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18 years ago
This was inspired by a journal entry that 
lilifox made. In said journal, she states that we have created characters that we love other than our main fursonas, and she invites us to tell her about them and share what they're like.
Check out the journal entry for yourself.
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/260306/
I've got such a big entry that I decided not only to make my own journal about it, but I decided that this would be an awesome meme to try to start. With all this art that's being posted, people often don't go into depth to describe what the character is like. Where they came from. This is an attempt to do something about that.
So, what characters have you created that really come from the heart? How did this character come to be? Why is he/she important and special to you? Start your own journal in order to describe this. Whenever you see another journal entry like this, post a link to yours in their comments. In this way, we'll be able to share our characters with each other.
So don't forget to post a link! Oh, and don't forget to post one in lilifox's journal entry too. I'm sure she'd love to hear about your characters as well.
Amaroq
Amaroq is my fursona. A few years before I even knew what Furry was, I had a Phantasy Star Online character named Amaroq. I got the name from one of my favorite stories, Julie of the Wolves. Well, I liked Julie's Wolf Pack better because it focused more on the wolves, but Amaroq is still the one wolf I admired most in the series.
I've always loved magic. My first real persona was my PSO character, a FOmar. For some time, my magic in RP was based off of PSO's 'techniques'. Then I got Furcadia and, of course, I made a canine character named Amaroq Wolf. Over time, as I RP'ed more and more as Amaroq, my online persona began to transition from the human to a wolf version, still with PSO magic though.
Long before I ever got into Furcadia, however, I had begun formulating a theory as to how magic would work if it were real. Where the energy would come from, how it could be used, etc. It was originally going to be a fictional document in a Starfox Fan Fiction that I still haven't finished that Krystal's grandfather would've written. (The fanfic is called Legend of the Three Staffs, if you're curious.) But as it resided in my head, it grew and evolved over time and I eventually removed all traces of PSO's 'techniques' from Amaroq and used my own theories to develop his magic from the ground up.
While I had fun with RP-battling a friend of mine with my magic vs his magic as anthros, I never got to play in Anthro dreams on Furcadia very much. All my friends were in feral dreams, so most of my roleplay took place as a feral wolf. As a result, I actually have two versions of my Amaroq fursona; Anthro and Feral. Since I RP'ed as the feral most, I'd say that version of Amaroq is who I am inside since he is an extension of myself. Anthro Amaroq is who I wish I could be. I still RP him as an extension of myself as well, but he's the one who's got the magic. I don't RP his magic for the feral variation. (And no, they don't transform into each other or anything like that. I simply play as either one or the other depending on whether the continuity is anthro or feral.)
Amaroq has been with me for 3, 4, maybe even 5 years. He's grown and evolved over time. He, both versions of him, is who I am inside. Ever since I really entered the furry fandom a couple of years ago, I have been striving to overcome my shy, quiet, hesitant nature and bring Amaroq to the surface. Both anthro and feral versions of Amaroq are very resourceful and strategic in combat, and the feral version used to be the alpha male of a roleplay wolf pack. Amaroq is also a pillar of strength for others to lean on. I know I've got alpha material in me in the form of Amaroq and I know that I could be someone others can lean on for support and come to for help. I just have to work on bringing it out of me.
Blue
This is the first time I've ever made a posting about these characters. I've told others about them, but until now I've never put them out here for the world to see.
A friend of mine from Starwing HQ told me once how they love to create and develop characters. I was kind of down because I wanted to be able to create a character too, but I was absolutely terrible at coming up with backstories and personalities and such. I was listening to Eiffel 65 - Blue (Daba do) and thinking along this trail of thought, when the song came to a part about looking out a blue window. Suddenly, the image of an anthropomorphic dog (dalmation-esque, sorta like one of the main characters in Lapping the Competition. But no spots.) inside a glass tube in some random lab. He was looking out and the outside was tinted blue. But how is it blue? I decided he would be suspended in a blue liquid. With stuff mixed in to allow his lungs to absorb oxygen from the liquid. (It's been done with rats in labs. I saw a video of it once. A rat breathing underwater.)
