#so like my fursonas are representative of me but are really just characters

[fennthetalkingdog]

Dog shifts, dog shifts! For me, for a long time I didn't used to think of my shifting as "dog shifts." (Well, I didn't think of it as "shifting" either but you get the point.) Instead I like to act however I want, whether that be a bit more calmly and like a person or with a lot more stimming and strange behavior, so I always saw my shifting as an extension of that—I feel like growling, purring, meowing, or whining right now so I'm gonna, you know? But I'm just realizing that whenever I do that, I kinda get stuck a little in that animalistic mindset: I see myself as smaller than human-sized, so standing up feels wrong; I get urges to cuddle at the feet of people I like or headbutt them; I like sniffing things and crawling on all fours and communicating solely without words; etc etc. I always thought it came from my oversized imagination or from me having fun doing that (since I already make animal noises in my day-to-day life and just communicate some things by yelping at people). But I realizing now that those might've been shifts? Most of the time self-induced since I have fun making animal noises and then get stuck in a loop, but shifts all the same. And in that case, then I've been having animal shifts all my life O-O

But why am I talking about that? Because yesterday I made a pillow fort in a friend's room and something about it (maybe because it was really short so I had to lay on the floor in it, maybe because I had my own space away from anyone else's eyes) triggered that same mindset. I felt small again, more like an animal, and I could feel my tail more strongly than ever. When I poked my head out of the fort to watch my friend game, I bothered him by yowling at him and meowing a little and chuffing(?). And I purred a bit when he rubbed my hair. I find it so interesting that through all that, I still felt like a dog instead of a cat, just a very vocal one; trying to think of myself as a cat during that just fuzzed up my brain in a way that made me feel uncomfortable (it's hard to explain). But I enjoyed getting to basically have a dog shift in my friend's room, even if I didn't enjoy having to take down the pillow fort afterward. And since it was my first official shift that I knew about while it was happening (and because I still feel a lil doggy and that's the only thing I can think about), I kinda wanted to share it!

[seaofreverie]

You ever finish a drawing that you really like and then you spend the next three days randomly looking at it for minutes at a time like that could make it possible for you to absorb its alluring and magnetic essence with your eyes

[goqmir]

maybe this is a silly question but when picking a fursona can it just be like.......... whatever? like it doesn't have to be a real animal?

of course! i think a lot of people, especially non-furries talking about furries in pop-culture, have this need to fit them into little boxes-- only mammals are furries, but reptilian fursonas have to be "scalies" and birds are somehow "featheries" ive heard. and thats an understandable thing to think but that's just kind of not how ive seen any furry think at all :)

furries are just kind of any nonhuman creature! and anyone can self-identify as one even if they like dont have a fursona in mind :> for instance, i have three fursonas and none of them are actual animals!

here they are-- trinkit the yoshi, toby the fox*, and Leaf the plant chimera. trinkit was my first fursona, and i made her before i ever really identified as a furry :) i kinda just became one by default because i wanted to be a yoshi! and its fun! ive had people like? argue about whether im a furry or not with me?? which is hilarious because despite the fact that none of my fursonas are actual animals my furryness is pretty undeniable :3

toby is not based on a normal fox but is in fact a former human that was permanently put into a latexy rubber fox fursuit (which has a lot of other features but thats like. deep fursona lore). it started as a terraria character that i was playing with my friends with, and when i got the fox costume and shiny dye we joked about my character permanently being locked in the fox suit and it kind of altered my brain lol. but despite being a fox, toby is definitely stretching the traditional definition!

Leaf is a flowering plant that decided to be sentient one day. its lore is canonically that it was a flower that wanted different animal features-- bunny ears, cat's tails, big fox paws, etc-- so it learned to shapeshift itself into them! despite being based on many animals it's pretty far from the standard bunny :)

lots of furries have pokemon fursonas these days! my girlfriend is a hisuian typhlosion, and i have friends who are scolipedes, luxrays, eevees, giratinas, its really cute! lots of furries into being objects have fursonas that are plushies, pooltoys, and robots too-- trinkit has a pooltoy form too even!

sorry if i used your ask as an excuse to ramble too much ehehe but im pretty passionate about it! i think if you or anyone reading this wants to have a little nonhuman fursona that represents you i highly recommend it!! having fursonas, especially being a yoshi by default, really helped me feel better about my own body image and i love being a little creature :)

[you-cant-fuck-megaman]

friend got me the Battle Network Legacy Collection

Battle Network isn't my favorite series in the franchise, but I like it quite a lot and so it's been a lot of fun zipping through the games again and one of the biggest things i like about it are the redesigned takes on existing Robot Masters, particularly the way they get split into two components: a human avatar and a network avatar. a humansona and a netsona. a persona and a fursona, if you will.

one of my favorite things about shounen anime is that everyone has a fucking Gimmick. nobody just casually likes baseball--they also have to wear jerseys everywhere, scream all hot-blooded about the necessity of teamwork, eat dinner off of the home plate, and sleep with their bat on a pillow stuffed with balls. some people will say this is unrealistic, but those people have clearly never talked to a Pokémon fan. plus, y'know, that's what most kids and teenagers do: they find something cool and feel the need to bring it up at every opportunity, because they're growing and want approval for their burgeoning interests. meanwhile, i fucking love it when people are passionate about their interests and make it their entire personality.

