“The tigers here are bound by neither day nor night, land nor water; these tigers, some say, are creatures of neither heaven nor earth.”
- Sy Montgomery, Spell of the Tiger

I am...
- A house spirit (usually tiger-shaped)
- A human
- Fictionhearted

I use the words otherkin, alterhuman, and fictionfolk to describe myself

This page is a place to list my different species identities and ‘sonas. In short, being otherkin means fully or partially identifying as nonhuman. (I'm on the "partially" side, if you couldn't tell.) Furry stuff is also here because it was easier to have everything on one page!

Some good resources: Otherkin wiki, the Alterhuman Archive, Orion Scribner’s site, and the Othercon YouTube channel.

Kintype

I'm a domestic spirit, formerly a forest spirit. I identify most with house spirits in pan-European folklore, though not a specific kind. I'm benevolent and am more concerned with prosperity and good fortune than mischief. As a holdover from being a forest spirit, I'm also associated with temperate deciduous forests and the changing seasons. Trying to sort out my "role" as a spirit + how to integrate that into my life has been an ongoing journey.

I look like a tiger, and am a tiger in some ways. Like many house spirits I'm also a shapeshifter. I can't turn into anything, only things that I'm connected to in some way. For example, tiger is one of my "core shapes" alongside human(oid.) (I can be pretty good at taking human shape!) On the surface "tiger" seems incongruent with the rest of my identity, but I think spirits change with the times, and in this modern era there's a much wider variety of things for me to connect with.

Why am I otherkin? I believe it’s possible that I was born with the ability to develop a nonhuman identity, which ended up manifesting through nature and nurture.

Hearttypes

Specifically, I'm fiction-hearted. This means that all of my hearttypes are media-based. It's something I remain private about, partly because it's a profound experience and one very close to, well, my heart!

I've had 3 hearttypes. For me, fiction-heartedness is temporary (usually lasting 1-5 years) but that doesn't mean it isn't important. It's born from a fixation on a piece of media which grows to impact my identity. When my hearttypes are "active" they can have more influence over my life than my kintype does.

Fursona(s)

My furry code:
FFTmp5/MKmp4 A~++ C+ D+ H P++ R T++ W Sf#/m#/p# RLS c++ e+++ f+ i+++ j+ p

My fursonas are a tiger and an American mink! There are others from time to time as I try on different things.

I chose tiger because, well... maybe I didn't have a choice with that one. Tigers have been a part of me for a long time. For mink, I chose it because it's native to the biomes I feel closest to, and it's a smaller animal (despite one of my names being Apex, I don't identify with the whole "badass apex predator" thing that tigers have going on.)

My fursona is a form of self-expression and doesn’t follow a set "canon." It’s more a piece of art or a symbol than an actual character. Currently I have multiple fursona species; these can exist independently as separate “characters” or they can all be part of one shapeshifting being.

Another important aspect of my fursona is being multibody, meaning I can split myself into multiple copies and spread my consciousness across them. Similar to a hivemind. I can be a mink swarm, or 5 minks and 1 tiger, or 2 tigers and a human, etc. It’s a fun ability for a spirit to have.