Fictigender is an umbrella term for when one's gender is connected to or based on a work of fiction. This includes fictional character(s), fictional species, or an object, setting, or concepts. It also includes genders that come from a work of fiction.
Suffixes
- -franchisian may be used for Fictigenders related to franchises.
- -charic may be used for Fictigenders related to fictional characters.
- -altunic may be used for Fictigenders related to alternate universes (AUs).
- -tropean may be used for Fictigenders related to tropes in 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[1]
History
An anonymous user at the time submitted this to MOGAI-archive. Purrloinsucks, a Tumblr blog that archived posts from MOGAI-archive, has a reblog of the original coining post dated August 26th, 2014.[1]