My history in the therian community begins in 2015. I thought it was incredible that there was a community around something I had felt since I could remember. I've always seen myself beastlike in mind and heart, instinctively reacted in line with an animal, felt otherworldly teeth, claws, and ears over my own body, looked at nonhuman animals as brothers rather than a different species to me. I cycled through many different theriotype species throughout my time in the community, my identity only settling on one true form recently as I've gotten older and developed a more stable sense of self. It was at this point I figured out I was a tiger.

Later, I delved into the fictionkin community and explored the possibility of having a fictotype. Before this point I identified as a range of things including demons, lizards, and dragons in an otherkind sense. After consideration and years-long research into different options I landed on Vergil from the Devil May Cry franchise. I experience noemata yet I do not particularly believe that I was reincarnated from him. I find it's more like a missplaced soul or a parallel life of sorts, if a physically lived life at all. Although my fictotype is half-human, I see and refer to my fictionkin experience as wholly nonhuman and aligned with draconic and demonic otherkin rather than with humanoid fictionkin.

Since early 2022 I have regarded Raiden from the Metal Gear series as a fictotype. I have a more spiritual experience with detailed noemata and a hearthome spawned from it. I still feel very close to this aspect of self because of my current relationship with Rosemary, the woman I was married to as him. His cybernetic body from later games gives me an experience comparable to that of machinekin, so I find some solidarity with that community, although the nature of my identity as him remains fully human as it was then.