Well anyway, my idea of Blue began to expand. He was created in this lab, and that tube and the blue-tinted lab is all he knows. At night, when the lights are out, all he has is an overhead light to see by. He's lived his entire life surrounded by darkness at night with nobody to be there for him and comfort him.
Red
As I continued to evolve Blue, I somehow came up with the idea that he should eventually meet someone. Someone who could bring happiness to his world of endless desolation. My original idea was for him to fall in love with a scientist working in the lab, but then somehow I came up with the idea of another dog in another identical tube. Thus, Red was born. (I'm not sure what to call her species. Think anthropomorphic Lady-esque, from Lady and the Tramp.)
Unlike Blue, Red wasn't created in the lab. She lead a satisfying and adventurous life. I'm not sure yet, but she may have had a husband and maybe even kids. She was a soldier in the army, and was a bold combatant. Unlike Blue's quiet, shy nature, Red is one to take a problem head on and plow through it.
One day, she came home from serving duty to find her family slaughtered. She couldn't take the pain of loss. I'm not sure yet how this will come to pass, but somehow she got the chance, and took it, to opt to be part of the same project that Blue was part of. She didn't know anything about what the project was about. The only part that mattered to her was that she could have her memory wiped clean so she wouldn't have to deal with the pain, and still do a service to her country.
Once her memory was wiped, she was placed in a tube and that tube was placed in the same lab as Blue's.
Red and Blue
Like Blue, Red now knows nothing of life outside of that tube. Unlike Blue, though, Red obviously hasn't spent her entire life in it. She just doesn't remember anything from her former life.
Red and Blue now at least get to watch each other when the lights are out. The separate tubes don't allow them any real contact, but it's still the best thing that either of them know. Red doesn't have to feel the pain of loss any longer or the confusion of not knowing where she is or how she got there, and Blue doesn't have to feel so alone anymore. Regardless of everything wrong in their lives, they still manage to form a strong bond of friendship and love that can never be broken by any mortal nor ever be cheapened by the things that cheapen the bonds between most normal people. Not knowing anything different, not knowing the sins of mankind, there are no influences that could ever break this bond.
Oh, and Blue was genetically engineered to improve the areas of his brain responsible for psychic activity. Red's brain was modified in a similar way when they wiped her memory. Blue cannot speak english, but they eventually figure out how to communicate to eachother in their thoughts. Red teaches Blue english in this manner.
I don't want to get too much into the story in an entry meant for the characters, so I'll just say that by the end, Red and Blue will escape. They'll become lovers-on-the-run of sorts, on the run from the organization who had previously enslaved them. Due to the nature of their captivity, their love is completely pure and can never be tainted by the things that usually affect most relationships in a detrimental fasion.
Green
Like I said, I don't want to get too much into the story. I'll save that for another journal entry. But before Red or Blue, there was one other failed experiment in this project, and the subject of that one was named Green.
Blue was named Blue because the blue liquid in his tube affected the pigmentation of his fur, giving his fur a permanently blue hue. Red was already a dog of a red coloration, so she got the name Red. Since Green was the first, the technology to grow and maintain him wasn't as developed. The chemicals in his tube water affected the pigmentation of his fur as well, making it permanently green tinted. The scientists thought they had perfected the liquid before it turned Blue blue, but they got it right by the time Red came to be in her tube.
They named Green Green, and Blue Blue, and by the time the girl (I'm not sure what her past life name should be) came to be in her tube, the naming convention stuck, so she became Red.
Anyway, since the technology wasn't so great at the time, Green's body didn't develop right. As a result, he lived on life support systems with tubes and machinery in, out, and all over his body. He was bonded in place so he couldn't move within his tube and damage his body by ripping anything out. Green lived in constant pain in addition to lonliness, but his plight was silent to the scientists who studied him. His brain had been altered in a similar fashion to Red and Blue's so the scientists could study potential applications of technology that could detect psionic emanations.
