Hopper Roo, Freeby, Felicity Hare are all my personal characters and mean alot to me. They've come about one way or another through my time on Furrymuck. I haven't really made any new ones in the last 3-4 years though as I've been so involved with my own personal fursonae, Sandy Hedges

Hector Leos: I created the character to be the cousin of a very good friend's persona, and he's become a great character to play.

Parondor Calhoren: I created him when I was on a Giant kick (aka 7'+), and his trials and tribulations due to his height gave him extra depth.

Dreysanius von Acrutar. A powerhouse of a bear who cannot walk. Playing a disabled fur is so fascinating.

Styral Beers. He's so much fun to write for. Created him as a kid, now he's a teenager, and WAY out of step with the rest of his world.

Well, I have Minda and Naomi, Naomi came about from the heart as a character who's dealt with alot of the stuff that my personal friends have gone through, things that a young lady shouldn't have to see or do, she's also a mis mash of what I'd likely be if those situations were thrust upon me. Minda on the other hand has come about almost completely from personal experience, she's become a pillar of strength for Naomi and a voice of reason when she's down, Minda is there to pick Naomi up off the floor when life slaps her in the face, she's there for her friends no matter what. And that's pretty much exactly what I am, I pull my friends up and brush em off. Minda is also sort of a joint project with a very close friend of mine, she see's things in me that are definitely a part of Minda, and give me a lecture when I stray from that formula (which I've asked her to do)

Those two characters are VERY close to my heart, and while they are not representations of myself, they are in a way. They are a manifestation of my personality and experience. I have made them to keep my connections with my loved ones and the best of my friends.

I'm not sure anyone would want to hear my answers.

Why not?

Possibly because I only have one real furry character and he's a serial killer. I don't even have a fursona. I'm not altogether convinced that anyone even reads what I write.

I have a lot that are close to my heart, especially my cow fursona.
Well, because I can kinda relate to a cow *minus the fat part*

Another close character of mine is Saturday (the otter herm) the shy and innocent part of me is created in hir.

And Wednesday (the monkey girl) is the wild child part of me.

Good post Babsies. <3 *heads off to bed*

I have made several, my character/fursona Straitfox....my original character Zetaman on my Sheezyart. Everything that we create and is our personal favorite gives us strength.

This was a great post. and my girfriend has her character named Bently, An artic bunny/fox; a BUNNYFOX. *^^*

Nips (my fursuit character) just sort of came along when I decided that I needed a name for my Darkstone fursuit. Still, she just sort of developed in time.

all my doggy gals are pieces of my personality...not many know that... peaches collisky...salt and pepper...and gingersnap...there all lil pieces of me...i love them to death even though there not physicaly there...anyways...glad to know you have characters that mean much to you

Well, I have a lot of characters that I like, but none of them are what I would call fursonas. They are not really me. I might as well list some of them however.

Kitsura: The closest I have to a Fursona, Kitsura is a Japanese fox (not the mythical kitsune, however) who has gone to America for the education, only to wind up in the crazy antics or two americans Jesse Focks (a grey fox vixen who enjoys creating mischief) and Neo (A raccoon from a long line of video gamers alledgedly dating back to the Arabian Nights. Don't ask. What counts however is the fact that he can basically manipulate a game as he plays it, and has an odd history). Kitsura is just a basic schmuck in this situation.

Morfox: My own entry into Liquid shifting characters inspired in part by T-100 from Terminator 2. However, Morfox is much nicer and has no interest in taking lives. It was crafted from magical energy.

Techsune: Originally made on Furcadia as a spoof of some kitsune who took crazy elements not fitting the list of the 13 (talk to an expert), this character is a kitsune for a sci-fi setting, with Technology as her element She is assisted by a raccoon android companion DSR and is something of an adventurer, with a fondness for tinkering with anything and everything. Also an 80s Pop Culture junky, movie fan, and avid video gamer. She was also responsible for creating the next character.(Tails: 2)

Vixream: Techsune was originally asked by her mate to rebuild a motorcycle he once had (that motorcycle got destroyed in a fight against a bunch of undead monsters) and then Techsune got an idea to do something more. As an 80s pop culture fan, she took a page from Hasbro/Takara and created a Motorcycle Transformer with a Kitsune main mode. Vixream Her "spark" (soul) was provided by her father. She is generally pleasant but also quite naive and scared of fighting despite her strength, durability, and speed. For aesthetic reasons, she has two tails.

Sepp Rennis: It's an odd story for this coyote. He is a former gambler who was enslaved after losing a bet. The man who enslaved him needed another freak for the circus he ran, so Sepp was made into a "Detachable Coyote," which meant that now Sepp can detach parts of himself (head, hands, feet, arms, legs, tail, and pelvic region). During the five years of his enslavement, he did what any sideshow freak was meant to do, and at the end of the term, he was released, but the magic was not undone. He's actually adjusted quite well all things considerred. Also the first character I made who was actually Gay (I'm personally heterosexual, but mature enough to realize that playing a gay character has no impact on my own sexuality.)

That's why I came up with Fargo, my Husky fursuit. Skunks are kind of boring, and altho he's a real sweetheart and a prankster, Fargo is many times more playful and an even worse at pulling pranks.

