- Aesop (c. 620 – 564 BCE)
- Mostly psychological in nature. Some imagithropy was involved, specifically in connection with my Fate/Nasuverse fictomere.
- Faithood— the overlapping experience between facthood and fictionhood— is essential to how and why I am Aesop. Although there are historic accounts pertaining to me as an individual, I'm often fictionalized in one of two ways: either modern historians find discrepancies on ancient accounts of me and speculate whether or not I was real at all, suspecting I may have been a conjured figure to attribute many stories to (such as the figure Uncle Remus, for example) or I am literally fictionalized in that several modern adaptations of my stories depict me as a fictional old, oftentimes black man sharing my fables to an invisible audience (most likely whoever is watching the adaptations in question). Some even suspect that I am a pseudonym for an enslaved man who once existed, but ultimately died in obscurity.
- Either way, "Aesop" has evolved into an element of both fact and fiction, especially with literary and historical scholars going so far as to refer to some fables as "Aesopian". This aligns with my own experiences, thus making me Aesopian (and therefore Aesop) as well.
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