Fursona Evolution

[lupestripe]

How have fur's fursonas evolved over time?

I started off as a fox, then flirted with the bunny side for a bit. I then became a squirrel before finally settling on a wolf. I then became a more wolf/husky hybrid, which is where I have stayed ever since. Does this make me a fursona slut?

I initially wanted to be a fox but one of my friends was called Fox and he had bad personal hygiene so I rethought my character.

Also the pink was something else that evolved in time although I admit ever since I was 14 I wanted to have pink hair (I just didn't have the guts to dye it plus school and jobs kinda put paid to all that). In the early days of me joining the Fandom I had no idea what my fursona was going to be like - it was only at the Sheffield meet last June that I got the inspiration to go pink. It was then that my fursona was truly born.

Comments

Re: Your experience is NOT unusual...

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Do you develop these personalities every time you get a fursuit (and subsequently when you have to sell a fursuit, do they fade away?) or is it just another aspect of your character that is catered for? In pagan mythology that there is one totem animal but then a lot of other animal spirit guides and this could be a similar thing. My own character is a wolf/husky hybrid but there are fox and rabbit and squirrel traits in my personality too, which might be why I catered to them in the past and why finding my "totem" was a little more frought. Perhaps the more complicated a character you are (deeper philosophically and spiritually), the more fursonas you can adopt to cover who you are?

My experience...

[mefurry.livejournal.com]

My very first character was Santa and the immediate second was Rudolph. That is what "officially" got me started into the fursuits. I had always loved the costumed characters I liked like at Disney or even when I see the occasional one in a TV commercial or in a print ad.

When I completed the "transformation" process of becoming Santa and then with Rudolph I can say that a feeling or spirit if you will took over. I find that to be true with any and all my fursuits. There seems to be a basic spirit within each or call it a basic personality if you prefer. I can also sense a personality by looking at it before even putting it on. This also, to a certain extent, can apply to the plush I buy. Although that is usually more a sence of overall "nature"...the plush is outgoing or introverted, playful or serious, mature or child-like and so on.

To give you a direct example....here's my perception of "Pola". You have had and have now worn him a bit. Have you felt or sensed this? Pola is an adult bear but younger than what I am, not as old as middle age. He's very playful and joking. He'll have fun with another and can make fun of himself and stuff. He's has gotten down and laid flat on the floor/ground several times doing his impression of a polar bear rug. He finds it so funny! He's very "physical" in contact with friends and others, pats on the back, hugs and such.

I can say that from a fur standpoint, I "love" any full or partial fursuit just because it is fur! But when the fursuit is of a animal I really like or relate to that is where a "communication" begins. I can say there are several fursuits out there that I so dearly want. I just "want" them so badly. A kind of becoming one with them in that "spiritual" sense.

I hope this explains me a little more. It's not hard for me to talk about but it's hard to put what I feel into words.

--Me/Henry