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Prompts

1. Awakening: What was the event that triggered your awakening? What made you start to question being fictionkind or fictionhearted, and how did it feel when you figured it out? When did you understand that you had a system, and how did they react to their source(s)? When did you find your hearthome, and how did you know you belonged there? When did you first experience a fictionflicker? How did you come across your fictionlink, and in what ways did you integrate them with your personality? Have you ever created a thoughtform in the likeness of a fictional character? How did this process impact your life over the following weeks/months/year?

2. Canon: How closely is your identity aligned with canon events in your source? Completely, partially, or not at all? Do you experience multiple canon and alternative timelines concurrently? How much does the source material of your alterfictional identity influence your personality and behavior, if at all?

3. Live Acton: Is there a live-action movie or series based on your source? How do the actors and events match up with your noemata? Does anyone look unusual? Is CGI or practical effects necessary to represent the people and creatures from your source? If there are no live-action materials for your source (or if it already is by default), who would you personally pick as the cast and why?

4. Weather: What kind of weather does your source have? Is it very different from Earth, similar, or completely alien? Do you or your fictomere have any special connection to the weather or climate? If not, what kind of weather-based power would you or they want to have?

5. Food: Does your fictomere have a favorite food? Is it a dish that can't be found on Earth? If so, what's the closest you can get to having it again? Would it be considered taboo or gross by today's human standards? Does your society or species have any special customs or rituals around meals?

6. Action: What is your most exciting noema?

7. Under Pressure: Is there anything related to your identity that makes you feel afraid?

8. Road Trip: If you could hit the road with anyone from your source material (yes, including yourself), who would it be? Where would you go and what would you do?

9. Stiff Upper Lip: Recall a time where your fictomere had to be calm in the face of adversity. Was it a success, or a failure, and what was learned in the end?

10. Sleep Cycle: Is your fictomere nocturnal, diurnal, crepuscular, or something else entirely?

11. Illness: Do you know of any sicknesses that are unique to your fictomere's species or source? Is your fictomere immune to pathogens? What kind of diseases do you think would evolve to attack your species, if you're nonhuman or live in an extraterrestrial environment?

12. Friction: Is there anything about your identity that makes you feel embarrassed or insecure?

13. Interlude: What is your most peaceful noema?

14. To Each Their Own: Do you and your fictomere and/or headmates have different tastes in music?

15. Lost Message: If you could write a letter, stick it in a bottle, and toss it into the sea, who from your source would you want to find it? What would it say?

16. Hobbies: Does your fictomere have a hobby in canon? Is it meaningful to you, or do you occupy yourself with something else?

17. Animal: What animal best represents your fictomere? Alternatively, if your fictomere could shapeshift into any creature, what would it be?

18. Temperature: What is your fictomere's preferred method of dealing with the cold winter months? Does the changing season affect your identity at all?

19. Turning of the Wheel: Does your source have a harvest festival or an equivalent? Do you still observe it? What practices are you able to follow each year?

20. Fresh Start: If you could transport your fictomere into a new source, with the intention of living a better life, where would that be? What do you hope would be better there?

21. A Wizard Did It: Are there aspects of your identity that you can't logically explain from a spiritual or psychological point of view? Does it bother you, or are you able to shrug off what you don't understand?

22. Going Home: What was your home like in your source? Was it a specific building, a city, a landscape, a world? Was it a group of people?

23. Wide Open Seas: Does your fictomere have any connection or relation to water, whether that be the ocean, a lake, a river, a spring, the rain, or other source? Do you have any noemata surrounding a water feature?

24. Written by The Victors: Is there a major event in the history of your source that you remember and/or feel strongly about? Were you there to see and be a part of it, or did the impact of it on your source world make a difference in your fictomere's life long after it happened?

25. Powers: Does your fictomere have any strange powers, either in general or for your setting? What about other people/creatures in your source? Was there any kind of widespread magic or other power?

26. Area of Interest: Do you know a lot about something because of your fictomere? A specific field, or just a lot of facts about a topic? Is this because of memories/noemata or because of actual research? Take this as a chance to talk about it and its relation to your fictomere if you'd like.

27. Longest Journey: What was the longest or most important journey that your fictomere ever went on? What was it like, and why did they/you go?

28. Fandom: Does your source have a sizable fandom? Do you interact with it at all, or do you avoid it? How do you deal with content about your fictomere, especially if it feels "wrong" to you? If your source doesn't have a fandom (or has a small one), do you wish it did, or are you happy that it doesn't?

29. Lessons Learned: Has your fictomere or source taught you any lessons that you carry forth in your life?

30. Physical Reminders: Do you have any physical items related to or that remind you of your fictomere? Merch, something you made, or something else?

