Fictigender


Fictigender is an umbrella term for when one's gender is connected to or based on a work of fiction.

Pronunciation

Definitions

  • Definition: when your gender is connected to the fictional character(s) or species you identify as alt. definition: when you feel like genders in the real world don’t apply to you because you identify as a fictional character or species note: this gender is only for the use of fictionkin - Submission to MOGAI-archive, 2014[1]
  • A term for when one's gender is connected to a fictional character(s), a fictional species, or an object, setting, or concept from a work of fiction. It also includes genders that are based on or come from a work of fiction. It can be both used as an umbrella term for a subgroup of xenogenders, or as a standalone term. - Ezgender's Google Docs, 2021[2]

In the 2014 definition, fictigender was specified to be only for fictionkin. Since the coining of the term, this has expanded, and a great number of fictigender identities may not be kingenders. Fictigender includes fictional character(s), fictional species, or an object, setting, or concepts. It also includes genders that come from a work of fiction.

Suffixes

While -gender is a very common suffix, specific suffixes that denote what kind of fiction a fictigender is based on may be used.

General Suffixes

  • -franchisian may be used for fictigenders related to franchises[3].
  • -charic may be used for fictigenders related to characters.[4]
  • -altunic may be used for fictigenders related to alternate universes (AUs).[5]
  • -tropean may be used for fictigenders related to tropes in fiction.

Specific Media Types

  • -movian[3] or -filmic[6] may be used for fictigenders related to movies or films.
  • -showic may be used for fictigenders related to shows.[4]
  • -gamic may be used for fictigenders related to games.[4]
  • -vidgamic may be used for fictigenders related to video games.[4]
  • -cardgamic may be used for fictigenders related to card games.[4]
  • -theatric may be used for fictigenders related to types of theatre.[7]
  • -disbotic may be used for fictigenders related to Discord bots.[8]

Specific Media Franchises

Specific Characters

  • -badtzic: related to Badtz Maru.[14]
  • -chocoic: related to Chococat.[14]
  • -cinnamic: related to Cinnamoroll.[14]
  • -keroppic: related to Keroppi.[14]
  • -kuromic: related to Kuromi.[14]
  • -mymelloic: related to My Melody.[14]
  • -pochaccic: related to Pochacco.[14]
  • -pompuric: related to Pompompurin.[14]
  • -kuroshiric: related to Kurousa and Shirousa from Sugarbunnies.[14]
  • -tuxsamic: related to Tuxedo Sam.[14]

History

An anonymous user at the time submitted this to MOGAI-archive. The original post was not archived. Purrloinsucks, a Tumblr blog that archived posts from MOGAI-archive, has a reblog of the original coining post dated August 26th, 2014.[1]

Related Terms

Subsets

For a comprehensive list, please see Category:Fictigender.

Sources