#greithere

⚓︎O⚘✦Greithere✦⚓️⭕🌿

✦Made and coined by me :3

✦Use with credit, ask before reposting.

✦✦✦Definition:

An alterhuman/nonhuman term for when you identify as physically nonhuman due to trauma, as a coping mechanism and or for comfort in general. This could be for reclaiming one's bodily autonomy for any reason, wanting to "escape" the memories your brain has associated with being human or generally finding comfort in not being a human physically. This is primarily involuntary, but can also be voluntary if it fits.

✦✦✦Etymology:

✦Grei from the old norse word "greiða" meaning "support", refeering to the labels function of comforting and supporting the individual. Aswell as it acting as a defense mechanism.

✦There as in beast, inspired by the terms concothere and holothere

✦✦✦Symbol meaning:

✦Upside anchor - From @defrostedvertebrae's physical alterhuman symbol/anchor delta, refeering to the physical aspect of the identtity. However upside down as to indicate the not-fully inheret part of the identity. (How the identity can develop later in life)

✦Circle being held by branches - Life and comfort, reclaiming oneself

Can be written as ⚓︎O𖣂 / ⚓︎O⸙ or ⚓️⭕🌿 with emojis

-> Update 2025/may/29: Since the coining of this I've learned the non anchort + circle symbols are closed language symbols. If you wish to type the symbol out, please instead write: ⚓︎O⚘ or ⚓︎O❊ ^ ^

✦Normal and simplified symbols:

✦no Id yet, any help greatly apprecieated ^ ^

✦Tagging: @kin-flags

We're Greithere! (Physically alterhuman due to trauma basically)

We have two physical IDs, but one of them is a bit tricky? So, we are fae in a specific way (we're a stolen child replacement <3) but also like. The concept of a backrooms entity? Conceptkin but physically. Strange stuff!

I love existing in a place I know I belong. I love sharing my affection for and interest in my hearttypes.

I love looking at pictures and going "yes that's me", "yes that's my home" , "yes that's what surrounds me".

[Pt: Nonhuman new year goals, end PT.]

Mkay so stuffs I want to do this year that in some way, shape or form related to my nonhumanity! Largely a species transition goal list. May reblog this with more or progresss :D

☽⚘ Explore animism and nature focused spirituality and religion. Possibly do my own rites and such.

☽⚘ Connected to last one: Add small rituals connected to different moon phases. For example: shifting sessions on the full moon, cleaning my space during new moons.

☽⚘ Continue my shifting journey, physically and metaphysically.

☽⚘ Dive deeper into metaphysical nonhumanity.

☽⚘ Start pet regressing more regularly again. Perform my animality more publically and with my family. (Ofc mate too! Do more pet play with my mate). Get deeper into the misceverse.

☽⚘ Buy and or make more animal ear headbands to wear outside.

☽⚘ Go outside into more proper forests and expressing myself there. Howling, doing quadrobics.

☽⚘ Rework parts of my room to reflect my habitat and interests. (The ones that aren't decorated yet.)

[Pt: Ptsd ramlings; Werewolfhood pt idk???? Cw for talks of past abuse of various kinds, (emotional, physical and potentially sexual) and thoughts of self harm. End PT.]

While I of course don't like the fact I was abused, I can't help but try and think of the positives. It may sound futile, and to a point it is, but there was good.

I met my mate, multiple friends, uncovered my nonhumanity and to a point became free from society's exceptions. Yes, I may fear to go outside and feel that she's haunting me (/srs) but I feel I can actually fight back, if she jumps on me I can bite back, howl for attention, do everything I didn't do back then. Yes my stressed bites have left myself bruised, but it proves what I can do in a bad situation.

I am not a werewolf because of my trauma, the trauma revealed the werewolfhood that had been hid away

My fear of being hunted is yes trauma oriented, but also species so; humans are most often fearful of werewolves and may feel we are a threat, a monster that has to be put down.

I'm violent to myself and in thoughts because I'm a hunter in a prey role, fighting with my own animality daily to be accepted.

Her hand is as constant as my shifts. It's uncomfortable and cold, and the thought of it hurts. I bite and bite to distract from it, to feel something else.

Maybe it disappears if the skin falls off, if it reveals my fur, maybe then it will finally be gone. I want to slash and rip until i only feel the pain. The pain is more bearable than the cold, empty past.

She can revel in the fact I was the monster, the bad "person" she said I was. If I am and always will be bad, why can't I bite back?

I can't be like her if we're not even the same species.

To be a werewolf is interesting. Being bestial yet loving. Been really werewold-y lately, rbf I always am heheh/silly

Tldr: pondering on coining a non-negative alternative to objectification.

[Pt: PTSD episode & nonhumanity, end pt.]

Cw for discussions of prior abuse, paranoia and possible hallucinations below. Please beware and take care, I just wish to discuss how my condition heavily affects my identity, specifically my werewolf-ness.

Image id: A devider of autumn leaves and dots, varying from maple to oak leaves in a light yellowish orange and a brownish red, end id.

[Pt: Pros and cons of having a cold: Transmasc nonhuma edition (silly) end Pt.]

Pros:

- Ooooo deeper raspy voice

- Can growl better

Cons:

- Can no longer sniff

- Can't meow

So yea... Gruff