fictive

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French fictif.

adj

1. Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
   Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States. 31 July 2014, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, page 25
2. Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented.
3. Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal.

noun

1. (Internet slang) In claimed cases of dissociative identity disorder: an introject based on a character from a fictional work.
   2022, "fictives get so much hate" (Reddit posting by user "lm2t") https://www.reddit.com/r/DID/comments/vj3qfs/fictives_get_so_much_hate/ I am constantly scared to text my friends while I front because a lot people were telling me that fictives especially from dsmp/genshin aren't valid. That makes me genuinely sad, I am afraid to receive any form of hate from my friends or even get fakeclaimed.