What was your Inspiration for your Fursona?

[Feeble_Gray]

I had dark circles around my eyes when I was picking a species, so I picked a raccoon

 

[Kain]

I liked otter furries, and I thought they went well with my chubby body.

 

[Punk_M0nitor]

I wanted a character that I could use to truly capture my online aesthetic while also reflecting my own personal experiences. I felt that a reptile was more fitting than a mammal for several reasons: one being the fact that reptile anatomy is so different from mammals and I naturally experience that disconnect from the norm as a transgender man (Steele is cis, but has reptile-accurate anatomy). I’m also a huge herpetology buff so that played its own role.
Much of his style and personality calls back to online subcultures I’ve been heavily involved in. His occupation is both a combination of the job I have now and the things I wish I could pursue. He even has the same tattoo that I do (fun fact: I considered making it a birth mark, but that seemed too coincidental)

TLDR; he’s an idolized, saturated, scaly version of myself

 

[Turbid_Cyno]

Don't really have a sona much anymore, but the one I used was more or less based off old tv/serial-reporter/detective types. Inspired mostly by the old radio show Night Beat, and Kolchak: The Nightstalker. Species was a Thrinaxodon, which is a bit esoteric for those who don't know much about paleontology.

 

[Jackpot Raccuki]

I kinda made Jackpot as a villain character.
His theme was Casino since he was meant to be the embodiment of Greed sin, and of course Casinos are heavily implied to be Greedy.

His name is of course a reference to the best outcome as a casino's slot machine, Jackpot.
The dice hat was done in reference to a character who kinda gave me inspiration to make a casino theme, they come from a bullet hell game and her name is Xeno A, she doesn't have an exact dice hat, but she kinda has like a dice on her head. I like the idea more of the dice being a literal hat.

Jackpot was originally going to have more flair to him, like giant "Cards" for wings, and I kinda plan to get a commission with it in.

I chose Raccoon since, well I honestly loved those little guys and it makes sense especially with him being a tanuki. Raccoons are known to be "thieves", so a greedy guy 'stealing' from you with rigged casino games makes sense, and Tanukis are known for bringing great luck and fortune, though seems to be more for him.



As for my "second" fursona, well he's not an entire fursona but if Jackpot was a thing, he'd be my fursona and that being Xavavious.
He started out as a "werefox" instead, a lot of him hasn't really changed much aside from his species being made from a Werefox to a "Maned werewolf", though just Maned Wolf is what he goes by. Since he was a maned wolf it gave a better excuse to change his 'hair' since it was more of his mane really, and really fits with his punk theme since it's kinda like a mohawk in alotta cases, and it looks just "pushed back" in an easy going way.

I changed him from a Fox to a Maned wolf since, well foxes were kinda "basic" to put it nicely, plus someone showed me them leggy boys and I've loved them, especially their roar barks so I made Xavavious into it.
Pretty sure his name came from me just making "Xavious" more unnecessarily complex to say. But it fits his theme of that it was originally meant to be hard for people outside of his culture/family to say.

 

[Vanessa Howl]

I wanted a character that I could use to truly capture my online aesthetic while also reflecting my own personal experiences. I felt that a reptile was more fitting than a mammal for several reasons: one being the fact that reptile anatomy is so different from mammals and I naturally experience that disconnect from the norm as a transgender man (Steele is cis, but has reptile-accurate anatomy). I’m also a huge herpetology buff so that played its own role.
Much of his style and personality calls back to online subcultures I’ve been heavily involved in. His occupation is both a combination of the job I have now and the things I wish I could pursue. He even has the same tattoo that I do (fun fact: I considered making it a birth mark, but that seemed too coincidental)

TLDR; he’s an idolized, saturated, scaly version of myself

Bonus points for knowing about the animal your fursona is based on: most people don't seem to and as a HUGE animal lover that does hard research for their's, it grinds my respective gears to no end.

 

[RamblingRenegade]

I wanted a character that I could use to truly capture my online aesthetic while also reflecting my own personal experiences. I felt that a reptile was more fitting than a mammal for several reasons: one being the fact that reptile anatomy is so different from mammals and I naturally experience that disconnect from the norm as a transgender man (Steele is cis, but has reptile-accurate anatomy). I’m also a huge herpetology buff so that played its own role.
Much of his style and personality calls back to online subcultures I’ve been heavily involved in. His occupation is both a combination of the job I have now and the things I wish I could pursue. He even has the same tattoo that I do (fun fact: I considered making it a birth mark, but that seemed too coincidental)

TLDR; he’s an idolized, saturated, scaly version of myself

That's really cool and I feel that you put a lot of thought into your sona

 

[RamblingRenegade]

Don't really have a sona much anymore, but the one I used was more or less based off old tv/serial-reporter/detective types. Inspired mostly by the old radio show Night Beat, and Kolchak: The Nightstalker. Species was a Thrinaxodon, which is a bit esoteric for those who don't know much about paleontology.

