Alterhuman Headcanons Dump
cryptonomica - 2019-12-07 00:05:56
I've come baring topics! I know yall have good alterhuman headcanons of characters, and I wanna hear them.
The only one major I really have right now is that Heinrich Lunge from Naoki Urasawa's Monster is an android. He's legit always referring to his brain as a computer, thats the most alterhuman thing I've ever seen in my life.
(Grimmer from the same series may or may not be a furry.)
Cipher - 2019-12-07 02:02:41
I saw a good one the other day about Hiccup from How To Train Your Dragon. First there was an argument for him being dragonkin, because of the quote about him having "the soul of a dragon", but there was some discussion over him likely being dragonhearted instead, and his mother Valka being dragonkin, as her movements and behavior are much more inherently draconic, while Hiccup seems more to see them as his family and sees them as a reflection of himself.
marron - 2019-12-08 04:47:35
It's a bit more of a crack headcanon, but I like to see Eddie from Venom as nonhuman - not just in that his combination with the symbiote is alterhuman in several levels, but also prior to that, and it's something I see reflected in his disconnection from other people but also love for them, and especially in his love for the inhuman and instant bond he forms.
Definitely not very canon-supported, but…
cryptonomica - 2019-12-08 04:55:20
marron:
Definitely not very canon-supported, but…
If canon didn't want Eddie to be alterhuman they wouldn't have given him a hot alien partner
vagabondsun - 2019-12-09 13:07:35
I'm obviously hella biased here but Dirk Strider is ostensibly trollkin even in canon. Growing up on a version of Earth that was having Alternian values pushed onto it puts him in a kind of third culture position I feel, and I think a lot of the way he approaches interpersonal relationships makes a lot more sense viewed through the lens of troll romance.
Also, he's a horse furry. In an alterhuman way.
marron:
it's something I see reflected in his disconnection from other people but also love for them, and especially in his love for the inhuman and instant bond he forms.
I saw those same things and interpreted them as schizotypal coding, but it's not exactly uncommon for that and nonhumanity to co-occur, is it? :v
cryptonomica - 2019-12-09 18:51:11
I think Dave is also more prone to quadrants than human romance. Maybe its a Strider thing?
marron - 2019-12-10 05:08:44
Being schizospec is why I'm alterhuman, I'm pretty sure. So I probably sometimes see schizoid traits in fiction as alterhuman ones without even thinking about it. Kind of food for thought when I'm considering what characters might be alterhuman and in what ways!
Another one I see: a lot of people in fandom headcanon Judai/Jaden, from Yu-Gi-Oh GX, as plural. At one point in the story, he basically becomes a significantly different person due to magical influence, and then later returns to his usual self, though deeply affected by the events. It's popular to write fanfiction where that person remains a part of him as part of a system - I've even seen a fanfic or two where they explicitly navigate system boundaries! I think it's cool to see a fandom think about that kind of thing, although sometimes the way it's portrayed is… less than ideal.
aepaex - 2019-12-12 02:39:38
I headcanon Inosuke Hashibira from Kimetsu no Yaiba / Demon Slayer as alterhuman. I mean, the dude was raised by boars. In one of the manga omakes it says his "ideal form" would be a giant pig monster, and I don't know how serious that was but I'll take it lol.
There's also the thing about him wearing a boar head 24/7. He doesn't seem uncomfortable without it on or anything, but I can relate that to my own alterhumanity so I like it.
[archive note: post redacted]
dragon - 2020-02-25 20:11:16
Daine in the Immortals Quartet is almost canonically therian (animals are referred to as People, and her pony tells her she's People too), and there are a bunch of people with wild magic in that series I headcanon as either 'kin or 'hearted. Also if all animagi aren't 'hearted, Sirius at least is dog-hearted.
Something I just thought of: magical cats like Mrs. Norris and Mr. Tibbles are never explained in canon. Maybe they're cat therians who became animagi, transformed, and never went back?
Sapphire (ey/em)