Rather than simply feeling lonely though, Green began to develop a deep hatred of everyone and everything. His abilities began to grow, and before long scientists who slept in rooms near the lab would start waking up with terrible nightmares.
There was one man who cared about Green. The General who had been appointed to run the project. His superiors had made it very clear to him that he could easily be removed from the project if he didn't cooperate with their wishes, so all he could do about Green's condition was visit him occasionally and try to comfort him through the glass of the tube. The General became the only person whom Green didn't hate. But that all changed one day when the danger of Green's abilities became apparent. The General's superiors ordered Green's termination, and green could only watch and struggle as the General shed a few tears, flipped a switch, and bid Green farewell and wished his soul peace.
The General didn't know, however, that there was hidden functionality in the life support system that didn't kill Green, but only put him in a deep coma. After the General left the installation for what he thought would be the last time, Green was moved to a secret location. A few years later, Blue would be created in the same lab.
The General
He's a hound dog. So far I haven't come up with a name for him, but he's a General and he was placed in charge of the project that oversaw Green's creation. He almost refused when he was ordered back to oversee Blue's creation, but the thought of someone else taking less care of the subject than he would drove him to grudgingly accept. As far as the General knows, Green is dead. (Though he turns out to still be alive.)
Since Blue was being studied for the same types of psychic-detecting technology applications as Green was, the General began to do some research of his own. He hated the barrier that the glass placed between him and Blue. He decided that he'd try to secretly use books to try to teach himself to become psychic, in hopes that he may one day be able to speak with and comfort Blue during this very lonely life he leads. By the time Red comes into the picture, the General is constantly 'borrowing' soldiers and using them in silly exercises, such as making them hold flash cards with shapes on them so he could try to detect and guess what they were. Much to the soldiers' irritation. So far the General has made no noticeable progress on his quest.
He also acts as a father figure of sorts to a young Husky woman who he's known since she was a little girl. She comes to the lab to work as a scientist there. She's constantly seeing soldiers in weird situations, always with an annoyed look on their faces, whenever she comes into the General's office.
The Husky Scientist
I haven't come up with a name for her either. She comes to work in the lab at around the time Red and Blue are there. Like the general, she comes to care for them. She wants them to be free, so she works tirelessly to research the applications of the technology so that the subjects won't be needed anymore and may one day be freed.
Unfortunately, she's had Attention Deficit Disorder her entire life, and it really makes it hard for her to keep on her work. She's becoming increasingly frustrated and depressed that she just can't keep up with her work as well as the other scientists. How can she ever help Red or Blue if she can't even do the work she's supposed to do?
The General, of course, gives her advice on this. ADD isn't a disorder, it's an intelligent mind that doesn't have enough stimulation to keep itself satisfied. If the she can learn to harness her mind and focus on the work fully, she can accomplish more than all of the other scientists, and the General helps her to realize that.
Once she realizes this, the other scientists often see her wearing headphones while she works in the lab. Music gives her brain something to focus on so that she doesn't get bored while she's working. If she finds an extremely interesting or difficult problem to solve, she'll take the headphones off temporarily to devote her full focus to the matter at hand.
That's that I guess
While I may have gotten a little into techno-ey and psychic-y stuff, I hope that you all can look past this surface and identify with the mental and emotional plights all of these characters of mine are experiencing. Blue has seemingly eternal lonliness, Red has the memory loss so she doesn't have to feel the pain of her past life. Red and Blue have eachother to make the desolation bearable. Green has a lifetime of pain and suffering and wishes to be free of his body, to be at rest. The General's love for them all pushes him to unsuccessfully attempt to learn to be psychic, while having to be careful not to make his superiors think that they need to remove him from the project and place someone less caring in his place. The Husky's caring-ness for them pushes her to try to solve the problems surrounding the technology, and she also has to overcome her ADD in order to do so.
