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What was your Inspiration for your Fursona?

RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
Just like the title says, Mine was a real life horse I had that was named Renegade. He was my rock when I was having a bad day and at times my best friend. He was the sweetest thing on 4 legs and super patient with people. He loved attention, and was always a favorite of most people he met. I miss him terribly, but he had to be put down due to illness
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Vanessa Howl

Damsel Of Darkness
This one at least is a mix of my darkest impulses, a wolf fursuit I bought/turned into a wolf and early 2000's animated goth chicks.
 

Amepix

Some Furry Artist
I have brown hair, so I figured I'd make my fursona's fur brown as well. And with that, Choco was born. He's a Chocolate Wolf, which I made up. Unless that actually exits. Why'd I make him a wolf? Probably because I played Twilight Princess for a few hours before designing him.
 

ben909

vaporeon character != mushroom characters
main character... pokemon mystery dungeon


other character:"
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backup character, trying to remove the "custom" parts of my vaporeon character to make a back up other then violence if copyright laws are ever made more strict
 
Going in order of my current sonas from oldest to newest:
  • Stella Song was basically me wanting a pony version of myself, MLP style. They started out as a normal pegasus, but over time have evolved into a dragon/pony hybrid.
  • Adeline was a sona I really wanted to have made once I actually started to learn more about hyenas. They were also a sona for me to express the fact that I had recently figured out I was non-binary/genderqueer, what with spotted hyenas being fairly ambiguous in certain aspects. Still probably the main fursona I have.
  • Opal is a pokesona, also a hyena, being a mightyena. Recently they got an update to their design though.
  • Mello was made cause I wanted a minecraft sona, and I'm a sucker for endermen. I love those lanky awkward friends a lot.
  • Papunya was kind of a loose replacement in terms of being an extinct native Australian animal, and myself being Australian, for a now ex-sona of mine. Plus, Thylacoleo are just cool.
  • Madison is the newest sona I have and is basically a "truesona" of myself.
 

RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
This one at least is a mix of my darkest impulses, a wolf fursuit I bought/turned into a wolf and early 2000's animated goth chicks.
That's pretty cool not gonna lie
 

RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
I have brown hair, so I figured I'd make my fursona's fur brown as well. And with that, Choco was born. He's a Chocolate Wolf, which I made up. Unless that actually exits. Why'd I make him a wolf? Probably because I played Twilight Princess for a few hours before designing him.
Makes sense, I haven't heard of them existing IRL, although there's some google images of a Chocolate Husky that looks like what you're describing
 

RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
main character... pokemon mystery dungeon


other character:"
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backup character, trying to remove the "custom" parts of my vaporeon character to make a back up other then violence if copyright laws are ever made more strict
A mushroom character is unique, in a good way, plus that image cracks me up
 

RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
Going in order of my current sonas from oldest to newest:
  • Stella Song was basically me wanting a pony version of myself, MLP style. They started out as a normal pegasus, but over time have evolved into a dragon/pony hybrid.
  • Adeline was a sona I really wanted to have made once I actually started to learn more about hyenas. They were also a sona for me to express the fact that I had recently figured out I was non-binary/genderqueer, what with spotted hyenas being fairly ambiguous in certain aspects. Still probably the main fursona I have.
  • Opal is a pokesona, also a hyena, being a mightyena. Recently they got an update to their design though.
  • Mello was made cause I wanted a minecraft sona, and I'm a sucker for endermen. I love those lanky awkward friends a lot.
  • Papunya was kind of a loose replacement in terms of being an extinct native Australian animal, and myself being Australian, for a now ex-sona of mine. Plus, Thylacoleo are just cool.
  • Madison is the newest sona I have and is basically a "truesona" of myself.
Yeah I can only think of one..LOL, it's cool that you have so many
 

ben909

vaporeon character != mushroom characters
A mushroom character is unique, in a good way, plus that image cracks me up
the flaw with it is its a bunch of quoted images, looks to be from something fine, but still carries a bit of risk

the characters that i made are different from what i found online
 

Inferndragon

Dragon Doodler with a Tail Snake
Pretty much the evolution over time.
My character was slightly based around the design of the red prince from DOS2.
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Used the character creator to give fins and so on. Nyhgault simplified my design.
Then I slowly worked on making my own version of the design.
In the end it slowly went to what i created today.
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RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
Pretty much the evolution over time.
My character was slightly based around the design of the red prince from DOS2.
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Used the character creator to give fins and so on. Nyhgault simplified my design.
Then I slowly worked on making my own version of the design.
In the end it slowly went to what i created today.
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That's pretty Bad Ass though, if I ever decide to take on a 2nd one it might be a dragon honestly
 
Yeah I can only think of one..LOL, it's cool that you have so many
Whether you got one, or many, it's all valid, and your inspiration for your character is heartwarming! I'm glad you got to have such a good friend in your life.
 

RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
Whether you got one, or many, it's all valid, and your inspiration for your character is heartwarming! I'm glad you got to have such a good friend in your life.
Thanks, It sucks that animals get old and sick and die though, sometimes I wish they wouldn't
 

RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
Years of flying dreams. Occasionally, during a dream, I would catch a glimpse of 'myself'; a foot, a wing. . . never saw my face. Here's an artist's rendering. Many thanks to Khyaber!
My 'sona
Note: Tried to just copy and paste the image here, but it would not work. Linked to a thread when copy/paste did work.
I always kind of knew I related to animals more, I used to see them in dreams myself, I like your Sona as well :)
 

Foxridley

A fox named Ridley
I got interested in foxes after a summer of watching various cartoon featuring them, so I started thinking of some manner of fox fursona (before I even knew what a fursona was). I’ve always had an interest in transformation, so naturally I gravitated toward kitsune because of their shapeshifting. But I still only wanted him to have one tail, hence half-kitsune.
As to the name, I went through a time that I was kind of obsessed with Ridley from Metroid, and I took a liking to the name.
 

RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
I got interested in foxes after a summer of watching various cartoon featuring them, so I started thinking of some manner of fox fursona (before I even knew what a fursona was). I’ve always had an interest in transformation, so naturally I gravitated toward kitsune because of their shapeshifting. But I still only wanted him to have one tail, hence half-kitsune.
As to the name, I went through a time that I was kind of obsessed with Ridley from Metroid, and I took a liking to the name.
That's cool, I kind of get a Todd from Fox and the Hound Vibes ish from your Avi
 

The_Happiest_Husky

Add me Sugar Cookie#0398
A piece of art I saw when I first joined the fandom. I've never managed to find it again since seeing it the first time, but I'll always remember it. A white furred canine with brown hair, wearing a brown shirt over a dark coloured long sleeve. He's inside a train, leaning against the window watching the scenery go by
 

Baron Tredegar

Master of Forgotten Lore
A piece of art I saw when I first joined the fandom. I've never managed to find it again since seeing it the first time, but I'll always remember it. A white furred canine with brown hair, wearing a brown shirt over a dark coloured long sleeve. He's inside a train, leaning against the window watching the scenery go by
I think I might know what your talking about! I think Thanshuhai is the artist.
 

RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
Plucky, Daffy, and Donald Duck which shouldn't surprise anyone.
Yeah I see a lot of people saying that Disney or Looney Tunes had a big impact on creating theirs
 
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