I phrased it a little weirdly, my bad. The inclination towards describing one's self in one of many different ways, of describing one's self as trans or kin in any number of ways, comes, at least in my case, from feeling something "as" this, or as that, and it becomes something really of your own when it consistently happens. These were kinda my follow up to your kin post? It doesn't matter how your identity relates to canon, it's a part of you and that's where the focus needs to be.
Ohhh, yea I got’cha.
Yea, like, it’s in internal, personal thing and imo people need to stop worrying about how close to canon they are. You don’t need to identify as an AU version of someone to have differences and honestly I would think, logically, that they’d be expected!
Otherkinity is an involuntary, nonhuman identity that is one’s own to explore, and fictionkinity is much the same just with species and people who appear in fiction, canon appearance be damned. Focus on yourself, not any canon counterpart, first and foremost. It’s kind of part of where that introspective bit that we talk about comes in, I bet. ;P










