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I'm an Avali!
3 years ago
Much to many people's surprise, I have opted to change my main fursona species. I'm a space chicke... errr.. I'm an Avali now!
It was a long, thought out process before making this decision. I was a dolphin for 18+ years. I have no issues with dolphins and they are still my favourite animals.
However, with the pandemic times and my stepping into VR Chat, I found myself connecting with and really loving my Avali self the more I wore the avatar. My good friend Der was often an Avali on VRChat and I really liked what I saw, so I made my own. The community and friends in the Avali groups became closer and were spending more time with me than others. I went to dozens if not hundreds of Avali meet ups. I talked on discord servers. I shared artwork and built avatars for friends - largely avali characters. Every time I look in the mirror and saw that cute little white, grey, and blue space bird looking back at me, I just felt.. right. It felt like me. It felt like I was looking at who I wish I was, and who I identify with when I close my eyes.
.. and I can't say I ever really truly felt that way about my dolphin sona. I still love my white sided dolphin self, but it's just not 'me' when I close my eyes anymore. He's not going anywhere though and I you'll still see my dolphin self surface here and there.
As of now though (and actually more like a few months ago), Aphinity is now an Avali, and I'm officially turning in my flippers for wings. And yes, I really hope that, some day, I'll have a fursuit of him as well.
CHIRP!
It was a long, thought out process before making this decision. I was a dolphin for 18+ years. I have no issues with dolphins and they are still my favourite animals.
However, with the pandemic times and my stepping into VR Chat, I found myself connecting with and really loving my Avali self the more I wore the avatar. My good friend Der was often an Avali on VRChat and I really liked what I saw, so I made my own. The community and friends in the Avali groups became closer and were spending more time with me than others. I went to dozens if not hundreds of Avali meet ups. I talked on discord servers. I shared artwork and built avatars for friends - largely avali characters. Every time I look in the mirror and saw that cute little white, grey, and blue space bird looking back at me, I just felt.. right. It felt like me. It felt like I was looking at who I wish I was, and who I identify with when I close my eyes.
.. and I can't say I ever really truly felt that way about my dolphin sona. I still love my white sided dolphin self, but it's just not 'me' when I close my eyes anymore. He's not going anywhere though and I you'll still see my dolphin self surface here and there.
As of now though (and actually more like a few months ago), Aphinity is now an Avali, and I'm officially turning in my flippers for wings. And yes, I really hope that, some day, I'll have a fursuit of him as well.
CHIRP!
Y-know, I remember when you introduced me to Avali, and I remember when me and mondo were showing you around VRchat that first time.
I really didn't expect you to fully get into it but lo and behold, you did! The pandemic changed everything, it changed you so hard that you trans-speciesed (if that wasn't a word, it is now).
I think the Avali will be a permanent memory of what happened during the pandemic for me, how we all still hung out during a dark time in VR while all these events couldn't happen IRL.
Hah, i'm getting way too sentimental over it, lol. If I told my younger self i'd be spending times inside virtual worlds inside my computer in the future I would of thought I was crazy.
Crazy times we live in.