so in my opinion, the best Battle Network designs are ones that lean into this and are complimentary on both the NetOp side and the NetNavi side, both of them coalescing around a singular Gimmick and leaning into it with the subtlety of a hammer. Dex and GutsMan.EXE are great because Dex is all in on "guts" as a concept, acting primarily with his heart and charging straight through, representing both an overwhelming emphasis on strength and his misplaced confidence in sheer machismo. Count Zap is basically the best fucking character in existence, both as a compliment to ElecMan.EXE and as a standalone villain, and the anime only made him even better.

there's the stinkers, of course. Speedy Dave is a complete nothingburger of a character, to the point where both the games, anime, and manga have completely different takes on him that head up in entirely separate directions, and with QuickMan.EXE having absolutely no relation to any of them. both Mayl and Roll.EXE suffer from needing to be The Girl for their dedicated character gimmick, as written by people who think that Being A Girl is enough of a personality trait to write about this year. WHEW. time to take the season off.

but there's always going to be stinkers. that's kind of the downfall with any long-running series that A: needs to consistently put out Moar Content and B: focus on character designs first and foremost and fleshing them out second. they're showcases to get you to engage with the gameplay, and then the manga/anime have to pick up the slack after the fact. it's like being handed a glass cylinder and then being told "make this useful"--there's only so much shit an anime can do with a glass cylinder, and they sure as fuck aren't going to make it a dildo.

i keep dropping the anime, i really should continue it and see it through further. it's not awful, just a very generic shounen most of the time; i keep wanting it to be unnecessarily overdramatic like the BN manga or completely fucking unhinged like Ruby Spears Megaman, and it really isn't that

[businesscasualart]

If you had a fursona what animal/colour would they be?

oh baby, I DID actually try my hand at fursona making once. Idk how much I like it in terms of it being MY fursona but I had a glorious time showing it to friends who love fursonas. For malicious reasons. I’ll get into it later. So I decided spontaneously, late at night, that I wanted to try my hand at a fursona. I always loved what one could do with anthro characters, but I’ve never been great at character design. I just haven’t been creative enough for anything exceptional. But a long time ago, loosely inspired by steampunk music, I had this idea for some type of slimy, smarmy, comedically evil businesswoman. A comedically evil businesswoman who was ACTUALLY slimy: a Hagfish lady <3 Not me exactly but something I’m fine being represented by comedically! I am also unsure if a fish qualifies as a “furry” exactly, but it doesn’t have scales, and my friend who know about furries didn’t object.

I couldn’t decide if I wanted her to have a tail or legs, or breasts or no breasts (bc she’s not a mammal). I’m a big fan of hagfish, they’re so fun and fit the personality of the character I think. But I picked it for metaphorical reasons too. Brace yourself for me being over dramatic and waxing poetic a bit.

I factually know I’m a good person, but I often am riddled with guilt and think myself a worse person than I probably am. Morally I’m probably okay, and I get told I’m morally okay often, but I see myself as like…licentious, lazy, harmful to those around me, greasy, perverse, manipulative, slimy. For no reason or event in particular. I’ve just been thinking of myself like that since I was super young. I think people call it Imposter’s Syndrome but I hesitate to call it that, I’d think that same way if no one thought I was good. A hagfish is a perfectly fine fish, it’s not harmful and it’s just living its life, but uh

Nasty.

They’re okay! They’re scavengers who eat like, carcasses. The only time they do harm really is in self defense, the rubbery slime from their bodies suffocating predators. But they’re so gross, they’re regarded as revolting to anyone who sees them, I don’t know anyone else who likes they. No one can get past the never-ending, all encompassing slime.

it’s sort of a….“I think myself gross on the inside, harmless on the outside. I make a character who’s gross and trying to appear harmless and nice” deal, combined with the fact that all evidence seems to say I’m alright, and there’s nothing truly reprehensible about hagfish either.

I hope this makes sense, it’s getting real late where I am. When I make characters, I like to give them traits I have that I don’t like about myself or things that represent traits I don’t like about myself. It makes me feel better somehow. It feels like putting forth something about myself that I can’t seem to get anyone else to see? I love my OCs, so I’ll start to appreciate/ease up on similar traits myself more? I wish I’d see other people like me with my hyper specific issues/negative traits in media, so I make em? Who knows why, but I think it may be a common thing.

anyway, I haven’t used her since think she’s still fun.

Comically evil business people characters are so beloved to me

anyway, making my friends look up videos of Hagfish slime and seeing the light in their eyes die was everything <3

[mrmagistralmalik]

hello, Malik, i have a question regarding your creative works, specifically some dialogue. at least twice, a "kangaroo" is mentioned somewhere in TMRA; once in the YouTube series when Mayhem Evilstral says "You know, kangaroos never actually stop growing, they just DIE!" in season 4 episode 2, Autumn. The second instance of this, to my knowledge, is during this exchange in the Absolute Anthology:

Invisible Friend appears… "Hey, well.. Looks like you and you are stranded far away from the city." they said. "You don't say, Invis…" I replied back. "You would have to walk a lot." Invisible Friend. "NO KANGAROO!" "Clover said as I was going to try to give her a high-five.

i'm simply wondering what this means, this is a very specific concept to repeat, the disdain of kangaroos by two very unrelated characters. does the kangaroo represent something or someone?

