I want to have a general/group term (without having to get way down into specifics) that will make people assume I am, say, some kind of magical fantasy critter. “Otherkin” used to do that and now it doesn’t.
There’s still “faeborn” or “sayuneldi”… I’d go with the former, really.
As a term for “two-legged point-ears”, maybe faeborn, although I think the presence of “fae” might be a little misleading if it needs to include beings which are not actually fae. Most elves, I think, would not call themselves fae, and I don’t think of them as extremely similar - just similar enough that in some contexts it is useful to group them together as distinct from some other things. (I know Syleniel used it for herself, but still.)
As a term for “otherkin who are not therians/weres/animal-kin”, I don’t think it would work. It seems rather strange to refer to, say, an angel as “faeborn”.
Sayuneldi is a rather specialized coining and I don’t think people would recognize it or know what was being talked about.
It really would be interesting to sit down and try to draw a taxonomic diagram, I think…
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As a term for “two-legged point-ears”, maybe faeborn, although I think the presence of “fae” might be a little...
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There’s still “faeborn” or “sayuneldi”… I’d go with the former, really.
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