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Fursona questions
12 years ago
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Since these are often popular questions when chatting with other furries (and I've enjoyed reading other people's responses to them), I figured some of you might be interested in my own answers if I posted them here. Here goes!
What made you choose the species of your main fursona?
It was, ultimately, the amusing double-meaning that it enabled my name to represent: "Procyon" the scientific genus of the raccoon but is both a bright star in the night sky, so the character and name explicitly embody my scientific interests and IRL career path as well as a pretty awesome furry critter. I adopted the name online first (it permanently solved my perennial dilemma about whether to use an online handle involving a physics/astro reference or a zoology/biology reference in my early days online), and the character eventually followed once I started feeling obligated to come up with a subtitle, avatar, etc. to also indicate the double meaning.
Of course, it helped that raccoons are pretty awesome: clever and crafty, able to manipulate objects even in quadrupedal form, and definitely in the small-cute-critter category without also being complete pushovers. Still, ultimately, the species followed from the name!
Does your fursona have the same personality you have?
Not really. IRL I'm pretty shy, reserved, and cautious; Procyon is (when played in social environments) quite extroverted, obnoxious, and constantly demanding to be the center of attention. But maybe there are some similarities; when I was in middle school my personality then was actually pretty similar to the way I envision Procyon being all the time - loud, unconcerned with others' opinions, and generally a bit of a troublemaker (but never in a dangerous or serious way).
Does your fursona have the same dislikes and likes as you do?
Largely, although Procyon is surely a little less spoiled in that he is a feral living in the forest and so on and can't afford to dislike certain things.
Does your fursona look like you at all?
It's hard to compare against a feral, but at least eye color and overall build are the same. Procyon is unusually small in all dimensions, though, whereas I'm pretty tall IRL.
Is your fursona the same gender as you, if not why?
Technically, yes, although Procyon (while nominally male) is effectively genderless for all practical intents and purposes. On the other hand I'm also pretty close to being genderless personally (see 3 questions down), so whatever.
Do you have more then one main fursona?
No, I don't have any other characters I actively use to represent myself online or internally. Long ago (before I knew anything about furry) I had a mountain lion proto-fursona that I would sometimes envision myself as, but have had no real connection to him since Procyon became an actual character; and of course there is Cami, my fursuit character (who was constructed to also carry some symbolic meanings about my interests), but neither comes near what I consider a fursona.
Is your fursona mated, if so is it to your real life significant other?
My fursona is not mated.
If not are they looking for a mate?
"No" would be the correct answer although just as in IRL this is a subject that causes me a little bit of grief. There is no fundamental reason why Procyon has to also be asexual - the character is intended to be more outgoing and less restrained than I am, open to experiences which I might not be - yet ultimately even thinking about the issue of romantic/sexual relations in character leads to the same sort of massive personal discomfort that it does in real life. And as a result Procyon ends up being exactly the same as me, feeling vaguely like something is missing yet hemmed in by an inability to develop strong feelings for anyone and open discomfort/fear of even the concept of intimacy.
I guess that was a little more introspective than I intended.
Is there something special about your fursona that you think sets them apart from others?
No; while I've settled on some details about the exact fur color patterning that may make Procyon moderately identifiable compared to a generic sketch of a non-anthro raccoon, none of those details are really "special". Having an exclusively non-anthro character is a bit unusual, but hardly rare either.
Do you have much art of your main fursona/s?
Lots and lots.
Would you ever consider parting with your main fursona, if so why?
Absent some sort of unimaginable life crisis, nope!
If you suit, do you have a suit of your main fursona?
Nope, my suit is of a completely different character, as I mentioned above. You can't really fursuit ferals (other than maybe bears, wolves, and other large creatures, and even then only very uncomfortably).
Have you ever roleplayed with your main fursona, or do you prefer not to?
Yep, lots of times. Though usually it's not particularly serious or formal roleplay.
Do you consider your main fursona to be a part of you in any way?
Sure, it's been how I've preferred to think of myself and represent myself where possible for 13 years, so that means something!
