ketra

Thank you for asking! So, Mint's actually my oldest active fursona. They've been around since about 2010 but have gone through a lot of changes since then; they used to be more of an MLP-style pony and for a time were largely robotic.

He's kind of the strong, silent type -- he's a big reader, an active listener, and when he speaks he tries to be thoughtful and deliberate about it. He likes to play sports (basketball and hiking, in part because I like those and in part because I think it's really funny for a creature with hooves to play basketball), and he's also a major beverage enjoyer.

Over the past five years or so he's kind of settled into his current design of a more standard anthro unicorn, and he represents a lot of the things I want to be or become: more physically active, a heavier reader, a better communicator, and, of course, a unicorn.

I think something that was really lucky for me is that Technojara, both here and in another piece, did an incredible job of visualizing them despite having very little available in the way of prior reference. A lot of my OCs are either characters I've only developed in writing (as Mint was), or adopts I later built off of, and his art helped shape Mint in a way that infused him with a lot of personality that I hadn't really nailed down yet.