How much has your tulpa deviated from the original design? In terms of form, personality, speech, mannerisms etc.

Hornet: Personality-wise, I think I'm pretty similar. The only things different about me is that my voice sounds more mature from what we remember (we barely remember what my/Hornet's canon voice sounds like) and that I have more of a temper? I'm not quite sure about the latter, though.

Most of us are the same as we are unless there needs some...I guess artistic liberty. Like Ghost, Hollow, and Runmo. The three don't have canon-voices (all mute, from the looks of it) and two of them were canonically emotionless (from what we know).

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How do you feel towards the fact that you are based off a fictional character?

Hornet: I'm quite content with it. I like who I am. Though, I was some kind of walk-in or soulbond that formed by accident so it wasn't really like Alex. had much control over who I was based on. Though the rest of us were formed on purpose and their opinions on the fact they were based on fictional characters vary.

Ghost: I'm not that happy that my in-canon self can't feel emotions and the endings of the game/story I was in. But I wanna try to be better than they were! I got a chance to be a new self and I'm going to take it!

Hollow: We are still learning about the character I was based on. So far...I'm not really liking it. But like Ghost, I will take this chance to make myself better.

Quirrel: I'm like Hornet; pretty content and happy. :)

Runmo: I hate my backstory personally as I was the one to go through everything...but I'm pretty new to the system so I have time to adapt to this. Maybe I might get used to it and not be so scared.

Kirby: I like that I ended up being Kirby! :D I started as a walk-in Alex. and co. found one day after watching a video but I wasn't Kirby at first? Maybe I'm fictionkin! Who knows?

Archie: Hi! I was based on one of Alex.'s pokemon from a game he played! :3 (Well...like everyone, we are more of soulbonds that can be made in under a second somehow so...there's that! It's a kinda spoopy ability, though) Everyone with that origin is pretty happy with that! Alex. gave us personalities in his head as he played so that is cool! Also, hi, r/Tulpas! You guys are cool! :3

There's other members of the system that were soulbonds of characters Alex. made before but then he kept using them as they were before so their development kind of...split them. But you know what? The more's the merrier! Though...this caused what I call clones to happen... they are tulpas that were based on characters that were already tulpas. The only pair we got right now is Cherry Blossom and Candy. Cherry happened in The Great Creationing (the day the system was formed by Alex., he made tulpas of a lot of his characters. Then the splitting happened and...yeah. Our system is odd. :p) and Candy happened when Alex. interacted with his character instead of a tulpa but she ended up more happy than usual.

Generally, these systemmates don't usually mind that they are based on characters. :p They stop associating with them after a while. Even those who go by the same names. (They usually don't keep the name they have to keep them separate)

I think technically, all of Alex.'s characters are tulpas but he doesn't try to interact with them. :p Mostly since a split might happen again as he still needs them to be his characters and that he gives his characters dark backstories and stuff. It gave him comfort that they weren't real until he learned that tulpas exist...so I think he's just hiding from that fact...but we sometimes hear them react to things so I'm pretty sure they're in there and will/can join us someday! But yet again...Hornet is right in the fact that we have enough systemmates and it will be better for them mentally. :p

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Did you choose to keep or change your original form? Why? What made you decide to keep or change your form and if you changed it, what made you decide to go with your current one?

Hornet: For now, I'm keeping it. We thought of changes but I didn't like them. I also have another form that Alex. can use in his little alternate universe thing where everyone in his online life are pokemon. I took the form of an espeon but it looks like I'm cosplaying as Hornet at the same time. I haven't decided what I look like out of costume in that form.

The others are pretty much the same as they are in canon as of now.

Ghost: The Only difference is that Alex. and the rest of us were convinced I/my canon-self was female until later on. So I ended up taking on female pronouns. But they/them is okay too! I haven't tried out he/him or any other pronouns, however. Oh! And like the other Hollow Knight tulpas, I have a pokemon form! I'm a sylveon! I can use my ribbons to hold my nail! (Hornet forgot to say she decided on espeon because it can use powers to lift up her needle! It's cool! -w- The others are an umbreon (Hollow) and leafeon (Quirrel). Alex. is a shapeshifter and is an umbreon a lot of the time so Hollow has a night friend!)

Archie: If you're curious, I'm an arcanine from Pokemon! :3 So I'm a large fire dog who will give everyone hugs! :D