Tagged by  ty_desoto

In no particular order of importance.

Fact 1: Two Sides To The Coin.

Garr is actually a half of my two OC's that I think of as making up my fursona.
He has a brother named Fen.
Garr is the loud, angry, boisterous, arrogant, eyepatch wearing, punching with a grin asshole.
Fen is the quiet, calculating, ruthless, thinlipped, organized facilitator.
Of the two of them, Fen is the younger sibling and more powerful by far, including physically.

Fact 2: Texas Implant.

I'm not actually from Texas. I moved from Bakersfield, California.
Way back when I was attending college for veterinary studies, I came back home during spring break.
At the time, I was dealing with how to come out to my Roman Catholic parents.
During that vacation, it felt like they were trying to out me because of things they said.
So I finally came out of the closet.
They were caught completely by surprise and the conversation did not go well.
After my first year of college, I filled a backpack and got in the car and drove to stay with friends in TX.
We get along better now, but my parents are still under the assumption that my homosexuality is a phase.

Fact 3: Fighting RP pt. 1 - Thug Bear

While Garr is predominantly dominant, it's long been a facet of Garr's character that he is fallible.
He has had his fair share of losses.
All things considered, he probably loses more times than he wins.
Garr loves to fight and its the struggle.
Whether he's the one pushing someone around or whether he's fighting for his life.
All the matters to the bear is making an impression, "Give em a show" as he likes to say.
A brilliant flash of lightning that heralds the thunder and then fades away.

Fact 4: Fighting RP pt. 2 - The Savage Noble

Garr's primary tenet is an admiration of strength in its many forms.
When he picks on someone smaller, its like a test of sorts.
To try and push the person into showing him a measure of their worth.
Once he gets into a position of advantage, he likes to goad to have a person strive to reach their capacity.
Part of this is the bear's ego, but there's also a kind of strange evaluation process going on as well.
In a lot of ways the degradation he doles out is designed to break preconceived notions.
To inspire rage and drive.

Fact 5: S&M IRL

I have actually practiced a little bit of S&M in real life and would like to explore more of it.
Activities have included spanking, choking, pup play and backslapping.
Things I am interested in getting involved with are gutpunching and whipping.
And not just as one side but as both the dominant and the submissive.
There's a kind of unorthodox romance in the almost medieval renditions of suffering.
For me, I think its tied to the immense trust that is required.
A submissive shows a remarkable capacity to endure while a dominant shows a firm grip of control.
There are many subtle facets to the fascination I have with S&M and I am still in the midst of exploring them.

Fact 6: Rooted in Realism

While I do fight rp quite extensively, I think a large part of that stems from having practiced martial arts.
I used to belong to a school that taught Goju Ryu Karate Do.
It was an Okinawan school that prided itself on powerful strikes.
I practiced way back in elementary as a means of exercise.
I'd stopped when I hit highschool due to the long hours of education and extracurriculars.
I got all the way up to the rank just before blackbelt.

Fact 7: Happy Violence

Despite having fairly violent literary tastes, I'm actually a pretty nice person most of the time.
Usually I'm the one keeping the peace and trying to keep violence from escalating.
I think in a lot of ways, the rp is a way to let my fictional self punch through problems.
At least instead of having to deal with them with politeness.

Fact 8: Design 101

Garr was never intended to actually become my OC.
He was originally a throwaway npc guard captain but ended up becoming mine.
Even the choice to make him a bear had been made on a whim.
It took me 3 months of rping to finally come out of denial and really embrace the beast.
When I finally did and decided to get art of him, I tried to make him the most nondescript possible character.
So much of the character was his attitude that I didn't want visually distinguishing characteristics.
When I sat looking at my purely black bear
(including the muzzle because I never actually looked at what a real black bear looked like)
I had some second thoughts.
That's when Garr got his white brows, slight goatee, and the patch of white chest fur
The patch has become a bit more like a blaze now.
Sexually, the only real claim to fame the bear has is being uncut and having a much thicker than average cock.

Bonus Fact 1: Vanity Becomes Reality

The eyepatch actually came out of the fact that the first artist to draw garr insisted that I give Garr a set of armor.
I was actually quite happy to keep the nude and call it a day.
But rockblackhorn pushed and pushed until I finally agreed.
I searched up a leather armor set and decided to throw in the eyepatch on a whim.
Admittedly, I thought they looked cool. It was just an accessory.
When I comissioned more art of him later, the eyepatch was kept in.
I hadn't thought to correct the artist and I decided I liked it.
As I began to write with him having it, I enjoyed it more and more and finally embraced it as a character feature.
But embracing it as a feature meant (to me at least) owning up to the requisite consequences.

No Jokes, the featured submission on my page, was essentially a tribute to people who actually have had to suffer through the trauma of losing an eye in the real world.
No anime swords or broken bottles... Just a true depiction of the actual tragedy that losing an eye entails.

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There you go. More reading than you can shake a stick at.
I won't bother tagging anyone but hopefully this was a little insightful and more importantly, entertaining to someone.

Cheers.