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Alternate Fursonas

How many of you have more than one fursona?
Do you alternate between different fursonas (depending on mood or current experiences perhaps)?
Do you have fursonas that once meant a lot to you but have since been made redundant in favour of another fursona?

I only ask because of a reply I received from

chakatstreak in one of the topics below.

To me, Lupestripe has only ever been one fursona and although he migrated from being pure wolf to wolf/husky hybrid, the characteristics have stayed the same. The fun-loving, bouncy canid with a penchant for being pink and floofy is how I would like the world to be and I project this through my fursona. Equally, I project the person I want to be through it too - bouncy, happy, carefree and liberated from the many problems that life tends to throw our way.

I guess this is similar to that of a lot of furs but if you have more than one fursona, what does this mean? Do your different fursonas represent different aspects of your personality? Do you connect to them spirituality? Are they representations of your dreams and what you hope to be (or what you hope the world to be)? Or is it simply because you can empathise with more than one creature and like the variety?

With me, I just want to be a canid. I feel empathy for the species, I like their general attitude and I think they are goddarn cute. Life would be so much simplier if I was a dog. Everyone has a different relationship with their fursona though. What's yours?

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Avon. Deer. The one and only. I do not have or need multiple personalities. I did play a bunny on Taps once, but that was not my character. I was merely "looking after" the account for someone else while he was on haitus for furry (and indeed never came back.)

I concentrate very firmly on the "Anthro" aspect of the fandom. The fusion of the best traits of human and non-human creatures. Intellegence and opposable thumbs from the human side; gentleness, civility and responsibility from the cervine side.

I suppose I just feel humanity could be a greater success if it more often remembered that we're all connected.

I do have multiply fursonas if you want to call it that. I am the lioness mostly, but I also have She~Wolf, my wolf self, I was wolf when I first found the fandom. My wolf self is very aggressive, protective, whereas Uluru, my lion self is more fun loving, flirty, and gives me strength and courage when I need it. My lion self can be agressive and protective when it comes to my cats.

Wolf and Lion are also my spirit guides. I do feel connected to them spiritually.

I'm James 'Shep' Shepherd, pure and simple.

However, I do have a few non-Shep ideas for fursuits in the future ;)

DRW: no.... not really.... I change between brown hair with brown eyes and white hair with green eyes but that's about it... and that's more who's in control then anything
(Allan has brown/brown and I have white/green..)

been around since 5 years old.....so I suppose I'll always be me ^_^

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Allan: being a Therian it's completely spiritual in nature....
DRW is the animal inside….
Literally….. He is that voice that wars against civilised control
The primal emotional instinct that people ignore in order to conform to society
The anarchist inside all of us wishing we were free of our clothes

(okay..okay.. That’s enough..geeze….. Thick much…>_<… they get me)

I’ve always had an affinity with dogs and can talk to most of them freely
(with in the limited language barrier of course….. Can’t communicate word for word… but I can generally sense their thoughts in a way)
It’s a lot like taking to a 3 or 4 year old child

And of course I do have the wolf dreams

I was having this discussion with someone just yesterday!

I can't understand having more than one 'fursona', to be honest. For me, a fursona is a personal reflection in its entirety. I can understand having more than one 'character' in a roleplaying sense.

There's a lot of gray areas. If we were to determine fursonas as characters that you have created and roleplayed as then I would have over 100 fursonas because I have created so many, but Azuma (Golden Retriever) is my official fursona.

At the end it's down to personal preference, "to each their own", but in my opinion if you have to seperate fursonas to reflect your personality, then you should combine them together, even if that does create some sort of monstrous hybrid. =D

Then again i'm not fond of the unoriginality of hybrids. Go figure. I can't be pleased. =P

but that's a point.. to most people a fursona is just a RP experience
it's something they do for fun or to be different

That's true. Like I said there are a lot of gray areas; it's impossible to define what a fursona is, or what it should be.

I do have a second fursona, Sorvall my Sergal/dragon character was created out of shear boredom with my regular Kitsune character (just too many other people playing two tailed fox characters). I don't however feel any deep connection to either of them on any level however.

