Fictigender

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

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
 * 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

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.


 * -charic may be used for fictigenders related to characters.
 * -altunic may be used for fictigenders related to alternate universes (AUs).
 * -tropean may be used for fictigenders related to tropes in fiction.

Specific Media Types

 * -movian or -filmic may be used for fictigenders related to movies or films.
 * -showic may be used for fictigenders related to shows.
 * -gamic may be used for fictigenders related to games.
 * -vidgamic may be used for fictigenders related to video games.
 * -cardgamic may be used for fictigenders related to card games.
 * -theatric may be used for fictigenders related to types of theatre.
 * -disbotic may be used for fictigenders related to Discord bots.

Specific Media Franchises

 * -hatien: related to A Hat In Time fictigenders.
 * -crossingic: related to Animal Crossing fictigenders.
 * -skyric: related to Skyrim fictigenders.
 * -craftic / -minic / -minecraftic: related to Minecraft fictigenders.
 * -oreic: related to Minecraft ore fictigenders.
 * -mobic: related to Minecraft mob fictigenders.
 * -orimin: related to Minecraft Origins Mod fictigenders.
 * -bloonic: related to Bloons franchise fictigenders.
 * -shopic: related to the Littlest Pet Shop franchise fictigenders.
 * -cookiegender / -cookix: related to Cookie Run fictigenders.
 * -timequintetic/-wrinktimic: related to A Wrinkle In Time fictigenders.
 * -newsic: related to Newsies fictigenders.
 * -gentemix: fictigenders related to items in Genshin Impact.

Specific Characters

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

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.

Subsets

 * Genregender
 * Gamegender
 * Mediagender
 * Showgender

For a comprehensive list, please see Category:Fictigender.