So, back in 2000 I had my own personal characters and stories fleshed out, yadda yadda whee wee yay. Things went smooth until I joined the Furry Fandom in order to further write down one of my characters, to flesh him out.

Eventually, Vicks became my 'fursona'. People called me Vicks and I responded as the character. The problem however, is that Vicks was a story character, and was not a representation of how I would act to everything. It was an established character. Many people didn't like me because I acted in an antagonizing manner. It just wasn't me, and the character did not really embody me, but I started embodying the character. Not really how social life works.

Regardless of this, I had been mentioned briefly in my stories, as 'the master', the one entity no one ever saw, no one knew was the master, but WAS around looking and supervising them. This hinted that my fursona, or at least my avatar from the furry fandom, was no longer Vicks.

By 2006, in my stories, Vicks died. I made it clear he was not coming back... While the aftermath of his death was good and well written already, well... Shit. I had to keep all my account names and emails, named after him... This was kind of a blow, as he was now only a support character in my stories, one that eventually disappeared and lost most if not all his importance after a while. So by the end of 2006, I 'rerolled' a fursona. I already had avatar characters elsewhere, such as Victor and Blitzer in my Megaman fan stories, but those stories were also over, and the characters pending continuities. The reason I did not keep Vicks was that I was done using him at the time, and didn't want to keep making a new, changing personality for him, as he was already all written out.

So at the time, I was playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, yeah, the first one. And I thought, 'what if my fursona was not really what I WANTED, but more what I BECOME. I did not choose my gender at birth. Nor my birthplace, the year I was born, the color of my hair and skin, and the state of my mentality, my family members, my train of education, my social partners. Those were consequences of circumstances. So I literally took several franchises I liked. I rolled randomly. After a lot of random rolls and some sensical picking, I ended up with Murkrow. Hey, I should be a Murkrow. Why? Ask the one who gave life to me why he picked me the way I am.

And that's how I stopped caring about Vicks on a personal level, and focused on this new 'Duster' persona. At first, I wanted to keep that singularly for myself, and did not slip him into any stories, although I did have those fantasy stories where he had friends. I was still focusing my stories around Sparky, and Dixie, hinting that I was good enough to leave my Mary-Sue character behind and develop the story around his consequences, leading into a pair of separate stories, one with Sparky, one with Dixie.

Then one day, I was tired of this. the pressure was too much. EITHER I would squish the canons together, or I would just wipe out the Quetzen stories. I was THIS close to closing the Quetzens and giving them a terminal story. Then I saw some inspirational content that made me want to continue them. So I made a third and final chapter to the Dixie story. This is also the one and ONLY time my fursona Duster appeared in any of my stories. Still referred to as the Master, the plot was about me killing off the Quetzen, when Sparky's canon merged in and foiled my plans, giving a complete new chance for the Quetzen to go their own way. After promising to leave them the way they are and let them evolve 'on their own', I led to a massive purge among the race, and I concluded the Story, only using my Quetzens in spinoffs and crossovers. (Until I decided they were all canon and put a finale chapter trilogy to completely conclude the story, but that was years later)



TL;DR
I made my first fursona in 2012. 7 years later I changed the sotries along with my social life. It's been another 7 years and I feel I seriously need it again.

The good stuff now:

I'm changing my fursona again. This time, it is NOT:
1- Something everyone seems to like, that would look awesome, that would embody my desires and fantasies.
2- Something random that just excrete consequences.
3- Something designed just to satisfy everyone I meet.

I have an idea! I'll ask you guys what I should change about some of my current characters!

I'm done with that selfish, personal approach to my characters. That huge story of mine? It's never been written. It's still in MY head, and I'm the only one who changes it. And Duster fell right into what happened to Vicks: He developed a tumor-like storyline that just grew around him, made him friends and enemies, and led to his death. And twice, at that. So I've decided that my 'fursona' would change depending on what story I put it in. In a sense, this means I'll have several 'species', as differnet fandoms and franchises will have different representations of characters. (e.g. I'm not gonna be a pokemon if I'm in the Warcraft fanbase) On the otehr hand, I'll put some suggestions to it, and come my birthday next month, I'd like to see if people would like to see some changes done to my characters (Assuming you know them, or have interacted with them) whether they are from my Vicks stories, or my Duster stories.

Planned changes:

Vicks Story:

- Solidify and simplify the realm around which the events happen (changed from real life Earth but with Furries in one time period)
- write a complete timeline of every event and fork out all the side stories and spinoffs / crossovers
- Main character graphical design changes for the following: Vicks, Neru, Dante, Zelda, Katrina, Sparky, Sonja and Sabrina, Mercy.
- Purge useless stories and summarize them into subplots (Bye bye Nazi partnerships with the Quetzens) along with others.
- Get fresh new ref sheets, and write several chapters. Several of the story arcs are written like video games, I shall script them. A few of them are written like an anime series, I shall write the episode synopsis down.


Duster Story:

- Add protagonists. That story has way more potential than it looks (Was akin to 'antagonists: The Sitcom')
- Write a timeline again. Make sure to polish it and solidify it.
- Solidify character stories, intertwine related characters together.
- Main characters graphical changes for the following: Fraise Carrigan, Duster, Eukaria, Renee, Toffee Muffins, Calbert, Plague, Sludge
- Get ref sheets, script the story, and continue it. It has potential, but isn't fleshed out. So I guess fleshing out is an idea too.


So far, this is what I need input for. I'm changing many of my characters, and need some suggestions for some of them.

Vicks - Add actual anatomy to him. He's just a pair of legs and arms strapped to what looks like a snake.
Neru - Add clothes and a better face. Shi doesn't even LOOK like a dragon.
Dante - Redesign his face and outfit. He looks badass already. Let's make him even more badass.
Zelda - Same as Vicks and Dante. Add clothes, an anatomy, and more badass.
Katrina - Gender and species still intermixed and fucked up. Come up with a nice species design to match her sea pirate theme.
Sparky - Add 10 years to her life. What changed for her, physically and mentally?
Sonja and Sabrina - Those have been protagonists, antagonists, support characters, and sidekicks. Their designs could use some spice, too.
Mercy - Not much is said about this guy. He's a big, buff lizard man with two hydraulic piston-like robot arms.
Fraise Carrigan - She only appeared ONCE in the story she's from. I plan to use her more. She's a Kangolat. I'm too lazy right now to link to it, but they're colorless glowy creatures.
Duster - He's an already well established guy. He's had his days. I'm entirely removing him. IF YOU can give me a reason to keep him in, I'll keep him. It BETTER be a good one.
Eukaria - Giving it more mobility, at long last. It will be able to walk around and not need an avatar anymore.
Renee - No longer fat, no longer bootleg. Will be a real renamon.
Toffee Muffins - Fuck that caramel bullshit.
Calbert - No longer a Wormmon, will remain as a Stingmon.
Plague - Already well designed, some of the mushrooms will disappear. Hir hair will be different too. Dress code as well, maybe.
Sludge - Not a big titted bimbo crux anymore. She'll be more up and about after the story events related to Eukaria and the tragedy involving Renee's death in one of her stories.

New fursona... What would you suggest? So far, I think I want to try a Sylveon. Although, this seems to be favoritism towards Pokemon. I'm not even a hardcore Pokemon fan. Even in-character, Renee is not at all into Digimon, and likes Pokemon more.


Once everyone is done with suggestions, I will try to adapt to it all. I will undergo those changes on my 30th birthday next month. Thanks in advance! (Not that I expect many people to read this or comment)