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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 sometimes more spiritual-ish(?) then 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. I also don't feel a strong tie to a relatable character in the same way that I do to a fictomere. Unlike fictomeres, a relatable character isn't a part of my identity.
Fictomeres
Siffrin is the most recent fictomere I have discovered, but I would say that I probably feel closest to them out of all my fictomeres. Siffrin feels like a direct parallel to me in almost every way - my thought processes, the specific ways I might behave or feel in certain situations. I don't really feel like there's anything they do in their cannon that I cannot also see myself doing. They're dissociative, self-sacrificial, they're silly and tell a lot of jokes but also quiet and socially awkward at the same time. He loves his friends so deeply, but can't seem to believe that his friends love him back, and as such feel like a burden to them. We reflect each other enough that I've seen people talk about suspecting that Siffrin might have a certain disorder, thought "huh," looked into that disorder, and then realized that I actually probably have that disorder and should see a therapist about that. I also have a lot of weird, oddly specific similarities to Siffrin: we were born in the same month, we were both born on an island that we have ZERO memory of living on, we both struggle to remember our childhoods (although Siffrin more than I), Siffrin has a star motiff and I have Star in my given name, we share the same Meyers-Briggs personality type (INFP-T), we have just about the same neurodivergences, we share problems like severe memory issues and social ineptness. I feel close enough to Siffrin that I wouldn't be all too surprised to find out I was him in a past life or something like that.
Eight is probably my oldest fictomere, although I didn't actually know what fictofolk was a year or two ago 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 came from a blank slate, literally climbing out of the dark to figure out who they were, still haunted by the ghosts of a life that they couldn't even remember that they used to lead. They built their own selfhood through what they survived, not what they were told they had to be. They lost their memories and could only view them through what was essentially a third-person perspective - they could read the memcakes, sure, but that's not the same as having those memories "back." And then, after they escaped the Deep Sea Metro, and thought they were finally, finally free, they were trapped n the false reality of the Spire of Order. Unlike with Siffrin - who I mostly relate to because of his thoughts and the way his mind works - I relate to Eight because our stories (our traumas) reflect one another's. Although I do still share a lot of weird similarities with Eight, too - most notably, we both like writing (the memcakes being poetry tips me off that Eight is a storyteller with an interest in prose), we both dream of the big city and freedom from our own "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 very much, they are so close to my heart.
It's tough for me to explain why I relate to ENA so much, because she and her world is so characterized by "weird." I think the big thing that makes ENA stand out to me, though, is that she doesn't fit into that weirdness - she's seperate from it, existing in a different sort of way. ENA has two selves which often flip-flop between a politely subisive & cooperative addatude and an act of despair, assuming the negative intentions of both the people and world around her & being sure that they will punish her for it. ENA doesn't fit in - everyone who talks to her is either dismissive of her, only cares about interacting with her for their own gain, or is actively hostile towards her. It's not as simple as to say "you're just a little weird, but that's what makes you special :)" because to exist outside of the expectations of others is to not be caught in that universal rythym. Alone, alone, alone. Your past doesn't matter ebcause unles you can conform to what seems unfathomable, you have no future to speak of. And so, in an attempt to become more agreeable to the world around her that she doesn't understand, she puts of a mask. A show. She feels as though she's forced to contend with an expected image that people want her to perform, while in reality, she finds it impossible to understand those expectations or why they'd be desirable in the first place. It should fix her, shouldn't it, pretending to be happy all the time? But the joy of the audience is not necessarily the joy of the performer, because acting is indeed an act. At the end of Power of Potluck, ENA confesses that she cannot understand this joy, and that in trying to do so she only ever ended up confused, upset, and indeed wearing a mask. Happiness is often sacrificed at the altar of conformity, and true self-love and acknowledgement is something that must be fought bitterly for.
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