Sooo... Do you think species choice reflects a person's personality?

[NovaMetatail]

You forgot shiny things. Dragons like shiny things. My 'main' persona (which rarely gets used around actual furries) is a dove, but my alt, Cree, is a batshit crazy dragon. Nova's assesment for me: A+

Agreed! Shiny things too. That's a good assessment for me too.


-Nova

 

[Mentova]

So what's the species for normal people? :V

 

[LaughingDove]

I'd say dog, horse or barbary dove. There's something about the mindset of domesticated creatures that resonates with people, whatever the differences. Mostly because selective breeding intuitively picks out animals with qualities humans like--including likability.

This post was written under the influence of "Caramelldansan". The author takes no responsibility for sounding like a hyperactive moron.

 

[Slyck]

Humans, of the same species, and I don't want anyone playing the race card here, have vastly different personalities so I don't see why it would.

 

[Randy-Darkshade]

I'm a fox cuz I like foxes. I feel awakward about sluttyness.
I have plenty of booksmarts but am not particularly witty.

The correct thing to say would be "My fursona is a fox" not "I am a fox" because you are not a fox, you are human. :v

 

[doublezingo]

Personally I associate with turkeys and rats, but people think I'd fit better as a wolf.
Not a sparklewolfie who has smexxy adventures. Rather, crabby no bullshit get out of my territory kind of wolf.

I don't know.

 

[Grendel]

yes, i am a badger because it is perpendicular to my personality

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PERPENDICULAR:
–adjective
1. vertical; straight up and down; upright.
2. Geometry . meeting a given line or surface at right angles.
3. maintaining a standing or upright position; standing up.
4. having a sharp pitch or slope; steep.

Of course it represents my personality. If it didn't then why would I have chose it?

So you chose a generic wolf to fit your mediocrity?

As for stereotypes:

Avians: Usually sociable but weird.
Foxes: Foxes tend to vary.
Wolves: Usually a little bit silly and loners. More like you'd expect coyotes to be.
Coyotes: Spiritual, usually with a mischievous/perverted nature.
Equines: Calmer than most other furries. More patient and gentle, but take a while to warm up to others.
Domestic Cats: They vary, but they are usually a bit selfish and stubborn.
Tigers: Masculine and domineering. Usually masculine even if female.
Cheetahs: Cheetahs are a little conceited and apparence focused.
Kangaroos: Usually motherly even if male. Loving and friendly.
Dogs: Very good friends. Most don't tend to take sides.
Dolphins/Whales: Fun-loving and silly. A bit perverted.
Western Dragons: Quirky and moody. Wise and benevolent one minute, burning down villages the next.
Eastern Dragons: Calmer and more benevolent than western dragons. Usually weaker inside and more sensitive.
Kitsunes: Flirtatious and playful. Sense of humor.
Reptiles: Usually pretty nice, fairly quiet people, based on the alligators I have met. Not entirely comfortable socially.
Raccoons: Silly and cute, but can also have a "bitchy" side.
Squirrels: Bouncy, energetic, and playful.


-Nova

I like this one below better.

Foxes-Sluts
Huskies- Unoriginal and tend to b defensive and whiny
Other Dogs- stupidly loyal, usually end up as white knights to huskies and foxes
Wolves- This is the default species of furries. EVERYTHING is a fuckng wolf or wolf hybrid. Whiny, attentionwhoring, hgboxing, social rejects. They play into their delusions that wolves are "loners" and generally have no idea about wolves, but believe themselves to be experts for reading a wiki page on them.
Coyotes- Psuedo-spiritualists who rape the native american culture to it's last dying breath. Pretend to be witty "tricksters".
Hybirds- those of you who couldn't make up your mind, thought a spaggleish creature would make you an original special snowflake, or decided to cross a species with a wolf.
Avians- egotistical obtinate
Large Cats- Self aggrandized assholes. Individualists, try to hard to be seen as powerful and lithe.
House cats- Individualistic, laid back, self important oportunists
Equines- Always mentally unstable, have huge penis complexes, this species is the defult for sickfuck furries
Dragons- godmodding holier than thou assholes who overtake conversations and try to boost their egos by posting quasi-intelligent things online
Marsupials- wierdos who are just damn mean for no reason
Rabbits- Sex crazed porn addicted foot fetishists
[Kangaroos[/B]- Inflation and foot fetishists who pretend 2bkool and from down unda' mate. And watched too much Crocodile Dundee.

