Now having a new fursona, I couldn't help but imagine what he would look like as a girl. While making this pic, I even came up with a backstory for how s/he could appear this way.

An explanation of her design follows after this needlessly complex character description.

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The story goes that Cobalt Kimera commissioned a special enchanted collar from a mage that was capable of turning him into a girl. To use it, he puts on the collar while thinking of the duration of the transformation to take place, and then the change will take as much or as little time as he wants. "She" will remain in her female form even if the collar is removed. She turns back to normal simply by concentrating on the change.

However, the charm on the collar can't offer a completely stable transformation. There is a short period of time right after transforming when CK must concentrate on STAYING that way, or else she'll quickly revert to her male self. After several minutes, the form stabilizes and becomes no problem at all to maintain. But the longer CK remains a woman, she will need a greater amount of concentration to change back when she eventually wants to become a guy again.

A single day in this form is not an issue, but if she were to remain a female for three or four days, she would have a tremendous amount of difficulty returning to normal...as her body slowly becomes convinced by the unstable charm that this form IS normal. CK estimates staying a female for longer than a week would be enough to make the change essentially permanent, unless he uses another expensive magic charm to restore his male body. This is only of minor concern, though, since he rarely stays in female form longer than a day or two at a time.

The other drawback to the unstable nature of the charm is that, if she takes off the collar while female, she will slowly start to exhibit more goatlike behavior. The most obvious effect of this is the change to her voice. Within minutes of taking the collar off, her voice takes on a wavering goatish tone. Within hours, goat sounds take more dominance over her speech patterns as it becomes impossible to speak without drawing out every word into a laborious bleat. The obvious end result is that after about twelve hours, she is unable to say anything more complex than "baa."

Further behavioral changes include developing a simpler mindset. Her attention span begins to shorten after an hour with the collar off. She becomes prone to eat anything when she's hungry, whether it's food or not. After a day without the collar, she may even have trouble standing on two hooves, though she hasn't dared to confirm this yet. CK thus tends to keep the collar on for as long as she's in the form, regardless of how the collar and bell look alongside whatever else she's wearing...or even despite the fact that she may be wearing nothing else at all.

As with her male form, she has a rapid metabolism that allows her to eat large portions at meal time without altering her slender figure. Any extra energy that would be stored into fat is instead put into increased hair production. Depending on her daily diet, her hair may grow between one and six inches a day. But in addition to this trait she shares with her male self, the transformation charm has given her female form the ability to grow out her hair (and any area of wool across her whole body) rapidly just by concentrating. She tends to abuse this ability regularly.

Her favorite outfit is a babydoll version of her black and red tee-shirt covered by a pair of denim overalls with matching denim gloves. She enjoys styling her abundant amount of hair in many different ways depending on her clothing or planned activities.

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I've been dying to draw another farm anthro in overalls, so it was naturally my first choice as far as giving her an outfit. She's also wearing denim gloves because I've been on a fingerless glove kick lately.

All of the traits and inclinations I've described for her match up with how I think I would feel if I was truly able to change into her. I like TFs that "penalize" you for all the joy you get out of being in said form. Having the negative effects of prolonged time as a girl and without the collar on spices up the form and keeps things interesting after the initial TF is finished. It's always a question of "how far am I willing to go?"

The bit about the metabolism and resulting hair growth is a trait I've decided to give my regular male fursona as well, based on my real life metabolism and the fact that no matter how much I eat I can't gain any weight. It would be nice if my hair grew faster because of it, though. I worry that any day now my metabolism will slow to a craw and I'll suddenly go from bean pole into blob. (Or as I've come to call it, the Bob Poundmax Syndrome.)

This isn't her only hairstyle, of course. I doubt you'll ever see her with the same hair twice.

Also, in case you're wondering, the emblem on the bell is my personal artist's logo and the logo to my comic business Catomix.