I didn’t pick my fursonas’ species (genus, really) so much as it picked me. At some point during my teen years I suddenly began noticing fox stuff everywhere. Random unexpected appearances in TV shows, pictures in odd places, a nature documentary about foxes discovered while flipping channels. I realized I knew almost nothing about these creatures despite them being so common and culturally important, and that felt wrong to me.

So I resolved to fix that, and started reading up on everything fox-related I could find. The more I learned, the more I began to identify with them. The idea of these small creatures that lack the power and social benefits of their larger canine cousins and have to rely on their intelligence and evasiveness really resonated with me, the unpopular and oft-bullied nerd who didn’t seem to have a place among the “wolves” of high school society. Even the fact that foxes are most often depicted as feminine, which bothered me at the time, became meaningful after I discovered that I’m transfemme.

I picked raccoon because:

• skrunkly trash gremlin

• cool fur pattern

• neutral color palette that wouldn’t clash with the outfit I wanted to use, which is a reference to the origin of my username

• the cotton candy video

My sona is a hoofed dragon (kind of like a Kirin/Qilin, but without the eastern dragon influence), and it came about from a couple places:

1. Dragons are cool. I know kind of generic, but in the later times before finalizing my sona, I was drawn in by draconic folks. Something about them stuck out to me, and I knew dragons were how I needed to represent myself.
2. The sparks that set me off into the furry fandom started with the mythos of creatures such as satyr, centaurs, and minotaurs, hoofed folk have fascinated me in such a way since I was a kid, that whatever my sona was to be, it’d be a hoofer. At one point the thought of a horse sona crossed my mind, but that kind of dedication to horses wasn’t really something that caught me as much as dragons did.

Bing bang boom, hoofed dragon.

I’ve always considered dragons my favourite creatures ever. Honestly, I didn’t choose the species, I always knew from the start that dragon was what I wanted no matter what.

I chose a synth (draconic lizard bot basically) because a) lizards and dragons are neat, and b) robots are neat. And so I thought “why not both?” found synths, and said “yep that’s me.”

my first one was a dragon cuz i used to rly like seawings from wings of fire. then i switched to a robot bc robots are cool. i have p simple motivations tbh