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What was your first fursona?
8 years ago
GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS! Just thought I'd toss a little conversational journal up here.
What was your first fursona? If you still use the same one, what has changed about them? I have always always loved the idea of fursonas and talking about them with people because I learn so much about them from how they depict themselves in art.
My first fursona was Wolfy, a normal grey wolf that only a couple of pictures exist of--none online, I don't think. And she had the ability to create anything from thought bubbles and use them. I don't remember why I dropped this trait since I usually drew tons of silly comics with her and my cousins' characters.
She quickly became the brown-and-grey undead Wolfy character I used until 2012. Her markings changed a little throughout that time but few actual character facts about her did. Since that character was used for RP and writing and slowly developed into her own character rather than just being 'me' in art I decided to split her off from myself.
That is when Crownless appeared. You'll see that space deer all over my gallery now.
I DO have a few secondary fursonas that I use to represent myself in other settings, like the Vaporeon I occasionally draw myself as.
What about you? What did the changes mean for you?
What was your first fursona? If you still use the same one, what has changed about them? I have always always loved the idea of fursonas and talking about them with people because I learn so much about them from how they depict themselves in art.
My first fursona was Wolfy, a normal grey wolf that only a couple of pictures exist of--none online, I don't think. And she had the ability to create anything from thought bubbles and use them. I don't remember why I dropped this trait since I usually drew tons of silly comics with her and my cousins' characters.
She quickly became the brown-and-grey undead Wolfy character I used until 2012. Her markings changed a little throughout that time but few actual character facts about her did. Since that character was used for RP and writing and slowly developed into her own character rather than just being 'me' in art I decided to split her off from myself.
That is when Crownless appeared. You'll see that space deer all over my gallery now.
I DO have a few secondary fursonas that I use to represent myself in other settings, like the Vaporeon I occasionally draw myself as.
What about you? What did the changes mean for you?
Then it was a dragon. A noodle dragon, just 'cause I wanted to be different. No rhyme or reason for why I wanted to do things that way, but I was still sort of coming to terms with identity and who I really was or wanted to be. I made a character that I thought was my ideal, someone I could strive to be.
That didn't work out, 'cause I'm a loud jackass, the kind who makes a pink dragon with rainbow wings and commissions a lot of weird art. So now, I use one as an online avatar, but he isn't really a "fursona," necessarily. He's just a convenient shorthand. I don't associate myself with my characters because they're not meant to be me. I am me, but I am also not a cute furry animal.
And man I feel that about RPing some of the first things you read about--I would order those Julie of the Wolves and Julie's Wolf pack books from the schoolastic book orders in school and I was ALL ABOUT anything with wolves.
But I never did get into the more "fursona" side of things, at least to the degree a lot of people seem to identify with. I'm not spiritual, I'm not a big believer in reincarnation, nor do I think there's a "real" fursona inside everyone or things like that. I am just me.
I'm so glad the changes lead you to being happier! I love Vix's six-legged design!
It's been fun drawing him! And so happy to see others out there enjoying the form as well! :D
He's a boring and generic dude with encyclopedic knowledge of subjects no one cares about, and he talks too much... Basically me if I were some wolf dude.
More I just change the settings and characters around him and shift his knowledge and a few quirks to fit the alternate setting. Since most of why I write is to explore strange new worlds, concepts and situations, so my main character is always just a cipher to explore the setting with.
He has no special powers or abilities other than what he needs to navigate the world, plot, and whatever concept I'm toying with. If I'm fucking around with transhumanism then he is a transhuman. If not he's a human or has always been a wolf guy in a setting where that's normal.
If I want him to be an outsider he's an outsider, if I need an insider then he's still an outsider who just happens to be inside. And so on and so forth and former army ranger turned off brand shadowrunner and blah blah immortal shapshifting war god because what does humanity even mean past a certain number of bored murders?
You know, standard hack science fiction writer stuff.
If the character's a shapeshifter then you have to write the whole story around how he can be anyone or anything. And I don't like having to tailor the setting to set characters. Unless they're other people's characters, then it's a challenge.