How did your fursona become real (how it is today)?
8 years ago
Just a curious journal, because Ty was made since I was 4 years old. He had several name changes and different looks. His finalized clothing line and looks came 2 years ago when I was in 10th grade. Ty is a mental model of me. Friendly, naive, and easy to get along with. We both play sports, take the same classes, same age and birthday, and we think the same, but have different points at what we struggle and don't. We are both terrible at literature. Haha
But still, how did he come to be at first and then made how he is today?
Main sona specifically, but you can say others as well. It's an open journal to expound your thoughts.
But still, how did he come to be at first and then made how he is today?
Main sona specifically, but you can say others as well. It's an open journal to expound your thoughts.
My fursona tends to go cross-setting just based on how I'm feeling at the time. My excuse is that I picture him as sort of a 'universal hero' that shows up when a world needs him to serve justice and help the common man. I'd like to imagine I could help people out, and so that part of me is also reflected in him. ^w^
Izaäk started out as a clouded thought that came out of the wild blue, he first came to be in 2007 when I was just a lurker on DA. He was the product of my trying to find peace in myself and love in the world. I wanted to be known as something more than just some kid with a bad past. When Izaäk first came to be, he was already very elderly-looking as I saw him as being, in a way, like an imaginary friend since I had/still sorta have no friends in person. He came to be from my secret curiousity in drakons and having seen them drawn anthropomorphically. They looked so strong, brave, and hopeful, something I wanted to associate myself with because in a way, it made me feel safer and more secure as a person, even though this part of me is mostly a secret, though my family knows now, but doesn't pry into it out of respect for me. Izaäk's original name was 'Benjamin Grimm', or 'Ben' for short. Over time, as his backstory began to develope, he became known as 'Leady' since he was a metallic drakon with lead scales, which still carries on over to nowadays. The name change came from my dropping my original last name that was 'Fang' ouf of personal preference, as in, I didn't like it anymore for I felt no connection with such a name, it seemed more suitable for a wolf, not a drakon. With Izaäk's evolution, which was either yearly or ever few years, he would progressively get younger-looking until he came into perfect alignment with my RL age [that being 25]. Almost every part of Izaäk's appearance was actually based off of my RL self and my own evolution over the years. The long whiskers were symbolic of the horseshoe mustache I once had. The hair with the long, styled bangs is made after how I used to style my hair RL, the black hair colour comes from my RL hair which is black/brown with a bit of red here and there as remnant of my Scottish ancestry. The spectacles that Izaäk wears are modelled after the ones I wear, which once belonged to my great grandfather, the man that moved my family from Scotland to Russia during WWII out of fear that the Nazis would invade Great Britian like they did with so many other nations at the time.
Izaäk literally is the drakonian version of my RL self. People often refer to Izaäk as he or him, but I will sometimes correct them and tell them "I am Izaäk, he is me". I know that Izaäk's listed age is around 159, but he still appears to be in his mid 20s because of the alignment between him and my RL self. He has achieved what I think might be perfection for myself.. his last evolution was a month or two ago when an addition pad was added to his feet, down at the heels, to allow him to toggle between plantigrade and digigrade, but still have the large feet from his being part digigrade.. more of a personal preference for a bit of fun in stomping and such~
All of my characters are part of me though, some have come and some have gone, but a few have stayed.. all of them are drakons, all forms of me have a story of their own to tell, all forms of me even have their own name, place of origin, era they lived in, and so on.. you could literally fill a book with it all, but most of it remains up in my head as stored thoughts. All incarnations of Izaäk come from all over, most of them from olde Europe, the olde world. Izaäk is from all over Europe, not just from Russia.
Aurora Borealis was created in 2009, she is a Celtic Drakoness and Izaäk's half sister, as in they both have the same father, who was a slavic drakon that traveled all over Europe and had a thing for eastern drakons. She was introduced and joined Izaäk so that he would have somone to talk to and so he would not be all alone. Aurora is from Ireland, the Emerald Isles, that is also why she is green, shes practically the female version of Izaäk.
A few years later, in 2013, Kozimo Vega, "Count Vega", akak Andez/Andetti came to be, he is a Bulwark Drakon, a very special species that I created that works almost exclusively as a body guard, but hes very loving and a bit motherly too. He was created in the likeness of an olde crush I had whose original sona is no more, Andez was created out of heartache and pain, but also my inability to truely say goodbye to my love, he is regarded as the adopted son of Izaäk and Aurora. Andetti is from Portugal, but he has a VERY strong cultural tie with Italy, even his accent sounds Italian.
In 2015, Basil Bureau, better known as "Ottoman" or "Otto" for short, came to be, he was my first non-Europe OC, he is a French Canadian, he is a 'Balloon Drakon', implying that he lives to swell. He was created out of inspiration from my Canadian fur friends, I found them all to be very friendly and all of the ones I know, all love inflation to extreme sizes, much to my delight.. hence why I hang out with them so much, they're nice to me and are fun to be around. <3
The stories of my drakons can still go on.. and on.. and on.. almost infinently as my constant introspection, thought, and deep soul searching has left me with volumes upon volumes of stored thought, all that was written here is just an inkling of that. I would love to get a fursuit of Izaäk or any of my drakons made, but I can't, mostly out of my fear of my family judging me and also because I have no fur friends around me.. or any friends around me for that matter, and I can't attend cons due to my having anxiety and great fear of traveling far from my home on my own, and not wanting to get my family involved with it because they embarass me and would just ruin what should be the greatest time of my life. So it all just remains in my mind, I am living a double life in a way, it really does hurt me to do so, but i've been around for a decade now and its been a great one, we're not going anywhere, we're here to stay. <3