-Mod Susan 🌈

I made those two Kangaroo jokes to poke fun at Koal at the time until he changed his fursona and name to a mouse named Ruskah. So, it was definitely really difficult finding out how to poke fun at him within TMRA since most of the matter behind why he doesn’t like me has to do with the Magistralverse stuff. So, he kinda likes to make TMRA and Magistralverse synonymous when they aren’t. Magistralverse is the Parental Universe and TMRA is the Child Universe. That is why I had to make the A Retroactive Disstrack II: A Ratatouille Duo. To partially poke fun at Ruskah for his miseducated unintelligence.

[gizmos-n-gadgets]

Gizmosngadgets :3

About Me:

Yello :3 I’m gizmos-n-gadgets. U can refer to me by my full user name or just gizmos, or really anything that is a name an enby person would choose lol. I use my Protogen fursona Gizmos (mos pronounced like cosMOS or MOStly, not like in elMO’S) to represent myself but sometimes I’ll draw myself, but in varying levels of humanness. I’m an artist, I specifically specialize in drawing cartoonish characters. I can’t really do landscapes or objects well. So when this blog isn’t me reblogging shit or rambling, it’ll be my art :3. I’m a furry, a poly therian (I’m still figuring out my therianthropy/alterhumanity so pls have patience with me) but the only species I know so far is a domestic cat, I’m disabled and neurodivergent (ADHD, Autism, Prosopagnosia, and hyper-mobility to name a few), I use they/them, I’m agender but trans-masculine leaning, somewhere under the bi umbrella, and a million different things under the aromantic and asexual spectrums but the most important ones are my general asexuality, general aromanticism, fictosexuality, and aegoromanticism.

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If u support any form of bigotry (racism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia, therianphobia, etc) u may kindly fuck off :) I’m a sex-repulsed-ace and I have erotophobia so pls don’t send me or tag me in anything super sexually explicit. Suggestive stuff is fine tho :) Pls don’t send me any go fund me’s or anything of the sort. I’m poor and it makes me stressed. For any of those asks who aren’t scams tho, I wish you the best of luck.

Friends:

My main friend group consists of Star, Lucky, and Rose. They’re all very silly and cool and incredible artists :3 They refer to me as Moth, so if I post something from one of our conversations or something, that’s why. I also have a ton of super fucking cool mutuals who are talented as shit @sillylunaa @tinywafflerat @wanna-read-comics @paynomindtotheinsanity @butter1knife @chemilico @apairofbean-jeans @theetherealvulture @pencileyed-crow @dnpanimationstudioclone @majikthegremlin @evilheart12 @randlequeen @ergerson @captain-preston-apawllo

Doodle Requests:

To better get into the habit of actually getting myself to draw, I’ll be taking daily doodle requests. You can request one character or shop for me to doodle or sketch. Be warned, I won’t always be able to do one everyday whether I’d be cus I’m busy, physically or mentally to unwell to draw, or executive function is kicking my ass. Some requests I won’t be able to or comfortable drawing, but if that’s the case, I’ll let you know instead of just leaving you hanging in the askbox. I’d prefer if u could request characters/ships I know (my fandom list is below this) but if I don’t I’d like a ref photo or two :3

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Prideclan/Horizonclan: Warrior cats project inspired by a past rp that me and my friends r working on to rework into a proper story Dhmis Home-Schooled Au: DHMIS au of mine. Basically, what if dhmis was (mostly) wholesome slice of life shenanigans? Reaper: A newly dead soul and the newest reaper, the reaper of suicide, has to save themself and the rapidly corrupting souls in the afterlife by defeating each reaper. Gachapon: A little girl discovers a magical gachapon machine, that, with the right components, summons a strange character that befriends her. A story of found family, the mundane joys and pain of life, and maybe just maybe some world ending destiny shenanigans. My (current) Warrior Cats Ocs: Pebblestar/fur, Fernbreeze, Nightshine/Dawnstar, Sunsetheart, Riverflake, Lilyspot, Pineflight, Sprucebubble, Acornwish, Quartzflame, Mothpaw, and Honeykit My Helluva Boss oc: Russet My Hazbin Hotel ocs: Amanita and Atticus Eberhart (both yet to be officially designed) My Purrgatory oc: Rain My tadc oc: Wisper My Chikn Nuggit oc: Toadmado Soop My Team Sky [insert hawk noise] oc: Vifer (yet to be officially designed) My Cattails Wildwood Story oc: Lichen My (current) D&D Characters: Sneeze, Zikra, and Nik-Nak I have a few other ocs and personal projects that aren’t listed here because they’re too early in development

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be warned, the thing is constantly updating and long as fuck

Monument valley 

Not so silent 

Synthetic instinct

Cassette beasts

Realta 

I hope so

Spicy mints

Splatoon

Cattails 

Afk journey

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Jar of Rebuke

Rusty lake

The owl house

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Cookie run kingdom 

Good omens

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Over the garden wall

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Inn between 

Welcome to night vale

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Stray

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She ra

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Kipo

Fools gold

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Blades of furry

BNA

The dragon prince

Strange planet

Adventure time

Cult of the lamb

The bad guys (movie)

Nimona 

Purrgatory 

The angel in the forest 

Lackadaisy 

Sweet tooth

Helluva boss

Hazbin hotel 

The amazing digital circus

Welcome home 

Animal crossing 

Mouthwashing 

Amphibia 

Chikn nuggit 

Beastars 

I think I like you

Sidequesting

Moominvalley 

Lookouts 

Roleslaying with Roman 

Blues Clues

Mew and mewtwo

My pride 

The imperfects 

Voltron

Zoboomafoo 

Gravity falls

Dead end

Avatar 

studio gibli 

Heartstopper

Dead boy detectives 

[squidgang]

