Well, I rarely use my fursona in anything except little comics where I break the fourth wall. But I'd say it's basically just me as a fur. I don't flatter myself with humongoid cocks and rippling muscles. It's just me. That's pretty much it.

...thought I wouldn't turn down having myself drawn in a flattering sexual encounter. Giggity

Amen to that, brother!

Oh, no, I'm a total narcissist.

LOL. Now that's honesty.

Well, I guess that could be considered Narcissism in any amount.

Then again it isn't Narcissism at all, since Narcissism is when you neglect others in favor of your own beauty/attractiveness/awesomeness.. so drawing a picture or posting a story that strokes your own ego is only as damaging as you let it be?..

That said, I like to consider my character a personal fantasy more than an expression of myself. They are what I want to be, in a way. I have some goals that she's fulfilled, including being alot more comfortable about her body and herself, and so on.

I think you should be more worried about ending up like me. My muse is a sexual entity that I am a little jealous of and who actually inspires me occasionally. :U

Now that you got me thinking about it, it's kinda funny: I kinda wonder if my fursona is just my own Tyler Durden?? hmmm

I am jack's anthropomorphic vulpine personification.

I am Jack's winter coat....

Depends on how connected a person is to their fursona, I know there's a few people who claim their fursona just fulfills some un-written "everything must be furry" rule.

And I guess there's also times when you just can't think up original throw-away characters just to tell a small story, or something based on something that really happened to someone's embarassment.

I just use it as an alias! ... and.. roll playing. Bread playing. Mmhmm. I know my rolls.

I'd have to have more than pretty much just my two characters to avoid putting them in everything, or do nothing but work with other peoples' characters. :V

I don't really care if its a bit narcissistic. So is wanting to have sex with yourself. Or is that Incest? Maybe it was just masturbation.

why wouldn't I?
I'm amazing! who wouldn't want to draw me?

honestly though, with my stuff it's one of 3 categories.

1) funny looking people I see outside.
2) stupid shit I find funny.
3) sexual situations I find sexy but never seem to be drawn :P

Basically, a fursona for me is an easy way to explain who I am. Basically, I do represent a raccoon, michevious and nocturnal. But what originally drove me to join was that I earned the nickname kittycoon because I was always called that by my ex girlfreind. Even though I am done with her I just loved the name so much, then during an internet session I read about furries. Realizing that this was a perfect fit in my personality, I decided to join in. Still I need to finish the real picture.

My fursona started out as a pseudo wish-fulfillment then and eventually kind of hybridized with Narcissism to a small degree.

Total narcissist here, but no Echo or Amenias pining over me.

I barely ever draw my character.. I usually draw my other ones in sexual situations. When I do draw my character, I draw her in the way I wish I could be like- from her tattoos, piercings, to car racing and being the drummer of a band.
It's a bit much, but her personality is what I'd like to be. But, considering my body build and just my lack of achieving these things, she can for me.

Plus, I have quite an active imagination- stories and plots always swirl inside my head, until I fall asleep. But even then I always dream.

So, Odette, aka CautionCat, is just an extension of what I wish I could be, and things I might be a little too afraid to do normally.

...I can't honestly say I have a singular fursona, being as all of my characters really... don't have my exact personality, but rather most of them are stuck off with individual pieces of it. ...Essentially making all of them some sort of ego-stroking extension. I suppose Duncan is closest to being a direct fursona, and he runs around boning everything with a gigantic dong. That... doesn't speak to well to me, does it? xD They're mostly a way to express myself without... putting myself out there. A little ego boosting here and there, but mostly a way to lack inhibitions about interacting with others. I don't believe any of them to be close enough to myself to be a direct representation of pride or vanity or anything, but take them as you like.

i think their might be a bit of narcicisum to it but its also a needy thing :D i mean its very fun to be involved in something and in art you can involve yourself in any thing imaginable so in a way its like fufilling every fantasy yu could want

Hm... I suppose it could be something like narcissism, but I don't care about that so long as other people don't. :P

-Said the big boob queen.

x) I'm just kiddin'. Honestly, that's a pretty healthy way to look at it, I think.

*huffs, hands on hips* I dunno why people think I'm some big boobed queen. I mean, I'm barely an F-cup usually... *looks down at them*

:P

Yeah. Then Tora comes along with a little mad science and exploitation, and soon you're moving mountains almost literally. xD

Hee~ <*^.^*> Hopefully. :P

I sorta like to see them as like, something you think of as your ideal body, something you're more comfortable in than in your own, so i guess involving it in your fantasies and drawings is sorta a way of living the life of that version of you, if that makes any sense.