31. Great Achievements: What was the greatest thing that you/your fictomere ever achieved? Was this a great victory of some type, or something more mundane and personally satisfying?

32. Day-to-Day: What is your favorite mundane noemata? It doesn't necessarily have to be peaceful, just something fairly normal.

33. It's Complicated: Do you/your fictomere have a complicated opinion of, relationship with, or history with someone or something? Does it often get reduced to something simplistic, or is it portrayed accurately, according to you?

34. Musical Connection: Does your fictomere have any kind of connection to music? Are there any songs that really remind you of your fictomere?

35. Patience: If time were to pause for your fictomere, where would they be in 400 years? How might your source world change around them, to the best of your knowledge? How would your fictomere react to a wholly changed environment, society, and new faces?

36. Knowledge: Is there anything you wish you knew about your fictomere?

37. Technology: What was technology like for your fictomere? Is there anything that you wish you had now? Is there anything that you wish you'd had?

38. Creative Prompt 1: "Nothing hurts more than seeing yourself in the abyss for once."

39. Morality: Talk about morality for your fictomere or in your source. What's different, what's the same? Does your fictomere do things differently than most people?

40. Revenge: Do you have a grudge against anyone in your source? If you could meet them face to face, what would you do?

41. Creative Prompt 2: "I just want my skies to be clear and blue, / But I got tornadoes and thunderstorms, / Hurricanes and snow to still walk through."

42. Flora: Is plant life, or any specific plants, significant to your fictomere?

43. Creative Prompt 3: "You become the hero the city deserves, but not the one it needs."

44. Creative Prompt 4: "Don't make me say it. Please don't make me say it."

45. Gender: Does your fictomere have any effect on your gender?

46. Dance: Does your culture in-source have any dance/display routines? Are they recreational or ceremonial, or for something else entirely?

47. Creative Prompt 5: "How could we have known?"

48. Song: Pick a favorite song (or snag a random one off of a playlist) and write whatever comes to your mind relating to your fictomere.

49. Creative Prompt 6: "It's been a long time, hasn't it?"

50. Tech: Does your source contain any level of technological advancement? What kind of technology is your fictomere proficient with, if any? Is the technology mechanical, organic, or a mixture?

51. Creative Prompt 7: "It's almost dawn."

52. Creative Prompt 8: "I'm happy it's over."

53. To The Moon And Back: Is your fictomere capable of space travel? Do they require a vehicle, or are they able to exist in the vacuum of space itself? Alternatively, how do you think they would handle the opportunity to leave their home planet?

54. Responsibility: Did/does your fictomere have any particular responsibilities that are worth noting? Conversely, did/does anyone have responsibilities to your fictomere?

55. Strange Reflections: Do any other sources remind you of your own? Do any locations, characters, character archetypes, etc. remind you of your fictomere? Is this significant to you in any way, or just interesting?

56. Creative Prompt 9: Write a scene that you wish you could live/relive that has to do with your fictomere.

57. Mythology: Does your fictomere have any ties to mythology, either from this world or from your source?

58. Creative Prompt 10: "Do that again."

59. Sins of the Father: Was your fictomere ever blamed for or treated poorly because of the actions of others?

60. Creative Prompt 11: Write about coming home.

61. The Earth Underfoot: Does your fictomere have any special connection with the earth/land?

62. Language: Is there a specific language that is significant to your fictomere?

63. Creative Prompt 12: "Can you hear it?"

64. Games: Are there any games that remind you of your fictomere? Do you play them because of that, or avoid them? Which came first, the fictomere or the game?

65. Expertise: If your fictomere were to teach a class or give a presentation on something, what would it be?

66. Return: You're offered the chance to go back to your fictomere / go back to being them, right where you left off, but you never get to return to here. Do you take the offer? Why or why not?

67. Heroes: Is there anyone in your source that you look(ed) up to?

68. Learning: Where did your fictomere learn to do what they did? Alternatively, if your fictomere is a place, how and where do the people there (if any) learn?

69. Relationships: Did/does your fictomere have any romantic or sexual relationships? What were those like?

70. Odd Jobs: Has your fictomere ever done anything strange or seemingly out-of-character to make ends meet?

71. Tells: What are the "tells" of being/having your fictomere? (The small things you do only because of your fictomere, and someone with a keen enough eye could recognize your fictomere in these things.)

