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

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

You raise some very interesting points. Having been someone who has never really RPed, at least in RPG form, I have not experienced the potential that that could release in my fursona. I express myself through fursuiting primarily but there are many different ways you can do this and perhaps I should start exploring myself in other ways too.

It seems that a lot of furs have sub-fursonas and I would be lying if it wasn't the case with me too. Canids are strong in me but because of my fursona history and feelings of empathy with other creatures, there are definitely different characteristics of mine catered for by other creatures. Having said that, being born in the year of the Dog, does help the wolf in me admittedly lols.

I agree about the stealing viewpoint and it's one thing I have often wondered about furs who name themselves after furry characters rather than generate their own names/fursonas. I guess it's a different form of empathy, and one no less valid, we all have our heroes and idols who we'd like to be, but I personally like creating my own characters, very much like yourself.