The only time I have 'adopted' characters I have used them. The two cases of it are Kaamiksuu and Valoayz. Then again I was never into pokemon and collect them all games and perhaps that's the sort of thing for some people adoptables fulfill a desire for.

Thats actually an interesting point with Pokemon, yeah XD
OH, lol you've had Valoayz for a while and I somehow never noticed! Bird Bias XD, cause I always remembered Kaamiksuu

I'm guilty for buying characters and not showing them love :/
I fully intend to but I only have so much funding for art and I usually spoil my main characters..... Now if funds were unlimited or at least large I would definitely commission way more art of all of my characters

But then again it does break my heart when I find an absolutely stunning character that was purchased a long time ago and never used, I've been tempted to try and make an offer but I don't want to be rude, who knows maybe they're on a different platform and don't upload to the ones I use

But then again I am that dumbass who spends thousands on a fursuit and haven't worn him in a few years now... I think we're all just a mess on different levels XD

Hey, we always spoil our MCs and Favs~

And Yesh, man Id hate myself on the fursuit thing. npt to shame anybody because Ive spent about that much collectively on Commissions and Adopts combined. But yeah, for real, every artist would be eating good if commissioners had unlimited Funding at least to a degree....which Id say some of us did half a decade ago XD

Man time flies, and times change....

Co-owning is not a bad idea
Hell even just ask to buy it off the person if they never commission stuff of said character.

--Even if you get bit in response at least you can say you tried.
I mean who knows they might just agree that the character is collecting dust or they could simply use some cash!

This all said, to the initial question I say;
Depends on the adopt? Some you might value more than others.
IF someone asked me to sell a character I didn't feel incredibly attached to but they loved it to hell I'd absolutely do that.

Im hard pressed to spend alot of money on a Design. But I guess it depends. Id be willing to spend half on co-ownership. Or is they offered me a decent enough deal, and Im convinced Ill certainly invest in the character.

I...know a couple people, and Ive kinda asked them and pointed out some characters were just collecting dust, and they kinda....did NOT like it to say the least. And called it Rude. Even pointing out the characters lack of use. SOME people are just.....I guess weird like that, and possessive.

I just mainly mean like Adopt that quite literally get no use.
Im not sure Id offer to buy an OC that was handmade, and I would feel confident about trying to buyout a character that hasn't seen use in a while but at least already has art.
Like, that could be flipped on me, I haven't used a handful of my characters for a while....so by that logic someone might try to make an offer on them since I haven't used them, and Id certainly turn them down, because I, both still attached to them, and plan to use them again in the future.

So Id personally have a hard time doing that, since I wouldn't want it done to me.
But, hey, good thoughts.

Absolutely. Often I keep an eye out for adoptables that fit the threshold of characters I've already formed in my head, to be placed within one of my settings ^^

Usually when you adopt, that should be the intention.
But yeah, kinda sucks there are people much richer then me, that literally, just collect.
And then let the design rot forever

I may not use them a ton since I have so many, but all my adopts at least get used a bit and here and there. It's so sad to see them bought and put on a toyhouse shelf like a trading card to never see another piece of art.

If said trading card...could be traded with...then fine enough.
But yeah, just sucks to see a cool design you MIGHT want just go to waste

I can’t really afford art, but most of my characters are used in stories/role plays. As someone who sells adopts I LOVE seeing art someone gets of something they got from me

This is an expensive hobby, no lie.
I cringe looking back at how much Ive collectively wasted on Art Commissions....and think about how rich I might be.
.....but then again, that money might have just gone to something else, like Food. Or like 1 of my friends, Clothes, or another one...videogame.

Or my car...if I drove.

So I guess in the end, there is always a money sink in some form. XD

So true I feel guilty then think, I’d of probably just spent that eating out instead or something just temporary. At least with art I can look back at it and enjoy it lol

I have a universe and storyline that I've been developing off and on for about a decade now. Every character I adopt finds a home somewhere within that universe and usually gets some amount of lore developed for them, no matter how small their role is 👌

I love world building to.
I wis I was able to collectively make them ALL share a universe. But because of how I write my characters, maybe only a few of them could co-exist, and sometimes thats only if I create Side-canons.

Like.....my Rat Girl is a Western Character. So the only way she'd co-exist is if I make side ideas with my other characters as if they were in a Western.
Or my Crow Guy who is Medieval fantasy, and my Dog girl who is am modern-day Celebrity. In their base designs, they are made a certain way and wouldn't naturally exist together.
So then I occasionally have fun ideas to Make my Dog girl a witch, or the rat girl something that would fit in the dog girls universe.

Im just weird like that lol

Lol I wouldn't call it weird. You just have multiple worlds you can populate whereas I hyperfixated on the one. Just two different ways to give out OCs a place to live in!

