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A fictional persona which one wears like a suit. Coined by writer Grant Morrison.
A fiction suit can be used to interact with fictional / historical characters. For example in The Invisibles Morrison uses the character King Mob as a fiction suit. He soon discovered that whatever happened to his fiction suit would happen to the "real" him. One can easily see how this can be extremely advantageous - and perhaps dangerous.
A fiction suit can also be used in consensual reality. When worn in this fashion, a fiction suit becomes similar to the idea of a reality tunnel. One constructs the fiction suit, with all of the persona's passions, prejudices, quirks and perspectives and then "puts it on", essentially becoming it.
This can be used to test a model of reality, experiment with various modes of social interaction or as a method of testing and refining a "beta version" of an aspect of the gestalt personality / mind-body that is being considered for an upgrade.