I see you reblogging an ask meme and therefore I crave more Namulith lore... 1, 5, abd 17?

once again I took a million bajillion years to tackle an ask ehehehe my b. my college semester is nearly over- then it's (most likely) a period of unemployment and oodles of free time!! please enjoy the following replies! (I also lowkey lost the og ask this was in reference to, got buried in the annals of my dash probably, but I had saved the individual questions on a google doc)

1. What was the original thought that led to the creation of this character?

Ok ok confession time- when I first started playing BG3 I totally thought it would be kind of a one-and-done situation where I’d just play it once, so I decided to really quickly whip up a character to play in my first campaign and then figure out a romance later.  This character was a beefy, blonde paladin lady who I just couldn’t seem to nail down name-wise, or really fully establish at that point. (Later, this character became Nausicaa, Namulith’s elder sister)  Well, at the same time I also wanted to make up another character just to romance Minthara (which I thought would be a quick one night stand scenario so he was gonna be just sort of a throwaway character just to indulge, and for funsies I was like “oh and he can be paladin lady’s little brother”).  I thought it would be amusing to play a “john baldur” for (what I believed to be) a short campaign.  Oh well.  In short, I literally just wanted to make a character to go after Minthara hahahaha

^"Florian Ozark" (note the dark pink eyes, dunno what the story was there)

5. How did you choose their name and why? Was it simply based on vibes or is there any specific meaning behind the name? Are the reasons behind their name different in- and out of universe?

YAY!!! 

My first working name for the character who would later become Namulith Dorok was actually “Florian Ozark” (super random, DOES NOT roll off the tongue), and funny enough this version of him had pink eyes for some reason?  I realized I really hated my attempt to make a true “unique” name, so I decided to look elsewhere for inspiration.

Ok so I’m a big fan of both the movie and manga “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind” and for whatever reason I decided to steal virtually every proper noun from the manga and use it for nearly every single family member of Namulith (BG3 oc).  In the manga (no spoilers), Namulith is the cocky, egotistical, functionally immortal emperor of a country called Dorok, who desires to possess the last superweapon on Earth and wield it to conquer the rest of the world.  I picked his name for my oc mostly just because I liked it, and after a while it really began to fit well, like I look at him and yeah he looks like a Namulith to me!

As I mentioned earlier, all of his family members have names from the manga, so they’re all rather unusual-sounding.  I think “Namulith” might be a made-up name, so I don’t think it has a meaning (unfortunate), but it sure sounds cool!

^Namulith is the one in the center with the tunic with the eye on it.

17. Are there any motifs or symbols associated with the character? How are they represented, in their design, personality or in some other way?

TOO MANY!!! Here are my favorites:

Solar eclipses.  They symbolize the conjunction of his own will, and that of the Urge- how his own conscience is overridden and occluded by something beyond his control.  Also, they’re visually so striking, and to someone who has no idea what’s happening, they’re even frightening!

Deer bucks.  Namulith’s fursona would 1000% be a buck.  In general mythos, bucks represent pride, nobility, and independence, with the growth and shedding of antlers symbolizing cycles of changes in accordance with the seasons.  I’ve mentioned in the past how Namulith is a rather prideful person, so I think this tracks personality-wise.  They’re also prey animals (not typically thought of as “killers”), and pretty skittish, which are also relevant qualities.

Guilt.  In my personal canon this manifests as the symbol of a black dog- for Namulith this results from processing his memories of killing his family, which happened not even two years before the start of the game.  His family used to have a black dog as a pet, and thus the black dog is a mysterious, dark, and painful reminder that he slaughtered the people he was once most close to in cold blood.  This immaterial dog, the vessel of guilt, is also a ghost that haunts the apothecary he moves back into :P

[thousends-of-eyes]

some kin drawings,,,

trying to experiment with a dragon appearence that i like but i don't know yet....

also long rambling about how i represent myself otherkin wise under the cut !!!!

since i have a hard time representing myself in a single entity, i have many many things i'd call forms ,,,

so um !! this is my ((or at least one of) my fallen angel form thingy,,, meant more as an ""embodiment"" of like. my vibe ??

a sort of concept of the glitch(tm)) based off of the guy i mentionned up there ((he's my glitchkin self !!!!!!

also !! i have many ocs based off of my own kins,, as in they do represent me in some ways but they aren't completely me,, mainly because, as aforementionned, i have a hard time representing myself 😭😭😭

respectively:

"intersect" (his two forms) which would just be. my computerkin ((strange !!! but the guy's brain is literally a computer,,,

asmael !!!! which is how i used to represent myself as a fallen angel,, i don't have a better image of him so here's a silly ms paint doodle lmao,, he still is me in some ways but not as much as before ?? if i can say it like that ?? whatever !!!

respectively:

marshatak,, my silly !!! to be fair i wouldn't be able to tell you to which kin i associate the guy but ?? it does feel like i associate him with my kins.. maybe i just kin him, i don't know 😭😭 (send help) but like. he shares some of my vibes,,, i see what i mean,,

terrora !!!!!!!!! same thing as marshy. probably more for my dragonkin though ??? dragon monster guy,,, and i kin the song he's based off of so i guess it helps lmao !!!!!

