We were extremely hesitant when Cradle first posted this, but I just wanna reiterate that we've thought about it a lot, and we are definitely not human. We see no value in using the word to self-describe. We are people, sure. But our kintypes are just better words for us.
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Luna and/or ✨Sparkles
We wish others would stop assuming that being a person or people has anything to do whatsoever with being "human(s)". We are most definitely people with our own identities and personalities but not a single one of us is human or ever has been human. The terms just have nothing to do with each other.
We know some entities that aren't people because they explicitly don't identify that way, but the vast majority of systems we know are full of people, no matter whether they are animals, monsters, or eldritch horrors.
Otherkin doesn't make you or anyone any less of a person. Expression of self-identity is so important and something that we strongly support and believe in. Please keep doing what you are doing <3