(copying this over from twitter)
this is the oldest art i could find (older is lost to time) but the design was CONSTANTLY changing X3
2014->2022
also yeah please add your sonas to this thread because i'd love to see yours!!!
i "officially" became a furry in late 2019 so i've only had two: Rusty (they/them) and Rachel (she/her)
Rachel was originally just a side character that Rusty would go on adventures with, but it didn't take terribly long for me to realize that she was in fact my real fursona (and gender lmaooo). personality-wise, Rusty is basically IRL me--quiet and shy--while Rachel is the kind of outgoing, chaotic dumpster fire i wish i was
i love these nerds with all my heart
turns out I do like shark boys I just don't want to be one
(I've forgotten who did the first pic unfortunately, but the second is by @Or-Fi-S)
The picture on the left is the earliest digital record I can find of my fursona, uploaded to my old dA on january 3rd 2007, and the phyiscal drawing I lined over in ms paint probably dates at least a week prior to that, from what I remember of my process back then.
The picture on the right is by the eternally wonderful @roxannarachnid and dates from april 2022. She used an actual picture of me holding my beloved hardtail strat as a reference. It is the only sfw full-body pic I have of me now in the Coyote era.
I went from an insufferably straight wolf boy with dragon (bat? I think dragon) wings, jimmy page hair, and impossibly thin representation of my high school self, who exlusively wore hoodies, cargo pants, and chunky sneakers who pretended he was amazing at guitar—
—to a pansexual NB trans coyote woman in her thirties, who loves to show off her arms and shoulders, likes jeans that hug her curves, with goat horns and piercings and a mechanical arm, who is alright but not great at guitar, and will readily admit it.
I have coworkers who are 17 at my job. I have been a furry about as long as they have been alive, and a fursona old enough that she could be in their class in high school now.
This isn't even accounting for, like, all the therian stuff or the plural stuff or the alternate forms or the gender complications or any of that.
This is just the longest continuous version of me.
Wild.
Technically the old fursona is still around - if transitioned, under a different name and with a redesign along the way (see picture #3 - credit to @IrisJay). People who've known me for the journey there may be aware I've taken a bit of a detour along the way, too (looking at you, #4 - credit to @cupsofjade).
(artist on first pic lost to time, second by yours truly)
Since everyone else is showing their fursona's transition pics.
2004 - Pence as an ermine, by a gal who changed her pronouns.
2022 - Penny as a fox, by a gal who changed her pronouns. (@KiyoneScarlet)
This avatar was purchased, and this VRC photo was taken exactly fourteen years and two hours apart.
…sometimes stuff just sticks ok???
(Technically I used a fox avatar for a bit before this however she wasn’t a fursona. She was just a red fox avatar, I didn’t think of anything as a ‘sona until I started exclusively using the blue tiger, there’s more to the story but this is just first and last)