Why are you the way you are

[DarkOverord]

This... is a massive question for me to undertake and I wish I could be succinct but... HERE GOES.

(But I'll spare you the page being massive

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The sona I mostly present with nowdays, the hedgehog Simon who was then called Speedy (though he WAS Simon "Speedy" Rickson), is one of my oldest OCs (though not THE oldest).

Specifically a Sonic OC, whoa. But when I finally made the fateful typo of "DarkOverord" on the 27th of November, 2004, while registering to deviantART, I didn't really have a sense of "furry" or "fursonas" etc, so Speedy was who I chose to represent myself with. However, I had another interest... DRAGONS. So much so when on holiday with family I would collect tat like this

This combined with now being active on the internet meant I looked at other things, tutorials mostly, but eventually I stumbled on The Anthro Artists, I still wasn't sure if that was furry or not, but Weremagnus was the artist I got inspired by the most...

And then it happened... A Red Dragon appeared. Though at the time they were just like "dragon dude" or "dragon me"

I'm deliberately putting small images here, if you want to see them larger, they're in my "Twenty" blog article that covers more than just me talking here about how I got to what I am now.
Granted that doesn't look like DarkOverord Occassus yet some of you will know, yeah that design didn't last, 3 or so months later we got DarkOverord finally, I even put "DarkOverord" behind him!

A lot of the core elements are still there, red, orange hair, blue eyes, black membranes, cream/tan horns, you can genuinely trace that design to the modern design. Hell, the blue hoodie just became an unbuttoned shirt. However to skip a few steps we'll skip ahead for DO here

And that's at least how DarkOverord Occassus came to be, but... there's more isn't there? Imagine if there was some kind of plurality in there too

Inflatable DO came around about... 2013? I saw all the cute inflatable critters such as Blue Dwaggin's work, JacFox, and others in my friend group etc. and a bug bit me, so soon an inflatable DO came around

And honestly, there's pretty much nothing changed with them, but hey, they're cute!

And that's literally all the details for toy DO, I thought that it would be cute and here we are

I'm not gonna bore you with all the DO alts, robots, squeaky things, goo, pokémon, they're the reason for all the other DarkOverords who are refusing to be called anything other than DarkOverord, I've tried.

Now my tanuki Marcus (uhm akhtually he's a bake-danuki). That's a lot more simple to trace a line. The 13th Touhou Project game, Ten Desires, came out and I actually beat the EX stage! And then got obsessed researching in to bake-danuki lore and the like and thus he came to be.

He became my main sona after a detachment from DarkOverord (reasons... I've learned more why recently ha ha smile) and my overall body build as a then overweight male (the overweight bit is still true, not the male bit) that I chose to switch in late 2016. Likewise with Toy!DO, Marcus' design mostly just refined itself:


And finally... we loop back around. There's a reason I brought up Simon, there's a reason why I made sure to open about him. Because he went from the old representative OC to it (note the gender change here) becoming my sona. First of course though, Simon had to make the jump from Sonic OC to something more detached, I chose to keep that "Sonic" style of the quills though, it's something I never wanted to lose because in the end, that's where he started, and honestly I wanted to own that. So inspired by a friend now sadly passed away, Thalia Evans/Swirlymuse, anthro Sonic (1, 2) I took it upon myself to finally bring him forward (also "Speedy"'s boyfriend "Mystery", now Malrak who totally wasn't a Shadow clone smiles):

As this transparent, I've linked this so you can open it with a light BG
The design refined ad my art ability got better but Simon basically retained those initial new design elements

And it was at this point I drew Simon more and more, he became they and they became it as I realised more and more that Simon wasn't being "a character" anymore but was becoming an outlet for me. Through kinks, through likes, through expression, though... identity. 2019 I suspected it to be the case but by 2020 I knew it was. The snoot def became more thin and hedehoggy though.


"DO" you prompt "...but where's the fangs?" WELL... that was when real θΔ moments happened. I responded to a post on the fediverse by Pyrex about a blood donation, and... I did a doodle about that.

And I can only describe this as a primal feeling of feeling found, feeling identity, feeling something I don't think I've strongly felt before that it stuck. I cannot put in to words how right this felt. And that's why I like blood a lot now... I was already fairly nocturnal that didn't change.


