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Athúrkein

This is a kenochoric gender based around the ideas of alone-ness, observing liminality, and comfort. This is all about reveling in the world's changes from a place of desolate stability. Alone, but not lonely. An August night, gazing up at the Perseids as they fall, stars hurling across the sky. Reveling in the changes taken over the course of human history from the comfort of a worn, gentle, ancient library. Rolling down a deserted interstate under the cover of night, armed only with the knowledge that this path was traversed for centuries before the pavement came down. One key aspect of this gender is the level of comfort the owner experiences. Instead of fearing their place in the universe, of how things change around them, they revel in the liminity of it all, how everything can change for the better. They are alone, but they take comfort in it instead of fearing it. This gender is the feeling of the past falling behind you and the future rolling ahead with your feet firmly planted in the lonely present, observing it all.

The flag, shown above, is made to express the soft feelings. Light gray for the pale moon, an optimal symbol of this gender's quiet reverence at change. The lavender is used to show the slight astral connection and the connection to hope and positive feelings. The blue is meant to convey calmness and peace the owner of this gender experiences.

The word athúr is Irish for change. It was directly combined with the suffix -kein, a suffix associated with kenochoric genders.

This is, as stated above, a kenochoric gender. It is so for a few reasons. The first is the loneliness that is characteristic for this gender and common in kenochoric genders. Another reason is the gender's relationship with liminality and change, something more common in kenochoric genders than others. The last is the potential connections with nostalgia, almost unique to the kenochoric umbrella.

Of the many umbrella terms this gender might fall under, there are a few options (I am going off of the archive of @kenochoric-archive). It could be considered astronomique, though the astral association is up to interpretation by the owner more than inherent in the gender itself. It could also be considered a part of the dymalic gender umbrella, the one associated with haze, fog, and the inability to see, based on the high degree of association with perception as a whole. However, I would consider athúrkein a part of the liminix category, the one associated with the experience of liminal spaces. This is because it's an inherent part of the gender instead of a subjective one. Regardless of who uses this label and how, as a modifier or as a main gender, liminal spaces are involved, and that is why it should be placed in liminix, should it come to the Kenochoric Wiki.

Neopronoun suggestions are as follows:

ae/aer/aerself

clow/cloudself

moss/mossself

calm/calmself

ghost/ghostself

eye/eyeself

haze/hazeself

If you decide to take this label or flag elsewhere, please give adequate credit. I am, to my knowledge, the creator of this gender.