Does your fursona represent you as is or an idealized you?

[Vallium]

i know a lot of people give their fursona things like the same hair, same build.

but I guess some people (like me) change it to represent how they'd want to see themselves.

 

originally I had my fursona as I am, but I often made changes in his appearance so I can strive to become an idealized sense of self rather than what I am now.

 

maybe weird, but hey, anyone else get this?

[Sarcastic Coffeecup]

I have shaped mine to represent me. Warts n' all, but with a bunch of flair for storytelling's sake.

[Charrio]

Mine is me in a perfect world.
In charge and a Stoat

[Kaizy]

Kaizy used to be a pretty good interpretation of me emotionally, and still kind of is, and had some similarities in appearance. Though my personality has changed over the past couple years and I'm becoming less of an emotionally-detatched bitch, so she doesn't fit me as well anymore.

[Obsydian]

She's pretty much me, same chubby, just younger than me really!

[Valery91Thunder]

My character looks pretty much like me, but she's still keeping her hair long like I used to do 6-7 years ago. I prefer keeping them short-ish IRL; I haven't changed those of my character because it has become part of her usual design, so yeah.

[FlynnCoyote]

Mine is only loosely based on my own appearance, but mostly he represents how I would act if I could act without consequences. So my personality and impulses really.

[Aidy]

maybe a little personality-wise, his figure is pretty similar to mine in reality though

i mean, he's a bit of a homo (very NSFW) and i'm not really that showy when it comes to that stuff

[ArielMT]

My unrealistically idealized self.

[Calemeyr]

My "fursona" is an orphaned Zoroastrian Syrian Kurd born in 2037 who becomes an ancient alien dragon and is the Messiah. I don't think that represents me very well. More of a science fiction protagonist. Yes I have read Dune, why do you ask?

FOR HE IS THE KWISATZ HADERACH!

A real fursona would probably be my floofy glacier dragon wyvern character, which is an artistic liberty suit that'll be coming to me later this year. He'll be all the metallic D&D dragon tropes. 

 

Edited September 25, 2015 by Calemeyr

[Signy]

A bit of both, I suppose. The non-canon version is pretty much me and acts as an online representation. The canon version, who is a featured character in my world building / writing projects, was forcibly conscripted into military service and is involved in the same planetary-level genocide her own homeworld was subjected to. Physically, she has some of my ideal features - namely the lack of a bust. After all, her (impressive) rack is on her head, and not her chest. 

[DrDingo]

Neither.

He's for fun!

[Mander]

Kind of, yea.

[DevilishlyHandsome49]

Mine's is basically me but slightly better. Still has all the flaws I have and strengths I have, but he deals with his flaws much better than I.

That and he's anthro lion, so that instantly makes him better anyway  

[DrDingo]

Actually, I'm gonna expand on this.

I love the colours I chose for clothing. I love the dirty ragged theme. I love it when furry characters grin dramatically with their teeth. I love imagining the sort of out-there things my character might say and do.

What I'm saying is, he is a projection of what I love. That's why I like him.

[Joshi]

He's representing me with all my opinions and values but maybe he's a bit less shy and he definitly looks better than me

[Sidewalk Surfboard]

Well, my fursona is a rat, and I feel like a rat sometimes. So there's that.

[DrDingo]

I remember once exploring the idea that, accidentally, my sona is myself exaggerated to an extreme.

Being an extrovert. Getting engrossed in work. Wearing clothes which are smart, but colourful and kind of different. Not being afraid to voice myself if necessary.

I kind of noticed a trend. Most people, accidentally or intentionally, do one of the following:

-Make it a copy of themselves.

-Make it opposite to themselves.

-Give it features they want to possess, usually by exaggerating existing features they already have.

I think I'm the third. 

[Aouzy]

My fursona is pretty much all me except I'm not 16 and I don't have self control.

[Canis]

The character I created, has my personality traits, views and values. 

I'm still trying to work out a back story or some kind of lore that is somewhat similar to mine, but very dramatized, over the top. So It can fit the ideal body figure I can achieve (I need to work out more lol). I like sci-fi so it fits in well with some amount to realism. 

[Fantasma]

My fursona is me, but placed into a fictious world which I am in the process of building.

As of right now, I pretty much *don't* have my sona, but in a few months time everything will come together.

[MissFleece]

Right now I'm playing around to make her more personal. I'm having a hard time tho  

[Sidewalk Surfboard]

I'm gonna expand on my answer a little. Tribble and I both have a fascination with the '80s and the like. He's also sarcastic as fuck, like I can be.

[Kaedal]

Idealised. Something to aspire towards, for me.

 

... Well, except for the whole fur, muzzle and tail part. That kinda requires a lot more plastic surgery and social ejection than I'm willing to suffer. Plus, I'm not into that.

[Summercat]

Mine is supposed to be a slightly fitter version of myself, and certainly more successful. So yeah, an idealized me.

[Kellan Meig'h]

The full sized image of my fursona has about twenty or so pounds on me. Kellan might look fit but that's his heavy draft horse heritage coming through. The Old Warhorse really needs to go on a diet so no, he is not an idealized version of me in RL.

As an aside, his mane is also turning gray, just like mine.

Kellan

[Gator]

just me as-is.  my "sona" is not even a character.  it's just how i draw myself.  without glasses though because fuck glasses

[MissFleece]

The full sized image of my fursona has about twenty or so pounds on me. Kellan might look fit but that's his heavy draft horse heritage coming through. The Old Warhorse really needs to go on a diet so no, he is not an idealized version of me in RL.