72. Travel: Did your fictomere travel, and has it inspired you to do so? Where did they go?

73. Poetry: What is your favorite poem, and how does it relate to your identity, if at all?

74. Ire: Do you dislike someone who had a hand in the creation of your source? Why?

75. Legacy: Does your fictomere have an active legacy? If not, what do you/they want to be remembered for?

76. Perfect Moment: Write about a "perfect moment" for your fictomere.

77. Tradition: What is traditional to your fictomere in source, and did you follow it there/do you now?

78. Advice: What advice would you give your past self, just when they awakened?

79. Pets: What are common pets in your source, and do/did you have any?

80. Impossible Things: What one impossible thing here from your source would make your life immeasurably better?

81. Bucket List: Was there something mundane that your fictomere really wanted to do? Can you/have you done it now?

82. Letter Home: Write a letter addressed to someone or something back in your source.

83. New Toys: Consider the things you've learned recently. Write something in which you apply one to your fictomere.

84. The Fire Within: Does your fictomere have any kind of connection to fire, or any significant memories or moments with it?

85. Lens: Through what lens do you see your fictomere? Is it religious, spiritual, neuro/psychological, supernatural, cultural, creative, something else, just-is...?

86. Influences: What influences (people, media, ideas) have had the greatest effect on your alterfictionality? Who/what are you most grateful for?

87. Ties to Creation: Did you or one of your headmates have anything to do with the creation of your source or fictomere?

88. Topic Willingness: What do you wish more folks were willing to talk about, fictomere-wise?

89. Out of Character: Is there anything about your fictomere or that your fictomere did in canon that feels "out of character" for you?

90. Myth and Misconception: If you could delete one annoying myth or misconception about your fictomere or source, what would it be?

91. Fashionable: Is your fictomere's style static or switch-it-up? Traditional or modern?

92. Brilliant Skies: Does your fictomere have any connection to the sky, wind, or stars?

93. Community Learning: What have you learned (or what would you like to learn) from other folks here?

94. Right-Hand Man: Did/does your fictomere have anyone that they're particularly close to in a platonic sense? A cohort, a business partner, a best friend?

95. Frenzy: Write about a time that your fictomere completely lost their cool, or a time that someone lost their cool about your fictomere.

96. Scars: Does your fictomere have any meaningful scars?

97. Sickness: Has your fictomere ever gotten seriously ill? What happened?

98. Creative Writing Prompt 13: "Not like this."

99. Community Knowledge: What do you wish more fictionfolk knew?

100. Celebration: Tell us about a notable celebration or festivity.

101. Milestones: Tell us about milestones relating to your fictomere.

102. Series of Songs: Top ten songs that describe your fictomere? Why those songs?

103. Hair: Did/does your fictomere have hair? Natural or dyed? Styled or loose? Do you have emotional or cultural ties relating to your hair?

104. Information Retrieval: How do you receive noemata or general information about your fictomere? Is it sparked by engagement with canon, real-world things that remind you of it, or something else? Do you have a set process for figuring out the important parts of your identity, or does it happen without much prompting?

105. Creative Free Space: Respond to this prompt with any kind of creative work involving your fictomere.


1. What’s a unique method your kintype has for defense. (Ex: dropping your tail, flairing feathers, SCREECH, disappearing, ect.)

2. What’s a unique method you have for an attack or fighting?

3. What motivates your kintype to attack in the first place?

4. Do you have any tolerances for poisons, substances or venoms your predators may employ against you? Or tolerances against what you eat? (Ex: poison ivy- no reaction)

5. What candle scent would you say describes your kintype (you can either make up a scent or name one you know. It’s supposed to be a bit silly)

6. What’s your environment like? Are there any horror movies with a similar environment?

7. What’s a horrid truth about your kintype?

8. If your kintype was an omen, what would it represent?

9. Has your kintype killed before? If so, what was the reason?

10. Do humans eat your kintype? Does it bother you?

11. Have you ever seen taxidermy of your kintype or have anything taxidermy related to your kintype?

12. Have you ever held or catched your kintype before/ interacted with it?

13. Are there any horror movies or halloween/horror symbolism you identify with?

14. Does your kintype engage in cannibalism?

15. Does your kintype have any properties for spiritual uses uses (ex black cats hair or dogs tooth)

16. What costume would look good on your kintype?

17. Favorite candy related to your kintype?

18. Would your kintype trick someone or treat someone?

19. What would your museum display look like?

20. What would you be in a haunted house?


1. What’s one feature from your kintype that may be considered unsettling or creepy

2. Do you study other’s or do other’s study you?

3. What type of predator are you? parasitic, pursuit, ambush, psychological ect. Alternatively, What type of prey are you? camouflage, stamina, speed, misdirection

4. any hunting neomata or memories? Do you have any instincts about being hunted or hunting?

5. What’s one defensive maneuver your kintype will do to ward off potential predators or rival animals. Alternate question for less primal types, Do you have a protocol or set rules to defend yourself from danger

6. Do you do anything with kills besides just eating them? collecting bones, a graveyard for remnants, burying it for storage, studying or soul absorption?

