Hi! So a "kin matchup" is where you find all the things someone's kin/ficto/therio-types have in common right? I'm a polymorph and I'd like to read your analysis on some of the shifts I have pretty often! ^_^ *Deep-sea Angler Fish Mermaid, *Bean Sidhe, *Industrial-era scrap-metal-eating robot/machine with a cast iron skull-like face, *Red Fox, and *Ghost. Thank you!
The kin matchups are for when I try to guess who you could be kin with, but I do the thing you described too! I call them “kin commonality analyses”; I don’t really know what else to call them. But I digress.
4/5 are commonly thought of with negative connotations/associations (Foxes are associated with trickery and deceit in folklore, Bean Sidhe and ghosts are spirits which are associated with hauntings and the dead, angler fish are commonly seen as scary and mermaids are seen as wicked in some legends)
2/5 are undead (Ghost, Bean Sidhe) (skulls are also associated with the undead, but that’s more of a loose connection)
4/5 are not theriotypes/not regular animals (Ghost, Bean Sidhe, Angler Fish Mermaid, Industrial Robot)
I’m sorry that this short - most of these were pretty different, and I don’t have the context to know what shifts as a ghost, angler fish mermaid, and industrial robot are like for you. There’s a lot of different interpretations of mermaids and ghosts and etc in stories, you know?But you still deserved some answer after so long… I hope this is okay.💌 Mod Cotton Candy