Inherency

Inherency is a quality that may describe someone's alterhuman experience. To have an inherent identity is to have a fixed and ingrained identity. Inherent identities share the qualities of being extremely hard, if not impossible, to "drop" or get rid of, and being a deeply embedded part of someone's being to the point where they would completely change as a person if this identity was removed. Inherent identities are what you consider yourself to be; were someone to be able to remove an inherent identity, they would fundamentally change, as if it were removing their entire self. Inherent identities may or may not have some form of choice involved in its origin.

On inherency regarding otherkind: "Your otherkinity is inherent, and by that I mean you would be a fundamentally different person if not for your kintype. At its most basic level, your kintype is what you recognize yourself to be. It’s the kind you belong to, rather than, or in tandem with, belonging to humankind. You kintype is an intrinsic part of you, and even if you could get rid of it, it would fundamentally change who you are is a person. If you chose not to be otherkin, you would also choose not to be you."

Inherency is not an official label used within the alterhuman community, instead being a specific idea of how some identities may or may not function. Not every alterhuman individual prescribes to this description of their alterhumanity, with some going off of the metric of choice, or simply by what fits them best.

Labels that are not inherent are sometimes called "extrinsic." An example of a label that is commonly not thought of as being inherent is constelic.

History
The term inherent was first used in a lecture for Othercon 2021, by Tumblr user aestherians. It was used to describe how the concept of choice within certain identities being used to distinguish each other has issues of its own, and proposed that otherkind may best be described as being based off of its integral nature.