nicéphore,,,, also my dragonkin,,,, i should note that he was supposed to be my ""main fursona"" but like. yeah,, i still love him deeply though,, has many of my own characteristics,,

respectively:

martyre,,,,, raven//bird guy,, i love love birds,,, i might be birdhearted tbh (?) so yeah. he has a lot of themes i associate with myself,, ((like. the night. ravens. evil guy !! (half joking)

antechor. AUGH this guy ... well. he is probably one of the closest to me ((both physically and in character i'd say,,)) he is another form of my former truesona so yeah.

religion !!!!!!!! based off of my all time favourite album, the guy's a hyena/wolf/thing hybrid,,, and i'm kinsidering a hyena kin.. also i kin the album slash song he's based off of ,,, ,, misery

respectively:

amphibien, misérable & malvelut,, the three fish guys/creatures,,,, ☝️i'm also kinsidering the flukeman from the x-files so yknow,,, also i love sea creature,,, water creature,,, augh,,

and lastly,,, i do have one (1) guy who's very much me, and that i use as a representation of myself,,,

behold,,, the silly,,, la terreur !!!!! he technically has no name since before naming myself terreur i couldn't find a name that really fit me,,,, but whatever,, he's me, i am him,,,, yeah ���🙏

although kin-wise id say he'd be almost entirely just my fallen angelkin,, which is my highest kin right now but that's something to note,,

i was. not supposed to talk so much woah !! but yeah,,

asmael try not to ramble for an entire hour under a post that was supposed to be simple challenge: impossible

[o-i-w-u]

How do you make a sona, exactly? I really want something that actually fits for me, or at least feels nice, but I have no idea how to do that... and, I mean, you seem like you have a pretty good handle on that.

So, any advice or tips?

ohh hmm..

well it seems kinda obvious but- pick some that feels like you

want a fursona? something animal themed? pick a creature that you relate to, have the same mannerisms as, or just like a lot!

something humanoid? make it how you want to look or how you see yourself! it doesn't even have to look like you, even. its just whatever you like, really

you can even take an object you heavily associate with and use that in some capacity, using it as character inspiration, or just a personified object :D!

use references! be inspired by characters you like!! you may go through a few sonas before you find something that fits, and thats okay!

my sonas usually tend to be shapeshifters and have their own stories, both ocs and something i can represent myself as

one note is to keep it relatively simple, simple enough to draw again and again without it being too difficult. it doesn't have to be like a blank slate or anything, just shapes that are easy for you to draw consistently and be memorable for yourself!!

[iwakuraz]

hello can i ask you about your ocs? your art of them is so cool, i’d love to know more about them

:0 YES!!!! THANK U SM thats so nice of you!!! going on a rant under the cut hehe. hope u do not mind that super bad at explaining so its all just me saying random stuff ajshdj. sorry about that

SO STARTING WITH THESE TWO

the one with buns is called rue and shes an oc I've had since like 2020 ,, shes kinda rude and mean but shes also pretty gay w/ the other character next to her. I think I'm gonna call the other girl paige? but I haven't reallyyyy decided on a name yet! one thing about me is that I'm pretty bad at naming characters. I named her after this one old art website I used as a kid though, the website was called 'paigeeworld'. dunno how many people remember paigeeworld but I do. and paige is def the kinda person to go on art websites like paigeeworld and deviantart. so thats why I'm thinking of using that name. also I named rue after the flower rue

I have a story for them vaguely planned out in my head but I need to flesh it out more. I have the ending planned out but uh. the other parts of the story? yeah. I only have those vaguely decided. they're pretty fucked up tho and .yeah . they make eachother worse probably.

rues birthday is 18th august, paiges birthday is 6th of june. these dates do mean something! paiges birthday is the same day that paigeeworld originally announced their closure (I think?) but rues birthday is something a bit more personal 2 me. their story isn't really connected with any of my other ocs, they're sorta just chilling. I started making a fun silly comic thing with them a bit ago but have barely gotten anything done with that cause school. :[

in my head, paige sorta reminds me of the stummy book song 'we all fall down'. thats why I gave her a cup. bc haha get it...... we're all just drinking out of cups waiting for the day when we can't get enough,,, I think her character item is gonna be a cup. always has a cup of like milkshake or something. yum I love milkshake. a song that I associate with rue is 'please tell me mr wonder' by siinamota. and rues character items is her plush of a bear and a bunny! her plushies are alive btw and talk to her sometimes. but I should probably draw her with her plushies more because right now I only have a slightly old animation of her with them. blehhh

there is another oc who is relevant to these two, her name is rini. but I haven't done a proper drawing of her in a while,, I have a drawing of her from 2022 and I am not showing that. rini is in the same class as paige and rue tho. shes the class representative

next here is dot. shes the mascot of my neocities site but I like her quite a lot :] shes a pretty big nerd I think. nerd bunny. her main source of literature consumption is reading old instruction manuals on how to use windows 98.

