Oh man... I think my otherkin awakening was.. I want to say in 2017? At the very least formally - I'd been noticing "something" going on with me since around 2014-2015, but at the time I was super into soulbonding for better or for worse, and I'd only figure out what I was actually experiencing a couple of years later.

My first online moniker and the one my friends knew me as for the longest time was "dave", for obvious reasons. Funnily enough, the first kintypes I identified were Dave Strider and the Rambunctious Crow, separately - and then I realized, oh wait, I'm Davesprite aren't I.

I have a long, long kinlist which seems to be common among 'kinnies' nowadays (how do I refer to.. kin-as-faceclaim people..? I mean this entirely neutrally, I just wish there were easier ways to delineate between experiences nowadays (ᵕ—ᴗ—)), but I think I just genuinely have a lot going on in *makes vague gesture toward self* here, haha. When it comes to non-fictionkind identities though, I'm a dragon, an ermine and a (little black) cormorant.