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7 years ago
I've been planning a giveaway since 3000 watchers but I'm only just now approaching a somewhat convenient schedule to do it.
But I didn't want to just randomly choose a watcher, instead, I wanted to use this opportunity to interact with all of you in a new way.
So, to win a giveaway, post a comment telling me what your fursona means to you, something fun or significant that happened to you because of it.
Best comment wins.
To give you an example of what I'm looking for, here's how I got to FA:
One day, a random person on Facebook asked me if he can see my screeches in full resolution. And without thinking anything of it, I of course said yes. This somehow led to what I consider to be a real friendship with 
Anti-heros who suggested that I join FA. The decision to do this, actually changed my life, and I have no idea where I would be without FA today.
In later conversation, he told me that I was the only artist to say "yes" to his request...
My life and my career exist now because I did something so small and insignificant that I can't even consider it to be a "nice thing to do" and yet, some people didn't want to do as much...
Anti-herosThe story about how I became a digital artist in the first place is just as weird to me, but that's best left for some other time...Oh and, do post links of your reference sheets (or any other reference) with the comment.
My Sona is about as boring as it can be, it's just my favourite animal, a Rhino, but I'd say it's because of my love for Rhinos and other exotic animals as a kid that I ended up doing the charity work I do, sure it's just spending time with rescue dogs, but it's something I love doing because it gave me something to wake up and look forward to.
I show them some love and I get smothered in dog hair in return.
The story of my fursona is probably not so exciting but means a lot for me nonetheless. For a long time I switched between animals nearly every month, until I found a "The Lion King" fan forum and made a kind of oddly patterned orange/black/white lioness. A few people there played a Pen and Paper role play game called "Werewolf: The Apocalypse" and as someone who dwelled on forum rpg's for a long, long time I had to try it out. My first character in that game was a were raven, a male Corax named Asagi Sh'gawi, who always wore a palestinian cloth. I always was more fond of playing male characters than female ones even though I am female myself. He meant a lot for me in a hard time (school bullies and arguing parents on the border of divorcing) and I enjoyed the evenings being this potty-mouthed never ending happy raven. Some times later I changed the character in the group to my lioness fursona and Asagi himself did quite a horrible thing so he would have leave the group anyways. But I never forgot him, even when I left the rpg group because of missing time. I even got the glyph of the were ravens as a tattoo on my wrist.
Years passed without playing Pen & Paper, but when I started university I found a few guys who were interested in such. I offered to master the group, and we decided to play "Vampire: The Masquerade", a system that plays in the same universe as the werewolf game. I was horribly nervous, I never mastered before, so I added a familiar face as a non-player character into the first round, and Asagi got his comeback. The guys loved his attitude and he had a few appearances in the game. Later I changed the group and mastered the same adventure again, and there he even got the best friend and best man of one of the player characters.
After all that time I lost more and more interest in my lioness fursona and changed her to a ferret while sticking with the colors. But it still felt... wrong. I never even liked ferrets that much that I would call them my favorite animal. I always loved birds, but I was never able to draw then, I couldn't "get" their form and shape. But in the last year I learned so much about anatomy and drawing itself, and suddenly there were birds. Like, many of them. It was so liberating, I can't even put it into words. And then I tried out ravens, and it worked. It worked so well.
After having a fursona for such a long time I was embarrassingly afraid of the change, but I wanted it so _bad_, because it felt so right. I scribbled a few designs, and none of them was quite right, until I got the idea of adding the palestinian cloth - and it clicked. After about thirteen years the most important role play character I ever had was finally at his well deserved place as my fursona, and even if I changed the gender so it would fit mine it is still mostly him and I love it.
Dang, this text got... long. I'm a little embarrassed. Sorry for all the mistakes, english is not my first language, but it was so nice to write this story down. Thank you for the question and this great idea! :)
Edit: Wow, I was so nervous I even forgot to add the character sheet. It's here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25228207/
And because of it I've met some really awesome people that I hope stay in my life for quite some time.
If I must talk about my persona - it was a joke at the start until I met my friend [at the time] of a decade. At first, I remember when I first joined FA and posted a redo on how my persona looked, she was there being a sweet butt about how she liked the OC even if I thought it was just badly drawn but yet she told me one the most helpful things out there when it came to art - " Always take art for a passion, not a form of a workload" Over the years we bonded and even to the point we started a 8 year story / roleplay that over time we started to add little bits of each other that we came to a point where we questioned everything when things were really dire on her end - that is where it hit me, our story, our personas - they were our getaways from our real lives and what it carried. We became lovers some time after that and made us so strong over time. I hold my persona close as I hold her closer.
This is my sona http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24742018/ His name is Citlaleztli. He has been in my mind since i was 12 years old( I discovered the Furry fandom at 2009 ) As years past i changed a lot and well he changed too. He looked more like a bad ass motorcicle driver, but one day i found ateacher that loved the maya culture and he trasnmited that love to me. That made me change my sona in a complete way. Citlaleztli,became a tribal wolf.
As for the ugly look of my sona...I have always been in love with monsters. When i was little the teachers at my school used to chat with me abut that,because they didn`t liked my afection to monsters. That afection took me into some truble with my mom.
Well i had take that love that i have to monsters and put it to my sona. The other reason is that i used to be this kid that got sick all the time and well it`s kind of a methafor for that. He is not perfect as i am not perfect.
It`s been a year since i had the opportunity to get a drawing of my sona. I could not stop watching the drawing.
At the end Citlaleztli is me in everyway,but well with some modifications XD For example am not muscular or a monster. Am not the wolf, the wolf is me.
The best part is that i can imagine and creat a lot of stories about him and well that´s something that i love to do.
Well, before I knew what furry was I'd been mad on tigers as far back as I can remember but at age 10 it became wolves. Totally obsessed. As I got older, it turned to werewolves and I stumbled upon the Werewolves Of Suburbia website. I think that was my tipping point ;)
I somehow heard about FurryMUCK and looked into it... WAY too many wolves there and I wanted to stand out, so I gave it thought. For some reason my first thought for a second species was cheetah (as they are awesome) which is odd, as my prior tiger obsession should've won out ;)
And thus Torque the cheetah was born (I found the name amusing as it relates to a twisting turning motion, rather than anything to do with SPEED) ;)
I did, however, miss the wolfiness and after seeing someone using weird code stuffs to change their appearance, BOOM! My character was (properly) brought into existence :D
The background I went with was that he was born of cheetah and wolf parents, who used a bit of magic to aid conception. He was born cheetah and didn't discover his ability to shift between the two forms until late childhood. He can now shift between the two forms at will and maintain either form (or any hybrid of the two) for as long as he likes. Sometimes it happens without thinking though, such as if someone surprises him, he'll go full wolf as it's his stronger form :)
As to what he means to me? He conveys aspects of my personality in each form, usually exaggerated. As a cheetah he's friendly, mischievous, open, caring and likely to take a joke too far. As a wolf he's more stand-offish, private, calm and calculating. I'm one of those people who is overly attached to their avatar and doesn't like anything bad happening to them (so you'll never see me in vore and unlikely to see anything gory).
