• Alterhuman (general)
  • I go off of Mordecai Midas' shortform definition of alterhuman :
    • "Alterhuman: people with atypical experiences of species identity, embodiment, narrative identity and personal mythology."
  • Although alterhuman is technically an umbrella term, I prefer to use it as a label because it covers all aspects of my experiences. My experience as a shapeshifter, my fictionhood and relationships with fiction, my humanity and nonhumanity, the roles that frame my self-perception (archetropy), the kinship I experience towards others (heartedness), the concepts that form my being and relate to said being (concepthood), and much more. It is, without a doubt, the perfect label for me.
• Fictionfolk (general)

Olumide (they/them/he/him)

• pronounced as “OH-loo-ME-day”
• settled/preferred form: honey badger
  • secondary forms: american badger, tasmanian devil and tanuki (japanese raccoon dog)

• Aesop (c. 620 – 564 BCE)
  • Mostly psychological in origin/nature. The other aspect ties into my fictionhood within Fate, which involves imagithropy.
  • Faithood— the overlapping experience between facthood and fictionhood— is essential to how and why I am Aesop. Although there are historic accounts pertaining to me as an individual, I'm often fictionalized in one of two ways: either modern historians find discrepancies on ancient accounts of me and speculate whether or not I was real at all, suspecting I may have been a conjured figure to attribute many stories to (such as the figure Uncle Remus, for example) or I am literally fictionalized in that several modern adaptations of my stories depict me as a fictional old, oftentimes black man sharing my fables to an invisible audience (most likely whoever is watching...

• Umamusume (Umamusume: Pretty Derby)
  • Sometimes, an umamusume is a transitional form between myself as a human and myself as a horse. I also experience this form as a waypoint between other equine forms of mine (centaur, earthen horse, etc); this is specific to my being as a draft horse, not my being as Azuma. Unlike my other vaguetypes, this vaguetype involves partially or fully being an umamusume. I created Sword of Soulaan to help navigate my complex feelings towards this species, existing both as a self-insert/OC and a fictionflicker for me. That said, I don't completely see myself as Sword of Soulaan. The concept and lore of Umamusume are also of great importance to me; this species concept helped improve my relationship with equinehood, especially with being both human and nonhuman.

• Caitiff-hearted (Vampire: The Masquerade; World of Darkness)
• orc-hearted (general fiction)
• kobold-hearted (Dungeons & Dragons/D&D)
• greymon-hearted (Digimon)
  • Especially towards Wargreymon-like members of the species such as WarGreymon, BlackWarGreymon, VictoryGreymon, BurningGreymon, etc.
• gynoid-hearted (general fiction)
• ultra-hearted (Ultraman)
• zonai-hearted (The Legend of Zelda)
• faunus-hearted (RWBY)
• vulpera-hearted (World of Warcraft)

• Br’er-hearted (Br’er Rabbit, Br’er Bear, Br’er Fox, etc.)
• cryptid-hearted
• yokai-hearted

• thoroughbred-hearted
• butterfly-hearted
  • especially towards monarch butterflies and painted lady butterflies
• badger-hearted
• tiger-hearted

• Gentildonna
• Verxina
• Still in Love
• Ruffian
• Beholder
• Kurofune
• Kawakami Princess

• Erminia (The Sword of Paros)
• The Gem Mage (Magica)
• Alice Kuonji (Mahoutsukai no Yoru/Witch on the Holy Night)
• Major Motoko Kusanagi (The Ghost in the Shell)
  • Specifically the version of Motoko from the 1995 film.
• Blake Belladonna (RWBY)
• Adam / "The Creature" (Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley)
• Alecto the First (The Locked Tomb)
• Horace Cross (A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan)
• Kovu (The Lion King)

• The Pokémon World
  • Although I'm both a pokemon and an otherhuman within this fictomere, I've never lived in the Pokémon World. However, I've felt close to this world since I was a child.
• Light Flight (Flight Rising)
  • Technically, The Light Flight isn’t a place but a collective of dragons with sworn allegiance to the Lightbringer and similar values around truth and knowledge. Their society is based within the Sunbeam Ruins, which is a sub-hearthome of mine. That said, I identify with this community and consider my ideal place of being.
  • I’ve identified with them and their clan for quite a while, especially as a dragon myself, but I am not a dragon from Flight Rising in particular.