"Okay cool DO but..." okay yes, the bat. Well that kind of came naturally. Vampires often are depicted as having a bat form, I love bats, this felt like a good excuse to actually design one. But what REALLY changed things was my first experience properly in VR, where the first avatar I tried... was Morghus' latex bat modification of the Nardoragon, the Nardobat (well, the shiny version). And it BROKE MY BRAIN (positive).

People don't normally within moments adapt to their wings and fold them around themselves like a bat and feel comfortable about it. I eventually started going to meets and the like, bought everything I need and now I'm usually a bat in VR, and sometimes a bat outside of VR


AND NOW YOU KNOW WHY WE ARE AS WE ARE (was the we deliberate? Maybe)

(By Blur the Fur)

tl;dr a lot of things but therian and maybe multiplicity things.

[EdenCoven]

tl;dr a lot of things but therian and maybe multiplicity things.

We have different shapes but it feels relatable regardless in various ways!

[Flint]

Liked foxes as a kid because all the coolest and suavest cartoon characters seemed to be foxes, also I've loved orange as a colour always so they just caught my attention in general. That's also why I then ended up with a Tails recolour as my fan character when I joined the Sonic fandom, and from there it was easy to make the jump into a full-on fox fursona when I discovered furry. Absolutely not the most exciting adventure, I admit.

Oh, to follow up on this little blurb with in respect of how I discovered furry (as that seems to be a part of this topic I may have missed)... well, I always liked not just cartoon animals but also the idea of dressing up as them. And maybe that was a bit weird and all but at one point I decided to do some searching around this fancy internet thing to see how one might "get a start" in terms of having some sort of costume, and I ended up bumping into a number of websites in the Fursuit Webring. Discovering there was an entire community of people who liked the same idea was pretty much a lifechanger and it didn't take too long for me to realise that yup, this furry thing feels right for me.

[aMaxphous]

I've known I was therian for my whole life, long before I had the words to describe it (even from some of my earliest memories) - but I never had a theriotype or any consistent identity beyond 'not human'. I had wanted to be pretty much everything at least a bit while growing up and never settled on anything specific.
I learned what being therian was around 2017 and spent years trying to find something that fit me, but I had so little success I honestly began to doubt whether that was truly the answer - if nearly eight years of exposure to yinglets did nothing(!), then what would?
I discovered Amphimorpho on tumblr in 2023 but decided to check them out later without really looking into them. I then rediscovered them on cohost last year, read everything I could find about them and the results were predictable. It took a few more weeks to really hit me but once it did I had never been more infected by anything.
Nothing else has ever encapsulated my experiences as well as being this, an artificially engineered alien species fits how I understand myself really well and it has all the features that I've always found most comfortable. And the whole shapeshifting thing is very good too - apparently I just never considered that "shapeshifter" is a thing you can be, despite trying to be so many things.
Ultimately it feels less like becoming an amphimorpho is something I chose and more like something that happened to me, but I'm not going to complain - I finally found something that I'm comfortable as and that actually fits me. I probably still have a way left to go but it's really helped me to start putting a lot of stuff about myself together.
Noodles good.

[Flygon]

Nice to read! Truth be told we cannot even begin comprehending the idea of furries being weird about cartoon animals, but the entire concept of the "furry fandom" isn't something we really understand in the first place. But anyway, thanks for putting so much out there about it

To tell on myself a little bit: for me and some other furs I've spoken to, getting into furry was inexorably linked with explorations of sexuality. It was the headspace that was finally safe approach those topics. When we bump into feral or child-coded furry characters there's a gut ick factor, even if those characters are coming from a totally asexual place. Hence why it's important to have different spaces in the community for those of us who want very different things from it.

I suspect this was a good part of it, given the fandom in the 00s was trying to fight off the accusations of, well, y'know. That.

EDIT: I totally forgot there was a new page, whoops. I didn't mean to make this line of discussion drag on too long!

[EpsilDelta]

Was a big Pokemon TCG Player/Judge; Eventually chose Umbreon because I got into the TCG at a pivotal moment in my life, and the first deck I felt attached to was an Umbreon one.

[Minotaur]

my autistic @ss has been obsessed with dragons since childhood... of course ... I've wanted to be a dragon or other critter as long as i can remember too, and felt that maybe i was meant to be one, since i've always felt like an alien in society (and I understood animals much better than people). [...]