I have such love for these characters. Bringing their story to life is one of my greatest life goals. I want to share their plight with the world so that others may come to love them and identify with them like I do.
lilifox made. In said journal, she states that we have created characters that we love other than our main fursonas, and she invites us to tell her about them and share what they're like.Check out the journal entry for yourself.
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/260306/
I've got such a big entry that I decided not only to make my own journal about it, but I decided that this would be an awesome meme to try to start. With all this art that's being posted, people often don't go into depth to describe what the character is like. Where they came from. This is an attempt to do something about that.
So, what characters have you created that really come from the heart? How did this character come to be? Why is he/she important and special to you? Start your own journal in order to describe this. Whenever you see another journal entry like this, post a link to yours in their comments. In this way, we'll be able to share our characters with each other.
So don't forget to post a link! Oh, and don't forget to post one in
lilifox's journal entry too. I'm sure she'd love to hear about your characters as well.Amaroq
Amaroq is my fursona. A few years before I even knew what Furry was, I had a Phantasy Star Online character named Amaroq. I got the name from one of my favorite stories, Julie of the Wolves. Well, I liked Julie's Wolf Pack better because it focused more on the wolves, but Amaroq is still the one wolf I admired most in the series.
I've always loved magic. My first real persona was my PSO character, a FOmar. For some time, my magic in RP was based off of PSO's 'techniques'. Then I got Furcadia and, of course, I made a canine character named Amaroq Wolf. Over time, as I RP'ed more and more as Amaroq, my online persona began to transition from the human to a wolf version, still with PSO magic though.
Long before I ever got into Furcadia, however, I had begun formulating a theory as to how magic would work if it were real. Where the energy would come from, how it could be used, etc. It was originally going to be a fictional document in a Starfox Fan Fiction that I still haven't finished that Krystal's grandfather would've written. (The fanfic is called Legend of the Three Staffs, if you're curious.) But as it resided in my head, it grew and evolved over time and I eventually removed all traces of PSO's 'techniques' from Amaroq and used my own theories to develop his magic from the ground up.
While I had fun with RP-battling a friend of mine with my magic vs his magic as anthros, I never got to play in Anthro dreams on Furcadia very much. All my friends were in feral dreams, so most of my roleplay took place as a feral wolf. As a result, I actually have two versions of my Amaroq fursona; Anthro and Feral. Since I RP'ed as the feral most, I'd say that version of Amaroq is who I am inside since he is an extension of myself. Anthro Amaroq is who I wish I could be. I still RP him as an extension of myself as well, but he's the one who's got the magic. I don't RP his magic for the feral variation. (And no, they don't transform into each other or anything like that. I simply play as either one or the other depending on whether the continuity is anthro or feral.)
Amaroq has been with me for 3, 4, maybe even 5 years. He's grown and evolved over time. He, both versions of him, is who I am inside. Ever since I really entered the furry fandom a couple of years ago, I have been striving to overcome my shy, quiet, hesitant nature and bring Amaroq to the surface. Both anthro and feral versions of Amaroq are very resourceful and strategic in combat, and the feral version used to be the alpha male of a roleplay wolf pack. Amaroq is also a pillar of strength for others to lean on. I know I've got alpha material in me in the form of Amaroq and I know that I could be someone others can lean on for support and come to for help. I just have to work on bringing it out of me.
Blue
This is the first time I've ever made a posting about these characters. I've told others about them, but until now I've never put them out here for the world to see.
A friend of mine from Starwing HQ told me once how they love to create and develop characters. I was kind of down because I wanted to be able to create a character too, but I was absolutely terrible at coming up with backstories and personalities and such. I was listening to Eiffel 65 - Blue (Daba do) and thinking along this trail of thought, when the song came to a part about looking out a blue window. Suddenly, the image of an anthropomorphic dog (dalmation-esque, sorta like one of the main characters in Lapping the Competition. But no spots.) inside a glass tube in some random lab. He was looking out and the outside was tinted blue. But how is it blue? I decided he would be suspended in a blue liquid. With stuff mixed in to allow his lungs to absorb oxygen from the liquid. (It's been done with rats in labs. I saw a video of it once. A rat breathing underwater.)
