The more I think about it, the more it becomes clear that this whole "furry" thing isn't just something I stumbled into. Looking back, even as a kid I liked "furry" characters better for some reason. Red XIII is the only feral that really grabbed me, but grab me he did, and my favorite X-Man has pretty much always been Beast. Blanka was my main in Street Fighter, King was my main in Tekken, and I have to admit I kept Kimahri in my party partly because of how he looked. Despite being a pretty awful game, I thought Lynx from Chrono Cross was a pretty decent villain. When I played the first Lands of Lore game as an ankle-biter, I almost always picked Kieran (and now I feel old -.-). When Mareg died in Grandia 2, it was one of only a very few times a video game ever made me cry (the only other one I can remember being when Bugenhagen died in FF7, again, with Red). Leomon was one of my favorite Digis and giving him to Lain's writer to kill off was like ripping my heart out.

You'll notice that almost all of those are feline guys. If you didn't, Google is your friend. :P

Point being, I guess, that I always figured I just favored cats. I guess you could say now that while I DO favor cats, I was cuddling up to furs (or at least near-furs) for most of my formative years, and there just happened to be more cats out there. It's just kind of odd to realize that now in retrospect.



So, that said, I've been 34-ing things from my childhood lately and have noticed a sore lack of the following characters:
* Red XIII from FF7 - there's some of him out there, but only enough to leave you wanting more. FIX IT! :P
* Lynx from Chrono Cross - there's like nothing on this sexy feline, for we all know Evil Is Sexy.
* Mareg from Grandia 2 - there's so little of this barrel-chested lion-man that FA only has one pic of him. Grandia 2 isn't an obscure game; it was out on Dreamcast, PC, and PS2. FIX IT!
* Ax and Elfangor from Animorphs - or Andalites in general. Come on, people, I can't hold up the Animorphs quota with just two stories forever!
* Ifrit from FF8 and FFX - he pretty well had me when he decided to be a lion. A wolf is okay, too.
* while we're on summons, Maduin from FF6, Gilgamesh from FF in general, and Griever from FF8 - for Maduin, LOOK AT THIS HUNK OF BEEF! http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3053397/ Gilgamesh has 8 arms to work with (not a major thing of mine, but that's pretty special) and Griever for being a winged black lion, which you know is black velvet over rock-hard muscle. :P
* and finally, more lion-Kero from Card Captors - furry or feral, I don't care, but the grand total of 3 pics I've ever found of him were totally great, so I wouldn't mind having enough for its own folder.

Get on it, people!