1: Hey, Felix. I was wondering if you could help me sort out something? For the past few months, I’ve been having trouble understanding the finer mechanics behind my sense of self. While I DO put stock into the multiverse theory, I don’t feel that who I am belongs exclusively to a past life. I feel like I am who I am NOW, and I was also who I am in EVERY universe. In a past life, in the present life, and in the future. How do I reconcile being who I am both in present day and in the past? Most

2: everyone who subscribes to the multiverse theory refers to their identity as a past life. Past tense. I WAS, or I USED to. But that doesn’t sit right with me. That doesn’t work for how I present myself. It feels more like I didn’t know who I was in this life until I found myself, and now that I have, I’ve reached a clearer, cohesive understanding of who I am… in present time as WELL as past time. Wherever I end up next, I’ll still be me. I don’t change names or shapes. I’m a constant.

Don’t worry, anon, you’re not alone, and in fact you’re historically in very good company. There are a LOT of kin who feel the same way you do, they’re just generally in the otherkin community, rather than the fictionkin community specifically.

Most of the elves, dragons, etc that I’ve known online believe they have one identity that exists sort of ‘above’ their existence as a human in this world, and some believe when they leave this world, they’ll go back to being that entity more fully. Basically, there are a lot of kin who don’t believe they ‘were’ a dragon, but rather that the ‘are’ a dragon right now and this human body and life is some kind of temporary  nuisance and oddity.