Well anyway, my idea of Blue began to expand. He was created in this lab, and that tube and the blue-tinted lab is all he knows. At night, when the lights are out, all he has is an overhead light to see by. He's lived his entire life surrounded by darkness at night with nobody to be there for him and comfort him.
Red
As I continued to evolve Blue, I somehow came up with the idea that he should eventually meet someone. Someone who could bring happiness to his world of endless desolation. My original idea was for him to fall in love with a scientist working in the lab, but then somehow I came up with the idea of another dog in another identical tube. Thus, Red was born. (I'm not sure what to call her species. Think anthropomorphic Lady-esque, from Lady and the Tramp.)
Unlike Blue, Red wasn't created in the lab. She lead a satisfying and adventurous life. I'm not sure yet, but she may have had a husband and maybe even kids. She was a soldier in the army, and was a bold combatant. Unlike Blue's quiet, shy nature, Red is one to take a problem head on and plow through it.
One day, she came home from serving duty to find her family slaughtered. She couldn't take the pain of loss. I'm not sure yet how this will come to pass, but somehow she got the chance, and took it, to opt to be part of the same project that Blue was part of. She didn't know anything about what the project was about. The only part that mattered to her was that she could have her memory wiped clean so she wouldn't have to deal with the pain, and still do a service to her country.
Once her memory was wiped, she was placed in a tube and that tube was placed in the same lab as Blue's.
Red and Blue
Like Blue, Red now knows nothing of life outside of that tube. Unlike Blue, though, Red obviously hasn't spent her entire life in it. She just doesn't remember anything from her former life.
Red and Blue now at least get to watch each other when the lights are out. The separate tubes don't allow them any real contact, but it's still the best thing that either of them know. Red doesn't have to feel the pain of loss any longer or the confusion of not knowing where she is or how she got there, and Blue doesn't have to feel so alone anymore. Regardless of everything wrong in their lives, they still manage to form a strong bond of friendship and love that can never be broken by any mortal nor ever be cheapened by the things that cheapen the bonds between most normal people. Not knowing anything different, not knowing the sins of mankind, there are no influences that could ever break this bond.
Oh, and Blue was genetically engineered to improve the areas of his brain responsible for psychic activity. Red's brain was modified in a similar way when they wiped her memory. Blue cannot speak english, but they eventually figure out how to communicate to eachother in their thoughts. Red teaches Blue english in this manner.
I don't want to get too much into the story in an entry meant for the characters, so I'll just say that by the end, Red and Blue will escape. They'll become lovers-on-the-run of sorts, on the run from the organization who had previously enslaved them. Due to the nature of their captivity, their love is completely pure and can never be tainted by the things that usually affect most relationships in a detrimental fasion.
Green
Like I said, I don't want to get too much into the story. I'll save that for another journal entry. But before Red or Blue, there was one other failed experiment in this project, and the subject of that one was named Green.
Blue was named Blue because the blue liquid in his tube affected the pigmentation of his fur, giving his fur a permanently blue hue. Red was already a dog of a red coloration, so she got the name Red. Since Green was the first, the technology to grow and maintain him wasn't as developed. The chemicals in his tube water affected the pigmentation of his fur as well, making it permanently green tinted. The scientists thought they had perfected the liquid before it turned Blue blue, but they got it right by the time Red came to be in her tube.
They named Green Green, and Blue Blue, and by the time the girl (I'm not sure what her past life name should be) came to be in her tube, the naming convention stuck, so she became Red.
Anyway, since the technology wasn't so great at the time, Green's body didn't develop right. As a result, he lived on life support systems with tubes and machinery in, out, and all over his body. He was bonded in place so he couldn't move within his tube and damage his body by ripping anything out. Green lived in constant pain in addition to lonliness, but his plight was silent to the scientists who studied him. His brain had been altered in a similar fashion to Red and Blue's so the scientists could study potential applications of technology that could detect psionic emanations.