7. You are tied to your environment and labeled as a cryptid by the locals. What would your name be?Ex: The Green river black panther or Swamp Panther

8. How would you clean blood off of yourself? Is it annoying or enrichment?

9. Are you bound to an object or do certain objects attract you? (ex: demons bound to books, animals to blood, ect)

10. How does your kintype view death?

11. What would be an omen that may symbolize your kintype someone may come across?

12. What weather conditions are optimal for you to survive being hunted

13. Do you have any horror movies, lore, or media that reminds you of your kintype?

14. Could you survive your kintype in an attack if you are in a human body?

15. What type of enclosure/prison would be required to keep you contained?

16. As your kintype what’s something you think is stupid about humans feature and or behaviour wise?


🎨 How do you feel about fanart?

📝 How do you feel about fanfiction?

✅ What does the fandom usually get right?

❌ What does the fandom usually get wrong?

🗺️ What do you miss about your world?

💔 Who are you missing right now?

🚫 Is there anyone you hope to never see again?

🔀 How canon-divergent vs. canon-compliant are you?

⚧ What were your gender and orientation in your timeline; was your identity canon?

💗 What helps you feel closer to your source (in a positive way)?

🖊️ Do you use your name from your source?

👬 How do you feel about doubles?

⭐ Is your fiction-based identity spiritual, psychological, or something else?

🎙️ What’s the biggest difference between you and your canon self?

💞 What’s the biggest similarity between you and your canon self?

❓ Do you prefer when people are familiar or unfamiliar with your source when they meet you?

👍 What’s your favorite thing about your source?

👎 What’s your least favorite thing about your source?

💸 Do you own any merch of your source?

🌸 Do you feel comfortable in your fiction-based identity?

🌻 Who are you open with about your fiction-based identity?


1. What is your fictotype? Are you a specific character, a nonhuman species, or both?
2. Do you experience dysphoria? How so?
3. Who are you open about it with?
4. Do you participate in the fandom of your source? How so?
5. Do you fictionflicker?
6. When did you realize you were fictionkin? How long have you been in the community?
7. What was your introduction to fictionkin?
8. Are you similar to your fictotype in personality? How so?
9. Are you similar to your fictotype in appearance? How so?
10. Link to/tag your favorite fictionkin Tumblr.
11. Have you ever met other fictionkin? In real life or online?
12. Have you ever met canonmates? In real life or online? How did it go?
13. Have you ever met doubles? In real life or online? How well did you get along?
14. What are shifts like?
15. How do you deal with kin-for-fun?
16. What are your thoughts on symbols, flags, etc.?
17. Does fictionkinity connect to spirituality for you?
18. Does fictionkinity connect to neurodivergence for you?
19. Do other people notice your similarity to a character or species?
20. How do you express your fictotype? Clothes, merch, cosplay, maybe even name?
21. What’s something about the fictionkind community you wish was different?
22. What’s something about the fictionkind community you appreciate?
23. How do you approach consuming your source? Analytically, obsessively, casually, reluctantly, etc…
24. What’s the worst anti-fickin take you’ve ever seen?
25. What’s the best anti-fickin take you’ve ever seen? Respond to it.
26. What are some songs that remind you of your fictotype or source?
27. What are some other characters/species that remind you of your fictotype?
28. Do you have a favorite piece of fanart? (Better to reblog for this day, do not repost someone’s art.)
29. Do you have activities that connect you to your source? (Food, hobbies, interests, etc.)
30. Talk about what it’s like to be your fictotype.


1. What about you and your hearttype are similar?

2. What about you and your hearttype are different?

3. How did you discover (and confirm) your hearttype?

4. Any headcanons/theories about your hearttype?

5. Any habits you picked up from your hearttype, or any you had before you even knew about it?

6. Any hearttypes that developed from a different thing like a synpath or copinglink?

7. Anything you personally don’t like about your hearttype? Could be personality, something that happened/happens to them, how they function, etc.

8. Are you a “deep longing to be”, “deep admiration and empathy for”, “ideal self”, “should have been”, and/or other experience ‘hearted person?

9. Would you take your hearttype’s physical body? Anything you’d change?

10. Do you experience shifts of your hearttypes?

11. Any hearttypes you’re questioning at the moment?

12. Do you ever feel desires/urges or emotions that are due to or influenced by your hearttype?

13. What was the hearttype that took you the longest to confirm?

14. What’s a song that reminds you of your hearttype?


What entity (character, animal, etc) are you questioning?
Do you think this might be a hearttype, kintype, linktype or something else?
Why is that?
Why are you questioning this identity? What is your connection with this entity?
How long have you been questioning this identity?
Have you questioned an alterhuman identity before?
Is this identity voluntary, involuntary, quoiluntary, unknown or something else?

