Just decided to compile a brief history of Syder he had a bit of a slow start, but kinda snowballed after Version 5, I drew inspiration from a lot of things, mostly myself, but also movies and games, StarFox and Sonic .. And actually DragonBall Z, were early influences, although all those are mostly gone now.

He had his start as an one-off side character in a story I had wrote

V1- First appearance - June 5th 1999
V2- minor updates
V3- re-work of back story
V4- appearance updates
V5- complete overhaul, became anthropomorphic Tiger, became fursona -spring 2006
V6- minor appearance updates, last name of "Akaris" became official
V7- became a "Lyger" height and weight finalized, addition of cybernetic body parts
V8- minor body type update, additional cybernetics added
V9- removal of all cybernetics, better defined body type, colour and markings update -current version

V10- major update? (Possibly including eyes, hair, tail, cock?) -currently drafting

... And now back to our regularly scheduled programming ...