Most significant thing that happened? Well, he helped me come out. Like a shy dude with a fursuit, he acted as a sort of 'shield' that made it easier to do :) From there I met first, second, third and current BF through him one way or another... And I've been with the current BF for about 16 years now :D He's close enough to being my opposite that we get on amazingly well, but not opposite enough to cause problems. Though we are both tops, which is kind of a problem in and of itself, but we manage :)
Apologies for the wall of text, but I found the question intriguing and couldn't help myself >.>
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5413433/ and http://www.furaffinity.net/view/22093676/
Also a NSFW one, as I love it to bits :D !NSFW! http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2482208/ !NSFW!
I would play her in that campain for about 2 years every week befor her story was concluded and was phased out of the campain. witch was a very sad day for me.
anyone who have played any DnD like game and had a char for a long time knows how thies feels.
i have tried to make it so that every pic i get of her repesent a personal trait. i also started to do light RP of her here on FA witch resulted in a few more freiends gained. and now we goof around on discord almost daily.
meh that will do.
I used to follow the fandom closely since I was 14. I didn't really bother with the NSFW part of it but mostly the SFW part (since I was quite ashamed and closeted about my sexuality). Moving on past that, I met a guy while playing War Thunder who kind of got me into Furaffinity, and he showed me furrymaps where I could see some registered furries. My country while not backwards is traditional and slightly not as "modern" as other ones in the EU. So I used the maps to see if there were any furries around me. That happened in October 2016 and I was 20 at the time.
In a span of weeks I met some of the best people I have ever met, However due to me having depression and insomnia issues I was a very abrasive person even if I tried to be friendly.
In December I met the love of my life, with who I am with to this day. My first fursona was a grey wolf, to "match" my personality since I was leading, vocal and quite arrogant as a person. I study political studies and international relations and everyone saw me as one of the most leading albeit arrogant students of my university.
Over time my partner helped me soften up, overcome my issues and my depression. Then I did something last October that to this day I am ashamed of, but it changed me greatly, and taught me how to forgive others and myself. And with that I realized that I was not the same person who joined the fandom. I was not the arrogant guy who constantly tried to voice his views and almost enforce them upon others. All I cared about was being right to myself, and to those who I love. And being right to myself, meant to be just to others as well. And so I slowly have become much calmer, less vocal, a bit less leading, but quite driven and much less ruthless than I was.
I learnt how to appreciate feelings and how to understand them without being illogical or silly.
So I decided to change my fursona to something new, and I had the idea of changing to a badger, owing to the fact that badger are generally docile but fierce if disturbed. They are also quite smart and resolute, rarely backing down, a homage to my own stubborness.
So uhm... yeah
The badger is just signifies how much I changed as a person and how different I am from when I first joined.
Here ends the wall of text.
Hope you give it to someone who does not have a lot of art. I mostly wanted to share the story
I'm currently doing some more revisions to the whole thing. I'm looking to focus more on character personalities related to psychological aspects and ideologically driven idiosyncrasies. I've been listening to Jordan Peterson's lectures on the subject from his Maps of Meaning videos on YouTube. I think it will be fascinating and fun to apply those lessons to character development, especially Gideon. I'm not sure if this is the kind of thing you were looking for, but I hope it's along those lines!
Gideon: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/26407269/
As for my "sona", she is much more than that to me. She is not a part of myself, but she is myself, and I discovered this a little over two years ago. It was incredibly eye-opening for me and gave me some answers to a lot of things that caused confusion in my own mind. I know that sounds crazy, but this self-discovery really made me just a bit more comfortable with myself and how I interact with people. :) This was also around the time I started participating in the furry community a bit more, on FA mostly, because I discovered an identity - my identity - and have made some wonderful friends here. <3
I have Abria because she makes me feel stronger, more able to express myself and also makes it easier to talk to people ^.^ She changed my life in the best of ways~
I will apologize if this becomes a wall of text before hand haha.
Anyways my sona's name originally came from my MIRC days...Sheori Kira Nightshade, a drow with a interesting past. Thats where my interest in the fandom started even though i never knew there was a group like that existed....till about 2009 when i met some people in second life who convinced me that i should try out a furry avatar. Thus like most people i picked a white tiger...later turned into a tigon(its the smaller version of a liger, opposite specie parenting.) I thought that was it...then...downslide of buying every furry avatar and skin alterations kept happening. I spent a good 5 or 6 years in second life swapping out looks just...trying to find myself.
I was jelous.
I was saddened.
I wished for a character that represented me on the deepest level like most furs in the fandom.
Then one day the curious inc chinchilla came out and everyone was make it into something else...i was tired of being what was in, new, and popular. So i bought the white color of it and decided hey...i like mice lets try that. So i bought parts to change it into one. I have a thing for albino animals so i gave her ruby eyes and was changing out of a pure pink avatar so....thus why my sona has pink hair. I realized tge muted, dark, or coral pink colors complimented it well. I chalked it up to a dye job and her natural color would be white like her fur. I have a huge asthetic for punk/goth so that became her fashion. She started out...skinny/tiny. Naturally i got a lot of attention because its rare to see mice in the fandom.
A few weeks passed by....and it hit me like a ton of bricks. This was it. She was the one! I identified with the animals mannurisims. I identified well with the food cliche (im obsessed with cheese.) I identified real well with the animals spirit totem. All i wanted to do was stay as her and modify her to represent me more in little ways.
She has my body type at a goal weight(that was introduced as an encouragement by a friend). She has the piercings i have and ones i would like to have. She has glasses because i have glasses. Her sense of fashion (usually goth, punk, elegant, corsets etc) are what i find attractive and brings out a slight passion of mine for fashion
Her earbuds represent my love for music.
I fell head over heels for her. She is me...shes my most prized character. Shes everything iam more save for her roleplay background. Which with a little help of my best friend...she became a empress of a race of magical rodents. Each having a elemental power that helps them with their day to day life. Every citizen has earbuds like hers in different models because like most civalizations they have their own languages...music is their universal language and these earbuds translates the notes into their native tongue. There was a war so now her and most of her people are scattered across habbital planets trying to find a way to save theirs. Her close subjects and herself landed on earth. So there for the earbuds with a little modification helped them translate/learn the languages there. She found a cover job as a receptionist at a music label company. She moon lights as a diva named Lady Brie with a "new style" of music which happens to be the universal language of her home planet...which makes it so she can comunicate with her people on earth without drawing suspicous actions towards the government there.