What made you choose the species of your main fursona?
It was, ultimately, the amusing double-meaning that it enabled my name to represent: "Procyon" the scientific genus of the raccoon but is both a bright star in the night sky, so the character and name explicitly embody my scientific interests and IRL career path as well as a pretty awesome furry critter. I adopted the name online first (it permanently solved my perennial dilemma about whether to use an online handle involving a physics/astro reference or a zoology/biology reference in my early days online), and the character eventually followed once I started feeling obligated to come up with a subtitle, avatar, etc. to also indicate the double meaning.
Of course, it helped that raccoons are pretty awesome: clever and crafty, able to manipulate objects even in quadrupedal form, and definitely in the small-cute-critter category without also being complete pushovers. Still, ultimately, the species followed from the name!
Does your fursona have the same personality you have?
Not really. IRL I'm pretty shy, reserved, and cautious; Procyon is (when played in social environments) quite extroverted, obnoxious, and constantly demanding to be the center of attention. But maybe there are some similarities; when I was in middle school my personality then was actually pretty similar to the way I envision Procyon being all the time - loud, unconcerned with others' opinions, and generally a bit of a troublemaker (but never in a dangerous or serious way).
Does your fursona have the same dislikes and likes as you do?
Largely, although Procyon is surely a little less spoiled in that he is a feral living in the forest and so on and can't afford to dislike certain things.
Does your fursona look like you at all?
It's hard to compare against a feral, but at least eye color and overall build are the same. Procyon is unusually small in all dimensions, though, whereas I'm pretty tall IRL.
Is your fursona the same gender as you, if not why?
Technically, yes, although Procyon (while nominally male) is effectively genderless for all practical intents and purposes. On the other hand I'm also pretty close to being genderless personally (see 3 questions down), so whatever.
Do you have more then one main fursona?
No, I don't have any other characters I actively use to represent myself online or internally. Long ago (before I knew anything about furry) I had a mountain lion proto-fursona that I would sometimes envision myself as, but have had no real connection to him since Procyon became an actual character; and of course there is Cami, my fursuit character (who was constructed to also carry some symbolic meanings about my interests), but neither comes near what I consider a fursona.
Is your fursona mated, if so is it to your real life significant other?
My fursona is not mated.
If not are they looking for a mate?
"No" would be the correct answer although just as in IRL this is a subject that causes me a little bit of grief. There is no fundamental reason why Procyon has to also be asexual - the character is intended to be more outgoing and less restrained than I am, open to experiences which I might not be - yet ultimately even thinking about the issue of romantic/sexual relations in character leads to the same sort of massive personal discomfort that it does in real life. And as a result Procyon ends up being exactly the same as me, feeling vaguely like something is missing yet hemmed in by an inability to develop strong feelings for anyone and open discomfort/fear of even the concept of intimacy.
I guess that was a little more introspective than I intended.
Is there something special about your fursona that you think sets them apart from others?
No; while I've settled on some details about the exact fur color patterning that may make Procyon moderately identifiable compared to a generic sketch of a non-anthro raccoon, none of those details are really "special". Having an exclusively non-anthro character is a bit unusual, but hardly rare either.
Do you have much art of your main fursona/s?
Lots and lots.
Would you ever consider parting with your main fursona, if so why?
Absent some sort of unimaginable life crisis, nope!
If you suit, do you have a suit of your main fursona?
Nope, my suit is of a completely different character, as I mentioned above. You can't really fursuit ferals (other than maybe bears, wolves, and other large creatures, and even then only very uncomfortably).
Have you ever roleplayed with your main fursona, or do you prefer not to?
Yep, lots of times. Though usually it's not particularly serious or formal roleplay.
Do you consider your main fursona to be a part of you in any way?
Sure, it's been how I've preferred to think of myself and represent myself where possible for 13 years, so that means something!
Procyon
~procyon
OP
Perhaps. But the notion is one that causes me great anxiety, even without the physical details.
taikamiya
~taikamiya
Hmmm maybe I'll have to do this myself *paws at*