I have adopted many characters and if I don't post them to FA right away, I am waiting to get their new reference sheet done.
I do understand getting annoyed that some people adopt characters and then they don't even bother to post the adopt onto FA to let people know that the character has a home. X, bsky, telegram etc etc is all good, but with so many imposters around, it is hard to tell who actually owns characters if the buying account never posted.

Again, its their money, Im happy for the artist to make money from their work.
Just sucks to see a design get bought and never get used.

I tend to be hesitant on buying adopts and if I don’t use them I just resell them. That’s what happened with my gryphon, someone ABed it and I bought it off of them several months later :>

I sadly dont make enough to do that.
Because that mainly works if you buy the more lucrative and expensive adopts, and sell them to others with that kinda money.

No shade, I just cant do that XD

Sometimes I buy an adopt to supporting artist. Most of the time, I like the species and colors. I do tend to hoard characters.
I have discovered a few old one adopts, that I got years ago. That I’m trying to do something with.

I can see why people can get upset for seeing an adopted character, go ‘abandoned’ after being bought years later.
I’m kind of indifferent on the whole deal. Since, I haven’t done a lot with older one, I’ve gotten. But, I’m trying to fix that. 😅

I try to not be a COMPLETE baby about it.
Because at the end of the day, the picture surved its intended purpose. To be sold.
Everything else is extra and doesnt benifet the original artist.

Theres one artist ill buy adopts from cuz they dont really do comms nor ychs just to support them but for the most part i plan to use adopts when i get them, even if its solely forpersonal use and not really shared online

Dam thats a shame.
Especially if its a cool character, Ill be robed of seeing them in action XD

Naw, I don't like to see characters rotting, and I hate seeing people buying an OC, only to never see them again. I have to use them for SOMETHING, so I don't sell my OC's.

Characters rotting is going to happen at SOME point. By accident or otherwise.
And yeah, typically you buy a design to use it.

But apparently people buy designs, just cause, lol

I try my best to use them, The ones that I end up just sitting on I end up reselling. If I had more money I would be using all my sonas equally. I love them all so much.

Even if I was richer / the art world was cheap again...I cant say id use EVERYONE....but at least they all would have a small handful of pictures.

I just cant imagine buying a design, and never using it

I feel the same, its why i've been purging a lot of my unused characters. I got a lot of them to start writing my big book of my world, but I litterally never started and now 4 years later and not using a bunch, i decided its time to sell them off. I have a few I want to keep that are important to me that I do plan to use when I get some more income. I've just been focused on updating a lot of my main sonas lately.

Sadly, i found the hard way, Once i bought adoptable, to just get character so i could use for arts so if i dont have friends that would want to, i could have character that could make me feel "loved" haha-

But then at the end i used the snake like once.. but recently i creater another character, and still gave him more love, and bought for her more arts then for the adoptable, found out that if you create one, you find giving it more love then just adoptable, adoptables are stunning, but overall, i think just getting art with it, would probably suffice my hunger for them.

Felt the same, sad not giving love to other characters, but then again when you have your main, You want to give them the most love, show them around, use them as artwork on steam etc- so even i attempted to buy recently another absolutely stunning design, i am kinda happy i was over bid, knowing i could probably not give them the same love-

That can happen...and Ive heard before.
" You get more attached to characters you created, then adopted"
Which I can say is mostly true. But at least half of my Cast is Created, and Adopted. I guess the design has to TRUELY speak to you, and have a purpose.

I see just having, making, and adopting characters willy nilly will backfire, because there is no attachment or drive.

Im definitely guilty of this.
Just having characters willy nilly with no real plan...just an idea, then they rot

I would never take ownership of a character I never intend to actually use. I do feel like letting an adopt just sit is a waste of money but I get that people simply lose track or shit happens and suddenly funds have to go elsewhere.

Belle was a free adopt and we both got so much use out of her :)

Everyone "usually" adopts with the intention to use it, but then may fall out of love later.
Then of course there is rich people that hoard. lol.

Im happy to be part of Belle's Journey :)
Little sad I dont see more of her, but I know art is expensive

There is a piece in the works with her.

Every.
Single.
Adopt.

That I go for, I have plans for and I care for. I have a very bad habit of developing backgrounds, relationships, and personalities for certain adoptables and (if the price is in reason), I'll usually try to bid on them. If I lose? Then such is life, but I DO try to go for them because I'm passionate about them.

I have tons of content and story-related stuff in my head (don't get me started, I WILL talk you to death XD). But due to funds n such, I can't really get them fleshed out in the art pieces I want. So with money being a huge and primary factor to me, I think of scenes and scenarios in my head (these peeps I adopt have TONS of story-related material) but I don't normally get art pieces because either the artist is not open for comms at that moment or I don't have money for it, or both.