Sheori is truly my insperation. I love her...she means a heck of a lot to me. It took me 7 years into the fandom to find her. Everyday sense was something magical.
This is my second account, as I got tired of the first account's name.
My character Paddy, I think of as a representation of myself. That is why he is both simple in design and close to my heart. The name 'Paddy' came about about a long, long time ago in late elementary far before I even knew furs were a thing. One of my friend's compared me to Sirius Black from Harry Potter, and decided to start calling me 'Padfoot' and the abbreviated Paddy stuck throughout the years.
When I was designing my own character the name was sure to come along, the main point of connection. I kept the overall design simplistic because to me, he is me. Not to knock dramatic designs or designs that have lots of flair but it's not my own thing, because it's on the inside, man.
I have met some people that I find I can share close things with through the help of our mutual interests in the community and some seriously cool people. I just hope I can do my own part to give people a reason to keep it positive and fresh.
Everyone's testimonies are quite a thing to read, honestly the idea to have a post like this is a great idea. Thank you.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/26534772/
I still remember the day when my gf told me that she will design my fursona. I was in heaven, since I never had an alter ego in the furry world, and having one was something incredible for me. We both agreed about African Wild Dog. It was representing me with the design, as the dots were a symbol of my character. A lot of light colors, meant calmness and just being a good guy, and the Brown spots represented something crazy, weird etc.
With time his design would change, as well as my character. But the best thing is, that Ethan is just the perfect version of me. Or maybe someone I would like to be, but i am too scared to be irl :P
Because of him I was finally encouraged to talk with people from furry community, which was already a huge deal for a shy guy like me :)
My fursona allowed me to met so many interesting people, and I still don't know if I would ever make an FA account if it wasn't for him.
One of my outlets has been writing, I RP, I write poetry, I write stories. This time last year I was quite sick, and in the midst of it I started writing a new story based on a new character, through writing her I met some wonderful new friends who encouraged me to join FA as they loved Ahmenset and thought I ought to share her with the community.
Over the last year, she has become my catalyst to leaving my marriage, to setting out on my own, to finding confidence.. she has allowed me to rediscover myself. My anxiety is better, i'm happier. Through her I've done things I couldn't imagine, including going to my first ever Furry meet up, and then onto my first ever Convention.. I've just come back from being Staff at Confuzzled.
Its been an amazing journey, and Ahmenset, this community and the new friends I've made have made my life so much better. I'm 37, i'm single and I have my future with her ahead of me to enjoy.
ref - http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24650755/
it would be my dragoness vampire Kaldera:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17683863/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20207233/
I first made this character back in 2005 initially with an rp with my best friend espressomutt . Kaldera's name came from the word caldera which is a collapsed volcano, and at that time I had just visited the newberry caldera in oregon for a field trip. I liked the word so much that I wanted to use it as a name, but I just changed the C to a K and changed the pronunciation. This is the very first image of her I ever made https://lunarglyph.deviantart.com/a.....ained-17304123 . As you can see she has gone through some dramatic changed, including having horns now on her human(ish) form: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/21561157/
This character means a lot to me, I grew up with her and she has changed so much from a very quiet and frightened girl, to a queen whose mate is the most powerful vampire in the world (in her story at least). I see a lot of myself in her, and she represents me in how I act and had helped me become better than I was when I first made her. Her story is over 13 years of writing and developing. She is everything I aspire to be. I never though that a character I made up super quickly for an rp would grow to become and essential part of who I am. She also represents my friendship to my best and closest friend whom I consider a sister. Spending endless weekends over at her house when we were younger just developing and writing the story for our character, (thousands of pages) is something I will always remember and cherish.
I always loved dinosaurs as a kid, was fascinated by them, and this progressed onto dragons too, which makes Hircine even more of a loved character to me https://toyhou.se/168664.hircine-nft-
In terms of characters, there's obviously Hircine above, but if you're not a fan of feral characters, I have these fellas (who can be drawn anthro)
https://toyhou.se/1238146.logan-nft-
https://toyhou.se/1085443.starchaser-nft-
Thanks for doing this!
as a gamer I had a whole cast of possible characters to choose from, but in the end a certain lion with black mane felt most natural. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12359780/ he was also easier to draw than most others... I still struggled a lot with ink and colours.
one of the many friends I made at EF finally suggested my current nickname. it comes from an ethiopian language and simply translates to "lion". XD later the same year I sat down to create a character ref sheet (another thing people seemed to do, so there); right in the middle of working out the kinks I realized I was describing myself, like a fist to the forehead. since then that lion and me are one.
a while ago I described this thing to someone else here, and they said it sounded a lot like a therian's awakening. which would explain things... like the character barely changing since 1998. I mean, why would I change him?
My fursona mirrors my inability to share or be open, so I don't have anything to provide haha.
When I was new to FA I found a feral, cute, small and simplistic adoptable. The colors appealed to me and I didn't think much about it.
time passed and While I had a few characters under my belt, that small adoptable kept growing on me.
Deciding to commission art of him and further develop his design, landing on what he looks like to this day. And I can't separate myself from him now.
A new sona now would just not work, We're too attached. Majority of my own drawings is of him, I can always draw him and not get tired of him as a design.
he might get some minor changes down the road, and so will I.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19114053/
Congratz on the milestone!
One day I started casually talking about it with another furry friend of mine and after sharing some opinions the first ideas sparked in my mind, until finally the concept of a creature came to me: the Ouroboros, the snake that endlessly bites its own tail. It came to my mind because it's seen in antique texts of Alchemy, which is in a way is the forefather of Chemistry, the science I'm still studying today!
And so just like that I suddenly had a creature that spoke very deeply to my ambitions, interests and ideas; also, the more I researched about this symbolic figure and its meanings, and the more the connection felt stronger.
Eventually the connection felt so strong that I wanted to see and "be" my very own and special Ouroboros, a fursona to perfectly incarnate my idealized self as well as something to be identified with in the furry community. Unable to draw it myself, I ended up contacting an artist for a commission and together we finished its design.
In the end my Ouroboros gained some differences from the "iconic" one to better represent myself, mainly the fact that it has fur and it's anthropomorfic (but retaining some details like scales and the very long tail that can go in a circle inside the mouth). For the colors I just choose the ones I liked most and almost by coincidence they main colors became a combination of green, white and red, the colors of the Italian flag, my country! XD
Just for comparison, here's the "iconic" Ouroboros that inspired the concept: http://www.tavoladismeraldo.it/wp-c...../ouroboros.jpg
and here's a ref of my fursona: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25067762/
I was writing a novella, which had a pair of juvenile dragons embark on an adventure! I got pretty into it, and it hit around 40k words or something ridiculous before I stopped, because it all just sounded like waffle, but anyhow. Among the characters I wrote up was a grey wolf who helped the pair (and their other newfound companions) through a dangerous area. She was small, relatively underpowered, made for nothing else than to guide the party through an obstacle and then get abruptly killed off. But when the time came, I just...couldn't do it. I couldn't kill off this small little thing I'd created. I had the party come back for her.
