Thanks for answering my post! I'm a little fuzzy on the details about this kind of thing and I'm glad that you're willing to help. I'm really sorry if anything I say comes off as offensive since I don't fully know what I'm talking about and also I hope you might be able to bear with me a bit if I ask dumb questions that are overdone. I've read a bunch of faqs now and I was wondering how you feel about otherkin who identify as vampires, fairies, ect. I think I'm having the hardest time (cont.)
Understanding what that means to people. Like do vampire otherkin want to drink blood or at least think about it or wish they could? Or with elf or fairy otherkin I’ve seen family names and cultures/tribes talked about but I don’t understand how they could know about specific details from groups of people they’ve never known firsthand. Sorry for asking so much!
Nothing you ask or say will offend me, promise :3
Honestly, I’m a little fuzzy on otherkin (i.e, nonhuman, non-animal people) myself. I know a dragon and a faerie personally and have met a modern vampire so they definitely exist (which I did doubt for a while), but aside from the experiences I have had with those people I know relatively little about the subject. Modern vampires are often lumped in with otherkin, but they’re actually sort of their own group, since it’s not so much an identity as it is a need (so they do take energy and/or drink blood on occasion). “Vampire otherkin” also refers (more correctly) to people who identify as vampires and have no such need (and may or may not want to drink blood). For things like knowing fae culture, I assume it’s similar to the way I “know” how to do things like hunt and fly - I have no real explanation for how that knowledge got there, but it’s there all the same.
If any elf/faerie/etc. otherkin want to chime in that would be helpful?
EDIT: I had only ever heard “vampire otherkin” refer to modern vampires when I replied originally; edited so I don't mislead anyone.
EDIT: Elfkin reply here.
