What does your Fursona/Charecter mean to you?

[Ne0nie]

Forum specific:This was originally made as a journal but decided it would make a good forum topic. I went to go post on the forums but was not able to log in, sent a request for my password and never got the e-mail. So I had to create another account. If this topics been done before then I'm sorry, I don't really use the forums very often.

I've been thinking a lot lately about Seth, and what he is to me. What he means to me.

I've come to the conclusion lately that Seth is to me, not who I want to be physically so much as who I want to be personality wise. His full personality traits aren't really something I've specifically talked about with anyone, but something I see only in my head, often when I'm listing to music I'll play out scenarios for him and Luna. Seth is pretty much everything I aspire to be, but can't achieve.

He's tall, he's strong.
He's smart, he's composed.
He's dark, he's quiet.
Sarcastic pessimistic.
He never comes undone.

One of the biggest draws of this fandom to be is the ability to go beyond the boundaries reality has set in place. There are no rules, and infinite customization. You can have an anthro form, and a form on all fours.

I'm quite aware that in reality I can never be Seth, this is why he has a different name then me, even a different name from my online name. Funny then, that the character I created is not a mirror of who I am, but of what I aspire to be, but can't.


So my question to you is: What is your Fursona or Character to you? Is it someone/thing you aspire to me? Is it a mirror of your self? How do you view it?

 

[Shark_the_raptor]

I suppose my char is me, but he is more like a friend. He has most of my personality, but some of it is in different values.

 

[Monkeykitten]

WHY HELLO SIR NEONIE OF NEONILAND

I dunno... my character... let me think about it...

I suppose I use my character in the same way that a person on a forum uses an avatar. It's the image I choose to represent myself with. I don't believe in any way that I am the monkeycat or the monkeycat is me, nor do I wish I were the monkeycat, or any of that.

It all started back when Monkeycat was just a nickname of mine. I decided to create a little creature to go with it. Ended up being the main character that I drew. Was eventually introduced into anthropomorphism, and figured I could draw the monkeycat that way as well. She's not really a "fursona," by my understanding of the word. More like what Mario is to Shigeru Miyamoto, if you get what I mean.

 

[Hybrid Project Alpha]

He is I, We are me.

 

[Takun]

My character is 100% me just as the species I see. I didn't add anything else but physical body traits.

 

[Stratelier]

I suppose I use my character in the same way that a person on a forum uses an avatar. It's the image I choose to represent myself with. I don't believe in any way that I am the monkeycat or the monkeycat is me, nor do I wish I were the monkeycat, or any of that.

I fall into that category as well. I have a gallery full of created characters, a few of which are designated as 'muses' and as such have a closer place to my heart than the rest.

Beyond that . . . nothin'.

 

[Aldog076]

yeah...my fursona is me, the only times he's ever different is in my stories..but then its wut i would do in those situations...

 

[~furfanatic~]

My fursona is like my other personality/a part of what I'am

 

[Dragoneer]

Have zero interest/care for Dragoneer as a critter. Preyfar is more an extension of my personality, but other than that... just a character.

 

[LizardKing]

LizardKing is both who I am and who I want to be. Online I am free to be who I want to be, without the usual boundaries imposed. In real life of course, I can only dream. Hence both being and wanting to be.

 

[eternal_flare]

He's my alternate reality form, so technically we're one and the same.

 

[M. LeRenard]

Well, the MC of my novel (I consider him 'my character', in a sense) is mostly just a means of exploring another way of thinking. He's really nothing like me (I should hope); essentially he just uses people to get what he wants from life, and the only reason he hasn't been hunted down and destroyed yet is because he also knows how to keep his influence out of sight. But deep down, for all the outward appearance of friendliness and charm, he's a despicable little bastard with what most people would call a heart of ice. Which makes him incredibly fun to write, because I'm bloody soft-hearted in real life and could never manage any of the crap he gets away with.
As for my 'fursona' (thinking that I might just be in denial by saying I don't have one), it's my internet personality, which is probably just how I act when I know I'm mostly anonymous and can leave the discussion any time I want. He's way more personable than the guy who writes this junk under this name.

 

[Ryozuki Voltt]

To me Ryozuki represents my personality, what I like, and who I am. He's grown and changed a lot as time has passed because I have aswell.

Been part rat he represents my love for animals, my sneaky and mischevious personality, as well as my physical abilities. I'm not that great physically, but I can endure a lot of pain, can swim really well, and love to eat cheese and such other ratty things.

For the dragon is mostly for my personality and also the year I was born on the Chinese Zodiac. I'm not really Chinese, but I do follow zodiacs a bit. Been a dragon represents me as an artist, a creative and complicated individual.

Then there's the gargoyle aspect. This one was mainly created by my boifriend, and he best expresses my emotions. My gargoyle shows my most dominant characteristic, been a person of Compassion/Cruelty. So, i accepted his character as my own and combined it with my fursona.

thus i created the Rargoyle. Rat/dragon/gargoyle hybrid. Who I am, and he shall keep changing aslong as I do.

 

[Jelly]

He's a caricature of me.

I play the banjo and take a sometimes perceived "weird" interest in 'folkways.'