It was a weird thing! Why had I practically re-written my story to add this little unimposing wolf to the band of heroes? She had no skills, no particular strengths, nothing really to add. It took a few peer reviews until someone pointed out that the character represented me. But not just me, she represented the everyman. The person who just wants everything to be okay and, despite their lack of ability relative to the rest of the group, is willing to do whatever they can to help further a good cause. They're so blinded by their desire to do good that whether or not they can help falls by the wayside. She quickly became a favourite character among the people who were peer reviewing my novella, and everybody related with her. She was cute, funny, bumbling, but caring and always meant well.
Sharn's the everyman. The person who is ever-so-slightly bigger then themselves, the kind of being they'd like to embody if a band of heroes ever came by. Perhaps not the smartest, not the strongest, not the most brave. But willing to give their all. She's everything I'd like to be, and as the story evolved she became everything that a lot of people would like to be. After a while, I realised that among everybody, I was the only one with a chance to really embody this character. So I took her as my fursona. This little unassuming wolf was going to become a part of my life. And she has been for thirteen years, now. She's everything I want to be,
To close, she's more than just a character on a page, now. She's brought to life through the many wonderful interpretations I've had constructed of her along the way, which has elevated her to something I cannot only aspire to be, but can actually work toward. Someone funny, outgoing, confident and always, always happy. And in the end, isn't that what all fursonas are? A representation of our ideal selves?
Sharn means a lot to me. She's my baby. Heck. She /is/ me.
My fursona is the character I've become after a long journey to get to know myself. My transition from teenager to adult.
I'm Ramsay, nice to meet you guys. ^^
Ref: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/25707328/
P.S. Reading some really cool stories, love ya guys!
Zahrah: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/25924010/
In part he is a product of various obsessions I've had over the years. His name comes from Ridley of the Metroid series thanks to a truly terrible OC I came up with as a kid. I've been obsessed with foxes since high school, and I've always liked the idea of animal transformation and shapeshifting. Whenever I imagined myself as an animal, a feral form always seemed more right to me.
Ridley is something of an alter ego. If I find myself daydreaming if some fantasy scenario, I imagine myself as Ridley more often than as me. In part through Ridley I have come up with a multiverse called The Conglomeration. That multiverse is the home of a number of characters I have come up with, including a few that grew from early concepts I had for Ridley. Hopefully I will write their stories some day.
Also, *side note* as i typed this i remembered when i was younger and on a car journey i would imagine a bunny rabbit running along side the car, jumping over stuff, guess they have stuck with me :)
Here they are :D :http://www.furaffinity.net/view/26996203/
Also, i loove seeing other peoples stories. kinda wish i had a funny origin story ahaha but mines just cheesy :D
~Peace
Through him I can, at least partially, experience things that I myself have no means of having in real life. My fursona is, and always will be something that develops with the passage of time, from one environment into the next, I strive to keep him ever growing as a person, changing, adapting, developing.
He is the sorrow I never want to know in real life.
He is the joy I can only dream about.
He is the person I aspire to be and at the same time...
He is the person I hope to never resemble.
He is, at least to me, a window into another life, a perspective I lean against from time to time, a source of clarity, a means of exploring oneself, and ofcourse a nice bit of good' ole entertainment!
This is my sona: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/21192699/
It moslty started with one of my ex. She did drawings of cats and such, little fursona without teilling me what it was, or truly knowing what is was herself. At first, I was kind of disgusted. I didn't know what it was, what she showed me wasn't super great either for a newbie. So I didn't understand what it was, and it was a mess. But, over time of seeing her doing that, and eventually finding out about FA and other things, curiosity got over me. I still loved nekomimi characters (humans with animals ears/tail), so I went to dig around here to look how bad things were. But I kind of found some inspiration. I saw her do some anthro commission, and decided to create too. (I did my first, Tram: https://sta.sh/224x41gkaj4b) But the thing is that during that time, she slowly grew fed up of anything related to furries since some of her friends ended up... kind of bad if we can say that. So hiding, I started a FA and started to scroll on everything. Meanwhile, she found out my character, there was a lot of arguing, and she finaly decided to make me a fursona anyway, do a bit of art and etc because it seemed to please me. It went on until she created me Fishbone, my first real fursona (that on these days, I still have trouble with her since I'm attached and some troublemaker just made me hide her since he kepts wanted lewd art with her and gnnn but anyway, here's Fishbone: https://sta.sh/21ug1506ez6m). Later on, we broke up, and I continued to live on. I did my, now main, fursona Rant (https://sta.sh/2477l7wdi0e), well decided to continue on within the fandom. And now, everything is kind of going good! I enjoy what I'm looking at, I'm discovering a lot of nice artist.
So I kind of love my characters, I'm disapointed that I needed to kind of leave Fishbone since she's very important + design wise, she's very very nice too, and I do love Rant a lot. Since they're all happy and fits everywhere. For Tram, he's my character that I doodle to cheer me up since he's my little happy train conductor boy. I can't say I see myself in all those characters in a sence that its me like I am irl, but I do share things with them, and I love to see them evolve with drawings, or just seeing things with them. For Rant, I also have a kigurumi and its very nice to interact with people with it! But they still are characters, like I have humans one, fan characters, and many others that evolve in different universe to make me think about other things than my adult life.
As for ref, any of the ones posted haha
Well, as far as my fursona- it is a 626. I had a really rough time choosing something for myself. I tried doodling a few things but they didn't quite fit me. A friend of mine suggested I just make myself into a Stitch. Stitch is my favorite Disney character. I was talking like him all the time in high school and have several phrases I can spout off at the drop of a hat. On a deeper note, I really connect with how he started out angry and destructive. How he gradually mellowed. The surroundings and his new family shaping him into a better 'person'. So I felt that this species really fit me. I drew myself as a stitch lady and she has stuck with me ever since. I like knowing that I am strong and could be destructive- but choose not too. I like being cute and fluffy.
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His name's Adake Feuglace. He's my fire ice tiger. And he feels like me in a way.
