Anyone else started out with their Tulpa like this?

[Senna]

I like the write stuff, and make characters. I had this one character I really liked; his name is Nathan, and he started become a reoccurring character for my stories. Also, I kinda was into a paticular fandom, and I liked visualizing myself talking to him in a winter, forever snowing forest that actually eventually became my wonderland.

 

Eventually, I read a book called Seraphina (lots of implications about tulpas in there...but I didn't know what a Tulpa was back then soooo...) and it talked about a world in the girl's mind where people lived. It was interesting, so i made my own inner world, the forest, and tried visualizing it with Nathan. Looking back, I'm not sure if it was parroting, or the actual thing... I'm still not sure if it's parroting or not.

 

Thanks to anyone who made it through all that. Anyone else have their characters starting as characters? Can anyone help me figure out wheatears it's parroting or...not? Comments?

[curiousity]

This is EXACTLY what I did. I like to write, and the same character found himself in many of my stories; his name is Raven. A good writer can work with a character so that you're not really puppeting but just knowing to the last detail how a character would behave.

 

I think the key thing here is to make sure you don't let the stories become back stories. I essentially asked the same question on the forum myself and that advice was given to me. Other than that, keep talking to Nathan as an individual. Talking seems to be extremely important, it doesn't even matter what you talk about.

 

Also, the more you flesh him out, the better. I did character building interviews and surveys until I felt a response from Raven that he was just bored with surveys and interviews.

[Raito123]

Actually, yes! My tulpa started as a character I made up for roleplaying purposes and his name was Raito. He was a sweet little guy who was always shy and afraid to disappoint. Oh lordy did I love that cutie! A couple for so years later, a friend of mine began tulpaforcing and she told me what tulpas were and told me about this website. I began research, and immediately thought of Raito. So, when I began forcing as well, I worked with Raito in a beach like setting (As an inside joke to the roleplay -w- )

[Kiahdaj]

My tulpa also started out based on a character I had created about 7 years ago, for a story that I still plan some day to write.

He was based only roughly on him, because there was no way in hell I wanted a tulpa of the actual character.

But after all this time, I don't see too many resemblances between then, anymore.

[Guest Anonymous]

Eh... kinda sorta. I made a tulpa that I associated with said character, but at the same time they weren't. Much like Kaiahdaj, I don't really feel any resemblences between said characters and my tulpalamas.

[Ilueri]

No, although my tulpa has picked up many of the traits that my favorite character I've created has. Too many for it to be coincidence.

[curiousity]

I think the way I did it was:

-Created Character: Totally-parroted to only slightly-surprising at times.

 

-Imaginary Friend: More natural movement/flow, speaking not so much parroted, more like talking with a predictable friend-you know they're going to say for the most part.

 

-Tulpa: Predictability fades over time and deviations are more noticeable.

 

This method of extensive building beforehand really helped me.