Is writing about my Tulpa good for my Tulpa?

[NauseaBath]

A lot of guides I've read have suggested writing a short story about my Tulpa, to familiarise myself with their personality, and see how they react in certain situations, etc.

 

However, I see a lot of people saying not to parrot/puppet my Tulpa, or base them on a fictional character, because they won't understand what is real and what was the fictional event.

 

Am I just being paranoid, or what? I would be creating a fictional story about my Tulpa, and that can't be good for their perception of self, right?

[Akinkinit]

It's more so that creating a character for a story is pretty similar to creating a tulpa. If you're decent at writing, then the story suggestion helps because you're just doing what you'd normally do, except this time the overall goal is the character and not so much the story.

 

I'm kind of iffy on the whole parroting thing myself. Some members will say it's fine as long as you watch for anything the tulpa is saying on their own. But for me, it led to a sense of doubt over whether or not it was my tulpas talking or it was just me which took a fair amount of time to really break. I guess it's just one of those things that require self-knowledge. Would you be more inclined to believe a mind voice is coming from a tulpa or from yourself pretending to be the tulpa?

 

You can base your tulpa off of a fictional character. There's only a problem if you start saying your tulpa IS that character over just someone based off the character. Them only being based off a character ensures you don't have to worry about the whole "what is real" thing too much, since their perception of self / reality will develop along with them. At least in theory.

[Lucilyn]

However, I see a lot of people saying not to parrot/puppet my Tulpa, or base them on a fictional character, because they won't understand what is real and what was the fictional event.

 

Am I just being paranoid, or what? I would be creating a fictional story about my Tulpa, and that can't be good for their perception of self, right?

 

where the heck d'ya see stuff like that? How are you supposed to force your tulpa if you can't imagine what they'll be like? It was pretty obvious to me what was real and what wasn't when I was made. Parroting is more like your tulpa already exists and you imagine them talking to you, which is like a layer different from just imagining them talking. If you separate "what they'd be like" thoughts from "them" trying to make them a tulpa ones, you shouldn't have any problems. I wrote a follow-up post to an old one my host wrote a long time ago with a loooooot of detail on this subject here https://community.tulpa.info/thread-sentience-tulpas-what-s-the-first-moment-of-sentience-like?pid=196942#pid196942

[NauseaBath]

OK, cool, so I was just being ridiculously paranoid? haha ok

 

 

 

sorry for being dumb D:

[Mint Phalanx]

Chaz: It's good for us. It makes us feel connected.

[TurboSimmie]

Writing about your tulpa is an extremely effective way of personality forcing. 😊 So is orally telling them stories about themselves! 😁

[Devin and Sasha]

Hmmm does roleplay count as story forcing? I mean we do that a looooot in general forcing or not.

[TurboSimmie]

Do you mean: 1. Roleplaying as your tulpa 2. Your tulpa roleplaying as a character 3. You and your tulpa roleplaying together

 

Or something else?

[Devin and Sasha]

To be honest we've actually done all of those except option 1.

I'm a moderator in I think roughly four or five Discord Roleplay servers, and the owner/admin/coadmin of about two and a half of my own.

Ever since Sasha became fully sentient we both started doing Roleplay together, and she also enjoys playing as different characters in our story or maybe staying the same but adapting a new persona or such.

Does this clear up any questions?