People often speak of many otherkin, therian or alterhuman "identities", but I never found that wording as something I could identify with, personally. For me, I have one single identity, as one single person. However, that identity has many facets. All those facets are interconnected parts of a whole. They all relate to and with each other, all share a single crystal lattice. Angel and dragon, goshawk and bear. Even the cyborg.
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Often my experience as an "alterhuman" is one where the past, present and future converge into one. Pictured is my black bearskin cloak, with my Eurasian bear claw pendant. But the claw holds a strange secret.
Looking back, were there signs of your identity that you recognize now but overlooked at the time?
Rarely do I identify with anything mammalian. Usually it is (closer to) avian, or reptilian, if it is something that is "alive" and not android or replicant. But, when I do, it is the bear in particular. A common pattern that has stayed with me, to varying degrees, across multiple lifetimes.