 

[Supersonic Bears]

I think fursonas and personalites aren't linked, but I know a lot of other people who believe certain species act similarly. I've heard a lot of "You're a fox? Good, I need a good sub. All foxes are sub. Just like rabbits.. heh >:9"

I've had someone tell me, "Why did you even make a fursona if you're not into yiffing? Having a fursona insinuates you want something" :/

 

[Tycho]

My character (fuck that fursona shit) is a puma (or cougar, or mountain lion, w/e you want to call it) because... I like pumas.

No psychology to it. I like pumas. I think they are elegant, powerful, intelligent and beautiful creatures. Also, they sometimes eat people here in the Western US, which makes me giggle. Habitat encroachment's a bitch, huh?

 

[jcfynx]

My character (fuck that fursona shit) is a puma (or cougar, or mountain lion, w/e you want to call it) because... I like pumas.

No psychology to it. I like pumas. I think they are elegant, powerful, intelligent and beautiful creatures. Also, they sometimes eat people here in the Western US, which makes me giggle. Habitat encroachment's a bitch, huh?

Heh, I like big strong kittys...I was just playing Kung Fu Panda for X-Bawks with my nephew and Tai Lung was so hot.

Maybe we should talk. :3c

 

[Kawaburd]

To a degree, at least if they've been in the fandom for awhile. The 'ooh look at me I'm a sparklewuff!' ones seem to realize just how stupid they look after a year or 2 and choose something more fitting. That being said...

Gryphon: Insane in the membraaaaaane~ Like all stereotypes I've met exceptions but we're generally the bizarro freaks in a crowd. A few years back you also saw A LOT of bias towards fantasy art, spirituality (both real and fluffy), and an epic, physics-defying majority of... females?! And we ain't talking traps either. Probably due to a lot of crossover into the overall fantasy crowd. Hey, just goin' with what I know best. ;p

 

[Iudicium_86]

I've only ever met one dommy type fox in my 6 years in this fandom.
Only one dragon that wasn't crazy or drama-filled
Hybrids were always different.
I know only one subby Tiger
Wolves, are pretty generic, and seem to let drama run their lives
Everything else people have described about species is usually right. lol
Avians I don't know enough to say anything. Same with reptiles.

I identify as Tiger and I'm dominant, a logical thinker, and fucking hate drama.

 

[Oovie]

Avians- egotistical obtinate

I'm pinning the blame on furries for that! Everyone is practically mammal so we're already a minority to be picked on (ahah-hah bird, should have been a fox), and we're always put down with some poultry food joke. Hurr hurr real funny, you assholes. If you think I'm going to be your chicken dinner then come at me, and I'll turn you into a bloody throw rug to warm my cold scaly feet!

But hey, if you're put in that situation you'd get defensive as well, and look at what makes you better than the rest of the meager species. This is where our egotistical side comes in, because we're so much better than you all as it is!

*Begins sobbing into shoulder* I wasn't always this way, all I wanted to do was be friends, but they wanted me to be their damn DINNER! *Cry's like Dexter's father from Dexter's Laboratory*

 

[Werevixen]

My persona's a Crux, does that mean I don't exist and ontop of that am mentally unstable?

Shush

 

[9livesbunny]

I think we do choose a fursona based on how we "perceive" the qualities of the animal that we are interested in. Keep in mind that we are humans, and therefore we are "humanizing" our choices. We know some of the stereotypical attributes of animals, and we find a way to "relate" to that.