OKAY NOW TALKIGN ABOUT VIN MY FRIEND VIN!!!! definitely the oc I've posted about the most. full name is vincent but you can call him vin for short, or vinny for medium. I named him after the car seat headrest song vincent. his favourite food is salt packets (the type you get in restaurants) and his favourite beverage is vinegar. VINegar. I like him a Lot and hes basicallyyy my fursona :3 hes a lonely sad teenage cat and I love him so much!!! he doesn't talk a lot, but I think he communicates through likee his tamagotchi or something. again this is another character I have a story planned out for vaguely but I should flesh him out a lot more. I think right now I'm more just using him to represent myself. just know he is very very special to me -w-

AND. do u see the cat on the left. I think I will name them pepper. they're meant to contrast with vin, I think they're rlly energetic and fun and yeah!!!! :3c <- basically they are that emoticon! been trying to think of a name for pepper forever. I'm thinking maybe the name pepper will work. like yeah sure. I don't think they'd enjoy spicy food so they wouldn't like peppers. thats why I think pepper is the perfect name for them. peppers favourite food is probably dip dab? or whatever those things are called? yknow those weird lollipops you can get that come in a packet full of these weird powder thing and you're meant to dip the lolly into the powder? thats what pepper would eat

this is (tama)rini!!!! tamarini. basically the bunny version of the rini oc I mentioned earlier and then said nothing about! they collect tamagotchis and are very very very normal about tamagotchi. she looks sorta similar to dot, but thats not intentional. I just like the colour purple and I also like bunnies.

there are SOME others but these are my favourite ocs right now. holds them in my hands and shakes them.

[marshbarks]

the many. many faces in which stan marsh has taken within my personal writing. the many ways in which he permeates my mind and i find him within my characters near constantly, whether he wants to be there or not.

i find that, often, if i create a character meant to represent him or contain some of my emotions around/regarding him, then they are extremely close knit with a character who is supposed to fill some sort of role as 'me'. he is often in a hard-to-define relationship with the 'me' character, or in some cases, a found-family brother. it is difficult to pin down. but if there's a me, there will be a stan, and vice versa.

i guess the first category is "that's just stan", which admittedly, doesn't make for much of an original character, but i've got so many headcanons and such personal attachment through myself that... he might as well be. i think i'll only be sharing these obvious stand ins, for the time being. i got nervous writing out this post and need to hold SOME of my stanleys out of reach atm.

baker (art: me) | rayne (art: adrian+me) | gensi (art: me)

to start here is my classic "stan needs a fursona." sort of. the first one here is Baker, who IS just 'what if stan had a fursona'. the second is rayne who is a big dumb doggy who took all his best friends and left an ugly town he didnt wanna live in anymore, and is trying. SO hard to live somewhere else. however, he's also like. stan's fursona. the third is gensi, who is also currently sort of a blank character that i looked at and said "yeah, another blue/black dog in my possession, thats stanley alright"

then there's the people, who range from 'thats stan', to 'what the fuck'

stan (art: me), marshwalker (art: adrian+me), raven (art: quailxcrossing)

this first one IS just stanley. i don't really try and act like he's an oc, because he isn't. this is the culmination of my 18 years living with a deep attachment to stan. i love him so much the second is marshwalker, though he's taken on moonwander in original writing, because it is cute and honestly fits his werewolf theming better. this is obviously a tsot inspired version of him, but he spans a lot further than that. he works his way into personal projects i've been cooking for about a year now, and slotted himself so perfectly into the story that it's almost wild to think i've only had him for two weeks. he's more of an oc both with the changes made to tsot for our au, AND because he IS stan's oc. like. marshwalker is stan playing a character, moonwander is... an evolution of that same character. the third one is raven. which i just... didn't have the energy to name much of anything else. he is a companion to one of my primary sona characters, and he's a sort of sign of snapshot of my stan, from about 5 years ago. while stan has changed a lot, raven remains the same. he's one i'd call more original now, because of the fact that none of the story he has rings true with..... anything in south park. he's just my little guy who is a dog and drinks too much sometimes.

zherr (art: me) | marsh (art: me) | alucard (art: adrian)

zherr lou is the first one here, and he's inspired by a song i heavily associate with stan. he's...... he's fucking depressed, we'll put it like that. he's going through the worst of it all the time in his mind, and what does he have to show for the struggle? nothing. he's trying, so, so fucking hard to get better. it isn't working out. he's a loser. marsh is the second! creative name, isn't it? he was actually one of my very first "oh that's stan" OCs, obtained alongside another character who fell into a role of representing me pretty well. he's sort of just an emo boy with a serious. SERIOUS of case of bad luck. but emotionally he fills the niche of a stan. alucard is third! he's a bit of a funny story- because he sort of... is also inspired by sebastian of stardew valley? adrian and i were playing, and constructing SUCH a weird narrative, and stan wanted to play too! so. he got to make himself a guy to fit in that role. he's really cool, he's a demon and he only HAS one eye and he cares so much. SO much. he's loves his spouses.

lowell (art: adrian) | logan (art: adrian) | alluin (art: me)

now THESE guys. the first one here is lowell!! he's been my reaction to going absolutely fucking feral over post covid. he's a hellhound who had a bad life and was down on his luck and stumbled drunk into a cafe bc he got cut off at the bar, and saw the prettiest fucking man in his life and has been doing everything to get that man to love him (spoiler: they are husbands eventually) second is logan, based on a mix of the "opposite personality" universe from spookyfish, as well as... as soul evans of soul eater. adrian and i will just make characters that are Anything, okay. it's kinda fucking awesome. he's bitchy and ready to attack people. he's a guard dog for his best friend. he's red. i love him. what more is there to say really. and alluin is the third... ohh, alluin.. in a really big over simplification of the idea. alluin exists to fuel a "what if i lost him" view. the effort i'd go to get him back. the things i would be willing to change to be what was needed to house him. he is so SO deeply personal and important and i cant even get INTO it. he's everything.

hickory (art: me) | abica (art: adrian) | camp (art: adrian)

these three are fun! they feel more like explorations of an extreme, honestly? hickory is a board gamer. a little diy craft kit collector. he's a fuckin DORK and i LOVE HIM. abica is femininity! she represents a happy, healthy idea of it. the ideal version of stan- if he was feminine. she's also super cool and part of an awesome polycule and has so many partners and i think shes the sickest bitch in the world camp is sport! i mean. he's like literally a doggy based on gatorade. he's a jocky sportboy and he's sorta stupid in most other aspects and i think he's so funnnnnnn... guy who is eye candy to people who like 'em buff. he knows it, too.

