Umbrella term coined by @anhydriite, flag coined by me.
The hybrid flag represents those who are hybrids in some way, shape or form. Hybrids are those whose ‘types do not align in a typical standard way. Hybrids are just that — hybrids of two or more creatures, whether fictional or real.
Hybrids’ ‘types are not one or the other. For example, my wife is a rabbitgirl hybrid — she is not just a rabbit, or just a female human, and she is not defined as being a mix of the two — rather, she is one new, whole, complete thing.
This is how hybrids are defined. While they are obviously a mixture of two or more creatures, this may not always be apparent when looking at them. Some hybrids are more difficult to spot as hybrids. Anyone can be a hybrid if that is how they feel.
Hybrid, as a term, parallels words like therian. It denotes a specific type of otherkin identification separate from others, but it intersects often.
Color Meanings
Violet: Represents the rarity of hybrids and their uniqueness and strength; shows their willingness to stand out despite not always being recognized, like ultraviolet rays.
Violet Gradient: Each bar of a lighter violet represents parts of a hybrid that are different from their parent species. They represent diversity, change, growth, secrecy and longing, as well as the inherent interconnectedness that exists within them as a result of being a hybrid.
Gray Vertical Stripe: Represents the gray area of being a hybrid; the feeling that you are not just one thing, you are both, and the recognition that that also makes you one new unique thing. As gray is a mixture of black and white, it represents the uncertainty, but also self assuredness and identity.
White Vertical Stripe: Represents a hybrid’s personality, their identity, their soul — who they are inside, separate from their hybridism. This stripe represents wholeness in personality and existence.
Black Spiral: Represents the identity of being two or more things at once, but that you are still one form with a right to be you. Represents a head and brain and a spinal cord coming down, to show the deep thinking and identity balance hybrids have to commit to in order to understand themselves.
I don’t care if anyone thinks that’s not valid, it’s how I identity and other people’s opinions aren’t gonna change that.
I am human and rat. I relate more with rats, I have mental shifts as a rat, I wish people saw me as more of a rat! I’d even want people to treat me like a rat if they actually treated rats with the respect they deserve.
But if I was born a rat physically, I would identify as part human.
And I DO wish I was physically a rat, but honestly that’s partially because I want to escape my human problems. I hate being human, but it IS part of who I am. So I don’t have much species dysphoria, maybe I was meant to be some anthro human-rat hybrid.
Some people would consider me rat-hearted, not rat-kin. That’s fine. I’m not particular about labels, only one person in my life knows I identify this way so who cares. I mainly just wanted to get this off my chest because I haven’t seen anyone else express what I feel.
Either way I’m still just a rat in a cage, another pawn in the rat race. You are too. The end is nigh, just listen to your local rats. We’re trying to warn you.
