a really strong fictomere for me because they echo my thought processes and the specific ways I behave and feel in certain situations. I don't feel like there's anything they did in-game that I would not also do if I were in that situation. They dissociate, they self-sacrifice, they make jokes to dodge having to talk about hard topics, they love their friends deeply but feel like a burden to them. What's crazy is that I would NOT have related to this fella at all just a few years ago... trauma really does a number on you huh? Siffrin also has the most characterization in their story out of all my fictomeres, so I have the most weird, oddly specific similarities to them as I do out of all my fictomeres. Examples include: we were born in the same month, we were both born on an island we have ZERO memory of living on, Siffrin has a huge star motiff and I have star in my given name, we share the same Meyers-Briggs personality type (INFP-T), we have similar traumas, we have pretty much the same neurodivergences, we share issues like severe memory issues and social ineptness. I could go on but I think you get the point and this paragraph is already incredibly long.
Oooouuuuuggghhhhhhh this CHARACTER! Eight is probably my oldest fictomere, although I didn't know what fictofolk was in middle school so I didn't quite know why I related to them so much, I just knew that I did. Their story is all about rebirth and memory loss and self-definition. They come from a blank slate, literally climbing out of the dark to figure out who they were. They built their own self-hood through what they survived, not what they were told they were. They lost their memories and could only view them through what was essentially a third-person perspective - they could read the memcakes, but that's not the same as having those memories "back." And then, after they escaped the Deep Sea Metro and hung out on the surface for a while, they were trapped in the false reality of the Spire of Order. Like??? Memory loss???? False reality???? Me fr???? Anyway. Like with Siffrin, I also have uncanny similarities with Eight - most notably, we both like writing (the memcakes being poetry tips me off that Eight is a storyteller), we both dream of the big city and freedom from the "Octarian Domes," we both have memory loss (although for Eight it's literal amnesia, while for me it's a EXTREMELY blurry memory of anything that happened in my life before like, last year). I love Eight they are so close to my heart.
ENA's story is all about emotional fragmentation - flickering between moods, between selves, between forms of being. ENA isn't one thing, they're all of it, in bursts of absurdity and melancholia. ENA wears a mask of joy that's both armor and a prison. Her whole emotional arc of wanting to never be sad again and then realizing that true joy includes sadness was really beautiful. I connect to ENA because I live inside the same surreal oscillation - disjointed by vivid, human and inhuman all at once. ENA has the least characterization out of all the characters (not a bad thing, just because the scope and style of the story didn't require it), so I have the least odd similarities to her outside the scope of personality and struggles. However, I have always liked to stand with my legs inward like her and I also have always had large, exaggerated, almost cartoonish mannerisms just like her.
Relatable Characters
I've always relatated to The Lonely as a Fear, but Peter Lucas in particular resonates a lot with me because he isn't neccesarily "quiet" - instead, he's very friendly and charasmatic, but in a shallow way that allows him to be around people but still feel lonely and unseen. He also sees the Lonely as something that is almost seductive and desirable rather than something that's strictly scary and alarming 100% of the time.
Flame Princess was imprisoned in a glass bottle for her entire childhood, only able to see the world in fleeting glimpses. Her character arc of slowly learning how to interact with a world from outside of her glass bottle was always very powerful to me when I watched Adventure Time as a kid. It still kind of is, now, although it doesn't hit as hard because I'm almost out of the glass bottle, now.
Katie is a HUGE part of why I adore this movie so so so much. I've always related deeply to her passion for artistic expression, her desire to "find her people," her struggles with her familial relationships, and her general behavior and "weirdness." She's queer, creative, and funny, but still feels the ache of disconnection from people who should "get" her.
I have always related to Mabel for as long as I can remember. Had I known what fictokin was when I was kid, she probably would have been one of my first fictomeres, but now that I'm older and I've changed, she's just relatable. I see her almost as relatable to who I was when I was younger. When I can barely recall what I was like when I was a kid, I can look at Mabel and go, "oh, that's what I was like; that's how I behaved." I also had a maladaptive daydreaming problem when I was younger (I'm still an immersive daydreamer, but I like to think that I've mostly left the maladaptive part behind), and I feel that Mabel's Prison Bubble was essentially her inner world that she, for a time, so desperately wants to recede into rather than have to face reality. Which is. So real???
I'm pretty sure every "gifted" autistic person ever relates to Marcy, but she's on the list all the same. She's smart but doesn't really care, loves video games, is clumsy and oblivious, and finds her home in fantasy rather than reality. I remember when I watched Amphibia when I was little, when Marcy was stuck in the little fantasy world inside the Core, I got SO MAD when she was like "this isn't real, even if I wish it was, let me leave" because??? What the hell Marcy! Stay there! It's awesome sauce! Obviously now I understand why she did that and why staying there wouldn't be as good as it sounds (both for her and for me), but as a kid I got so mad about that.
Honestly this one is more about how I project onto Kris imagine how Kris must feel being controlled by the Soul. Moving through life observing their body as it does things they did not tell it to do... it's very. A Thing. I don't really behave like them (blank stares, little to no speech) very often, but the whole "I am not in control of my body / my body is not mine" thing is very dissocation-coded, in my mind.
I actually did not care about Jax at all until Episode 6 because WOAW dissociation??? Dissociation while trapped in a false reality??? That's so awesome sauce! I love him now actually, although he does suck. I can think a character sucks and still love him! I love his monologue about how "all we are now is a bunch of cartoon characters."
Callie's more here as an honarary mention, since I related to her for most of my childhood, but not so much anymore. When I was younger, I liked to ignore all my negative emotions and make myself into a flat charictiture, since it was easier to present and understand myself that way. So I would present myself sort of similarly to Callie - silly, upbeat, energetic, smart but simultaneously a bit of an airhead. But while I still present myself that way sometimes (if a little quieter), I don't really understand myself that way anymore, so I don't really see her more as someone I relate to now, but rather as someone my past self used to relate to.
