that website is a very interesting idea, and is written very well. i hope that it can educate people.

I got characters who both are independent characters and some are my alter egos so to speak.

Definitely an idealized self. However, that wouldn't stop me from making more characters; I'm very interested in exploring how unique characters can be both representations of my self-image and separate entities.

Mr. Fek how many test are left?

Not sure! Probably a couple more, for the sex-specific section, then it's nearly finished!

Answered this earlier before the journal. :P Beat you to it. And I make no qualms, my fursona is basically who I want to be. And that includes all the insane, unnatural, demonic aspects that can be applied to him (it's not shown but it was lightly brushed upon years back). Though, to be fair, I couldn't answer your question honestly as the details are a tad more complex. See, I downplay my fursona greatly in the community. He's just your regular fur with my personality, sometimes with a knot, sometimes with a sheath, but always still just me. However, I may have taken great freedoms with his design when it comes to my personal view on him...

I don't use my personal view on him in public as it'd reflect badly on me. It's massively watered down so the community can accept it. The real version, the version only I and few others know, has been added to for years. He became the living form of my dreams, the skin I'm comfortable in, the guy who's an impossible dream simply cos his design extends beyond realistic restraint. Oh, and how I wish I could draw! You have no idea the scenes I've placed him in, the designs I came up for him! I'd paint god damn masterpieces with the things I've seen through his eyes...

He'll never be real, even if furs were possible. And that sucks cos he's the me that has a purpose for his life, a good purpose. Not just to survive cos he can't ignore his training.

I actually hate him. Lucky bastard has more life than I'll ever have, even if I have killed him plenty.

Not a character at all, literally just me in the body/s I wish I had ._.

They're parts of me, certain sets of emotions, wants, needs, pros and cons. Especially Iccia; most of my confidence, joy and happiness is in her character.

For the initial definition on the home page where it says:

fur·ry(noun)
a person who likes anthropomorphic animals

That is the most reliable, generic, boring answer someone could possibly give you, and while it's completely true, it's not very helpful.

I would consider either removing the word "completely" or replacing it with "essentially." Maybe it's my inner academician speaking here, but that sort of all-inclusive statement is likely to make some people who don't like anthropomorphic animals butthurt.

Good catch!

I think the bigger issue is that many people who do like anthropomorphic animals don't identify as furries, so an element of self-inclusion is there, if not mandatory. Because of that, not all people who enjoy anthropomorphized animals are furries (thus the statement itself isn't necessarily true). However, I find it difficult to fathom how one could identify as a furry whilst disliking anthropomorphized animals. But hey, it's bound to pop up eventually, as things tend to do!

Thanks for sharing this! I'm so hyped for seeing this website being complete now!

I chose the third option, but I would have chosen all three. Each one of my plethora of characters takes an aspect of me and expands it into its own person, a person who I wish I could be.
Allessandra is my urge to be the helping hand and do the right thing, extended into an angel of justice. She, too, has an alter ego, the Violet Thunder, who exemplifies my rage at the injustices of the world, personified as so he can do something drastic.
Evo is my need for love, for family, for help. Oft repressed, but quiet, learned, and with a voice... sometimes. She holds everything I want to say, but can't.
The Chromata Sisters are my extroversion, my need for community, personified into a happy, close-knit family of nine, always accepting, but never really needing more, accepting more friends as a luxury instead of a necessity.
Lazuli is my fear of the world, of the future, of everything and nothing. It is through him I seek protection, affection, validation for my own impotence.
Selena is my conviction, representing what I believe of justice to be as a religion, shaped after the Japanese Sun Goddess Amaterasu. She also represents my lack of limits in her pursuit to make the world the best place it can be, taking any back door, no matter how unethical, for the greater good.
Faron is my curiosity incarnate, put into a form of an ever-curious alchemist, as well as my love for the mystic and also the natural, living amongst fairies.
I have many more. Many that are left unsaid, unshared. But I feel this can wait for another time.

... Holy shit, that got way more philosophical and long-winded than it needed to be.

I don't really have a character. Closest thing to that, is that i have a pretty good idea in my head of what I'd want to be if i wasn't human. Doesn't really mean all that much to me, I've never really considered it part of my identity or anything. I'm not uncomfortable in my current body or anything like that, but i would probably jump at the opportunity if given the option to wake up one day in my ideal body, assuming I wouldn't be black V& by the government or put on national news or something.

As a writer, I have a TON of characters who are independent. However, all of them have some part of me in them, even if that part is just a strong emotion I felt or how I might react in a certain, utterly hypothetical situation. I do have two characters who are my idealized self, one of them a "pokesona" the other a "regular" fursona, so I answered like that in the survey, since they are my most important characters (precisely because they represent the me I can't be IRL).

My OC's Sinful Rose and Night Skies represent who i am, they are my personality, my compassion, my anger, my everything, who they are is based off me and what they do is who i am. I am them, and they are me

hms, I cant click the button on my tablet to answer but here is my answer.
Natsumi is very much me, my best friend, and my shoulder to cry on. She has been around since I first got into middle school and helped me deal with abusive step father after step father and my own dad picking drugs and a needle over being in my life. She isnt an amzing sona, she doesnt have amazing fur patterns or art by awesome artists (though the arts she does have is amazing, should check it out *clicks their sabers and winks) some may even say she is very basic bt she is my sona and I love her. I dont need a bunch of different "characters" she does everything I need. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20497269/ if you wanna check her out~

This project will either be a positive and informative outlook for people looking into the fandom, or it's all going to backfire. Horribly.

I got three sonas and one of them is me, one of them is an icon, and one of them is just doing his own thing... so... all of them???

really nice website!. Like the layout of the page.

Huh. most people use their character as a furry representation of themselves.