“Otherkin”? What is this “otherkin” business? you ask.
Let me ask back: do you think of yourself as being somewhat non-human? Do you believe, in your heart of hearts, that you are actually an elf? a dragon? a wizard? a wolf? an alien? Then you are an otherkin.
There are few limits when it comes to otherkin-ing. Your alter-ego will find you itself, and it could be any creature from other cultures, writings, computer games, a TV series, or your own mind.
You are likely to realize your otherkin nature during or after a period of self-examination*. You might have been making remarks for years about how alienated you feel from the rest of society, then one day BAM! it comes to you: you really are an alien! It explains so much!
So please come out of your shells (sorry, not everyone otherkins as an oyster or lobster) and tell us about your own otherkin.
I’ll go first.
I’m an alien. I’ve been here on Earth for about 12,000 years. I remember dire wolves and mammoths.
I, and 100 others like me, were left here on earth by a spacecraft from a much-advanced civilization. The craft was on a scientific mission, and our job is to simply gathered information, “news”, if you will, and transmit it to the home-world. Thus, our reports constitute the most complete records of human activity in existence.
Don’t worry: no invasion is planned. Our creators’ species simply desires knowledge. Many other planets are host to groups like ours.
Our actual form is somewhat human, but as we are a manufactured species, we look rather robotic to humans. Since our greatest power is to manipulate matter at a subatomic level, we have manipulated our forms to fit in with the rest of humanity.
Are we immortal? We don’t really know. We cannot be shot or stabbed or burned or crushed. If any of these things happen to us while a human is watching, we simply manipulate the area of the mind that controls memory-formation, so they remember nothing.
So, that’s my otherkin status. Do please tell us your own.
Image: by LeCire, via Wiki Commons. Pencil technique with digital painting,
* A Field Guide to Otherkin, by Lupa. Megalithica Books, 2007.
