Many of us are fictives. We use the term for two kinds of folks here:

• people made by the brain based on a fictional character ( brain-generated fictive),
• or people whose soul got transferred from another universe into this one, where a version of their universe is depicted in a work of fiction ( walk-in fictive).

From all of us fictives, please remember we're people, separate from our fictional character counterparts, and treat us accordingly. In particular, this means:

• This isn't roleplay. Regardless of your opinions on our identities, we're actual people, with feelings and our own ways of experiencing and relating to the world.
• Don't assume you know us as people because you're aware of our source = this world's fictional depiction of our life / world / fictional character counterparts. Yes, some (maybe most) things will match, but that doesn't mean we're comfortable speedrunning the "getting to know each other" phase.
• Don't assume we will enjoy engaging with our source as a work of fiction; ask first. Some of us can comfortably make the separation and won't have any problems with it, but some of us need to avoid engaging with certain topics, with the fandom, or even with our source entirely.
• Also, if you're talking to us about stuff related to our source, please be aware we might have different things to say depending on the angle we approach that discussion from. "Your opinion on this world's fictional depiction?" often doesn't strike the same chords as "Please talk about your actual life and memories from before?"
• Relatedly, don't assume we'll be comfortable talking about our actual life experiences with you. Please respect our comfort levels. It's not personal if we refuse to talk about it!
• Don't assume you're automatically friends with us because you used to be friends with (a version of) us in another world. We're generally down for talking with folks from the same source -- it's a special kind of "yeah, I get what you went through" that we can appreciate -- but we're not interested in finding canonmates and aren't looking to rekindle old relationships.

And a quick additional note from our walk-ins:

• Don't call our exomemories (= memories we have from before we joined the system) "pseudomemories" or imply they're "substitute beliefs" for things that happened to the body; that's not accurate for us. We believe they're memories of things that really happened someplace else. Please respect that.

Thank you!