Welllll....given that most humor comes at said creation's expense, I'd have to suggest that it may in fact be suggestive of a martyr complex instead of a narcissistic mindset. That's just my thought on the matter. Really. It's five in the morning. I don't know what I'm saying or thinking, but I'm letting it out because I should be asleep and lack inhibition currently.

SUFFER FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE MASSES! WHOOOOO!!

for me its 50/50

its part me from the realm called "real life" (physique, hair, clothing style) and partially my fantasy and how i would like to be, this being less scared and more self-confident etc... if i were to make a comic it would mostly be about what i want to be, me being a solid person instead of the flimsy person i am irl so i have at least someone to look up to XD (see it like the "imaginary awesome friend who you look up to because he isnt afraid of anything" but then with your internet reflection)

Hey, it's like having a featured character all your own I think. People might like your character, and since they con only see it from you, basically, then it just makes sense to draw them a lot! And everyone has a character of their own creation, created by some means. I don't know if it's an ego-stroke so much as it is just getting your creation out there. Believe me, everyone likes to see their brain-baby come to life, one way or another.

I can't speak for others, really, but in my case, my fursona is definitely also a personal fantasy. He's got everything I wish I had and reaches for things I personally would be too scared to take. I guess in a sense then Kento is just me without limits, self-imposed or otherwise.

As for getting him drawn, the only thing keeping me from comissioning more people to draw him i slack of money. :P

There's not anyone I think I know better than myself! That's why I'm so easy to draw for me.

Surriously, though. Sometimes, for people like me, a Murrsona's kinda an escape. I have my real life friends, whom I spend most of my time with, and I have my other group of friends, my online friends whom I've met through Tabachi. There's not a change in personality between the two, which could be different for anyone. But I'm just honest like that :P

Plus, you know. Humpahumpahumpahumpahumpa.

To me it depends on the charater that is involved... The story plot and what not... Heck... I at times have seen some people putting there Fursona as a side chatater or as such the damsel in destress. I say ego stroke yes, Fanstasy Charater... Heck yea in some senses... Then again... To be honest how many people are 'Really' going to be honest in making there Charater look 'exactly' like there selves?

At any rate... I'l just stick with my Theory that is depends on who's doing looking and that's how the charater is precived.

Well, ignoring the fact that I don't draw myself...

I've never looked at Minnie Shoof and said "that is me." Minnie Shoof is a character, and of hir own whims and fancies. Shi has many PARTS of my personality... but I can never look at her and picture myself in the same scenario. It doesn't hurt that I never actually get off to any pictures featuring her or any of my characters.

Its not narcissism.... I'm mearly giving my ego a good ol fashion hand job. It needs some appreciation from time to time.

Mine has ME for the lulz

I try to make my fursona's as different from me as I can. >.> Although the anthro shadow of a robe kinda sums up how I feel when I get depressed sometimes. ^.^;

My first 'fursona' was an better half that could not feasibly exist in the waking world, as it were. A knight in shining armor archetype that was an outsider being one of very few furs in a primarily human game.

The second fursona was certainly foundation work for the doctor to come, simultaneously an outlet for gender role exploration as well as a plot mechanism of body alteration which allowed her to explore the needs and wants of the masses. A series of changes effected this character to maintain an outsider stance at one point or another, something which is more recognizable in hindsight than I could confess at the time of play.

This would eventually give way to my current fursona, who while constructed to be a new archetype quickly fell into the habits of the previous fursona when an IC opportunity opened up the doctor path in a game setting of ridiculous super science which lent itself to body modification again. This time the outsider trait would be hermaphroditic, yet when that became too comfortable with the general goings on she has a nasty habit of psychologically enforcing distance.

It seems that the longer I hold onto a character the more my real life personality seeps into it. Although the fursonas seem to remain over-sexualized for the community they exist in, the flexible morals, interpersonal problems and dissatisfied intellectualism remains.

My fursona is everything I see in myself. It's not personal flattery, I see myself actually far from narcissism. I would almost put my fursona as what I am, in spirit. in any case, I often find myself in similar situations which turn out to be comic briliance from the third person viewpoint. But most of those situations have yet to be illustrated as of yet...

Pretty deep insight there, Nori. makes lots of sense when you put it into those words.

Let me see... Sydak used to represent me, but now he's his own. Umbri is her own. Sneer is his own. Han is his own.

