A. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMNANTS OF FORMER BODIES/LIVES

1. You feel a lot older than your grandmother and cannot explain why.

2. You miss a place, yet cannot explain where it is.

3. You find it frustrating that you can't breathe under water.

4. It's equally frustrating that you can't fly.

5. That "phantom" fur (or dewclaws, or wings) get REALLY annoying under clothes.

6. You find it frustrating you can't turn into wind, and end up running into doors as a result.

7. You modify (or wear special) clothing or sit/stand/walk differently to accomodate physical characteristics your waking body doesn't have.

7b. You don't even realize you're making accommodations in how you sit/wear your clothes/do your hair until your younger sister tells you that you are.

8. From time to time you have a REALLY bad night's sleep because you slept on your wings wrong.

9. Your doctor can't figure out how you damaged your back to start with, but you don't really want to tell hir it's a battle injury from a previous life. (Not your fault the bad guys thought you'd be less dangerous without your wings... Even though they paid for even TRYING to cut them off.)

10. You have the occasional really annoying itch on your back, right where your ethereal wings would be at.

11. Transsexuals tend to want sex-change operations. You want SPECIES-change operations.

12. You are always the first one to hear something in the distance (ie: approaching car, person, storm...).

13. You have more allergies than normal folks.

13b. You have odd allergies, such as to metals (iron and alloys, silver, gold, copper); stones (hematite, malachite, pyrite); herbs (rosemary, aconite/wolvesbane, garlic) or other substances not commonly considered allergenic.

14. You have naturally dilated pupils.

15. You have bright green or violet eyes, or eyes with multiple colours in them.

15b. Your eyes change color, possibly according to your mood.

16. You see very well in the dark.

17. You have unusually long fingers and/or are double-jointed.

18. Your teeth change shape.

19. You look radically different from day to day.

20. When you catch a noise you almost feel your ears flick around to hear better.

21. The "you" you see in the mirror and the physical shell experienced by other people are entirely different entities.

B. PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS, PERCEPTIONS AND HABITS

1. You don't consider yourself really human.

2. Your creativity (of whatever persuasion) consumes you to the point of eccentricity.

3. You know, see, and feel a deeper depth of existence than the visible world around us.

4. Sex doesn't put you to sleep afterwards like mundanes. It just pushes you onto another energy plateau.

5. The woods, glens, etc. speak to you and call you to come join them. 7. Most people find their inner children. You found your inner puppy or hatchling.

8. You have actually tried Meaty Bones and like them. (Yes, I'm SERIOUS. Many of my were friends DO like Meaty Bones. --Fer :] )

9. You remember your dreams with more detail, clarity and relevance than your waking moments.

10. Dance, music, art, beauty are not luxuries, peripheral experiences or mere entertainment, but physical needs.

10b. Music isn't ever 'background noise', and really good music demands your FULL attention. In other words, you don't just Listen, you Experience.

11. Linear thought is a problem. A to G to the square root of 23 to X is easier than A to B to C.

12. The books that speak the greatest Truths to you are found in the Fantasy/SF section.

13. You can actually see colors when you're having sex, and you really get all those Tim Curry subtexts. Extra points if you've slept with Tim Curry.

14. Anne Rice seems to be copping ideas from the story of your life.

15. No one is surprised when a goth musician starts imitating you.

16. Instead of "Oh God!" it's "SHAKESPEARE!"

17. You couldn't care less about gun control as long as they don't outlaw bows.

17b. Ever since you first touched a bow you've know more about how to use it than the teachers, and you're better than all the humans in the class, and you keep thinking, "if only this bow were longer and maybe made out of ash rather than plastic and if only it were stronger I could get SUCH good distance out of it."

18. Your best friends are nymphs, pixies, and fairies.

19. You think trees or holes in the ground are a great places to live.

20. You catch yourself referring to David Bowie as "cousin."

21. You find yourself arguing with Trek fans that Vulcans and Romulans are your long lost cousins.

22. You have pet dragons.

22b. You find it hard to explain to mundanes that there really IS a dragon sitting on your pencil case and she's been talking to you all through math and English.