Shifts:
Do you experience phantom shifts? (If no, skip to next question).
What do they feel like?
How often do you experience these?
Do you enjoy phantom shifting? Why/why not? What’s the best and worst parts about them?
Why do you think these shifts occur? Does anything trigger them?
Describe your first phantom shift.
Do you experience voluntary or involuntary shifts? Both? What triggers them?

Do you experience mental shifts? (If no, skip to next question).
What do they feel like? How do they effect you?
How often do you experience these?
Do you enjoy mental shifting? Why/why not? What’s the best and worst parts about them?
Why do you think these shifts occur? Does anything trigger them?
Describe your first mental shift.
Do you experience voluntary or involuntary shifts? Both? What triggers them?

Do you experience dream shifts? (If no, skip to next question).
What do they feel like?
How often do you experience these?
Do you enjoy dream shifting? Why/why not? What’s the best and worst parts about them?
Why do you think these shifts occur? Does anything trigger them?
Describe your first dream shift.
Do you experience voluntary or involuntary shifts? Both? What triggers them?
Are you lucid during dream shifts?
How do these differ from regular dreams?

Do you experience sensory shifts? (If no, skip to next question).
What do they feel like?
How often do you experience these?
Do you enjoy sensory shifting? Why/why not? What’s the best and worst parts about them?
What senses change when you shift?
Why do you think these shifts occur? Does anything trigger them?
Describe your first sensory shift.
Do you experience voluntary or involuntary shifts? Both? What triggers them?

Do you experience cameo shifts? (If no, skip to next question).
How often do you cameo shift?
What do you shift to?
Are they phantom, mental, dream, sensory or other shifts?
What makes you feel your cameo shifts are just shifts as opposed to another identity?
Do you enjoy cameo shifting? Why/why not? What’s the best and worst parts about them?
Why do you think these shifts occur? Does anything trigger them?
Do you experience voluntary or involuntary shifts? Both? What triggers them?

Do you fictionflicker? (If no, skip to next question).
What do you flicker to?
How often do you fictionflicker?
What makes you feel like this is a fictionflicker and not another identity?
Do you enjoy fictionflickering? Why/why not? What’s the best and worse parts about them?

Beliefs:
Is this identity spiritual, psychological, or something else in origin?

If your identity is spiritual (If not, skip to next question):
What makes you believe this identity is spiritual in origin?
How do you believe you came here as a human?
Have you ever considered your identity might be psychological? Why/why not?

If your identity is psychological (If not, skip to next question):
What makes you believe this identity is psychological in origin?
Have you ever considered your identity might be spiritual? Why/why not?

Do you have alterhuman memories? If not, (skip to next question):
How often do you get memories?
Are these spiritual, psychological, or something else in origin?

Effects:
How does this identity effect your everyday life?
Is this identity an overall positive or negative experience?
Do you experience species dysphoria related to this identity?
Do you experience species euphoria related to this identity?
What makes you feel connected to this identity?
What makes you feel less connected to this identity?
Does this identity effect your gender?
Does this identity effect your sexuality? Misc/Fun:
If you could choose to be any entity, what would you be?
Have you ever done anything weird while in a shift? What was it?
If you could physically become your identity irreversibly, would you?
If you could physically become your identity, what would you do?


1. When did you start identifying as otherkin? In hindsight, how many of your quirks/behaviors/interests connect to your identity?

2. What kind of shifts do you normally get (phantom, mental, dream, sensory, etc.)? How long had you been getting shifts before taking up the otherkin label?

3. How many kintypes do you have? Which one did you discover first? Are you questioning any?

4. What types of kintypes do you have? Psychological, spiritual, archetypal? Do you have any clue why? (Ex: someone identifying psychologically as a dragon due to feels from their past lives as a bird and reptile ‘types blending together in the present.)

5. For fictionkin, have you found any of your canonmates? If so, who and when? If not, do you want to find them?

6. For those who got frequent shifts before identifying as otherkin, what did you think caused them? Did you equate shifts of any kind with “nonhuman” feelings before discovering your kintypes?

7. For fictionkin, how long did you know about your source before awakening? Are/were you engaged in the fandom?

8. What symbols, phrases, or concepts are important/resonant with you due to your kintypes? How long did you associate with these things before realizing the reason?

9. Do you, on average, get more shifts or memories?

10. For those with “normal, earthly animals” as ‘types, do you identify as otherkin or therian? Or both? Why?

11. For those with more animal-like kintypes (or just literal animals), what are the most significant quirks/behaviors/instincts that you have?

12. For those with more humanoid (in mind or form) kintypes, is the overall species (and the quirks that come with it) just as important to you as the specific personality/memories?

13. What makes you feel most “at home”? What types of sights, sounds, smells, etc. remind you of your kintype and put you at ease?

