What Does This Mean?
Deciding, on someone else's behalf, which fictional character they most resemble or identify with — without that person having claimed the identification themselves, treated as a semi-serious social ritual within certain fandom spaces.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The group chat spent an hour kin assigning everyone characters from the new show, no consent required apparently."
LORE & ORIGIN
Extends fandom 'kin' culture (identifying personally with a fictional character) into a version done to other people rather than for oneself, borrowing 'assigning' to mark that the label is externally applied.
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