I spend a lot of time in my own head and floating around various concepts so I went with tapir for the dream mythology surrounding them and their association with the Baku.

That's really cool! I love that connection to mythology.

well i used to be a wolf but then i became a fox. and then my mental character creator just went haywire and now i have so many characters that each represent different qualities of my life and my personality

Scraw, woof, scraw, woof.
Scroof.
Hee hoo goblin bird plus dumb dog seems enigmatic of yours truly, no?

Furball really made me like laquines. A lot. But I also love multi* stuff. I experimented a bit with multi with my Ocelot, but she was just too overwhelming, both for people to write with and even to write as. So I took the feature I enjoyed most about my ocelot, her three legs, and made a laquine with that feature. Thus, the cute bunbunbun. :D

My Spaniel girl fits my personality of being loyal like a dog is to my friends.

Some of my cat ones are species I love dearly. Though the Spaniel is my main gal.

Zerrex has grown with me a lot, so I guess you could say he's more what I'd like to be. He's got a lot of the traits I really enjoy and he's great for fantasies, but also for more real connecting with people.
Hollow Bell/Jack, meanwhile, started as sort of a "how extreme can I go" joke character that evolved over time into an expression of extreme desires, both bad and good. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be, to quote Vonnegut. He lets me really push and break limits far beyond what Zerrex does and experiment across a wider range, and he's a horrible monster without consequence. He's sort of like the dark side of creativity for me: the things you imagine in your nightmares but you'd never do in real life.

I'm still trying to find mine.

Valid!

Borderline Personality Disorder + Furry = "That's a lot of tits."

My Wendigo character was originally a thrown together homebrew for D&D in the D&D Fridays stuff in one of my classes in my Senior year of high school when I decided to combine two concepts I was really into which was Wendigo and Highlanders, and then like half a year I think after creating him, I decided to take on Sindri as my main character and honestly I don't think I'd be as social as I am now without having created this alcoholic danger deer

I adopted the visual design for Moro and built up a personality and world around her.

Koalas are my favorite animal so I picked that. That’s it really. I never went through other fursonas or designs cause right out the bat I drew a small fat grumpy koala. She got bigger and more muscular as time went on cause my tastes changed.

was basically just browsing then one day I found him.I watched the bid for 1 day and kept my eye on him constantly, then I was like fuck it and autobought him.

I mean, you're pretty versed in Knar
But the Hell Knight was because I wanted a background character, and Loved Doom

The current Knar? Someone asked me if it bothered me that I didn't own Knar, it did.
Then you know the rest.

Well... I started with a Dragon cause I really like dragons (have always been enamored by reptiles since a young age) and just made one that looked cool (I've changed them a lot and still have them as an alt sona).

But then I realized I liked cats a lot and thought hybrids were cool. So I made a Dracat! I came up with the name first (Pistachio) then I made the design. I tried to make something simple and easily identified because I wanted ppl to be easily able to identify me if I got popular (wow what a lofty goal) and have a fursuit be easier to make. Overall Nyx (the dragon) is the one I made purely for myself lots of bright colors and iridescent stripes. While Pistachio I made to represent me well in the fandom (kinda like a mascot in a way). But over the 2 years I've had Pistachio I've liked them more and more. Making them more and more similar to myself.

Overall I've kept most of their design similar, but I've recently added hair since I've started to like my own hairstyle more.

ohhhh i like this question...
if i've thought about reflecting on this...
- goat: i used to draw demon goats and edgy stuff since Middle school, kharnak the goat is the form it took.. and in modern times.. i brought it back as a Vilous themed Agudner blacksmith.
- Lion: i liked lion stuff a lot around 2006
- skunk: it was an SL avatar based off the Whinge rat. unique, and i love it.
- Jackrabbit, i wanted a bunny that's not cute, but rugged and raunchy.
- Sergal.. i became very infatuated with sergals and the Vilous fandom for a couple of years..
- Nevrean: This is my more recent... but perhaps deepest spiritually connected sona... a kind of summation of all i am. Many say, they weren't really that into Avians, until they learned about Nevreans.

mine through a dream floating in water and hir slowly floating under me and surfacing