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Finding your therian name
WereKitty
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Post: #51
RE: Finding your therian name
I don't need a name, as a wild animal I see no reason for it. Wild animals know no bounds, they don't conform to humans' need to catergorise and identify things.

I suppose my name of 'Kitty' just so happens to work well enough... I am simply a kitty, untamed and undefined.

And anyway, your theriotype is you. Naming what is essentially just an extension of you really doesn't serve any function, unless it is perhaps just to stick out from the rest and / or make more sense of things for yourself. I guess some people need labels in order to understand things, we all work differently at the end of the day.

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2025-09-22 21:33
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Post: #52
RE: Finding your therian name
I don't have a "therian name" per se, but I use Ashoka as my username on here and OKP, just to have something to differentiate from my username elsewhere which is generally my fursona's name. Mostly wanted something different even if it's really just a few syllables that don't particularly mean anything specific. I agree with the idea that mostly theriotypes wouldn't have a name in the human sense of the word. Like, my lynx and fox are just me so they have my name. (My vampirekin type and fictotype are a bit different since they did/do have names, given in a past life and from source. But still essentially part of me, so I don't generally go by those names in person.) I do think that if my theriotypes did have a name of some form which others of the species used to identify them, it would be something like their scent or appearance-related to distinguish them from others. Animals are much more physically sense-based than humans. (hopefully this is understandable the way I wrote it)

2025-09-24 14:24
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