Here he is: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/26253324/ http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sixsydes
In all honesty though, while the above part is just his creation, the story behind him is much more interesting to me. He is someone I feel who is more me, someone who wants to see the world after feeling like I was trapped for numerous years trying to get out of a town where there was nothing to do and it was obvious the town was dying. The character was a sense of hope and freedom, something to feel at home with and to hug. He feels so warm and fuzzy, but at the same time feels cool enough to feel at home with. While I'm still putting together his story I'm thinking of putting in a bit of a tragic but happy story with his back tattoo design. I'm unsure. But, he feels right at home.
It is very very hard to explain, but this community has been awesome every step of the way.
After that, a friend found a plush of a sheep wearing a wolf in a discount bin after Easter, and I thought that was awesome. I've come to adore the duality that can play conceptually between a sheep and a wolf- if you've ever seen the 1978 japanese animation Ringing Bell, that perfectly gets at the untamed and tragic vs innocent and emotional play that I love about it, and is the whole reason I decided to give my fursona a bell (the bell I wear with my suit is quite old and was once worn by a real sheep! ). I also love supernatural literature and folklore, particularly vampires, which is why I gave my sheep vampiric characteristics, such as the teeth, cape, and little bow fashioned like a bat. I also have the pupils shaped more like cat eyes- taking the longer pupil of a sheep and altering it in a way that fits the theme.
When I finally decided to make this my official fursona (I dislike changing fursonas or having a ton of them- personal preference, no issue with other people doing this- so it took me a while to finally decide) I looked through a list of different breeds of sheep and fell in love with the rare Scottish breed Boreray. Last year I actually visited the UK, and though unfortunately the ferries were out of season to visit the St. Kilda islands where they reside, I did manage to visit a farm that had a few. n_n I plan on making it back some day at a better time of year so I can see them in the wild, it's a truly fascinating and beautiful breed, and I'm grateful for my fursona introducing me to them. They and the Soay breed were left when a settlement on Boreray Island was abandoned, and were able to thrive as wild sheep. Because of how rare they are there are efforts to breed them in captivity, and they shed naturally to produce a very sturdy wool. Some day I'd love to have enough space to have a breeding pair, bit of a pipe dream but we'll see. <3
It wasn't until after all this was already set that I found myself officially in the furry fandom... I had been drawing anthro art since I joined Neopets in 2004, I saw an anthro blue wolf on that site and thought it was the coolest thing ever. :D Unfortunately I let the negative connotations about the fandom colour my opinion of what it was and tried to distance myself, and over the years I had drawn less and less anthro in favour of humans, but a couple years ago I found more information that made me think, "wow, maybe this fandom is pretty cool, and sounds like it describes me from the past 10+ years pretty well", so I dove straight in and got a suit of my sheep from the wonderful Tsebresos, suiting up for the first time two Halloweens ago. I got the exact experience I had been hoping for that first night, a small boy approached me slowly, and then suddenly gave me a great big hug. >w< It's still one of my favourite experiences fursuiting to this day. Of course, the very next year a little girl thought I was terrifying, but I suppose if I were a few years old and my parents suddenly stopped the car one night to carry me towards a giant sheep monster, I'd be a little freaked out, too. xD; I've been a cosplayer for almost as long as I've been drawing this art, but suiting has been such a wonderful experience in a different and more personal way, and the interactions I've gotten with other people are irreplaceable. I spend so much time in that suit walking around with this stupid grin on my face that nobody can see, but I'm sure they can feel. ^_^
Man, writing this has been fun, I hope someone enjoys reading it. xD I guess I never really stopped to consider how much my fursona means to me~
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To explain further, at some point I started trying to get a costume together to be Atlas for a con some day, and In trying to make Atlas' tail alone, I stumbled upon an idea that would later become my first flagship product! I then gained the experience of writing a patent application! I learned coding languages, 3D modeling programs, graphic design programs, rubber casting techniques, 3D printing, and so many other skills I might never have learned! Some of these I can only thank the people I've met along the way for introducing me to!
Mongoose practically taught me to create circuit boards. Crystumes got the ball rolling on a few feature ideas. Guillego (a teacher) nudged me in the right direction for marketing.
So many have taught me so much, but so many more have just been good friends! Just the other day, a design failed during testing, and I thought I had hit a wall, but then WanderingSmoke had the words of encouragement I needed without even knowing I needed them! He and ToyDragEn on Twitter have been encouraging me to keep working on my projects since day 1! Fuzzle went so much further with a commission than I could ever thank him for because he believed in what I was doing! The list goes on! There are so many more I'd love to give personal thanks to, but I've met more amazing people than I could ever list.
The irony is that these people I've met that have an uncanny affinity for animals act more like people than regular people! And if it weren't for Atlas, I may never have met them!
And if it weren't for Atlas, my resume wouldn't be nearly as interesting! XD
Looking back, I thank God for Atlas, because pursuing this "furry" thing has led me so much further than I ever expected, and I can't wait to see where I go from here.
Super cheesy lightning round!
1. The start of his tail was really the start of my tale!
2. I became more like Atlas for real from wanting to pretend to be him!
3. I started out trying to make Atlas, but in reality, he made me!
Well, my fursona... She means a lot of things. I've been bullied for 17 of my 20 years, and this caused me to shut myself up. I couldn't be myself for so long that I completely forgot what I actually was, I forgot how to interact with people, and how to enjoy being social. For a long time I forced myself to think that I just enjoyed being alone, that I didn't need anyone else. I just was scared. Once I got out of my school, I started making friends for the very first time, and I just started discovering how I exactly want to act, who I want to be in this world. I'm actually afraid of being alone, being with my friends makes me truly happy. I'm a loud person, I don't speak quietly and only when it's needed anymore. I made myself think I was something I actually wasn't, for many years.
Then, I discovered this fandom. I loved to draw, and I liked anthro animals, so I wanted to give it a try. At first, my fursona was a dog, but that didn't feel completely right. I wanted it to be more like me, and while I do identify with how dogs usually are, something was missing. As if I wasn't quite me yet. When I got out of being anti social, scared, all that stuff, I just went too far away to the contrary side, if that makes sense. I thought I wanted to be a certain way, but that was too much to handle, too soon. I stopped and thought, I wanted to be unique, but I didn't want to choose an animal just for their uniqueness. I wanted something that was me, but not in such a blind way as a dog. I came across a video of langur monkeys... They were grieving over a robot monkey, which they thought was dead. I don't know why, but it got my attention. I started thinking about making a simian character, and started finding myself feeling identified with them. Brown capuchins ended up getting my attention more... They're loud but smart, and they live in society. Plus... This may look silly, but the fact that they're not as aesthetically pleasing as a dog would be on this fandom, makes me feel more related. Also, I always regretted not climbing enough trees during my childhood!
