How I missed this has eluded me the entire time I've been reading the comments on this topic. Yes, I too am a Dragon; but I dunno about calling myself an Otherkin or Therian.
I started loving dragons when I was a toddler, I believe; I'd always heard stuff about Dragon's. But really, the affinity is such a vague memory, I can often say I don't recall exactly when or why I found my interest. But I know that Dragons are my absolute favorite creature. I always imagined myself, after reading some books about Riders, being a Dragon Rider of sorts. But when I turned thirteen, I had a dream of actually being a dragon. I studied up on the fandom (after hearing some stuff about it on tv and the internet). I was the very Dragon I'd always imagined myself riding. Black base scales with Red Belly scales; I decided to become a part of the fandom after all. But the thing was, I was angry. Back then I was always angry. But that explanation comes later. I spent a good year or two content and happy with my joining the fandom, but I never really joined any internet groups or anything like that where I could correspond with others in the fandom. But one day, I told a friend about it, and he exclaimed "you're a furry?" Some kids started to laugh, others sneered; then I was being mocked for some time about it. So at the end of the first semester in eighth Grade, I left the fandom. I was almost fourteen. I always ignored the very things I'd once accepted, restraining the dragon I'd allowed to join with me. There was always this tug that told me to go back, almost every time I befriended someone on the internet, they were a furry. I started to ask, "how come I don't make more friends that aren't in the fandom?" I came to realize, I was still expressing that part of me I'd fought so hard to hide.
It was a fruitless effort to try and restrain it any longer. I was talking to my sweet girlfriend, whom is a furry herself, and she started asking me to go back to the fandom. My friend Troi was talking to me about the same thing; they both were telling me I was denying the truth. I admit, I showed a lot of that same dragon the whole time I was trying to hide it. Eating habits, favorite climates and such, my usernames, favorite elements, taste in music, video games, television, my doodles that I sometimes made in the back of notebooks, and my taste in literature. All of them involved a dragon of some kind, or an allusion to or direct statement of their abilities. Troi asked me, "what's to lose?" Gabby said, "it'd be fun!" I spent a few minutes denying strongly still, but after a good amount of thought... I came to the reasonable conclusion. I would go back to the fandom. I changed the colors and made up a fictional species for my Dragon, the Spectrum Crossplague. And I personally associate myself more with the feral form than the anthropomorphic form, but never shy from the anthropomorphic form. I'm a dragon; I fly on the wings of power and kindness, and raze the obstacles before me with my flames. I may be human, and I love myself as I am, but what I wouldn't do to be a Dragon.
Topic: Calling all Dragon folk! Anybody out there? (Read 8051 times)