1. How do you feel about fanart?

I normally like it, when I come across it, but I found out that just searching my species name can lead to unfortunate art discoveries. (I guess you could call my species “furry bait”.)

3. What does the fandom usually get right?

We as a species are similar to cats, so being depicted with catlike behavior makes sense.

4. What does the fandom usually get wrong?

I’m not actually sure I’ve seen enough headcanon type posts to answer this. The bipedal thing is wrong for my personal experiences, but consistent with canon.

5. What do you miss about your world?

I do miss my psychic abilities. It feels a bit weird without them; like I’m missing a sense, like I should be able to pick up more around me but can’t. I can’t levitate things, or read people’s intentions clearly. It feels quite awkward.

I also really liked the area that my family lived in. It was quite peaceful most of the time. We were very close to Couriway Town, but because of the waterfalls and steep hills, not many humans actually came to the flatter grassy area where we lived.

6. Who are you missing right now?

When I lived by the waterfalls, I was with my two siblings. My twin brother and younger sister. I don’t think I’ll ever see them again, so I fondly think about them sometimes.

7. Is there anyone you hope to never see again?

That trainer with the Ivysaur, Shelgon, and some kind of Electric type who was the reason I never saw my siblings again. Good thing there’s pretty much no way I’ll ever see them again, considering their extremely noncanon status.

8. How canon-divergent vs. canon-compliant are you?

I go more into this later, but mostly canon-compliant with some canon-divergent aspects. Such as, Meowstic were quadruped. We ate a diet of berries, Dedenne, and other small Pokemon we hunted. Pretty sure they don’t mention us eating Pokemon in canon. We could see out of the psychic organs on our ears, and they had eyelids. Psychic power manifested as a pink-purple wispy substance that leaked from our psychic organs and eyes when we used our abilities. (For Espurr, who can’t control this, they usually had some kind of leak from their ears constantly.) We had different eye colors depending on the individual; mine were orange and faint purple. Small details like that.

10. What helps you feel closer to your source (in a positive way)?

I’m most prone to having positive Meowstic shifts in nature. Around water features like rivers or waterfalls, when in the forest, in high-up places, etc. Those are the times I feel most connected to my species. My canon in general, well, just playing the games. It’s a shame there’s no decent pixel-style PMD game with my species, because that would be perfect, but PMD does have a lot of nonhuman and Pokemon feelings associated with it, since you can play as one.

11. Do you use your name from your source?

When I first started interacting with the fictionkin community, I went by the name Mirai (meaning “future” in Japanese) as a reference to the psychic abilities my species has. This was not my name as a Meowstic; I didn’t have one. I only went by another name for anonymity. That said, I do still associate this name with my Meowstic self due to having gone by it for those few years when I first joined the community. I do not still use this name now.

12. How do you feel about doubles?

Always happy to see other Meowstic and Espurr around. Honestly, not even sure they count as doubles, considering we’re different individuals who just share a species.

13. Is your fiction-based identity spiritual, psychological, or something else?

Don’t know, don’t care.

14. What’s the biggest difference between you and your canon self?

Meowstic were quadruped in my world. We couldn’t really get up on two paws unless we were supporting ourselves against something. Also, the eye-like psychic organs on our ears are actually eyes that can open and close.

15. What’s the biggest similarity between you and your canon self?

Like other Pokemon, we could eat a variety of foods. We weren’t tied to eating meat like the obligate carnivore felines of this world. So we did eat berries, just also ate other Pokemon. Also, we were still blue and white Psychic types.

16. Do you prefer when people are familiar or unfamiliar with your source when they meet you?

It doesn’t really matter. I can talk about my species without that much contextual background. But also, who doesn’t know Pokemon nowadays?

17. What’s your favorite thing about your source?

Well, it’s extremely nostalgic for us. It’s a comforting world that we enjoy being in. We are attached to many of the Pokemon we raised over the years. I love the pixel style of the older games. I enjoy the aspect of monotype trainers and learning how each Pokemon fights individually.

18. What’s your least favorite thing about your source?

Well, it is quite repetitive. Newer games have ended up being unpolished and lacking, which is frustrating, but also not really my business since I haven’t gotten a main series game since Alpha Sapphire came out. It is also quite trainer-focused. It’s a shame that they haven’t experimented at all with different storylines with exclusively contests or as a member of the villain team. More opportunities to learn about Pokemon as their species would be interesting as well.

19. Do you own any merch of your source?

It’s Pokemon, so... Yes. We’ve been a fan of Pokemon for a very long time. We have multiple games, figures, and cards. Specifically kintype-related, though, I have a small Meowstic charm attached to my bag.

20. Do you feel comfortable in your fiction-based identity?

I guess? I awakened almost a decade ago. Meowstic was the first fictotype I awakened to. I’ve had a lot of time to learn to be comfortable with it. Any time I doubt it, it comes back nipping at my heels, anyway.

21. Who are you open with about your fiction-based identity?

Fictionkin-friendly spaces. That’s it.