#nonhuman identities

[thecouncilofcreatures]

Listing Ace's Nonhuman Identities AGAIN lol

Holothere - non-shifting

• Fox Ambitherian Coatflux (silver white mark color morph + cross fox color morph = red fox coatflux, fennec fox, fox [unspecified])

• Plureon OCkin

Holothere - shifting

• American Akita (silver)

Questioning

• Ragdoll Cat (blue bicolor)

Hearttype

• Cheetah

• Mourning Dove

• Corvids (species unknown, likely multiple [crows, blue jays, magpies])

• Peregrine Falcon

• Little/Blue/Fairy Penguin

Copinglink/Otherlink

• Chipmunk/Squirrel (unsure which, but a tree dwelling rodent for sure)

[kin-assistance]

I was always told that Otherkin WAS the go-to term for identifying as nonhuman. I thought I was therian for a long time until discovering two of my kintypes were mythical. I recently discovered myself as dollkin. Believe me, I was reluctant to accept that because it didn't make sense. Now I understand that it was a "velveteen rabbit" situation. I was granted a soul because I was so loved, so that I could love in return. No one will tell me I'm not kin because one kintype is an object.

Well, personally I would call you otherkin. One identity certainly doesn't invalidate the others. I personally think that the definition should be expanded to simply be "nonhuman" rather than "nonhuman being". As such, I consider identities like ghostkin and glitchkin to be in the otherkin community because there really is no other term currently that I know of. If there is a good and fitting term that exists or that is created, I think folks may want to switch to it just to feel more unified with others like them. But that's just my opinions.

-Mod Badger