That's cool, I had to look those shows up honestly, I had never heard of them..LOL

 

[RamblingRenegade]

I kinda made Jackpot as a villain character.
His theme was Casino since he was meant to be the embodiment of Greed sin, and of course Casinos are heavily implied to be Greedy.

His name is of course a reference to the best outcome as a casino's slot machine, Jackpot.
The dice hat was done in reference to a character who kinda gave me inspiration to make a casino theme, they come from a bullet hell game and her name is Xeno A, she doesn't have an exact dice hat, but she kinda has like a dice on her head. I like the idea more of the dice being a literal hat.

Jackpot was originally going to have more flair to him, like giant "Cards" for wings, and I kinda plan to get a commission with it in.

I chose Raccoon since, well I honestly loved those little guys and it makes sense especially with him being a tanuki. Raccoons are known to be "thieves", so a greedy guy 'stealing' from you with rigged casino games makes sense, and Tanukis are known for bringing great luck and fortune, though seems to be more for him.



As for my "second" fursona, well he's not an entire fursona but if Jackpot was a thing, he'd be my fursona and that being Xavavious.
He started out as a "werefox" instead, a lot of him hasn't really changed much aside from his species being made from a Werefox to a "Maned werewolf", though just Maned Wolf is what he goes by. Since he was a maned wolf it gave a better excuse to change his 'hair' since it was more of his mane really, and really fits with his punk theme since it's kinda like a mohawk in alotta cases, and it looks just "pushed back" in an easy going way.

I changed him from a Fox to a Maned wolf since, well foxes were kinda "basic" to put it nicely, plus someone showed me them leggy boys and I've loved them, especially their roar barks so I made Xavavious into it.
Pretty sure his name came from me just making "Xavious" more unnecessarily complex to say. But it fits his theme of that it was originally meant to be hard for people outside of his culture/family to say.

I love how everyone has this huge story and backstory for their sona, I almost feel like I didn't try hard enough reading some of these..lol

 

[RamblingRenegade]

Bonus points for knowing about the animal your fursona is based on: most people don't seem to and as a HUGE animal lover that does hard research for their's, it grinds my respective gears to no end.

Yeah, a lot of people have done their homework, I know I owned the horse that my Fursona is based off of for 7 years roughly

 

[Vanessa Howl]

Yeah, a lot of people have done their homework, I know I owned the horse that my Fursona is based off of for 7 years roughly

You kind of have the advantage of having had your fursona species around for a good while so you know more about horses and how they tick more than someone who just picked horse because it's a muscle beast with a huge dick. I much prefer fursonas that have at least a decent foundation in the actual species over one's that people chose just because they like how the animal looks but don't actually know anything about it. Creativity and logic CAN work together.

 

[Jackpot Raccuki]

I love how everyone has this huge story and backstory for their sona, I almost feel like I didn't try hard enough reading some of these..lol

My characters didn't really start out intended to be fursonas which is prob something important I left out.

They were just meant to be characters to push a story in my own head.
I just liked them enough they got promoted from OC to Fursona.

 

[Morisith]

was unhappy with my previous one, and was brain storming with my friends. One friend went "NUMBAT!" and I had no clue what they where, so I googled it, and immediatly fell in love. (I always love mouse and oppussums, but they where never right, numbats where the perfect match). And then for colour scheme I wanted something colourfull, but not eye-bleeding. so we ended up with cherry and vanilla, jokingly saying she was inspired by the cherry vanilla coke flavour. But it was more sitting on a colour scheme art website and looking for neat combos

 

[Kinguyakki]

I tinkered around with a lot of different species, eventually settling on the bastard son of a wolf/dragon pairing. Even then he has changed a lot over time, which I ICly attribute to him getting bigger and taking on more traits of his dragon father as he ages.

His temperament is inspired by different characters from film and tv over time. Some of it came from the early episodes of Disney's Gargoyles, where some of the younger gargoyles were tired of being called "beasts" and "monsters" by the humans and got the idea of "living up to the name." He also has a bit of Hudson (from the movie Aliens) and the characters Sandor "the Hound" Clegane and Tormund from Game of Thrones. He is often impulsive in his way of doing things, even if specifically warned not to.

His color scheme is nothing bright - shades of silver, darker greys and black. He has been other colors, just for experimental purposes, but I've always gone back to a monochrome look.