Here she is: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/27108913/
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So my sona... When i made then i kind of just kept them as an embodiment of myself as anthro. And tried to keep then similar in appearance at least in body type, other than not keeping the glasses. And i think one of the of interesting stories is how i got my first ref for him. I used to be a commander for one of the divisions of probably the biggest conglomerate of furry clans for world of tanks. One of the members ended up doing a ref for me as a little surprise gift for being such a good commander and caller. And through that clan i met some good friends that i still hang out with, one of which helped me me a lot of people that got me really invested into the fandom. It was the fateful time that that blue lion invited me to come help volunteer with rhr group odbfurs who fursuited to help out Charity at Motorama that i emded up meeting some wonderful furs who ended up getting me in on other events and kind of helped me really get immersed in the fandom with good friends. It was funny, i really didn't get arouns roo much in my suit before then, and now ive gone 18 hiurs straight in it at cons. Even though its been quite a while i won't forget how much that clan kind of sparked how i got involved in the fandom instead of jusy being a periphary furry.
when it came time that I decided to actually try to be social with this furry stuff cos gods alone know I wasn't doing that anywhere else I agonised for about a week over how I should present myself on the site I was joining.
This was unlike me, shockingly this furry nerd has always been an introvert who would of guessed, and I remembered the games I'd played as viv as they were recent at the time. I decided I'd tone that down a bit and work that into a character. It worked pretty damned well and he was worked into an expression of the more... hyper and excitable moods, my first character being working into the more reserved times.
from there I got a social network going again which helped me a great deal as I'd moved at the start of that year for uni and had failed to really make any close friends. Being in a house with deaf people and speaking sign very poorly at best meant I would go weekends without talking to anyone even online, joining that site changed that.
now due to that decision I'm about a year and a half into a, sadly long distance, relationship, far more open and sociable and just generally doing better mentally. I'mma say that was a good call, I feel like this turned into rambling at some point but hey that's just me and stories.
Dragons have always been around in my family(typically in the form of stories ) and ever since I was little I had an obsession with them.It didn't take long for them to become my own power symbol in my faith(being a shaman/wiccan) and as I got older the child obession and wonder I had for dragon-like creatutres never changed.
I never considered myself a furry until a few years ago when Lindel stopped being a character in a book I was writting and started becomming something a little more personal to me.Even when I was starting out in the fandom I had a completely different creature decided..something at the time I thought made more sence but the more I thought about it the less proper it seemed.
At this point Lindel was a white dragon and something didn't feel right about it(never had when I was orignally writting her character) after a night of meditation it sort of came to me ..a wyvern of blue and white...of the arctic
The whole snow theme made sence being Canadian and lvinig in a valley surronded by mountains. Ice had always been a primary elemnt of my personality(the other being earth) and so giving her ice magic/this kind of winter look made sence.So I ditched the idea of a gryfalcon and started finalizing exactly what lindel looked like/was supposed to be
Because of the realization I stopped using Lindel in stroywritting/rp ,instead taking just the name and a few core personality traits .
Flash forward a couple of years :
Before long I created a whole speices (the arctic wyverns) and my sona was being reconized at local conventions..which when I first became an 'offical' furry I had never considered a thing.I realize now just how 'guided' i had been in my orignal choice and am glad I did not go with the gryfalcon as I had orignally planned.
Lindel herself symbolizes how I wish to see myself. Confident and regal. Elegant and proud..perhaps a little to cocky at times but still caring.Someone who puts the well being of her family(this includes close friends) before her own. We share the same curious nature and thirst for knowledge,the same love of art and music..the same cation when exposed to new things.She has become a part of me I never realized existed until I discovered the fandom and had a chance to actually look into this distant thought and creation that in reality was always there and had always been a part of me.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/24942816/
I gave up on that ideal a long time ago.
Trying to be something I wasn't just because all my friends were in to it.
It wasn't until I had made my first humanoid character (in a long time) that I found my place.
I created this character, Aden, back in my Team Fortress 2 days.
Humanoids, and monster folk had always been my jam. Yet I felt so odd to post things like that to this site.
I'm glad that I did, now looking at it years later. I've found so many wonderful people, that draw humans with me. Who revel and enjoy the world of satyr kin, and monsterly folk.
I hang out with most of them on a daily basis, and am now married to one of them two.
Each friend I have found and met that has supported this change has been absolutely wonderful.
They've been an amazing support group, cheering me on, and encouraging me to do what I love- even if others try to shame me for doing so.
I'd say something corny, like how he is the man I wish I was, but that's not really true.
I love him, as my character, and the development of his story I have gotten to shape and make through the years, by myself, and adding in others story to warp and twist things in to a world of their own.
He's the embodiment of my creativity. My passion and a reminder of my goals.
To draw what I want. To enjoy what I want. Even if others around me are not in the same boat.
To stay true to myself. My real self.
He is my first character I get to be myself through. To draw all the kinks that I want.
To draw out his world, and his family, and his life, and connect with others through that.
To hear their stories, to smile and enjoy their stories, as we build and grow our characters together.
It's silly, truly. It's small, but in the grand scheme of things, it means so much to me.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/22504592/
Thanks for the chance!
now, about my fursona. she's gone through SO many redesigns and changes over the years, and i struggled for such a long time to have a character that i can identify with completely. because of this, all of my previous fursonas were never named after me directly. normally i would cycle between different species for my fursonas, but i would always, no matter what, default back to a husky or a wolf. for my current fursona, i just totally accepted this -- she's a siberian husky! i took every aspect of my real self and simply adapted them into my fursona. the hair, the body, the personality, it's all me! and she is the only character that i really see as myself, and i ended up giving her my own nickname - something i've never done before. she's still relatively new, so i don't have a lot of art of her, but i really do enjoy drawing her doing what i love the most - powerlifting. a prime example: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/26754609/
i don't have a super memorable event to talk about here, but i believe her creation allowed me to connect with the furry community better than i could before.
here's what she looks like: https://orig00.deviantart.net/bef7/.....ot-dbwb9pu.png
but other than that, thank you for this incredible opportunity and i hope you thrive here! i've been following you for a while and i absolutely love your artwork.
(my icon is also of my sona. since... dog fursonas are indeed still dogs!)
My sona is still fairly new considering my time in the fandom, but I created her because I wanted to really connect with a character, both emotionally and physically. So, i spent months building her from the ground up to resemble what i think i would look like were i an anthro creature.
She's a mix of a lot of different creatures because I found it too hard to relate to only one animal. However, there are primarily feline influences. Especially for the body. Ever since making her ive only been all the more excited to see art of her and attempt to create a fursuit of her. She is entirely me, from her personality to her looks. And that makes her truly special to me and kind of helps me see where Ive come from and where I am headed.
I had originally come to the fandom as a warrior cat fan artist way back in 2010 or so x,D but over the years ive developed my personality more and felt it was necessary to create a character i truly could call my fursona, and I am so happy with the result<3
And as a result of having this new character, I've met and have been able to commission many new artists I had never seen before!