23. You would rather listen to bird songs than the radio.

24. You can sleep on the floor, ground or a wood waterbed, but not a metal frame bed.

25. You have a fascination with edged weapons. When someone asks for your weapon of choice, you mostly if not always will choose a bladed one.

25b. Your fascination with edged weaponry is verging on obesession.

26. Most of your clothing has ties and laces instead of buttons and zippers.

27. You collect little 'oddities' that don't match anything else you own. Going to an antique store is like going to an adoption agency.

27b. You own more knick-knacks and stuff than the antique store down the street.

28. No religion seems to fit you, no matter which one you try.

29. You are the definition of weird.

30. You love to hide in natural places when emotionally or otherwise upset.

31. People wonder why you have such a knack for Latin and all variations of Tolkien's elven languages.

32. You don't match your "real" age in looks, thoughts, words, wisdom, etc.

33. The weather and your moods have more than a coincidental link.

34. You write such good stories cause they aren't stories... it's all real.

35. You feel you'd have done much better a few hundred years back.

35a. Living History not only describes your favorite activity, it describes *you*.

36. You keep wishing people would stop putting Mab [editor's note: I'm thinking this means the character from the miniseries "Merlin"] down; she's not really that evil... then you start to wonder how you know her so well.

37. You can see so well in the night, people want to know where you hide the night vision goggles.

38. You have an obesession with honor most mortals/mundanes just don't understand. instead of scouts honor it's dargon's honor or elve's honor or whatever

39. You've been in or almost caused a car accident because you were distracted by the sunset, sunrise, rainbow, moon, stars, lightning, and/or interesting cloud formations.

40. You bore very easily.

41. You get downright annoyed, and even anal when people harm animals or plants or destroy the envoironment.

42. You would rather barter for goods or pay with sex than use current monetary systems.

43. Time is a concept you just cannot grasp.

44. You are irritable one moment, happy the next, energized the next and then suddenly sad.

45. You have or have had at least one addiction in your life (alcohol, candy, sex, drugs, or a hobby).

46. If put together with fifteen others like yourself, you could be a self-sufficient town.

47. As a child you always knew where to find the berries in the woods.

48. You sometimes go weeks or more at a time without speaking.

49. You feel there is a palpable difference between compassion and morality, and certainly do not equate the two.

50. You are fascinated with language, linguistics, theology, anthropology, slang, subculture and the madness of crowds.

51. Weddings make you depressed and funerals elate you.

52. You are a believer in spirituality, yet see through charlatans like they were made of glass.

53.Your personality changes outright depending on the clothing you wear. That includes a mixed personality if you mix two kinds of clothing.

54. You take a business trip to Chicago or some other "far-off city", but it's only a short hop through a hill for you.

55. For some reason you always go for things in silver rather than gold, bronze, etc. (Possibly mainly elven.)

56. When scramble to get inside during storms you run outside to experiance every second of the energy rush...

C. INTERACTIONS WITH THE "MUNDANES"

1. Human language just isn't enough to FULLY convey what you are trying to say.

1b. Telepathy, empathy, and visual sendings make up most of your languge and when you are tired you tend to use it more than spoken words, much to the dismay of those around you.

2. Your friends and family have always thought of you as "Different."

3. You never quite see things from the same point of view as your mundane friends.

4. Your mundane friends never quite get your sense of humor.

5. Mundanes think you are eccentric, but you think that you are normal and they are the ones who are odd.

5b. Most normal (TM) people either see you as very intelligent or crazy.

6. You have actually answered elf, dragon, fae, windigo, were, etc. under the "Race" section of surveys or when asked by telemarketers.

7. People often mistake you for a sibling (especially of someone famous) or a movie star.

8. You think "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" should be in Bartlett's Quotes.

9. You are frequently offered "Santa's Helper" jobs at Christmas without an interview.

10. Your friend's cat, who hates EVERYONE including your friend, loves you.

11. People either love you or hate you and you cannot figure out why.

12. Animals and trees are better friends to you than most mundanes.

13. You feel horrible if you try to act human.

13b. Weird things happen to you if you try to act human.

