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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.
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