I've bounced around a bit, but always been a dog. But then fur wise, the diff between breeds can be quite big. :P

I have an alt, Setsuka, the winged unicorn, because I feel a strong affinity to horses as well as to cats, but my primary form is the tigress.

I had two characters for a short time, but back to one now. I feel like he sums me up good enough :D

I just have one fursona, but I do have various characters that are simply that-characters. Rabid is basically me as a canine, whereas pretty much all my other characters are male, so I couldn't really say they're a reflection of me XD

In my case, every single one of them started as purely a roleplaying character.

My first furry character, Sonnette Felstrom, was a Sonic the Hedgehog fan character with perhaps the most unoriginal background ever, being basically a genderswapped version of Sonic (yes, this means she's a hedgehog). There's more to it than that, but I won't bore you with the details. Because she was my main character for a long time, her name became associated with me, and so it's the name that I used everywhere. But she has never truly been my fursona; I have never associated her with my RL self.

Then there's her hybrid hedgehog/fox/dragon son Miles Felstrom, whose alter-ego is the armored battlemage The Gray Fox. Miles has also never been particularly associated with my RL self, but I've used his name as my own in two places. First, during my stint as a disc jockey for my college radio station, I called myself "DJ GrayFox." This also served as my badge name at Project: A-Kon (the main Dallas anime convention) up until 2007. I had created a new AIM account specifically for the radio show, "gothgrayfox" (our show's format was primarily gothic/industrial/darkwave/80's retro), and over time that slowly became my primary AIM account, most of my older ones now being defunct. The second place I used the name is when participating in the Society for Creative Anachronism with my wife. My SCA name (not registered, but then I'm not active enough in the SCA to care) is Miles GrayFox, which is also nice as an homage to the late Baron William Blackfox, an SCA enthusiast and furry artist/comic writer whose "Vixen's Keep" was my introduction to the SCA.

Another of Sonnette's children, and the first of my true fursonas, is Sarah Felstrom (initially a hedgehog/cat/hyena female [with the hyena being mostly recessive from her father's side], she was later merged with a male dragon to become a halfdragon hermaphrodite). Sarah is the first character that I considered to be "ideal me," what I wish I could be in a perfect world. There's another variant of hir without the connections to Sonnette and having been born a herm halfdragon that is even closer to me, both psychologically and in terms of family history; this version even shares my RL middle initial and last name. But I've never personally identified as Sarah outside of a small group of very close friends... part of the reason being I didn't want to be known by something that is an obviously female name in common use, since that would cause some awkward questions, particularly in the places where furrydom intersected non-furry life, like at anime cons.

Which brings us to Chakat Silverstreak.

As I said in my comment on the S.A.S. thread, Silverstreak started out as just another RP character, my line of reasoning being, "I like herms, I like taurs, I've been reading all these awesome stories on the Chakat's Den... I think I'd like to have a Chakat character!" As time went on, though, I began to realize that I was imbuing Silverstreak with more and more of myself... and I was identifying more and more with the Chakat racial psych profile and general world view. I think in many ways, even Sarah was a Chakat at heart and just didn't have the body to match. So in 2007, I decided: I am Silverstreak, shi is me. When I met

istanbul777 for the first time, I introduced myself as Chakat Silverstreak, and that's been my identity in furrydom and even outside it, in the Greater Internet Area, since about that time. Beginning with A-Kon 2007, when I started working as an audiovisual tech for the convention, my badge has read "Chakat Silverstreak."

In many ways, even though shi wasn't my first online identity or my first furry identity, or even the first furry character that I identified as being close to myself and a piece of my heart, I think Silverstreak truly is my first and only real fursona.

... wow, that was a hell of a big wall of text. =o.O=

^_^ atleast ya have a reason you can explain in detail

I only have one fursona, i honestly don't understand why people have more than one, to me it seems like having multiple personality disorder.

I used to have a really angry wolf fursona once... though I guess I still do, though I've never really mentioned him to anyone.

When I first got into the fandom, I didn't want to come across as one of these types of furs who have more than enough. Now I just don't care lol.