Lol my fursona? He's pretty much myself but with dog parts added in as far as I know, nothing special about him he's pretty boring and plain in design (like me!) but I guess that's what's unique about him, people liked him for mostly the right reasons, he's cute and he's simple, too simple that it became unique, so I guess mission accomplished? Lol
But otherwise, the reason I designed him monochrome is because I thought it'll be a fun reference to how dogs are (partially) colorblind,
And BOI funny thing is this is before I realised I *am* indeed slightly colorblind myself LOL, but that makes me feel even me connected to him (and a huge factor in making me embrace this disability)
Otherwise my fursona adopted my irl name (part of it atleast), he's a colorblind doggo, with no colors in his fur, and named Law (like how they say Law/justice is colorblind) which I literally am, it's like a triple pun and I'm pretty proud about it lol
But for a time in my life, she was also an outlet for me to be who I wanted to be. Given how I am trans, I could be and act like I wanted online, despite feeling stuck with my progress in real life. And now that I've come a lot further, she and I are closer than ever c:
She is in a way my soul, and since I got her and became active in the fandom, I can safely say my life has never been better! To think that I'd end up in a now 3 year long and good relationship, friend around the world, and be in a community I actually feel a part of, it is something I hadn't considered.
She and the fandom simply makes me happy c:
I was 8 years oldish when I started to feel a very strong connection to wolves. It was way before when I actually knew what furry or anthro was. Just imagine when a wolf spirit comes and goes to help you through the rocky road of life. :)
Nordic culture is a big part of my life as it comes to music, art, dressing and paganism. Qzurr is the wolf which represents this very much the berserker side of me.
It's not just something I wanted to create it's more like what I always experienced in several real life events, dreams and rituals.
But I'm here now since some of my buds showed there are few people in the fandom with same interest I have so voila! :D
Here are few pics for ya!
https://orig00.deviantart.net/6ca8/.....rr-dcd51q0.png
https://orig00.deviantart.net/3eab/.....rr-dcd51oz.jpg
I would say that he is a part of me or you could say an inner me?
When I first created him, I knew that there's a multiple wolf character out there in furry community. I knew that people is going to look at him and think that this is he is just typical normal character like a hundred dozen of wolf out there, especially the one with such a normal color fur and nothing much out of ordinary. But I have always been fascinate by wolf, my favorite animal might change from time to time but it is always come back to wolf. They are a social animal but yet solitary as well, they function well alone but a lone wolf is a wolf is who is looking for another pack he belong to, somewhere he could offer himself to make the pack stronger as whole. They are animal of passion or a sense of pure primal instinct to survive. In my youth I have hurt other people's feeling just because I was follow my instinct which make me learn about that primal side of myself. I have always wanted to be a good person but deep down there's this dark feeling inside that want to come out, that would do anything to save my own neck. So for a long time I have been suppressing all these emotion. Until I could deny myself or who I was any longer and I have to let it out, I spend days writing his description of my innerself channeling him out into words so I can see him paint as a picture. When his first ref had finally finish, that when I felt whole once more and in touch with myself
He is a reminder of the passion I have within, that feeling that want to belong to somewhere and make that a better place. But yet if those power were to be channel incorrectly, it could do more harm than good to other as well. He is me, a large part of me that I couldn't deny. He is what keep me on my toe and want to better myself as with control myself at the same time.
*phew*
this is actually very personal to me and I was debating for awhile if I should put there out there or not
Usually I only tell this via pm with friend I interact with for a bit
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16229905/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17503302/
I was attacked by dogs when I was 2. I don't know anything about the incident outside what my parents told me, but I was left with this innate fear of dogs that still lingers to this day. The bizarre twist growing up was this reoccurring fascination with wolves and lycanthropy. Growing up in the middle of the ocean, I never saw a wolf in person until I was 21, but can distinctly recall this fascination as far back as 7-8, coupled with the occasional vivid dreams. I'm a man of science, but I can't seem to describe my draw to wolves as anything but spiritual. It's connection and understanding that no textbook could teach me, and that feeling just sat there for over a decade.
I became a bit of an isolationist in middle school due to bullying, lost good relationships with elementary school friends and turned to videogames to fill my time. Armello being one I was introduced to 3 years ago. Just like my fascination with wolves, and at this stage art of tribal werewolves and anthros at large, I couldn't really put my finger on my draw to the title. But I was gifted the game as a secret Santa gift and joined the Discord community a couple months later. I met some amazing people there, a good number I shared interests with, and started opening u[ and forming friendships. I owe a lot to my friends
But overall I feel like my character is a process of me finding myself, tapping into this fascination and connection I can't quite explain. With every piece of art or concept I come up with I explore my interests deeper and build back my confidence as an individual. Where that will take me over the next few years, I'm not sure, but at the present I feel I'm being true to myself surrounded by awesome friends.
After all that, my guy ^_^ https://www.furaffinity.net/view/24753936/
(Congrats on the 3000 and thank you for doing this! This has been quite a unique one. :D )
So I took out my phone and there FA was in my quick links on the browser, tapped it and little did I know it was a quick link to my Favourites page which was filled with, uhm, let's just say "art of varying interests". My mind was racing going "oh shit oh shit oh shit" as she took my phone and started browsing it. *PANIC*
I was ready to expect her to run off, toss my phone, call me a weirdo, creep, and dump my ass right there and then, but she just looked up and me and said "They look cute" and that's how we began, she convinced me to create my fursona after 15 years of sitting around and last year she finally dived in and got her fursona made too.
That's us now :)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/22319160/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24214737/
Wolfcat story coming soon. Thank you so much again~
I entered the fandom about 6-7 years ago. However, I "dabbled" in the community, mostly via roleplay and chatrooms before then, so I have probably been a furry on and off for 10 or so years? I found out about furries in the oddest of places: Imvu. I saw some people with avatars that looked like animals and I was like "Huh, what's that?" so I did a bit of research, befriended one who was a...fox I want to say? (I do not recall as it has been so long and we didn't stay in contact) but that's how I found out about them. So I figured- okay, let me try this! So a guy I used to date actually got me my first furry character- an arctic fox.
