I basically gave the artist a couple references and told her to surprise me. Surprise me she did. I am not entirely sure how to feel about this. I understand how she arrived at the Native American aesthetic; furry symbolism often has species as race, with each race corresponding to a species native to their ostensible continent of origin. American Pika just sort of reads as Native American, in that context, so this outcome is possibly a result of my own laziness. I am somewhere between 1/8th and 1/4th native by blood, but not by culture, so this doesn't really fit. I suppose it could fit in the manner of a general aesthetic, but I am not sure what to think about races and cultural gestalts being used as aesthetics. I don't look visibly female, and I am putting on a mask; a bright pink mask. I could go either way on whether or not this is insulting. In general I tend to think masks represent our real selves more than anything else, so I'm leaning towards no. Possible reference to berdache, but even if they wore masks as part of their identity they wouldn't be pink; the association of pink with femininity is both western and recent. It is just odd. I expected a more toonish aesthetic, this looks like an illustration from a redwall book. I also expected it to be a convenient shorthand reference to me (In the manner of "otter raver", "mouse in trenchcoat", "gay fox"), but it ended up being marginally complex, and in a sense a rather sick metajoke. A normal badge is a sort of mask one dons. I would wonder whether my fursona, as depicted here, would have her own fursona. It is interesting, and worth the money. It would have been better as a more developed piece of art. It doesn't really work as a badge, or at least isn't what I wanted.