I dunno, I feel like all my characters are at least sort of myself... just different aspects of myself that've been exaggerated.

Same with me.

I think that's the case with a lot of characters. Lili came from things that are important to me. Same with all my other characters I've come up with over the years. The different with that and my fursona, is that my fursona is an anthro version of me. :) The others are either manifestations of things I like, or aspects of my personality that I like to turn loose and play with.

I have too many to count x.x

*first one that comes to mind*...There was one little gang of characters i made up yeears ago...when I first started liking rabbits (before I re-discovered TTA). I forgot what names I gave them but it consisted of 5 colorful, psychotic bunnies that escaped from a genetic experimentation lab, hell-bent on killing anyone and everyone in various comedic ways...

I have many more but... I don't wanna type it all out <.<

A thoughtful post with a great point. Up until now, I hadn't really thought about it.

I'd have to say Jake is the most important of my characters to me, even more so than the avatar/fursona used to represent 'me'. I suppose it has a lot to do with the fact that I get to include my interest in history and murder mysteries, but also because I put into him some of the greatest short comings in terms of personality and humanity anyone could have. That's not to say he's 'emo' or that he's been through some aweful tramatic life, but that he represents my belief that everyone takes experiences differently. He's the more violent, more tragic extreme, and as horrible as his actions are, you can't help but feel some bit of sympathy for him. A bit of Jekyll/Hyde syndrome I guess, letting me delve into the opposite extremes of life, if just to reassure myself why I'm playing the other field.

Ramble, ramble, but I think I have a whole new level of appreciation for the bloke now!

Tell Kenzine: My first fursona. Started out as a cheetah, became a cheetah/lion after a few years, then split off into a separate character. Corny as it is, he's still got a special place in my heart.

I would have to say Frosty is a reflection of what I want to become, well, besides the actual fox part, but maybe that if the world would accept it. :P

What exactly is Frosty like? What would you like to become? :)

*chuckle* Gene is me. Myself in toon form. The person that, oh so long ago, really wished he could jump into those classic old cartoons and interact with the stars. Who gradually learned to draw so that he could then create his own cartoon world. I don't really have any other personas, Gene is pretty much myself realized in anthropomorphic terms. If there were really such worlds in real life, Gene would be flesh and blood and, perhaps, I'd be the fantasy? O_O Gene has actually reached or is in the process of reaching all his short-term goals... the biggest long-term goal of all, of course, is life - and that one doesn't really have a set destination because you never know how much you can grow. So Gene simply grows and evolves along with me. :)

I have a number of stories that have characters right out of my head. But the one closest to my heart would be the 6 tail kitsune, Sharri (or Sharrikonicha, in formal speech). She's powerful, but not all powerful. She relies on her wits and awareness to get into and out of trouble again. She would much rather employ a little bit of guile to accomplish her goals than lots of fireworks that would get noticed. In that, I gave her a piece of my own soul, I suppose.

It would have to be Elizabeth Meese... I originally created her because someone asked why I didn't draw girls with big boobs... So I created her as a throwaway character I could draw, whenever someone asked for boobs... Then, God help me, she assumed a personality on me...

I have a couple, all of which I consider 'parts of me', but oddly enough, two of which are female. Tanora's prolly my fave, mostly because she's just so sassy. :D

All of my characters are very dear to me but, for some reason, it's the ones that are the antisocial, snarky, sometimes downright corrupt and mean ones that end up becoming dearest to me. My ex-wife theorized this was because I'm such a low-key, moralistic milquetoast IRL that they gave me a chance to vent aspects of myself that I normally suppress. Personally, I think it's partly that, and partly because I try so hard to find SOMETHING likable about them that I over-empathize with them.
Case in point: for over 15 years, my mascot (not fursona) was Louis Fender, a pixy-winged alien catgirl who was essentially violence incarnate. Her normal MO for dealing with anything was to shoot it in the face, and since this was the early-to-mid-90's, a couple years before "Girl Power," the fact that she was a female acting like male anti-heroes like Lobo and Wolverine made her popular at my college. In fact, a friend of mine who was big into the furry fandom was going to sponsor her as the Security Team mascot for a CA furry con he was on the organizing committee for...and then, a week before the con, he was gunned down, execution-style, by members of a local girl gang.
For a year, I couldn't even THINK of Louis without getting ill and angry, because it seemed like she was the embodiment of the very thing that murdered her biggest fan. My ex, then just my fiancee', suggested I try getting into her head and finding something worth liking about her, which I did via an online MUCK. While it may have watered down her impact, she ended up becoming very important to me because of that, so much so that, when I suffered a mental breakdown on my 30th birthday, she was one of three characters that, in my fevered state, I saw sacrificing themselves to heal my fractured mind. Say what you will about the "reality" of fictional characters, but, in the state I was in, their sacrifice was real enough, and I've been healing into someone stronger than before ever since.
Since then, I haven't been willing to draw her, but her "spirit" lives on in my current mascot, Maisy, a human-looking battle android with the body of a teenager and the personality of a Brooklyn dockworker, to quote one of my online buddies.

This is a good idea. So good, in fact, that I made my own journal entry about it not only describing my characters, but also attempting to make your idea into a meme. If this works, expect people to start posting links in this journal entry to their own journal entries about their characters.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/265461/