...it did not feel right, or rather, it was not ME. And that was before I learned about all the "fun" stereotypes associated with fox furries (Absolutely no offense to any vulpine out there, haha). So I began to look around at other animals and I kept coming back to canines and felines, mostly canines, and I stuck with a wolf. Now that felt right. Not the pack mentality- I am a true lone wolf for sure...odd for a female considering female wolves are not lone creatures, but I was and still am to an extent. I prefer only the company of my close friends; I do not want to be around people just to have company. I prefer to be around good, interesting, well-rounded people and feel happy and at ease around them. But I digress-
So I settled with a somewhat generic, white wolf. And I cannot believe I still have this, but here is the first reference sheet of Whisper. Just to give you an idea of how much she has evolved since I entered this fandom: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/6022082/
Over time, I realized I was not a true canine- I mean I am and yet there are some traits I have such as stubbornness, inquisitive...plus I love naps, haha. I sometimes enjoy attention- depending on the situation that is; I prefer my independence, yet there are days where I want to be around others. So I began doing some research on different felines. I knew I wanted to be a medium to large feline, and eventually I went with the Canadian lynxes; it seemed to mesh well with my personality and the look I was going for my girl. So after merging the predominate traits of both Canadian lynxes and arctic wolves [as I love cold winter, they seemed like the ideal type of wolf for her], Whisper was reborn!
I like to think that Whisper is unorthodox because the few people that stop and think about my character realize "Aren't they two completely opposite animals?" Yes, they are- one is social and relies on others to thrive. The other is a loner by nature and independent. Together they make a fierce yet unique sona that is as odd as, well I am.
Over the years, Whisper has transformed a few times: she went from having a pure white fur coat year round, to her fur changing colors based on the season. However, Whisper is more than just a sona to me. I like to think of her as a furry version of myself- which is why I tend to be persnickety in regards to art of her or how she is used- I would never get something of her that I myself would not do in real life. In addition, I have given her my personality, fierce spirit, and most importantly, I make it to where when the real me changes, she changes. However, I like to think her confidence she exudes has helped me to want to become a stronger individual as silly as that sounds. As I spent more time in the community, matured, and felt more at ease with my life, I gave Whisper more personality, a profession, and even put facets of my life and personalty into her to make her more...I won't say realistic as she is a furry, but "animated" perhaps? Oddly enough, when I first entered the community, Whisper had such a sweet, innocence, naive vibe to her- with no depth or meaning behind most of the art I got of her. It was just "cute" or "sweet." Which was fine but they did not really have any story or meaning behind the commissions. But thanks to my real life experiences- both good and bad, Whisper and the art of her changed, as if she grew along with me. Even looking at my art of her from years ago, it is interesting to see how I went from getting cutesy, simplistic art of her, to now more dynamic, action, and badass pieces of her. I guess you can say when I matured or changed: physically, mentally, and emotionally, my character grew with me and it is reflected in my art and how Whisper is portrayed.
For example, for the last 4-5 years, I have been diligently trying to lose weight. And I try to have artists draw her body structure to reflect my journey
Here is a commission of her when I was "fluffier": https://www.furaffinity.net/view/9713529/
And "after" when I got into fitness and started to lose my weight...if I am not mistaken, I think that when was I lost 50ish pounds: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21881723/
So I guess to me Whisper represents: growth, happiness, and a means to express myself in this quirky community. I have learned that not everyone will like me...or Whisper. And that is okay! She makes me happy and that is all that matters~
And of course the reference:
Summer version (her current fur color): https://www.furaffinity.net/view/23282636/
Winter version: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/22141682/
*I do have a ref sheet but I prefer not to publicly link it
Thank you so much for hosting this contest again! And reading my ramblings~
To be honest, I was conflicted if yes or no I wanted to do a fursona when I got a first look at the fandom. But I met such good people, so much great friends, that after a long reflection, one of those friends helped me design what I wanted. He's a very talented artist with lots of personal problems, and very unsure of his capacities. I try to help him every day by talking to him, but I really think that the interaction that we had, trying together to refine my concept and drawing it to life, did much to lighten his thoughts at the time, and that's part of the reason I'm really proud of it. I want to create a story with this character, and helping a friend is a good beginning.
Do your best and good luck ! We all deserve to be happy !
Reference sheet (Nudity) : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/27182367/
Other reference : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/27182367/
Now then, my main character/"fursona" is Dema, my arctic viking wolf: https://sta.sh/2pjt1sitww2
She started out as simply an arctic wolf, nearly 20 years ago. I've always loved wolves, ever since I was a child, and to this day she is the character I most closely relate to (along with one other, but he's much more recent). I started developing her Viking story several years ago, and since then she has taken it upon herself to grow and develop. This is common with my characters, but in her case it's been an especially rewarding journey as it lets me further explore my own Viking heritage and roots.
She has been through the good and the bad with me. When I had my brain surgery, she too got a matching scar, a battle scar to be exact. When I am sad, she is as well. I can explore all my emotions through her. She's much more than just a character to me, she represents parts of me.
ever actually gotten attached to. I've tried and tried time and time again and failed.
Feeling like, it never really was me... But I came up with this random idea after a
stupid little conversation I had with my fiance. I was joking around about
ear wax of all the things and a stupid idea some how crossed my mind about a little
yellow earwax monster. An yellow earwax oni lol
Needless to say, when I took the idea, I left the earwax part out. haha!
This is my sona: http://fawnstar.weebly.com/me.html
I actually feel like this is a sona I can relate to, since it includes the fact that
I'm not only representing the fact that I'm really into monsters, but also,
since I also have felt like a literal monster my whole life. Since I'm trans, I've ad a lot of
self image issues and identity issues. I've been through some really tough times mentally
and emotionally. and at times I really felt like a monster. since I was always "causing problems"
I was constantly unhappy, and I made sure everyone knew it. But luckily, since coming
out, it's been an incredible weight lifted off me. Not to mention leaving a toxic home.
But as far as my sona goes, this is who I feel really represents me. I feel like,
this monster is who I am, but I'm embracing that now. And it makes me really happy. :>
On a last note, I thank you for this incredible opportunity! I'm glad I had found your art a little while
back! Your work is beautiful! Keep up the amazing work! <3
I like lengthy naga/snake like tongues and I've seen myself as a cheetah since about 2 months into the whole furry thing.
I know you were looking for a back story but I'm simply here to enjoy the amazing pixels people put out into the world.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13812122/
Congratulations on the watcher milestone! Here's to hoping your following continues to grow!
Now on to the fursona:
This character was designed to be part of a Fantasy novel I am working on. His story and personality is based on me and my motivation and drive to honor my father who passed away years ago. My dad was my Hero and best friend and Actaeon's story is how he continues to reflect the values that his father taught him.
Actaeon, in my book, is a warrior trying to reach the standards that his father set with his sacrifice. An unwavering sense of honor, a commitment to what his father cherished most. The strength to rise above opposition and persevere with a Will that can never be broken.
Actaeon is the embodiment of my goals and motivation, a reminder, a symbol to personify the traits that are most important to me. Honor, friendship, strength, loyalty.
Really neat raffle idea, looking forward to more work from you in the future.