• The Namib
• Sahara Desert
• Kalahari Desert
• Great Victoria Desert
• Gobi Desert

• Magica by Yuzuko Hoshimi
• The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
• Mahoutsukai no Yoru/Witch on the Holy Night
• The Ghost in the Shell (Multimedia)
  • Applies to all adaptations except for the 2017 live action film. I resonate with Mamoru Oshii's 1995 and 2004 film adaptations the most.
• Discworld (Novels)
  • Applies to all novels within this series.
• Ultraman
  • I’m hearted towards all adaptations of Ultraman and Ultraman as a general concept.
• Redwall (Novels)

• Fictional Shapeshifter
  • I am a shapeshifter rooted in or shaped around fiction. That is my collective experience. At my core, I am fiction given sentience and numerous forms. I'm not fiction in its entirety, however. I am the genre of fantasy, and I am many people, animals, objects, etc. that fit within the medium I embody. Although I'm a fictional shapeshifter overall, I am fully everyone and everything I am as fictionkind. I may refer to individual experiences as "forms" in passing, but make no mistake: I am who/what I am.

• The Winged Lion (Delicious in Dungeon)
  • Canon-ambivalent. Partially psychological, partially spiritual. This is one of two experiences where I'm something of a walking spoiler.
  • The spiritual aspect of this experience isn't relevant to a parallel life or any other sort of alternate life. Rather, this experience is defined by my status of being "meta" or being fully self-aware of my fictional nature. The transient nature of fact and fiction influences my outlook on existence, reality and how I exercise my autonomy.
  • Unlike in canon, one of my past forms weren't a pig or a sheep in my time among humans. The former resembled cattle, and the latter resembled an elk or some other kind of deer. I'm also more of a maned lioness than a male lion.

• Fantasy (Genre)
  • I am this genre both conceptually and collectively, meaning I am fantasy regardless of the medium (be it books, shows, films, plays, video games, etc).
• Magical Realism (Literary Style, Genre)
• Magitech (Worldbuilding Device)
  • Also known as Magitek.
  • I am the concept of magical technology in fiction and all of its forms collectively.

• gold dragon (Dungeons & Dragons, 5.5E/5ER)
  • parallel life
• dutch angel dragon
  • notable traits include: a mane, hooves, light-based and dimension-hopping abilities, and a solar-oriented element.
• sun dragon (Sun Haven)
• sandwing (Wings of Fire)
• jhen mohran (Monster Hunter)
• diablos (Monster Hunter)
• seikret (Monster Hunter)
• hououmon (Digimon)
• renamon (Digimon)
• pegasusmon (Digimon)
• kantoan ninetales (Pokémon)
• delphox (Pokémon)
• hoopa (shiny; Pokémon)
• verza (Creatures of Sonaria)

• human (Pokémon)
• redguard (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Began as a fictionlink.
• sun-folk elf (ElfQuest)
• sunfire elf (The Dragon Prince)
• tribeless fera (Werewolf: The Apocalypse; World of Darkness)
  • I'm generally Fera. While there's some groups I feel kinship towards (such as the Ajaba) and occasionally take the form of, there's no specific tribe or clan I belong to. I liken my experience as Fera to how I generally experience animality, although the perspectives I hold as various animals differ from species to species.
  • There's no framework I experience this under. I simply am Fera. That said, as a tabletop roleplayer and an imagithrope, I like to explore different interpretations ...

• The Grandcypher (Granblue Fantasy)
  • Draconic. Exclusively spiritual in origin (parallel life). Canon-ambivalent. I'm still a sentient ship. The only major difference in canon is that Djeeta is my captain, not Gran.
• RLS Galeon (Treasure Planet)
  • Exclusively psychological in origin.

• Zelda (The Legend of Zelda; Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment)
  • Canon-ambivalent. Exclusively spiritual in nature/origin. That said, I noticed I shared a similar personality as my canon counterpart back when I thought I was orthohuman. Granted, I wouldn’t say that’s a psychological aspect of my experience. At best, I find it ironic.
  • Although this fictomere originates from a parallel life, I consider myself someone who broke the cycle of the Triforce, thus I am no longer influenced by Hylia of my timeline. I've become fully meta. Because of my meta nature, I was able to sever myself from the world I came from, similarly to my experiences as The Winged Lion and Xion, in which I would’ve otherwise remained in an existential limbo within...

