A friend of mine actually visited a discord server to do with that fictional character thing

And I suspect there is a better solution, with a higher success rate, that isn't tied to medical complications

Two guys claimed they were Superman and argued for three hours threatening to kill each other

Someone suggested they were from alternate comic universes so had them recount events

Thank god one of them was comics and the other was Dark Knight

was there reasonable doubt for you to think they were just larpers?

It was a friend who joined, but she said these people were 100% "we are these characters"

Huh, extreme case of whats it? Megalamania?

Nope nevermind

I see it more as a childlike regression into a delusion to avoid having to deal with real life problems

Problem was this was a cult.

We all do want to feel special or unique in some way.

Im talking a "head" of sorts pushing other people into it mostly teens or people with existing mental illnesses. Going so far into conducting rituals to "help them bond" with their supposed characters.

They are smart enough to run the cult, yet insane enough to believe in their own rhetoric

are yall talking about kinnies?

what are those?

I mean I have occasional delusions of grandeur, but that's a case of ambition to actually be a rock musician. Not... yknow, saying I'm literally Alexander The Great

otherkin, fictkin, factkin etc

these ones were called soulbonders specifically

I'm interested to hear your opinion, Shin, you seem to have a unique perspective

Specifically otherkin that saw themselves as manifestations of fictional characters.

What do you think about it all?

Im talking existing ones in games or movies.

Like soul reapers?

never heard of soulbonders :(
but yeah, there were several fictkin that went off the rails
started harassing people for being "doubles" etc
most of them have grown up and calmed down by now tho

did you see the saga of carrionkin?

maybe fictkin is what they call them?

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Dunno let me find the vid

Carrionkin?

https://youtu.be/lFRjrLmc_4c

carrionflowerkin* sorry

a glorious troll blog

said they identified as a carrion flower and ate dirt and communicated with plants

Its one of the more notorious ones, mainly cause its scale was... lets say larger than just one or two

and that having houseplants is slavery

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5953012/ @Jasse just skimmed this because I'm on my way to work at the moment but it appears to touch on some of what's been said.
It's not 100% across the board, but there is data that suggests that GD may be caused by discrepancies in development during birth

This has gone so weird.

And they did also cover stuff like people who didnt just identify but also wholly believed themselves to be fictional characters.

This vid is talking about a cult that specifically went for FFVII characters

Always wanted to be one punch.