I don't really have a set "fursona." There are a few things that are very similar that I draw depending on my mood (all indicative of me). Maybe one day I'll hunker down and separate them into different characters. I don't really draw furry stuff all that often.

 

[net-cat]

It's like using a different window manager.

It looks and feels different, but under the hood it's still all the same...

 

[ExTo]

I personally don't have a fursona, but rather a cast of characters, most of which have never been put on paper and only are in my mind so far. Still, there are a few I'm definitely attached to, and each represents either a part of me (often exaggerated) or something I'd like to be - personality-wise, I mean. About physical aspect, I don't relate to my characters much.

The characters' personalities tend to vary, and there are many whom I don't relate to at all, but among my 5 or 6 "favorites", there is at least one constant : deep down, they're all way good-hearted despite their vastly different pasts and the obstacles they've been through, though they show it to different degrees and in different ways. Not all my characters have this trait, but whenever I make one that does, I end up being much more attached to him than I should... there truly is a pattern. I woudln't dare say that's because that's "who I am", but the whole aspect of being compassionate and understanding and warm, no matter how ridiculously subjective that is, is really something I'm looking out for. I'm always sad to think that this wishful thinking is beyond all what is possible for a human being (and I know I'm just as much of an ass as everyone else), but truly I wish I could one day stand before a mirror and say "I believe I am a good person" without being overwhelmed by doubts.

All and all, that kind of echoes on which characters I love and which I don't really mind all that much.

 

[Ne0nie]

Really great interesting responses from everyone so far. I'm reading all of them so keep 'em coming !

 

[Jack]

my fursona means a lot to me. Jack is not jut my creation he is a part of who I am. a piece of my personality.

 

[Ratte]

I chose mine from my own orginality, and for my personality.

For example, the color yellow is a color that I can't stand, but she is yellow because it fits her. She is everything I want to be: pretty, intelligent, and (somewhat) thin. I wanted the style and color hair she has, so I made it into her. I love stripes, and I marked her with them. Her story is so sad, like my own childhood, although mine is not near as supernatural.

I instilled my views and hard work into all of my characters, with Kirai being most like me.

Kirai is my shyness and what I would want to be. Beyle is my boldness. Avalenna and Tjrm are my playfulness. Montreal is my strength. Cagim is my love for magic, and Xhias is my soreness.

I tried to give all of my characters their own unique, personable ways, like most people do.

I typed a lot =3

 

[Lintu]

I pretty much use my fursona to represent me. She look a lot like how my personality is and how I'd react in the situation I put her in. Only a few parts of her are not like how I am, but just.....suit her. I'm not quite sure whether I gave her those characteristics because I want to be like that or not.
Mainly I made her because I wanted her to be doing things I'd never get a chance of doing irl, myself....mmm fantasyworld!

 

[NornHound]

My fursona to me is an avatar/online identity, a 'pen name' or mascot, firstly for my art work and then just as an.. alias. I haven't given her a personality different from my own. The canine part is because I'm very much a dog person, the supernatural theme is because of my interest in that subject, the clothing is just what I usually wear: stripes, and/or camouflage print. Hair style/colour is what I have IRL. So, really.. she's just a anthropomorphized me, in the end.

 

[Lobo Roo]

Basically just me in an anthro kangaroo body...Lobo's personality, as such, is just however I feel at the time. Physically, I kind of made him what I want to be (not an anthro kangaroo, I mean) fit, a bit taller than I am, and male. *shrugs* Other than that...I tried to make him as realistic as an anthro can be. I didn't want him to have any sort of magic, or any sort of special powers besides what he might have 'naturally' - he'd be a really good jumper, for one.

My thoughts when I was creating him, was "If the world is exactly as it is now, except that we're anthropomorphic animals, what am I?" And there ya go.

 

[Cane McKeyton]

My fursona is the me I want to be. Cane is a very rambunctious and out there but I, in real life am a very reserved and not someone who likes the spot light. In the beginning he was more like me, quiet and shy but over the years he has taken on a life of his own and evolved into what he is now. After watching his metamorphosis from introvert to life of the party I thought to myself "Hey, why can't I do the same thing?" and so I aspire to follow his path and slowly I have begun to change. Before there was no way you could get me on the dance floor but now you'll find me booging it down Michael Jackson style.

 

[Ne0nie]

Basically just me in an anthro kangaroo body...Lobo's personality, as such, is just however I feel at the time. Physically, I kind of made him what I want to be (not an anthro kangaroo, I mean) fit, a bit taller than I am, and male. *shrugs* Other than that...I tried to make him as realistic as an anthro can be. I didn't want him to have any sort of magic, or any sort of special powers besides what he might have 'naturally' - he'd be a really good jumper, for one.

My thoughts when I was creating him, was "If the world is exactly as it is now, except that we're anthropomorphic animals, what am I?" And there ya go.

That's an interesting approach to me because I've always felt reality (the world as it is now) is what I like to get away from when it comes to furrys. But I guess that depends on whether you like THIS world or would rather place your self in a world more made your own.

 

[gruz]

there is me and then there's gruz, he has a very different personality to me but he isn't just constrained to the web i take him with me wherever i go and sometimes when i need it he gives me strength that i don't have

and yes i realise how much i sound like a mental patient