what was your first fursona? do you have any remaining attachment to them or element of their design or character concept that has carried through to today?
My first fursona was a brown dragon, originally conceived by @tabbiewolf around 2002, apropos of nothing and based on a photo of myself from the website for a TFC/CS team I used to be a member of. The character was named “Phenoix,” after a photo of a misspelled Phoenix road-sign that’d circulated on some early unattributed-viral-images website. I went through a couple of other OCs before switching fully to Clover in 2014, but Phen was the most “this is just a Furry Me” representation throughout that whole period. This drawing was done by @lobst in mid-2007, about a year before we’d started dating.
Nothing about Phen’s design has carried through to my present-day OCs, aside from the broader notion of a character having one style of outfit that they’re always drawn wearing. The Katamari Damacy shirt pictured here is still in my active wardrobe; I don’t think I could throw it out.