Rather than simply feeling lonely though, Green began to develop a deep hatred of everyone and everything. His abilities began to grow, and before long scientists who slept in rooms near the lab would start waking up with terrible nightmares.
There was one man who cared about Green. The General who had been appointed to run the project. His superiors had made it very clear to him that he could easily be removed from the project if he didn't cooperate with their wishes, so all he could do about Green's condition was visit him occasionally and try to comfort him through the glass of the tube. The General became the only person whom Green didn't hate. But that all changed one day when the danger of Green's abilities became apparent. The General's superiors ordered Green's termination, and green could only watch and struggle as the General shed a few tears, flipped a switch, and bid Green farewell and wished his soul peace.
The General didn't know, however, that there was hidden functionality in the life support system that didn't kill Green, but only put him in a deep coma. After the General left the installation for what he thought would be the last time, Green was moved to a secret location. A few years later, Blue would be created in the same lab.
The General
He's a hound dog. So far I haven't come up with a name for him, but he's a General and he was placed in charge of the project that oversaw Green's creation. He almost refused when he was ordered back to oversee Blue's creation, but the thought of someone else taking less care of the subject than he would drove him to grudgingly accept. As far as the General knows, Green is dead. (Though he turns out to still be alive.)
Since Blue was being studied for the same types of psychic-detecting technology applications as Green was, the General began to do some research of his own. He hated the barrier that the glass placed between him and Blue. He decided that he'd try to secretly use books to try to teach himself to become psychic, in hopes that he may one day be able to speak with and comfort Blue during this very lonely life he leads. By the time Red comes into the picture, the General is constantly 'borrowing' soldiers and using them in silly exercises, such as making them hold flash cards with shapes on them so he could try to detect and guess what they were. Much to the soldiers' irritation. So far the General has made no noticeable progress on his quest.
He also acts as a father figure of sorts to a young Husky woman who he's known since she was a little girl. She comes to the lab to work as a scientist there. She's constantly seeing soldiers in weird situations, always with an annoyed look on their faces, whenever she comes into the General's office.
The Husky Scientist
I haven't come up with a name for her either. She comes to work in the lab at around the time Red and Blue are there. Like the general, she comes to care for them. She wants them to be free, so she works tirelessly to research the applications of the technology so that the subjects won't be needed anymore and may one day be freed.
Unfortunately, she's had Attention Deficit Disorder her entire life, and it really makes it hard for her to keep on her work. She's becoming increasingly frustrated and depressed that she just can't keep up with her work as well as the other scientists. How can she ever help Red or Blue if she can't even do the work she's supposed to do?
The General, of course, gives her advice on this. ADD isn't a disorder, it's an intelligent mind that doesn't have enough stimulation to keep itself satisfied. If the she can learn to harness her mind and focus on the work fully, she can accomplish more than all of the other scientists, and the General helps her to realize that.
Once she realizes this, the other scientists often see her wearing headphones while she works in the lab. Music gives her brain something to focus on so that she doesn't get bored while she's working. If she finds an extremely interesting or difficult problem to solve, she'll take the headphones off temporarily to devote her full focus to the matter at hand.
That's that I guess
While I may have gotten a little into techno-ey and psychic-y stuff, I hope that you all can look past this surface and identify with the mental and emotional plights all of these characters of mine are experiencing. Blue has seemingly eternal lonliness, Red has the memory loss so she doesn't have to feel the pain of her past life. Red and Blue have eachother to make the desolation bearable. Green has a lifetime of pain and suffering and wishes to be free of his body, to be at rest. The General's love for them all pushes him to unsuccessfully attempt to learn to be psychic, while having to be careful not to make his superiors think that they need to remove him from the project and place someone less caring in his place. The Husky's caring-ness for them pushes her to try to solve the problems surrounding the technology, and she also has to overcome her ADD in order to do so.
I have such love for these characters. Bringing their story to life is one of my greatest life goals. I want to share their plight with the world so that others may come to love them and identify with them like I do.
