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I've never run into otherkin hunters, but I have run into hunters in general, for awhile a lot were a variation of vampires u.u I had a horrible person as a "friend" at the time, and he set me up, and sent things after me to "train me."

...I never ended up fighting them, someone else did for me. Gotta love angry people who are truly fluffy on the inside.

I'd hate to bump an old topic, but it's here, and my two cents are itching to get laid out.

I kinda hope hunters do exist on the physical plane. That way I can be Juggernaut about it and be useful.

Because as far as I know, I'm just a bill. Yes, I'm only a bill. And I got as far as Capitol Hill.

You'd be surprised.

Even if they did get caught, they'd be a chance they wouldn't be put in prison. If they said the person that was killed wasn't Human, and even explained about Otherkin, there could be a chance those people were put into a mental insitute.

..Maybe not, but that's what I'd do if I was one.

They exist, but not in the way most people think. Yeah, there probably are lunatics out there that would actually kill a person in cold blood, but most "hunters" aren't that stupid.

They're intelligent people, many of them with their own abilities, and predominently, from what I've seen, empaths. I've only known two in my life, one is now a friend, and the other disapeered lord knows where. Neither of them had an intent to kill kin in general, one had a grudge against a specific kin, and the other felt that kin were "sick, twisted people that need to be institutionalized."

The first is now my friend, the latter, often used blackmail and threats to push people to the brink. If someone commits suicide, and leaves a note, it's very un-likely that anyone would think otherwise. The irony is that I was friends with this person too before I realised he was using me.

So yeah, to a point they do exist. The search out kin, both of them for different reasons, but selfish reasons none the less. You could call it searching, but when you talk to these people, the predatory aura radiates off them like a heatlamp, even a non-empath would feel extremely uncomfortable. If I happened to meet two in my short life, there is no doubt in my mind that there could be more.

This topic name made me really interested. It's really interesting to hear what people are saying.
I don't know how successful a physical otherkin hunter would be though. If you consider that otherkin look like human, its kind of hard to find them. While someone could use energy detection, I think that would be hard to do if the otherkin has their energy disguised or simply hidden, like mine is.
Even on the Astral plane hunters could have problems. While there is a lot of information on Vampires, Therians, etc, what about the lesser known otherkin? What about the fact that there are dozens of different types of dragon-kin? What about the hybrids?
Hunting something you know next to nothing about is like trying to swim across a lake without being taught to swim. Very unwise to me.

I think the biggest threat to otherkin are other otherkin. Whether its because of racial enmity, personal grudges, or something else, otherkin vs. otherkin can be nasty. While an otherkin can't manifest many of their own abilities, they can harness the powers of man: influence (social, political, etc.) or money. Both can easily cause problems for just about anyone.