 

[RamblingRenegade]

was unhappy with my previous one, and was brain storming with my friends. One friend went "NUMBAT!" and I had no clue what they where, so I googled it, and immediatly fell in love. (I always love mouse and oppussums, but they where never right, numbats where the perfect match). And then for colour scheme I wanted something colourfull, but not eye-bleeding. so we ended up with cherry and vanilla, jokingly saying she was inspired by the cherry vanilla coke flavour. But it was more sitting on a colour scheme art website and looking for neat combos

I had no idea what a Numbat was, they are kinda cute, hey I mean I guess the cherry vanilla works instead of telling people, yeah I just sat on a website till I went crosseyed picking a color..LOL

 

[RamblingRenegade]

I tinkered around with a lot of different species, eventually settling on the bastard son of a wolf/dragon pairing. Even then he has changed a lot over time, which I ICly attribute to him getting bigger and taking on more traits of his dragon father as he ages.

His temperament is inspired by different characters from film and tv over time. Some of it came from the early episodes of Disney's Gargoyles, where some of the younger gargoyles were tired of being called "beasts" and "monsters" by the humans and got the idea of "living up to the name." He also has a bit of Hudson (from the movie Aliens) and the characters Sandor "the Hound" Clegane and Tormund from Game of Thrones. He is often impulsive in his way of doing things, even if specifically warned not to.

His color scheme is nothing bright - shades of silver, darker greys and black. He has been other colors, just for experimental purposes, but I've always gone back to a monochrome look.

A wolf/ Dragon is unique but cool. I can get behind his temperament, lately I feel that, lol

 

[RamblingRenegade]

I had dark circles around my eyes when I was picking a species, so I picked a raccoon

Short and simple I like it lol

 

[TrixieFox]

There's a "Jr. Zoo Keeper Program" at a zoo near where I live and they pair you with an animal for the summer... I got a Fox named Trixie

 

[Punk_M0nitor]

That's really cool and I feel that you put a lot of thought into your sona

I did! I had at least four sonas before him, but they all seemed…. Empty. They were more unfleshed character concepts that I found neat (like a strange creature amalgam with poisonous blood and a James Bond-inspired jackalope) than characters I felt truly represented myself. Steele actually took lots of thought. I connected with the emo cybernetic-engineer lizard more than anything else lmaooo

 

[MaelstromEyre]

Going way back to the Saturday morning cartoon The Wuzzles, from the 80s. All the characters were combinations of two different animals, and I always loved that as a kid. I guess it finally caught up with me when I created Maelstrom.

Maelstrom started out as a plain brown wolf, until I started seeing mer-fur characters. I've always loved orcas (killer whales) and so decided to make it part of Maelstrom's character. Came up with a backstory explanation for the change, and it was good to go.

As far as her personality, she was inspired in part by the stories and characters of Jane Austen. She's usually polite and gentle and kind. However, when she's under pressure or sick of being mistreated, I drew from female action movie characters from the 80s and 90s - most notably Ellen Ripley (Aliens) and Sarah Connor (Terminator).

 

[RamblingRenegade]

There's a "Jr. Zoo Keeper Program" at a zoo near where I live and they pair you with an animal for the summer... I got a Fox named Trixie

See that would have been something I loved to do, I have always loved animals

 

[TrixieFox]

See that would have been something I loved to do, I have always loved animals

I only said yes to sped every moment I could away from my parents... but yeah I LOVE foxes and wolves... which is a whole big fight in my family

 

[RamblingRenegade]

Going way back to the Saturday morning cartoon The Wuzzles, from the 80s. All the characters were combinations of two different animals, and I always loved that as a kid. I guess it finally caught up with me when I created Maelstrom.

Maelstrom started out as a plain brown wolf, until I started seeing mer-fur characters. I've always loved orcas (killer whales) and so decided to make it part of Maelstrom's character. Came up with a backstory explanation for the change, and it was good to go.

As far as her personality, she was inspired in part by the stories and characters of Jane Austen. She's usually polite and gentle and kind. However, when she's under pressure or sick of being mistreated, I drew from female action movie characters from the 80s and 90s - most notably Ellen Ripley (Aliens) and Sarah Connor (Terminator).

Ok that's really cool, I like the Wolf- Orca, and being a child of the 80's I vaguely remember the Wuzzles

 

[TrixieFox]

Demma (Demon... kinda a pun) was from a stuffed animal I had as a child and Flora... look up TwoKinds

 

[Deleted member 160111]

horse I had that was named Renegade

Sorry, have you thought about using Renegade color for your fursona? The design of your fursona is quite complicated if you want to get art pics in the future.
Don't take offense at my question. You have a nice design, but I'm looking at it from an artist's point of view.