So all that leaves is Teej. Do I really feel that I can be pretty goofy and silly, all the while being pummeled down for not having a true fursona? Sounds rather masochist to me.... Am I? =B

Siege is me, in more awesome situations, with a marginally increased degree of awesome to let him survive the situations. If I were in those situations, I'd probably be nearly as awesome.

I draw Siege most commonly because A) I know how to do it right (mostly) with consistency. He also fits into most situations, and his reactions are easier for me to determine, since they'd just be my own, whereas some of my other characters that I never really draw would require me to stop and think about what they'd do and/or say.

Plus, when I envision a situation, I envision myself in that situation rather than some other character, so it's only natural to draw myself+(tail+muzzle+horns) in that situation.


To go into the whole "what is the motivation behind it" opens a grand can of worms, (I took a class that boiled down to the fact that even knowing why we do something is utterly impossible, in addition to knowing what truth actually is and basically everything else we know is also impossible to be certain of). In the end it would boil down to the philosophical viewpoint taken when looking at the issue, in all likelihood.

"Or- with the whole thing being wish-fullfillment anyway- is it never inappopriate?"

Or would that make it ALWAYS inappropriate? Hmm. Well, I think it varies. I mean, it's always a little narcissistic to draw or have someone else draw your fursona, but that in itself isn't a bad thing. A little narcissism is healthy, since not liking yourself at all would denote serious self-esteem issues.

Now, if it's you drawing your own fursona, then the act of drawing it doesn't mean you have an ego problem. Everyone has their fantasies, and putting them down on paper is just natural if you're an artist.

For the people who are just art whores, however.. I think if someone does that waaaay too much, to the point where the fursona becomes famous simply because there are hundreds of different drawings floating around the internet, then yeah.. that person probably has some ego issues. It's like they're saying, "I'm awesome, and I want YOU to pay tribute to me!".

And either way it can become a serious problem if the artist or art-whore starts taking their own wish-fulfillment fantasies too seriously, and come to believe that they really ARE all that and a bag of chips, and take offense if everyone doesn't bow down and treat them as such.

But hey, that's just my two.. uhh.. rolls of cents. :D

i jsut like drawing furries. musta been cus i trip into VCL and The Belfry be came addticted and drew myself useing my astrogogy animals. rabbitm firecat( thay ment the red panda ) and i stuck fox in there cus i love foxies almost as much as i do wolfs. meh but after the last 7 years it stuck and i realy dont draw my fursona much..... olny recently ive have been.

An interesting question! Sure, I can see a core of narcissism there, but I suspect there's a great deal of leeway depending on the person. Some might be all about themselves, others might honestly be attempting to explore reality through the viewpoint of a furry avatar. Most everything lies somewhere in between, I suppose.

Gues I'm just in it for the bad sex!

Heh, I tend to draw my fursona the most because its easyer for me to draw something I created. Its a lot harder for me to draw other things, like other characters, because I dont know them inside and out. Its hard enough for me to draw anything now at days so drawing something that is a challange is definately making something difficult even more so.

I have a few that represent me, though Blade Wyng is the main one who does. Deadeye seems to be my male side when I'm in the mood for yaoi.

It is a bit spiritral with Blade Wyng because of a meditation that I had done in college with a pagan group. The meditation was the "Golden Gown" meditation where as you went into the state, you would feel yourself going down a staircase to where a mirror was. The mirror was/is your soul mirror and when I looked into it, I had seen Blade Wyng. I remember waking up afterwards saying "I have cat ears."

Before that, I would feel a phantom sensation of wings, I still do, and my first ex girlfriend had felt one when I experimented with them to see if I could put one around her shoulders.

Blade Wyng and most of my characters started off as characters in a fan fiction that I had written, then decided to take them to my own sort of world because they evolved past the fan fiction that they were in. Felt like when I was writing what I was, I was writing more for my characters anyways X3

I had Blade Wyng as a name online for a while, then I went to Demented Pixie, though that was to hide from someone who found me anyways. I went back to Blade because it just fit better, even if saying "Hi! I'm Demented!" was fun to say.

For me Cole is a bit of a mix... Definitely some wish fulfillment in there along with him being my vision of the “ideal-me”. Although his color came about literally because I was in a cold period of my life back when I was 16 and became rather fixated with ice and cold.

I give my fursonas personality traits that I intend on having myself as soon as I'm ready to take them in real life.

It's kind of how I plan my future.

I don't commission/write myself in enough art/stories for it to be considered narcissistic, really...