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and i have more! i have a lot more. however, um. my vulnerability meter ran out and i got scared so here's these!!!!

[troutfur]

have you always had one sona/mascot character, or has it changed over time? If youve had one at all of course

My very first sona was a Mew Pokésona that going forward inspired the aesthetics of all my subsequent ones. I got it drawn way back when, as an art raffle prize, but I don't think I can find the file any more. I have been wondering if I could somehow revive it one day. (To broke right now, but to that one person who knows who they are: ;3c)

I have always had an attachment to Mew as a Pokémon. And being that I was 14-ish at the time the prospect of a mythical Pokémon as my sona just appealed to my 14 year old sense of self importance.

I also believe I may have been influenced by the plot of Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon. If anyone remembers, the partner character is canonically a reincarnated Mew in that entry in the series.

The Jace bird, my current "main" sona, has had quite a few iterations before I got my first artwork in its current style. But for the most part has remained consistent. The main change is going from a generic green (turquoise more like) bird to a specific species of tropical bird, a yellow-naped amazon parrot.

I connect with parrots because ever since I was a kid I have had a reputation for being "talky". Couple that with my interest in language learning and linguistics and having the stereotypical talking bird just felt natural. But it's also local to my country, Guatemala, a place that as I've gotten older I've got more and more attached to.

Also, the fact I began having anthro bird sonas circa 2017 may or may not be related to the fact I immediately fell in love with the Rito from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild...

There's Troutfur, of course, who started as a Picrew avatar but later became an OC with like backstory and a defined design outside the bounds of the original image creator. It is who I represent myself as in this blog, as well as being an outlet to really explore my complex feelings towards the very ideas of religiosity given my Catholic upbringing. But layered in a coat of fantasy and animal aesthetics to make it an easier pill both to make and swallow.

Also: he has the distinction of being a fulfillment of a childhood dream. As a kid I really liked the idea of a calico cat fursona. Cats were one of my special interests as a child and I always found calicos to be the prettiest pattern. But I didn't want people to think I was a girl, trans, or intersex. The Erins' flippant attitude about cat genetics just inspired me to make the cat sona of my dreams, with no regard to the rhyme or reason for him being a cis guy calico.

And I also have Jiā'ān, after my Chinese Buddhist name: 嘉安. (For the unaware: I formally converted to Chinese Pure Land Buddhism in late 2023 under the bona fide abbott of a monastery in China. I have been on and off involved with Buddhism for 7 years, but it was in December 2023 when I really felt ready and committed enough to call myself an actual Buddhist.)

He is the character I use to represent myself in my Buddhism side blog, @kongque-jiaan. @dayz-ina-daze designed him from scratch for me and it cost me a pretty penny, but in the end it was worth it completely. I adore EVERYTHING about the design and I wish I got to use him more.

He's a peacock, which in Buddhist literature is a symbol of inner strength and acquiring wisdom through confronting one's negative thought patterns. Peacocks eat a lot of stuff poisonous to humans and as such ancient Indians believed that the strength of the poison they are directly correlated to the brightness of their feathers. The idea of it is extremely aspirational to me and as such Jiā'ān kind of has come to represent to me my goals in Buddhist practice.

These characters are all equally a representation of me. So much so that I honestly answer as much to their names as I do my "real" name. At least online. Ultimately, when humans are so complex, why should we have just the one word to define our whole being?

[mars-ipan]

OH ALSO... if komaeda and hinata made fursonas of themselves what do you think they'd pick lmao. not what makes sense for them in a meta way, what species they'd *think* represented them best.

OHHHH REALLY GOOD QUESTION. going with hinata first bc i feel it in my soul. i actually have multiple answers for him.

hpa era hinata would ABSOLUTELY be like “hmmm…. something cool…. like a wolf… but everyone’s a wolf that’s so common… maybe a tiger? mm i dunno… what about a dragon?” and he’d eventually end up with something that’s a hybrid of like 12 different species (all top predators of course) and there’s like a whole page of backstory and this guy is soooo cool and awesome and everyone loves him.

sdr2 era hinata would be asked what his fursona would be by like chiaki or ibuki or smth and he’d be like “hmm i don’t know…. what animal Represents Me who Am I….” and he’d agonize abt it the whole game and never come to a conclusion.

POSTGAME hinata, if asked what his fursona is, would just go “huh? a wolf, i guess.” he’s more secure in himself now <3

komaeda…. komaeda’s a thinker. i’m gonna also split him up into different time frames bc goddamn these characters are so dynamic

hpa/sdr2 era komaeda would probably pick a “trash” type of animal— as a result how poorly he views himself. i can see him being the type that goes for a bug and having like a cockroach fursona. or a pest animal more regionally specific to japan but i don’t know their pest animals well. if he went for a mammal i think he’d pick smth like an american opossum. he would just… need to know what those are. but he’s always struck me as the “guy who picks up random facts” type of person so i think he would know. he would appreciate how despite being considered trash animals, opossums serve a lot of important roles in the ecosystems they’re in :]

servant…. servant. servant is already an animal to me he’s like a little pokémon. but if he were to assign himself a fursona… something commonly domesticated. not like a dog but subtler. a RAT YES A RAT!! smart and capable of being taught tricks but disliked by many with a reputation for being sneaky. mhm mhm mhm

postgame komaeda finally gets some fucking self esteem methinks. i think he still likes trash animals still has an appreciation for them. but i think it’d be fun if he had a dutch angel dragon fursona. no big reason for that i just think it’s really cute ^_^

[ditzydogxd]

Rambling about sonas because they are living in my brain

ok…so…I have a lot of different sonas, most of which you have not seen (either because I haven’t had a need to use them or I haven’t drawn them) that being said, I wanna talk about them.