14. On the flipside, what environments would make your kintype on edge? Do any of your fears now connect to things experienced/feared by your kintypes?

15. What was your first reaction to/opinion of your kintype? How has your opinion changed upon realizing that they, or at least a version of them, are you?

16. For fictionkin, what’s one prominent aspect of canon or fandom interpretations that is incredibly inaccurate/different from how things went in your personal canon?

17. If you could, would you want to be your kintype? What would be some pros and cons of that if that were possible?

18. How did you first discover the otherkin community?

19. If you’ve ever taken one of those “what animal/character are you” quizzes, was it actually accurate?

20. What are some things you can do to connect with your kintypes better? Do you ever look at those “kin help” sites with recipes/outfits/merch/aeshtetics?

21. How long did it take for you to come to terms with/confirm your kintypes? If you haven’t confirmed any yet, how sure are you and why?

Bonus Question: As serious otherkin, how many times have you been subjected to “kin for fun” jokes and jabs?


1. A song that personally reminds you of your kintype in general/just has their “vibes”.

2. A song that thematically reflects your kintype in some way.

3. A song that reminds you of a happy or fond memory.

4. A song that brings forth a more negative memory.

5. A song that reflects a significant event in their life, bad or good.

6. A song that tends to put you in a mental or phantom shift.

7. A song that you associate with an important figure in your kintype’s life.

8. A song representing your kintype in an archetypal manner. Down to their base personality.

9. A song that reminds you of your kintype’s past.

10. If there are any, a song canonically related to your kintype, either in the source’s official soundtrack (if there is one) or just a song that the canon source’s creator associates them with.

11. A song that is commonly associated with them that, while not your personal choice, you can still enjoy.

12. A song that reminds you of your current life, is in stark contrast to your kintype, or can easily snap you out of a shift. Perfect end to a kintype playlist.


1. Which shifts make you feel the happiest?
2. Which shifts make you feel sad or stress you out?
3. Which kintype(s) do you have the most memories for?
4. Any theriotypes?
5. Most obscure source, if any?
6. Favorite drawing of (insert a kin here)? (You BETTER credit the artist when answering this one)
7. What's a weird or mundane memory you have?
8. What objects do you miss from kin lives/timelines?
9. Any kinshifts that help you cope with stress?
10. Are you able to force kinshifts? If so, how?
11. Most canon-divergent timeline/life, if any?
12. What's a happy kin memory you feel like sharing?
13. A funny kin memory you feel like sharing?
14. Favorite memory from (insert kin here) life? (if any)
15. What's a sad kin memory you feel like sharing?
16. Have you ever bought any clothes or changed your appearance to look more like a kin of yours?
17. What skill from a kin life do you wish you had now?
18. Which kintype are you most similar to as you are now?
19. What are the biggest similarities between you and (insert kin here)? (if any)
20. Tell me a random memory from your (insert kin here) life! (if any)


1. Did you date anyone in your memories / canon? If not, crush?
2. Was your relationship with the people around you different than it is in source? If so, how?
3. Favourite memory?
4. Opinion on [ship]?
5. Romantic/sexual orientations in your canon / memories?
6. Memory with [character]?
7. Describe your kintype in five words or less.
8. Describe the fandoms portrayal of your kintype in five words or less.
9. If you could change anything you did in canon / go back and do something you didn't do, what would it be?
10. Something that reminds you of your canon?
11. Was there someone you wished you had gotten to know better? If so, who?
12. Who were your best friends in your canon? Are they the same friends in source?
13. What was something you hated in your canon?
14. What was something you loved in your canon?
15. Opinion on [character]? Is it the same opinion you had in your canon?
16. How did you figure out you were kin?
17. Is there a memory you wish you didn't have?
18. Have you found any canonmates? If so, who?
19. Something that reminds you of your canonmates? (Not necessarily just your canon)
20. Favourite moment in source material?
21. Favourite character in source material?
22. Are you trying to avoid being kin with anyone / certain sources? If so, why?
23. How old is your oldest kintype?
24. Favourite image of [character]?
25. Favourite image of your kintype?


☀️ - What is/are your ‘kintype/s?
🌙 - What is/are your copinglink/s, heartedtype/s, or other alterhuman identities?
⭐ - If you have a system, are any of your systemmates nonhuman?
💡 - Do you believe your alterhumanity is spiritual, psychological, both, or something else?
🌈 - Does your alterhumanity influence your other identities? (eg, gender/pronouns)
💓 - Something you love about being alterhuman?
🚫 - Something that frustrates you about being alterhuman?
😔 - Do you experience species dysphoria? If so, how do you cope?
🎼 - Music that reminds you of your identity?
🎟️ - Activities that remind you of your identity?
🧸 - Do you have any plushies/ merchandise of your identities
🎁 - Other things that remind you of your identity?
🐾 - If you could have the typical body of your ‘kintype/’linktype, would you? Why or why not?
🔮 - Have you ever used divination or other forms of magick in relation to your alterhumanity?
🛐 - If you are religious, how does it relate to your alterhumanity?
🔉 - Do your friends/ family/ other close people know about your alterhumanity?
❗ - An unpopular opinion of yours regarding alterhumanity?
👍 - Favorite part of the community?
👎 - Something you wish was different about the community?
😊 - Share something random about yourself/ your alterhumanity!


