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theredoesnotexist
theredoesnotexist1. Facets very easily "share" species with each other, as in, more than one of us will easily be the same species or have the same kintypes, and associations and attachments will bleed across barriers. As opposed to partitioned alters, who usually have no connection to any of my (Ekho's) species identities. (If they do it's by coincidence, usually because they're a fictive of an OC who I made to express my own identity, but even then it just feels different.)
2. Each facet does generally seem to have a more prominent "focus" species. Most of us have one primary species identity we'll orbit around when we're present, which does feel a lot like regular polytherianthropy especially when we're less separated. These primary identities are what tends to be shared across lines more than anything else. I.e. it's very easy to instantly say that Stranger is the audiophage (cryptid), Ben is a mosasaur, Kalev and Fenix are hawks (red-tailed and long-legged buzzard respectively), NOCH is a computer, Alias is a clock, etc. At least 3 of us will easily say they're a raven; Vestige, Stranger and Sender, though Sender is the one whose most prominent identity is raven, while Vestige and Stranger are ravens in a lower-priority way. Likewise Sender is also an isopod, but it's not as intense when we're him as it is when we're Fishke, who may be an exception, but for reasons we'll get to. Vestige may also be, but for different reasons that mostly deserve their own post (by him) but in short, his nonhumanity takes backseat entirely to his fictional identity, so it would be better said that his primary identity is his fictotypes and his species is just adjacent to that.
3. Figuring out we're median was really gamechanging for the complex way I experience nonhumanity because facets can, in fact, have their own kintypes/identities on a smaller scale that other facets don't share at all. Like Asher being a snowy owl, Sender being a red-winged blackbird, Fenix being an opossum, Ohr being a vulture, etc. All of these are things I went back and forth in questioning or danced with the idea of before discarding it for being too fleeting or shallow. "Kintypes of parts" is something that allows me to fully be them when I am them, and not when I'm not.
4. We'll often have different ways of being the same thing; different associations with things that we feel like sometimes/relate to because they remind us of our species, or of conceptualizing the connections between our own species. If I'm a hawk at the moment, I could be either Kalev or Fenix, both very similar Buteo species, but Kalev is cut-and-dry a red-tailed hawk and Fenix sees himself in other animals that he sees as similar to his own species, like dromaeosaurs and other birds of prey; not being these, but considering them adjacent to himself, where Kalev wouldn't. In a similar vein a majority of us are discrete with our species, for example Sender is a raven, an isopod and a blackbird, and those are all very obviously different things, but Fishke is a computer and a bug and a fish and they all blend together for him. (Which is why he may be an exception to having a primary 'type: his singular primary type is computer-bug-fish.)
2. Each facet does generally seem to have a more prominent "focus" species. Most of us have one primary species identity we'll orbit around when we're present, which does feel a lot like regular polytherianthropy especially when we're less separated. These primary identities are what tends to be shared across lines more than anything else. I.e. it's very easy to instantly say that Stranger is the audiophage (cryptid), Ben is a mosasaur, Kalev and Fenix are hawks (red-tailed and long-legged buzzard respectively), NOCH is a computer, Alias is a clock, etc. At least 3 of us will easily say they're a raven; Vestige, Stranger and Sender, though Sender is the one whose most prominent identity is raven, while Vestige and Stranger are ravens in a lower-priority way. Likewise Sender is also an isopod, but it's not as intense when we're him as it is when we're Fishke, who may be an exception, but for reasons we'll get to. Vestige may also be, but for different reasons that mostly deserve their own post (by him) but in short, his nonhumanity takes backseat entirely to his fictional identity, so it would be better said that his primary identity is his fictotypes and his species is just adjacent to that.
3. Figuring out we're median was really gamechanging for the complex way I experience nonhumanity because facets can, in fact, have their own kintypes/identities on a smaller scale that other facets don't share at all. Like Asher being a snowy owl, Sender being a red-winged blackbird, Fenix being an opossum, Ohr being a vulture, etc. All of these are things I went back and forth in questioning or danced with the idea of before discarding it for being too fleeting or shallow. "Kintypes of parts" is something that allows me to fully be them when I am them, and not when I'm not.
4. We'll often have different ways of being the same thing; different associations with things that we feel like sometimes/relate to because they remind us of our species, or of conceptualizing the connections between our own species. If I'm a hawk at the moment, I could be either Kalev or Fenix, both very similar Buteo species, but Kalev is cut-and-dry a red-tailed hawk and Fenix sees himself in other animals that he sees as similar to his own species, like dromaeosaurs and other birds of prey; not being these, but considering them adjacent to himself, where Kalev wouldn't. In a similar vein a majority of us are discrete with our species, for example Sender is a raven, an isopod and a blackbird, and those are all very obviously different things, but Fishke is a computer and a bug and a fish and they all blend together for him. (Which is why he may be an exception to having a primary 'type: his singular primary type is computer-bug-fish.)
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