I’m not really sure how I’d describe this. In my mind, all my sonas just kinda take turns piloting me around. Kinda like Inside Out. (With maybe a tiny bit of IFS thrown in there, because I went down a rabbit hole of researching that, but I am NOT a therapist) also a bit of inspiration from PetPyves’s persona project (in just different elements of me and my life broken down into separate characters)

So, here they all are (some pics provided, some not)

BARK:

Bark is essentially my true sona. Just a little cartoony version of myself that I draw from time to time.

THE THESPIAN: (old pics)

The Thespian (or simply Thespi) is basically a little Godsona I have for a campaign I’m in. They are known as “The God of Performance” but have also come to represent my occasional bouts of ego.

Ditzy:

Ditzy is my fursona (alien Bassett Hound, but I kinda imagine them being like Mort from Madagascar and is also like….10 other animals lmao), and she basically represents my neurodivergence when I’m unmasked.

Luxuria (Lux):

Lux is a succubus sona that I created for whenever the extremely…NSFT urges come on. She also represents the freedom of sexuality, and how it isn’t something to be ashamed of. (Side note: I AM AN ADULT AND SO IS THIS CHARACTER!!!!!!)

GUT5NG0R3: (not pictured)

This edgelord supreme is a representative of my “edgy emo phase” I had way back when, and how some of that phase (such a music taste and general style/storytelling) has stuck with me. (Also, cringe culture is dead)

Kiddo:

Kiddo is my littlesona, and represents my headspace and personality when I’m regressed. (If any of y’all come in here trying to calm me weird or gross for regressing, instant block)

Scribble:

Scribble is my ventsona, and used for whenever I make vent art/animatics (funnily enough, two of these screenshots are FROM a vent animatic I finished like…yesterday)

And so far….that’s everybody! I’m sure more are to come soon (maybe) but that’s all of them for now. Please feel free to ask questions about them, or anything else !!

(ngl, if anyone wants, I’ll make one of those Q&A blogs specifically for them)

[sshoujo-ais]

what animals do you associate with your main f/os? (you can interpret this as assigning them fursonas if you want lol)

thank you so so so much for sending this in!!

i actually really love this question bc this is something i basically never think about, i mostly associate my main f/os with plants rather than animals for some reason. so this question engages my brain and i love that ^^ anyway let's get into it

nikki's assigned fursona is a cat. i feel like catgirls are kind of a staple in gamer girl culture amd "gamer girl" is kinda nikki's whole thing but even beyond that she's got some cat qualities to her. mostly she's the kind of cat that pretends to ignore you and not care but is secretly very sweet and cuddly once you get to know her.

annette is a mouse, i don't really have a good explanation for this one it just kinda fits in my brain. i remember a while ago there was a mousegirl trend on tumblr and it just kinda fits her vibe idk. like, the mousegirl bartender who balances the drink on her head and says for you it's on the mouse (except annie spills the drink bc she's clumsy). that kind of silly goofy behavior i think is something that fits her quite a bit.

dorothea was the toughest one for me but after some deliberation i have to give her the dove. this is for many reasons. one, doves are a symbol of peace and when you get to the war phase dorothea is just. fucking depressed she hates what's going on around her. second, if you've ever been in a city you've probably seen a pigeon. pigeons and doves are pretty much the same kind of bird but while doves are seen as beautiful, pigeons are street trash. and this duality is very central to dorothea's character as well, being someone who used to be street trash but is now seen as beautiful. and finally dorothea is a songstress, and while doves do not "sing" per se they do make a very iconic sound.

for yang there's the obvious answer of dragon but i wanna say specifically a komodo dragon. i feel like i've seen faunus aus of her where she's that. also komodo dragons love to fucking fight people just like her. shes an apex predator in the ecosystem

portia is the group's second cat. i tried not to do repeat animals but there's simply nothing that fits her more, this one is a canon thing she has a pet cat, her associated arcana is the star which in the game itself is represented by an anthro cat, and she even smiles very catlike. very :3

robin - now get this - also a cat. robin specifically is a black cat. and this i'm basing entirely on the fact that cats like to spend time with people just by chilling in the same room as them which to me is very robincore. she hangs out by just sitting in silence reading a book while captain crackhead and the rest of his band of lunatics do their thing around her. that's her preferred way to spend an afternoon.

ysayle... has two but both of them are kinda jokes? idk. i could say dragon again bc her whole thing is that she's the leader of the heretics who support dragons and their opposition to the theocracy, and also she (for a time) believes herself to be the reincarnation of this one lady who fucked a dragon. and i could also say giraffe bc it's a common ffxiv fandom joke to compare elezen to giraffes just because they're tall and have long necks. but if we were to go off of personality i think she'd be a wolf