Anfang: What gender is your daemon? (Daemons can be the opposite gender, the same gender, or outside the binary altogether)

Belisaria: How talkative is your daemon? What does their voice sound like?

Cerebaton: Do you think your daemon is smarter than you?

Golden Monkey: Are there any unscrupulous traits that you find your daemon possesses? Would you say they are your dark side?

Hester: How would adventures with your daemon be like?

Kaisa: Does your daemon notice things before you do? Are they more aware than you?

Karossa: What mood is your daemon usually in? Do you even feel their emotions?

Kirjava: What form do you think your daemon will settle as? What do you want them to settle as? If you are settled, do you particularly like their form?

Kulang: Do you know your daemon’s personality types? Would you say their personality is the opposite of yours?

Kyrillion: How do you think your daemon would interact with the daemons of others? What about with other humans?

Matapan: Does your daemon comfort you/cheer you up when you are down?

Musca: What do you think your parents’ daemons would have named your daemon? Do you think it would have been a fitting name?

Pantalaimon: Does your daemon argue with you a lot? About what? Who’s right?

Ragi: Is your daemon more mature than you?

Ratter: What forms did your daemon take before you were settled?

Salcilia: Would you give up your daemon for anything? What would life be like without them?

Sandling: What is your daemon’s outlook on life? What are their opinions on various philosophical topics (the afterlife, the nature of morality, etc.)

Sayan Kötör: What would your daemon be like if they existed in corporeal form? Do you wish corporeal daemons existed?

Sergi: Would you have liked to undergo separation (a la the witches) from your daemon?

Stelmaria: Has your daemon ever fallen in love? What do they think of your past datemates/crushes?

Sophonax: How well would your daemon’s form have matched your physical appearance?

Zohariel: What is your daemon’s name, and what does it mean?


1. name a fact about urself from ur canon

2. share any songs that remind u of ur canon

3. how long have u ided as ur main kin?

4. what’s ur fave kin memory?

5. which characters from ur canon were u close to?

6. name something from ur canon u didn’t/don’t like

7. name something from ur canon u like

8. if u could meet anyone from ur canon now, who would it be?

9. does the most popular ship in the fandom reflect ur relationships?

10. what’s something sad that happened in ur canon?

11. what do u miss most from ur canon?


1. What was your first kintype?
2. What was it like discovering you were otherkin?
3. Do/does your kintype(s) impact your personality/actions in any way? If so, how?
4. What kintype(s) interest you most?
5. What do you like most about your own kintype(s)?
6. What do you dislike most about your own kintype(s)?
7. Are you questioning any kintype(s)? If so, which one(s)?
8. What is your favorite kin-related memory or thought?
9. Do you have any phantom limbs? What are they?
10. What kind of things make your certain kintypes happy?
11. What is your favorite uncommon kintype?
12. What is your favorite common kintype?
13. How did you find out you were otherkin?
14. What activities do/does your kintype(s) enjoy?
15. What kind of weather do/does your kintype(s) enjoy?
16. What types of places do/does your kintype(s) enjoy?
17. What kinds of food do/does your kintype(s) like?
18. Do you tell people outside of Tumblr about your kintypes?
19. What, if any, attributes of yourself remind you of your kintype(s)?
20. What kind of things make your kinfeels stronger?
21. What types of company do/does your kintype(s) enjoy?
22. Do you like the blogs about recipes for certain kin?
23. Do you like the blogs about clothing/fashion for kin?
24. Do any certain music types appeal to your kin(s)? If so, what kind(s)?
25. How many kintypes do you have?
26. Do you want more/less kintypes?
27. Do you decorate/have decorations in your room/house that relate to your kintype(s)?
28. Do any certain smells appeal to your kintype(s)?
29. Is/are your kintype(s) attracted to any types of people, personality-wise?
30. Does anything about yourself contrast the stereotypes of your kin(s)?
31. What feels like home to your kintype(s)?
32. Do/does your kintype(s) enjoy any TV shows, movies, etc. in particular?
33. Do/does your kintype(s) look drastically different from your human form?
34. What does your favorite kintype of yours look like?
35. What is/are your kintype(s)?
36. Do you have any fictionkin type(s)? If so, what are they?
37. When did you discover your first kintype?
38. Do/does your kintype(s) prefer light or darkness more?
39. Do you have any collections that relate to your kintype(s)? (ex: a hoard of jewels for a dragonkin)
40. Have you picked up any hobbies or activities because of your kintype(s)?
41. Do/does your kintype(s) enjoy intimacy or space?
42. Have you met anyone else with the same kintype(s) as you?
43. Do you enjoy talking to people with the same kintype(s) as you?
44. Do you dress differently based on your kintype(s)?
45. How long have you had your oldest kintype?
46. Does anything give you specific kinfeels? (ex: music, certain movies, etc.)
47. Is/are your kintype(s) stereotypically “good” or “bad”?
48. Do you express your kintype(s) in some way? If so, how do you express them? (ex: art, dancing, etc.)
49. Are you having trouble accepting any kintype(s)? If so, what kintype(s) and why?
50. What was the first kintype you’ve heard of?


