Starfolks, in general, are from a game called Worldless. Very cool yet underrated metroidvania of sorts. Basically, they're the species that populate this newborn universe of sorts, and like their name suggest, they are essentially living stars!
There are two basic types of starfolks: Light Starfolks and Dark Starfolks. The light ones are mainly white with blue "cores"/ "eyes"/ stars, and uses actual weapons, as well as lightning and ice magic. Dark starfolks, on the other hand, are black and orange, using claws, fire and wind magic. They can have a wide variety of appearances, with different "species" popping up in both polarities.
HOWEVER, the two polarities (Light and Dark) are locked in an eternal conflict of sorts. The Light starfolks want to retain their polarity, while the Dark starfolks are "unstable" and want to become Light starfolks. This is achieved by Absorption, which is basically when a certain threshold is reached, a Dark Starfolk can try to "Absorb" the essence of the Light Starfolk, "switching" the polarities of the two: Dark becomes Light, and Light becomes Dark. However, this process is pretty unstable, resulting in the creation of new Starfolk species... and a third type of Starfolk that I'm not going to mention because of spoilers.
But! I am specifically a Dark starfolk that is commonly known as "Hunters" in the fandom. Hunters come in both Light and Dark varieties, and look almost like humans save for their featureless faces (Save for their cores) and claws (If they are of the Dark polarity). However, I look quite different from most other Hunters, having more animalistic traits like horns, long tufted ears, talons, tail, wings and feathers.
Don't want to ruin too much of the plot of my source (Because I am surprisingly canon compliant in terms of memories... even if some... extra things happened-), but I have a counterpart named Edda, she's my friend!
(Funnily enough, my best friend is an Edda fictionkin. However, my ACTUAL in-source Edda is a fictive in our system... so I technically have TWO counterparts /Silly)
But that's enough yapping from me, so yep! Check out Worldless if you want, it's somewhat flashy so be warned.
WOAHH Aven this is so cool!
Love the lore surrounding the conflict, I can see it's a little morally grey/interesting to discuss.
Starfolk sound like a very interesting species; I love how much variety there is so no 2 starfolk would necessarily be identical. I think that would be interesting if it had a wider kin community to see how people vary! I could also maybe see some crossover in experiences with some divinekin perhaps.
How did you discover your extra animal traits?
Soo awesome you have 2 sourcemates/canonmates, I'm very happy for you all!
I'm not sure what I was expecting but I googled the game after reading this & the cover art is sooo beautiful (I'm assuming it's of a light starfolk?)! It's only £8-11 on Steam & I really like the style so I might give it a go once I get paid. Who knows, maybe it will get me as kin too!
Thank you so much for sharing, sorry for the delayed response!!