• Miracle (non-canonical; New X-Men/Academy X)
  • Kardiatype (i.e. former parallel life)
    • A parallel life that I lost connection to. Miracle's a median system of Omega-level mutants. Their shared body has stone-like skin, hardened wings and glowing eyes, appearing kind of like an animated angelic statue. They also contain a mutation that allows them to manifest anything into being so long as it has a physical presence, hence their namesake as X-Men. Miracle's secondary mutation won't work if they try to will something intangible into existence, such as changing the outcome of a fight or the future. It has to be something physical like an object or a change in their biology/genetic code. This parallel life informed me of my mutanthood, a...

• Aves (birds)
  • Gyps (old world vultures; griffon vultures)
    • eurasian griffon vulture
    • white-backed vulture
    • cape vulture
  • Aquila (eagles)
    • golden eagle
    • tawny eagle
    • wedge-tailed eagle
  • Falco (falcons)
    • lanner falcon
    • brown falcon
  • Phorusrhacidae (terror birds)
    • Titanis walleri
• Felidae (cats)

• Bestiary
  • A compendium of various animals and life forms— be them mythological, fictional or factual— with an accompanying moral or lesson ascribed to each entry.
    • Personally, I'm closer to a modern bestiary. My existence compiles many a species, person and concept across fact and fiction alike, coinciding with my identity as a shapeshifter. However, there are no "morals" or "lessons" to be gleaned from my experiences; rather, there are recurring themes throughout each of my fictomeres, which connect them together and ultimately forming the being that is me. Being a bestiary is also one of two "in between forms" I experience when I'm not presently phantom-shifting (the other being my form as a human).

• エレクトロ・ワールド (Electro World)
  • Originally performed by Perfume.
  • I am Electro World on account of the song's lyrical and symbolic relevance to my relationship with my fictionhood, especially with my denpa archetropy and alienation from various fictional worlds. Although the lyrics of my 'type aren't about that specifically, I can't help but feel that my life is reflected through those lyrics. My personal history, my self-discoveries and who I am now embody this song, thus making me Electro World.

• were-creature
  • “Creature” is specified because this experience of mine is interconnected with most, if not all, nonhuman species I belong to. Oftentimes, I am a were-elk. Sometimes, I am a were-hyena, were-avian or some other beastman in the place of that. Either way, I am a were-creature of some kind. Rather than be influenced by the moon and nature as a whole, this experience is usually triggered by my emotions.
• winged human
  • Specifically the group Flying Africans, who originate from my community's folklore and oral stories. This form is able to change between a fully human form, a winged human form and an avian form at will.
• djinn

• Hheily (Sucker for Love: Crush Landing).
  • Began as a fictionlink. Now fully shaped by imagithropy.
  • I don't have any particular attachment to the world of Sucker For Love. That said, this form best represents my experience with being an extraterrestrial, both in a literal sense and an archetypal sense. I also assume this form as an expression of my femininity, especially as a nymph outside of alterfictional contexts.
• Void Termina (Kirby)
  • Began as a fictionflicker, became more consistent and tkaen up as an imagitype. Fully shaped by imagithropy.
  • This imagitype is loosely tied to the canon of its source, Kirby Star Allies , but it isn't based on any direct experience within it. It's operating on the "What If?" scenario of Void Termina being br...

• Clow/Sakura Book (Cardcaptor Sakura)
  • Exists in relation to my experience as Kero-chan/Kerberos. I spent so much time in the Clow Book that it gradually became intertwined with my identity. I also the Clow Book (now Sakura Book)'s guardian beast, so naturally, my connection to it persists. However, I would still be me with or without the book.
• Umi Ryuuzaki/Ceres and Fuu Hououji/Windam (Magic Knight Rayearth
  • Exists in relation to my identity as Hikaru Shidou, Lexus and (Combined) Rayearth. I don't identify as either of my companions but they mean the world to me. It is a connection similar to but more intimate than heartedness. Even when we're apart, they feel like a part of me.
• Nova/Regalia (Magic Knight Rayearth)

• reverse isekai protagonist
• fourth wall-breaker
• chūnibyō
• denpa
• toon
• noble steed
• falconer's bird