14. Your tendency to put everything into terms of how useful it would be in this or that particular battle situation is really starting to freak people out.

15. When you haven't slept for a few nights running or you haven't eaten or you don't feel pain or whatever, the standard answer from your friends is "but we all know you're not human..."

15b. ...before you've even told them what you really are.

16. You attract the strangest people. (This is also known as the "Freak/Perv/Latent Magnet" affliction.) They seem to congregate around you as if attracted by some pheremone only they can perceive.

17. You almost never play a human character in role-playing games. (Bonus points if you refuse to play a human in the SCA, but rather play a vampire, elf or faerie.)

18. You find expectations of "morality" repugnant.

19. You get pulled over driving 120 and the cop laughs when he sees your face and lets you go.

20. People's professed personalities and beliefs cause you to break out in peals of laughter at socially inappropriate times.

21. Cops and other people often ask you if you are on drugs.

22. You keep on meeting people who you knew in your past lives....

D. MAGIC, PSI AND STRANGE OCCURRENCES

1. You think nothing of adjusting your energy to a Peace signature to calm down someone who's agitated. (Fun with glamour, folks!)

2. Your Dreams bleed over into mundane reality.

3. You catch glimpses of an alternate reality superimposed or side-by-side with mundane reality.

3b. When you're half asleep and half awake, the worlds tend to blur and you can see numerous realities existing at once.

4. Your wishes affect mundane reality in a tangible way.

5. There are too many synchronicities happening to pass them all off as coincidence.

6. Small children run up to you and point out the nice lady with pointy ears or the big furry man or the dragon.

7. Grown people run up to you and nervously ask you if you've ever thought of yourself as "elf-like" or "dragon-like," or just get positively freaked out being near you.

8. You start "bleeding over" in pictures.

9. You dream prophetically.

10. Never mind *seeing* colors, you can paint pictures with the energy you get from sex.

11. When really stressed/relaxed/magickal you speak in a foreign unknown language or make animal noises.

11b. You start talking in random gibberish at random intervals, especially when tired.

12. People are spooked when you walked up behind them and they never heard you coming.

12b. You move so silently that you can even sneak up on a police dog without it noticing you.

13. You can be spun around at night with a blindfold on and you stop spinning pointing to true North every time.

14. Energy work seems so natural for you that even as a beginner you baffle most veteran magic users.

15. You've met someone you instantly *knew* from dreams you've been having since you were five.

16. From time to time really strange things happen, like you get cut and your blood falls on a white rose and it turns red, and within a month the entire rose bush has deep red flowers.

17. You sense other spirits residing within rocks, trees, waters, etc.

17b. You converse with children. And animals. And rocks. And electronic implements and machines. And buildings. And water.

17c. You can communicate with everything, not just natural life. Electricity is an entity you have an understanding with.

18. You didn't know that not everyone did lucid dreaming (astral projection, hands-on healing, aura sight, telepathy, precognition...) until you read about it.

19. You can "smell" what kind of mood the people around you are in.

20. Computers often malfunction, act up, and do lots of unusual things in your presence, causing your coworkers to ask you to "stand over there, please" and causing your company's resident computer tech many hours of heartache.

21. When you think about your friends, your first impression is of a color rather than a face.

22. Sometimes when you see or meet a stranger you see a flash of their True Nature without even trying.

23. You know other people's sexual preferences... even if they don't.

24. You can alter time, manipulate the weather, conjure things or teleport by accident, etc. without ever having learned how nor understanding how those are possible.

25. When they unearth an ancient earth artifact that "no one" knows about you not only find that you recognize it, but also that you had been telling your friends about it for the last few years.

26. Energy is one of your favorite toys.

27. You don't just dream, you go planet-hopping.

28. Time always does weird things around you.

29. Your friends use you as the resident antenna for the radio, for it always receives better sound when you stand in front of it.

30. You can not wear watches or other timepieces on your person for anything. If you do, they are rendered completely useless within days and become blithering idiots that have no idea what time it really is anymore.

31. You can hear the stars singing, kinda like ice crystals.

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