In fact, I had three.
My wolf was the angry one, and I had a Border Collie one to to convey(sp?) the loyality and honesty I value. But in all honesty, I've not thought about them both for so long... until now at least. o_o

My fox fursona was more about the fun, outgoing, happy me.. that and I've always liked foxes.

I originally joined as a blue fox, but very quickly i came to realise that I am a badger. I feel a very strong connection with badgers, occasionally bordering on a spiritual level (spirituality being something i would like to explore more of).

I thought about _why_ I changed a lot. My best guess would be that how I felt at that moment in my life, recognising I am furry, I identified as being traits of a fox. As I gradually 'settled in' as it were I quickly came to the actualisation I am a badger.

A little odd I know :o)

not really a lot of people take their time to choose the animal that truely represents them

I still remember being startled by a badger snuffling around in my garden when I was younger. :D

*Whinny*

Well, I have only one fursona- Blacksnip. My fursona represents my deep connection to horses- it's spiritual for me (though I don't believe in any kind of religion). Since I was about ten or eleven horses have been my world, my life. I've always been more upset about bad things happening to horses than to people in general. For example, the day I dread most each year is coming up- grand national day. On average, one or two horses are killed each year in that f**king race. I hope that I'm wrong this year. I hate western films, even though they are fiction, because bad things happen to horses in those. I've built my life round horses, and this seems to have worked out well for me. I owe them a lot- in fact I owe them my life.

So there you have it. Mentally, I feel more equine in many ways than human. Blacksnip the Thoroughbred stallion is a projection of something I feel inside- the stallion within.

Deep, Huh?

well hello then..... our level is few and far between

I know the feeling. :)

So do I ;)

Until the end of October last year, I had just one. That's my green and blue dragon. Since then, I've added 2 more fursonas, based off of my personalities. I have a husky/wolf hybrid named Ty Husky, and a furry dragon named DJ.

Ty is half pink, half brown, and is an experiment gone wrong. He's 80% husky, 20% wolf. Simply put, he was a brown wolf that wanted to be a pink husky. Through a genetic alteration process, he almost got what he wanted. He wears a biopaw tattoo (my own creation) that signifies that he survived this painful experience. The personality he represents is "Risk Taker." I put my life in danger a lot.

DJ is a black and blue furry dragon that loves music. He is a DJ and loves lots of Dance, Club, Rave, etc. styles of music. He's always seen wearing headphones and carrying something like an iPod. His paw pads are neon green, with neon green swirls appearing near his paws. He also has a silver mane that runs from the top of his head to the tip of his tail. He represents the music loving side of me.

I made my first appearance on Furry as an anthro Black and White hawk-eagle, after a while though I felt it too obscure a species and became the regular Tawny eagle I’m now mostly known as. I also have a black dragon, a character that was created a few years back when I was in a bad mood and so is very spiky and mean looking, though his attitude has mellowed over the years. Then there is Sirrah, just a random character I thought up, sort of an alien species of anthro falcon, all silver and gold, very shiney. And finally there is my anthro cockatrice, this was just another random creation but has proved rather fun to play, even been developing little back stories around it. For instance, he is self employed creating statues to order. All that said, the eagle will always be my primary character, with equal billing to the hawk-eagle I guess as that was my very first character, all the rest are for when I feel like a change or to have fun. Would have gone into more detail but it's getting late and I've got to roost soon.

Ah, an interesting thing for me. :) I've sometimes worried people will think less of me actually for having alternate forms but here's a complete list:

My first form was a RP character on the Pokémorph MUSH, that being an anthro-nidoking. I then began to use it as I went from just there but also in to furry.

Eventually with the help of a friend I came up with my poison-bunny form which has changed some over the years but mostly stayed the same.

Following on from that though, I've had at least three side forms now that I've created and occasionally 'shift in to' for a while. Those being platypus, parrot-gryphon and copper swamp dragon. Going in to full details about them here would be a bore but suffice to say they in a certain way seem to connect with certain moods within me. :)

This was an interesting read but does not apply to me. Take care.

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