GACHIKOI (ガチ恋)

• term referring to fans who engage in self-shipping with fictional characters.
• means to take one's parasocial relationship with their fictional other (F/O) very seriously, as one might with a real romantic partner.

FICTIONKIN

• Fictionkin are individuals who identify as or experience themselves as being, in part or whole, a fictional character or species from modern media.
• Some may believe that they became attached to a character due to their similarities with them and then started to identify as them, sometimes due to trauma.
• Not ALL fictionkins are delusional. Most of us know that they are fictional and we're realistically not them.