Malchior Geist
Hello! I am Malchior, a draconic otherkin and graphic designer.
I have been a part of the nonhuman community since 2010, and I have learned a lot about myself and my personal beliefs thanks to my involvement with the community. I am currently working on a number of projects, some related to nonhumanism and some not, but all which occupy my time fairly well.
I am, among other things, a transmasculine person, homosexual, and very, very invested in character design, comics, video games, and worldbuilding for fiction.
A dragon is more than the sum of its parts: when you see a dragon, you know instantly what it is. When you see a typical European dragon, you don't think of a lizard with bat wings, lion teeth, and bear claws; when you see an Eastern dragon, you don't think of a snake with rabbit eyes, carp scales, tiger paws, and deer horns, no - you think of a dragon.
But without the mix and match of parts, a dragon cannot be. Without the scales of lizards, an European dragon has no skin. Without the jaws of wolves, it has no teeth. Without the wings of bats, it has no wings at all. All dragons are made of different parts, but these parts are all important - without them, the dragon, whatever kind it might be, could not be.
People are much like dragons in this way - every experience a person has, every work of fiction that has touched them or that they have cherished, every other person who sways their thoughts and opinions, everyone and everything that inspires them - all of these things come together to create that person. And each of these parts are important to being a person - it is the way that the person experiences, processes, and expresses these parts that make them who they are. The glue of self is that which sticks all the pieces together into one whole being.
A person is a person, no matter what kind of parts make them. People, like dragons, are chimerical - but the pieces that are integral to their being, when combined, are much more.
As a dragon, you could say parts of me are lion, bear, lizard, bat, bird, or snake - but I am, in my entirety, a dragon. As a person, you could say parts of me are transgender, gay, or nonhuman - but I am, in my entirety, no more and no less than my Self. Who exactly I am is something that cannot be put into words, and cannot be experienced by anyone but myself - but I can share these various pieces and parts that make up who I am and how they feel, in hopes that others will understand them.
Who knows? Maybe you'll learn something about me, and maybe you'll learn something about yourself as well.