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Niche kin appreciation 11! Share how you've discovered this kin!

I discovered Watchers some years ago, when I was reading hermitcraft fanfiction! I got really into mcyt somewhen around 2021 or so, starting with the dsmp and, when it ended, finding other communities. I found the hermits when I was watching one of Tommy's videos, one in which he invited grian and mumbo I think? And they talked a bit and they talked about hermitcraft. And my sister had told me about hermitcraft before, so I checked it out. It didn't really interested me much, but then I discovered Grian's life series. And I watched Double Life and Third life, I liked it a lot, so I searched fanfics for it. I stumbled onto the Watcher lore on accident, it looked interesting so I researched it a bit. After that I continued reading Hermitcraft fanfics, mostly with Grian as a main character, and I started falling into the rabbit hole of hyperfixation.

A few years later, I discovered I was otherkin. I knew almost right away that I was a winged cat, but also, something else. Something was missing. I was having strange shifts and dreams, sensing floating things when I was stressed, I had huge wings pressing into my back at all times. It was like I was having a permanent shift at all times. At first I thought it was part of the cat kintype, because they also have wings, but it was... Different.

It didn't took long before I started researching. I realised it was possible to have multiple kintypes, so I started researching things with wings and eyes. It was not birds, it was more mythical. For I bit I thought I was godkin or angelkin. I thought I was a biblical angel for a while, actually. But then, while Watching Martyn's pov on the Life Series, something... Bugged me, about his lore. Almost like it was familiar.

A shiver went down my spine when hearing the Watcher's voices. I knew that voice. I had heard it before. It freaked me out for a bit, actually. I started researching on Watchers, but its lore was basically inexistent. So I turned on fanfics. Embarrassing, I know. But the fics where Grian was turned into a Watcher awakened something in me. I knew that was something that happened to me too. It was familiar.

I started writing on a journal to focus on instincts and shifts. I had them for a while, but I wanted to focus on what I was feeling. My form was still more or less human, but those scars on my back, and my wings constantly pressing to be liberated... Before long, I knew there was no denying it. I was a Watcher. Physically, too.

Right now I'm writing a journal on my own “lore”, because it differs a lot from canon. But yeah, that's how I discovered I'm a Watcher!

-Orion