I don’t know if there are people who are interested in this, but I thought it would be cool to write down how it all started, my life as a furry.
It’s not a short story, I will tell it all from the beginning ‘till now. I’m still surprised how it came so far. But.. enough of this, let’s start!




As a little girl at the age of five/six years old, my favoured animal was a rabbit.
I had so many rabbit plushies, that I could barely sleep in my own bed.
My whole bed was full of rabbit plushies, like 20-30 of them.


I wasn’t like any other girl. I’d love to be outside, playing with friends, making treehouses or other things like that.
At the age of seven/eight I made my first character, a bunny rabbit. It was a rip-off from Jazz Jackrabbit.
A green one with a red sweatband around his head. I used to draw him a lot.
And while I played outside with my friends, I always wanted to be that bunny rabbit, called ‘super hare’ (superhaas in Dutch). On school when we had breaktime, we also played ‘super animals’.
Even when I was at home, I fantasized about a show, presented by a german shepherd called ‘prowler the shepherd dog’ (in Dutch Sluiper de herdershond), who presents super hares adventures who’s fighting with dragons.
You may think: “jap, weirdo..” I understand, It’s all kinda weird, but I had so much fantasy in the younger years, I was only seven or eight years old, haha.


At the age of ten, I transferred to another school due to bullying.
The ones that bullied me, were, at first, really good classmates of mine. I still don’t know why they did this, but I know they have hurt me and my self-confidence really badly.
I still had some friends left, but my life had changed. Other school, new people, new way of teaching.
The friends that always played outside with me still did, I even had a new friend, which I made shortly before changing my school.
She was my new best friend then, and we loved to watch TV shows like Pokémon and Digimon together. In a short time I got really sucked into Digimon.
I loved this show much more than Pokémon. Together with my new best friend we loved to play with my Digimon action figures.
But life still changes.. She had to leave because of her dad’s work. She moved to Bastogne, leaving me behind.
We still had some contact, but it was by letters and now and then a phone call.
But life still goes on. I barely had friends at my new school.
My love for digimon was still there, and the third season of Digimon had started. That was the season with Guilmon and Renamon.
I fell in love with Guilmon, and just like Takato, I drew my own Digimon. It was a dino/dragon, like Guilmon, but green with a big dark green Mohawk, called Riandromon.


That was the beginning of Riandro(mon).
I always loved to draw him, but I had a hard time getting the anatomy right, so I always searched for some examples.
That was the part that Animexx, Deviantart and Furries came into my life.
On Animexx I loved to role-play my character Riandro(mon) in Digimon role play games. And uploading my drawings I made of him.
On Deviantart I searched for Digimon art (Guilmon,Renamon), and I found a Renamon costume.
I was so surprised, I went to my mother and asked her if I could make my own Renamon costume, but she didn’t want to help me with that.
So I stopped asking for that, and just… leave it be.
But still on Deviantart, I found some art that wasn’t human, and animal. It was something between this.
They were called.. Furries. I get really interested in furry art, and I couldn’t stop searching for it.


Years get passed, and I was getting older, going to the next school, met new people, but Riandro(mon) was still the same.
But in fear I might get bullied again, I changed his name into Riandro. But still drew him, like younger years.
Nothing really changed in those four years, only that I got my first boyfriend at the age of seventeen.
He was a non-furry, and in one of our first conversations he asked me if I were a furry. I answered no.
So I lied, but it doesn’t bother, because I didn’t see Riandro as a real fursona at that time.
The funny thing was: I showed him my art and also drew new Riandro art, but still didn’t saw Riandro as a fursona.
But… four years later… I met a friend of a classmate of mine, on the Elf Fantasy Fair.
She had a furry costume, made by herself (and she is still a friend, and here on Furaffinity now, the user that’s called Piaa). I got really interested in how it’s made.
I started to search “how to make a furry costume”, and I said to my friend: “I’m going to make one myself, Riandro!”.
My boyfriend, still the same I met in 2008, said: “No way in hell that this will be a success, you can’t make a fursuit, that’s way too hard to make for you!”.
That was my challenge! I wanted to show him that I could make a fursuit, and I did!
September 2012 was the beginning of Riandro 1.0, and it was a success!
I fell into the furry fandom, started to be at furwalks, furmeets and get a lot of new friends thanks to Furbook.nl.
And I’m happy and really thankfull my boyfriend accepted this. He’s still a non-furry, but helps me with constructions, spotting and taking pictures.


In March 2013 I started my second suit, Jazzy the cyber-bunny. That still lets me think about Super Hare, earlier in this story.
I went to lots of meetings in 2013, and I got really interested in the Eurofurence. I saw video’s and pictures of friends who went to EF in 2013.
And I felt like making a new suit, that had to be ready for Eurofurence 2014! In September 2013 I started on Riandro 2.0, that’s almost done at the moment.
And on January the 18th I registred myself and my boyfriend for Eurofurence 20… I never felt so excited before. And this is going to be great, I can feel it!
So far so good.. now here we are, now, on the 26th of January. Registration and payment is done, and the waiting has begun. Waiting for Eurofurence 20…




This is how I got to be a furry, It’s funny to look back on now. And I hope you have enjoyed this story of my life.
Hugs and cuddles,