1. Identity: Current
2. Identity: History/development
3. Identity: How/why you are otherkin
4. Identity: Other aspects of your identity (in addition to/besides your otherkin identity)
5. Identity: Doubts
6. Kintype(s): Facts and fiction
7. Kintype(s) Interactions (with your kintype or with others of the same kintype as you)
8. Kintype(s): Mythology, legends, lore
9. Kintype(s): What’s it like to be your kintype?
10. Kintype(s): Common misconceptions
11. Community: Online
12. Community: Offline
13. Community: Family
14. Community: Friends
15. Community: Significant others
16. Being otherkin: Challenges
17. Being otherkin: Shifting (or lack thereof)
18. Being otherkin: Reincarnation and past-life memories (or lack thereof, or [non-]beliefs about reincarnation)
19. Being otherkin: Experiences (descriptions and stories of an experience or experiences relating to your otherkin nature/identity)
20. Being otherkin: Expressing your other-ness
21. Being otherkin: Psychological/mental/emotional factors
22. Being otherkin: Energetic factors (Alternatively: Movement and physicality)
23. Being otherkin: Value and meaning (regarding or derived from your otherkin identity)
24. Your spirituality (Alternatively, for athiests/etc: Practices that nourish your psyche/mind/heart)
25. Does your otherkin identity influence your spirituality (or psyche-nourishing practices)? How?
26. Fiction, media, and/or music that is meaningful to you as otherkin.
27. Advice for someone just Awakening.
28. A topic you wish was discussed more often among otherkin.
29. One misconception about otherkin you’d like to clear up.
30. A question you’d like to ask the otherkin community.


1. What is your species?

2. Are you out? To whom?

3. How old were you when you realized you were not human? What made you realize it?

4. Do you identify as a part of the “otherkin”, or, “therian” community? What communities do you identify with?

5. Tell the story of the first person you came out to.

6. Have you faced any abuse because of identifying not human?

7. Do you have a favorite non-human character?

8. Do you believe there should be non-human pride? What do you imagine it being like?

9. What does being not human mean to you?

10. What have other people said about your non-human nature?

11. If you’re out, talk about the most accepting person you’ve come out to. If you’re not out, talk about what you would hope a coming out experience would be like.
12. Your favorite non-human Tumblr site.
13. Your favorite non-human website.

14. Tell us about a time you met another non-human, whether in real life or online.

15. Your favorite non-human celebrity/person.

16. Your favorite “non-human” book (as in, non-human characters are the main focus).

17. Your favorite “non-human” movie.

18. Tell us a funny joke about being non-human.

19. Is being non-human spiritual for you?

20. Tell us a few thoughts about what it’s like being your species.

21. Your favorite non-human quote.

22. What do you believe causes non-human identity?

23. What is your favorite non-human pride image?

24. Write something or post a picture about non-humans that upsets you.

25. What is the worst argument you’ve heard against being non-human?

26. Who is your biggest ally?

27. What is your favorite types of cake?

28. What is your favorite type of pie? (Or, is pie an acceptable replacement for cake?)

29. Where did you first learn about being non-human?

30. Tell us anything about being non-human that you want to end with.


1. What is your favorite animal/creature? Does it have anything to do with your kintype?

2. Favorite shifty story?

3. Least favorite shifty story?

4. Are there any colors that make you feel shifty? If so, why?

5. When did you learn about the therian/otherkin community? How did you learn about it?

6. Do you have any idea what causes your therianthropy/otherkinity?

7. Are there any kintype-specific things that comfort you during hard times?

8. For you, what is the hardest part about being a therian/otherkin?

9. Does your therianthropy/otherkinity greatly affect your life choices in any way? (Example: Moving to a new place because its similar to the natural habitat of your kintype)

10. Do you have any gear/items representative of your kintype?