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It's been a topic that's come up a couple times of late and it seems like everyone had one fantasy creature they were convinced were real or spent all their time daydreaming about shape-shifting into a particular animal.

Mine was mermaids. I went through a phase where I would read books about biology, genetic engineering, and evolution and obsessively engage in pseudoscience in a vain attempt to prove they could be real.

Unicorns. Im some ways I was a very typical girl.

Dinosaurs.

Re: What Mythological Creature or Animal Were You Obsessed With as a Child?

(Anonymous) - 2013-10-24 00:00 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What Mythological Creature or Animal Were You Obsessed With as a Child?

ill_omened - 2013-10-24 00:11 (UTC) - Expand

Pegasus. Between She-Ra and Clash of the Titans, I was always about the badass flying war-horse.

Dragons, always dragons.

Dinosaurs for the animal. I wanted a T-Rex as a pet. As for mythological creature, I always loved vampires and werewolves. Still do.

eta: nightscale reminded me I also loved dragons as a kid. Similar to dinosaurs and they could fly!

Edited 2013-10-23 23:55 (UTC)

Nor real: Zorans.

Real: Tigers.

Loch Ness Monster. I still am to be honest.

And Pegasus because of the Disney Hercules.

Anything horse-based. Pegasus, centaurs, unicorns. Hipogriffs after Harry Potter.

Dragons! Though it's not an obsession I've entirely grown out of. I have suffered through so many third-rate fantasy novels for the sake of dragons (and avoided playing supposedly great games due to a depressing focus on dragon-killing).

I just liked mythology in general. I was really into Greek mythology as a kid (and I still like it) and listened to D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths on cassette tapes every night before I went to bed for a good while. I wore out some of those cassette tapes because I liked them so much.

I loved mermaids, but mostly? Dragons. Hell, I still love dragons.

I was also super into Greek mythology. Went to Greece, got the tshirt and the little Parthenon model and all.

Mermaids, mermaids and selkies. Seriously. My first foray into "learning how to internet" was googling everything I could regarding Merfolk/Selkies/The Little Mermaid. :)

Mine was mermaids and unicorns!

I would trek into the big woods across the street from my house looking for unicorns, and I was convinced there was a swamp unicorn or something living there, and I just had to be persistent in finding it and being friends with it. (The swamp unicorn had kudzu vines for a mane and tail, a horn that looked like a branch, and it was dappled dark green and brown. It was a master of camouflage, you see. That was why I never found it.)

In my spare time away from swamp unicorn hunts, my best friend at the time (about third grade) and I would make up magic spells trying to turn us into mermaids, or fantasizing about how we would totally turn into mermaids at sixteen because CLEARLY we were just cursed by bad guys keeping us away from our true beauty and grace as mermaids. (We were weird children.) On the bright side, these fantasies kept me fit, because I swam a lot as a child; that friend had a pool in her backyard and we'd spend entire weekends out there practicing our swimming for when we turned into mermaids, hahahaha XD

Griffins.

and... dragons. lol

Any horse-like creature, so Pegasus, unicorns, pookas.... But also any kind of fairie.

Gnomes. I read The Little Grey Men to pieces when I was younger and I still look for homey little nooks gnomes could live in whenever I go walking through the woods at the ripe old age of 29.

Mermaids! I love mermaids--I still have a book that contains mermaid stories from around the world, which I recently had rebound because I've read it so much. XD

Also, werewolves, but not in the way they show up in popular media now. :/ I'm talking like Wolfman and Silver Bullet here.

Re: What Mythological Creature or Animal Were You Obsessed With as a Child?

queerwolf - 2013-10-24 01:16 (UTC) - Expand

Aliens.

I'm not sure if they count in this category, but I'm still going to go with it because it's the most accurate answer. I devoured all those books about UFOs and ETs and abductions and strange mysteries and "Did the aliens build the pyramids?" and Atlantis and all that stuff - I loved all of those kinds of conspiratorial and cryptozoology things, but aliens were definitely the best. I don't know how much of it I believed in - definitely not the more insane stuff, but I'm pretty sure I did believe in UFOs being alien spacecraft. It was a lot of fun.

When I first watched X-Files a couple years ago, it was like coming home.

Re: What Mythological Creature or Animal Were You Obsessed With as a Child?

pantswarrior - 2013-10-24 01:47 (UTC) - Expand

...Do aliens count? I've been Mulder-like in my fascination with aliens and UFOs ever since I can remember, but as a kid, not really particularly interested in magical creatures of any sort.

Also always have been fascinated by trees though, and felt like they had feelings and souls inside them, so I'm CURRENTLY sort of fixated on wood nymphs and dryads.

Yep. Aliens, rabbits, and trees pretty much sum up my obsessions.

For me it was a tie between unicorns and dragons; I was super into both.

Vampires, with a side order of werewolves and wendigos. I wanted to become one.

Not sure whether this meets your criteria, but Tolkienian elves. I used to cry because they'd all sailed away into the West and left us.

dragons and norse mythology, particularly loki, which is something that now fills me with a deep sense of shame because of the internet

Mermaids and werewolves. I'm pretty sure I can blame both on The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, respectively. And I still am obsessed with them, only now my Google searches are a lot less kid-friendly, haha.