In an effort to broaden my understanding and come to my own. Conclusions about identity, what does being therian mean to you? In your own words.
My therianism manifests aspirationally, as a set of two ideal selves I draw to represent myself, and that I want to bring into reality through myself in body and soul: I call 'em Creature Avi and Professional Avi. They're not distinct personalities, they're just effective representations of Me under different circumstances.
On the Creature Avi side we have the quirky, impulsive, affable Me, the one who lives fast and lives authentically because yinglets are small and fragile and have simultaneously less and more time in their days than humans do. I crawl up and bound down stairs, I climb on surfaces to talk to average-sized people, I pause in the middle of a sentence to grab a snail off a nearby leaf as a tasty snack for later, and speak my thoughts aloud, tersely and inelegantly, without being paralyzed by fear of being misunderstood, because who has the time to worry about that when I'm gonna have a nap crash in a couple of hours?
For the Professional Avi we have the graceful, dignified, self-actualized Me, dumped into an unfamiliar place -- a hospitable yinglet enclave in Out-of-Placers fanon -- and (putting a lot of wishful thinking here in terms of how I'd actually react in an isekai scenario) finding my own truth in it: recognizing that I am both an artist and a woman, not that I was born into those roles but that they're what my personality best suits me for, and I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with feminine yinglets who are each and all similarly capable, smart, resourceful, and very pretty, and it feels incredibly nice to be counted among them, a feeling I need as a person. I'm not used to many responsibilities IRL, and I use this scenario to believe that I do have it within me to take them on (modest as an enclave artist's may be).