But just like my OCs that I develop from the ground up. I treat the adopts I buy with the same level of TLC.

I get where you're coming from with the co-owning of a character, and I even get supporting the artist, however when I adopt someone, it's because I genuinely love that character and I have a place for them in my little world and they become apart of me. :)

But, me personally, I don't think I could really go for co-owning a character unless that character both IS and STARTED in a world that both me and the other person developed, and there's only 2 times I've done that and I know both of those people IRL and could drive to see them if I wanted.

That's just my 2 cents.

The only issue I have here...IS THAT YOU HARDLY POST THEM


In hindsight, Id probably be bad to co-own a character with. Because I might but heads with ideas (Even if its just a side canon...because it might create huge inconsistencies)
And I may either use the Character MORE, or LESS then the other person. It just wouldn't be a fair 50/50 regardless

I'm Sorrrrryyyy! T_T

I know I'm bad about that, xD

I'mma try and be better, I promise!

I guess it's a part of my villain arc :)

There was a time back in my really naïve days where I agreed to adopt a special character (that I loved very much) from a trusted "friend" on the condition that I would return the character if they suddenly couldn't live without them again. The "friend" waited for the first artwork to come from a popular artist. Suddenly, the "friend" yearned for adopt the character again, so I returned the character (begrudgingly) out of respect for that friend.

The "friend" almost immediately re-sold the character for more money to a customer who dissappeared the character off of the face of the planet. The artist removed the artwork of the special character from their page. I have a feeling that something was said between the "friend" and the artist (or new adopter) behind closed doors, but I have no proof. Whatever the case, my good relationship with the artist wasn't so good anymore. :/

Anger from that incident has left me to my own devices. If I buy a character that seems to have no artwork, then there is a good chance that I have un-published world-building centering on them. I would rather keep a pile of un-used characters that I like instead of being burnt again. Some friends have expressed interest in some of my closed species adopts that I had bought from them. In that closed species community, the characters get traded around a lot. I would like to give a few of mine a new home one day, but not at the expense of being a fool or a vending machine. o3o

No lie, if that happened to me, Id be enraged.
And no, even if its a friend, I wouldn't just "Give Back" a character, especially after I invested in them
To me, and the series of events here, they just saw an opportunity to make money and kind of used you.

Also...I have 2 other friends with a relationship like that. And...it doesn't make sense to me. But Im not gonna be rude. Especially because in my initial journal, I talked about co-ownership, and have pretty much acted like Ill either put more work into it, or possibly not as much work, so it wouldn't really be 50/50
Like a School Project with Teams. There is always 1 person who does everything OR does NOTHING.....and I hate that.

Yeah I agree. Had I not already promised in good faith, I would have told them (politely) to go eat bees. It was a good learning lesson although it stung.

That's a really useful situation to think about (co-ownership). Sometimes it really is like a school project in terms of one person commissioning most of the artwork. I can see why you hate that.

When I adopt a character I try my absolute best to give them a story and a reason to be part of my characters' ecosystem, but when it comes to commissioning I have to admit that I do have favorites that end up taking the spotlight, but it does not mean that I do not care about them, in fact I would be very heartbroken if I gave any of them away.
Of the characters I have adopted currently, all were blank slates designed by artists except one, Ronin. When I adopted him I ended up rewriting him almost completely, it is almost melancholic to think that the version of Ronin made by this other person has ceased to exist, but I did feel compelled to update the previous owner and tell them that Ronin is in good hands

Like-Minded, Same here!
If you dont have ideas immediately...then whats the point?! XD

I prefer Blank-slates. because then I can go Full -IAMYOURCREATOR- with it XD
Kaji & Uuna are the only characters with Premades...Uuna mainly because she was part of a "Business Dinos" adopt series. So I worked off of that...and now shes a Tech & Science Wizz in her company XD
And Kaji had a Pre-established character bio. I MOSTLY worked with it, but of course added my own flair and changed a few thing...ended up loving them more then I thought I would

I experienced it, somehow... ;-;
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52215696/

Losing to a Blank Profile.
that...feels the WORSE, because you cant even see what they WOULD do with the Character....if they arnt just some rich(er) person with money to waste

Also, I know some people like that, but like, maybe years later, commissioned lik a lazy Headshot. And thats it. "Look I used the character"
Who knows, maybe they at least RP...because actually, that was kinda how I started. I just wanted a picture or 2 as images for RPCs...untill I really got into actually commissioning art and getting neat lore-driven are. Or fun outfit designing.

It's even worst that it was going to be my first character as I was lurking in the fandom for a year before that... I really cried this day :/

If I really wanted and liked a character design, to lose to an AB, and then that person Never used the character...Id be VERy upset to.