As an aside, his mane is also turning gray, just like mine.

Kellan

is he based off of Kellen KnightMage from the Obsidian Trilogy? 

[Hewge]

I don't really have a persona, so... no, neither.

[Cyril]

Personally it's pretty much just me in fluffy form, same personality, generally same physical attributes but the eye color is different 'cause I can't stand to not have blue eyes on my character >.>;

Interests and talents and the like are the same though.

[SirRob]

My fursona is a character I use to represent myself on the internet... yup! It's not really supposed to BE me, but it's based around what I like.

Edited September 26, 2015 by SirRob

[ChaosCalix]

My fursona is basically "Me +2 Years (multiplied by fennec, but anyway)". So it's SOMEWHAT idealized, but it's not so unrealistically idealized that I couldn't be him in two years. I purposefully never mention things about his actual life itself (i.e. employment, living situation) because those are things that I can't really predict. Its his emotional and physical state that I've designed. He's a little more level headed (i.e. not an anxious wreck), and physically healthy and with a build I want and could achieve by the time I turn 22.

[Kellan Meig'h]

is he based off of Kellen KnightMage from the Obsidian Trilogy? 

No, Kel is a bipedal horse morph from a universe that I share and write in with a few other folks. He might be a bit taller than me at some six feet even but his two-hundred-twenty pound weight makes him have a bit of a paunch. He is a retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant in his world.

[PastryOfApathy]

Yes, I'm quite the fan of spreading disease and eating trash.

[Umbra.Exe]

Umbra is mostly like me, but probably a little goofier and friendlier than my real self. They're also taller than me, because I hate being short. :b
I also have a lot more hair on my head than my 'sona does... And I wear clothes. :v

[Zaraphayx]

Me: Incredibly gay

My fursona: Incredibly gay

It's like we're twins.

 

[Sidewalk Surfboard]

Yes, I'm quite the fan of spreading disease and eating trash.

You and me both :V

[Maug]

Nah. I don't have a sona at the moment. I might create one if we can get something that is similar to the 'FAF comics thread' started again.

[Wolflich]

I don't have one and I'm okay with this.

[Vaer]

Well....I wouldn't say Vaer represents an idealized me. He's more like...the me without the mask. He's the part of me I don't show outwardly to people. 

[Chinona]

I have a few fursonas but Chinona is my main and she really does represent me she changes in weight occassionally and she does have almost all of me personality traits.

 

Squeaky my secondary is based off a stuff toy and is all love and hugs and perfection and stuff (like kids have beaten me up in suit and gotten hugged in the end)  He is weird and lacks the dark and cynical jerkness that makes up me.

[Nordo]

Nordo is pretty much me. Hes got the same build etc. about the only thing that's different is that in his world, his job is one I used to have, and his world is somewhat idealized, but he himself, is just me. 

[Kinare]

Idealized, for sure. I'm nothing like my 'sona, but strive to be similar in personality some day.

[Ayattar]

No, since I don't have a fursona.
But lemmings do represent the most characteristic trait of myself.

This one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yXsPMAtKvo
They shit from fear, they're afraid to death, yet they don't give up, being little, stubborn idiots with kamikaze attitude.

Edited September 26, 2015 by Ayattar

[KookyFox]

Well this one is easy... I don't recall riding down bombs to my own doom, so let's say he's an idealized me?

We do share a lot of traits, the main one being that Kooky is a slu... a fox, just like i am a fo... a slut. Also fun fact: if I wear a leather jacket it's thanks to my fursona. One day I drew him with a perfecto leather jacket on, and I thought to myself that f it suited him so well, it would sure be the same for me. Best decision ever ^^

[yell0wf0x]

My fursona is basically me and who I want me to be. Big bearish Fox! 

[VLZerda]

My sona is everything I am and want to be at the same time. I had to explain that to someone who thought she was just a character. Considering he was supposed to be a close friend, and my mom could tell anyone that Skitzo is my sona, but only knows her as "The Blue Fox Thing" it was pretty upsetting.

I actually think my subconscious was at work when I developed Skitzo over the years. Her cheek fluff is oddly similar to the hairs that drape at the back of my neck. It made me really laugh when I looked up one day in the mirror and could practically see her standing there.

[Segolia]

I always saw as a representation of myself. Not my ideal self per se, but, more like a way of expressing the parts of me I don't normally get to show?

[Guest]

Yep. Amiir is basically me with all his pros and cons. Same body build, same personality and even same facial features. Well, more or less, his facial features are inspired by my IRL ones: nose shape, nose-forehead ''bridge'', eyebrows thickness, eye color, eyebags, hairline, chin length and width, jawbone shape and pale skin color. He even has no fur (except for hair and sometimes ''the bush''), skin only, so technically he'd be a skinsona haha

 

What Vaer said also applies to my persona. Other than that, I has a lotta money too because why the fuck not

Edited September 26, 2015 by Guest

[Troj]

I'd say my primary, Dr. Van Aarden, is more of an idealized/best self, since he represents the kind of therapist, role model, and researcher that I aspire to be, but only truly manage to be once in a while.

My secondary fursona or deutersona, Nyx, is probably closer to my actual self, albeit a bit cooler.

 

Edited September 26, 2015 by Troj