 

[Mentova]

I still think some of you are severely overlooking things here. I'm sure most people just go with whatever their favorite animal is, if they relate to it's "traits" or not.

Sure, there are examples that say otherwise but I'm sure the majority just go "Hey, foxes are cool and my favorite animal. I'll make a fox character!".

 

[Zrcalo]

I still think some of you are severely overlooking things here. I'm sure most people just go with whatever their favorite animal is, if they relate to it's "traits" or not.

Sure, there are examples that say otherwise but I'm sure the majority just go "Hey, foxes are cool and my favorite animal. I'll make a fox character!".

actually I had the exact opposite happen to me... I was always "foxes are dumb, dogs are dumb, wolves are dumb." then I joined the fandumb and saw hawt foxes and was all "foxes are sweet"..

furry media invades the mind on a subconscious level and invades our minds, brainwashing us into fapping to animal people porn.

 

[Digitalpotato]

I still think some of you are severely overlooking things here. I'm sure most people just go with whatever their favorite animal is, if they relate to it's "traits" or not.

Sure, there are examples that say otherwise but I'm sure the majority just go "Hey, foxes are cool and my favorite animal. I'll make a fox character!".

That's why I'm a kangaroo. Do you think I'm some wannabe Australian?

Also I'm still wodnering how having a kangaroo makes you an inflation fetishist...I've only seen one and that was after being linked by someone in this thread. I've seen just as many inflation obsessed dragons, wolves, squirrels, mice, crocodiles....

 

[Mentova]

That's why I'm a kangaroo. Do you think I'm some wannabe Australian?

Also I'm still wodnering how having a kangaroo makes you an inflation fetishist...I've only seen one and that was after being linked by someone in this thread. I've seen just as many inflation obsessed dragons, wolves, squirrels, mice, crocodiles....

The same reason all fox furries are apparently sluts.

Furries make weird sexual stereotypes based on internet roleplay characters because they have nothing better to do. :V

 

[Ozriel]

As for stereotypes:

Avians: oddballs
Foxes: Virgins pretending to be sluts and can be found in IRC chats whoring themselves for type-sex
Wolves: Chosen by people who want to be Special Snowflakes also chosen by people with "White guilt"
Coyotes: chosen mostly by white people who have "White guilt"
Equines: Arrogant bastards.
Domestic Cats: Lazy, attention whoring, arrogant bastards.
Dogs: needy attention whores
Dolphins/Whales: Macro fetishists
Western Dragons: batshit insane; Otherkin
Eastern Dragons: Know-it-alls
Kitsunes: see Western dragon
Alligators/Crocs: Very angry and abrasive people
Raccoons: See fox
Tasmanian Devils: See Alligators/Crocs.
Squirrels: Odd
Hyenas: Negros, Wiggers, or Shemales
African Wild Dogs: Negros.

More apt description.

EDIT: Added 2

 

[Tuss]

I chose a dragon hybrid because I like dragons, and I like fluffy things. She's made to fit me, I'm not made to fit her.

Eastern Dragons: Know-it-alls
Domestic Cats: Lazy, attention whoring, arrogant bastards.

Yep. I'll go with that, fits me pretty well. Seeming as she's a mix between the two.

 

[Digitalpotato]

The same reason all fox furries are apparently sluts.

Furries make weird sexual stereotypes based on internet roleplay characters because they have nothing better to do. :V

Yep, apparently so. The funny thing is how often thos stereotypes fail.

 

[Grendel]

What are boars and wild pigs?

 

[Digitalpotato]

What are boars and wild pigs?

I've not seen any of those yet outside of Zho's gallery.

 

[ThisisGabe]

Sure, or facial structure.

Is that stuff true, in general yes. Although I can't tell you how many SENSITIVE dragons I've run into... it completely opposes EVERYTHING that makes a dragon.