Oh, same here!
In my case, it was mostly because of The Legend of Spyro. I always loved 'non-standard' fantasy, an TLoS was one of the first ones that scratched that itch, basically because it was centered around these super interesting dragons, instead of humans and humanoids.
I was always drawn to stories and media that have little to no focus on humans, and would focus on dragons, or other creatures instead. I think popular non-derg examples would be Warriors Cats and Ginga Nagareboshi Gin.

Currently, my sona is... Pretty nonexistent, I guess? I tend to depict myself as a bovine creature, and simply call it my 'self-insert'. Furry, minotaur, sphinx, kemonomimi, etc
I love bovines and equines a lot, simple as that hehe. They are beyond beautiful, interesting and majestic, and I think what made me so drawn to bovines is that, they are often overlooked, because of how humans tend to, and are often conditioned to, disconnect themselves from the animals they eat.

I wish I could choose one animal that I love or relate to, but... For me, it's literally just nature, life... I love all of it. It does kinda show, since I love creating dozens of characters, some based off a specific being, some based off few of them, and often I'm just playing with comparative anatomy, and more.

...I also love making characters that mess with the way people label things, like furry/monster/kemonomimi/human or anthro/taur/feral. I think that would be my unlabelled pride, and enjoying the freedom in not binding myself with labels too much, enjoying looking into topics beyond words, constructs, the way things work, are supposed to work or don't work at all.

Also I'm just an annoying trickster, and I love coming up with endless ways to mess with my friends. I love making characters that are heavily centered around being "an annoying thing that is hard or impossible to get rid of", so sometimes I draw my self-insert as some zombie/golem/legenary being because of that. Overpowered characters, that don't even have any serious good/bad/morally grey purpose, other than just running around, annoying everyone, and being unstoppable.

[Panda o' Plenty]

I already was a fox fursonas person, mostly impacted by having Taz-Mania and Sonic 1 in childhood and becoming Sonic fan. They weren't Mobians, no. Tho I did get Tails OC as the last attempt to finding what I vibe with. Just a slow furry growth where I wasn't fully satisfied with my choices as sonas.

I don't feel much comfort with my own OCs, having a set name too. I seem to like taking canons or having a crush on other OCs.

In the end, I saw some panda girls art on social media, tall and beautiful and powerful, and wow, I got a little taste. Which I thought is weird: I don't care for panda animals nor typical panda guys much or chibis or... only a certain furry bait bodytype. So I thought it's just a dumb crush, just monkey neurons activating, not a true identity. Just pinups, not sonas for me, and feeling guilty about not respecting culture heritage.

Came up with "Mobius goddess shapeshifter". Tried few forms. Then, as experiment, put on Panda shape, drew the face. No real name. Just abstractly based on all those Panda girls OCs.


...wow....

I am Panda..........

Please call me Panda....

what have i done

[ARKYmouse]

Started off a fox when I got first exposed to the furry scene. I think the choice of a fox was more of an exposure thing than something that felt befitting to me when I look back on it. Foxes were a huge part of the scene I got introduced to, right up there with wolves and huskies. Never felt like I was a dog kind of person, but foxes had their own sort of niche going on as far as I knew up to that point.

I was still doing a lot of growing up, and I went through a huge coming-of-age type catharsis. In the air of that, I came up with a new 'sona that was truer to me; a mouse. It felt much more fitting and had a lot of meaning to me. Small, vulnerable, but tenacious, and a mouse made for a good symbol for survival. Plus it felt a lot more endearing and personal. Grew up with one very predictable childhood full of Don Bluth films, so it seemed like a natural fit for me.

That stayed that way aaall the way up until the last two years, give or take, where a friend and room mate kept ribbing and jabbing me with the idea of going with a hamster because he thought it'd be funny. I had to agree, and it seemed like an even cozier choice to settle into. So that's where I am now. Much of the symbolism hasn't had the same relevance now in my life that I'm cozy with who and what I am. But I still like the idea of being a mouse, so I don't consider myself wholly dissonant to my previous form.

[hanalei]

Let me set the stage with an excerpt from an article I wrote, where I touch upon some personal history:

Hanalei was not always a zebra. Like many fursonas (fursonae?) she has evolved with her creator, reflecting a person’s changing self-image and aspirations. The earliest depictions of Hanalei from my high school sketchbooks actually reveal a wolf girl with a quiet demeanor and an overwhelmingly Y2K fashion sense. Halter tops and exposed midriffs galore. But what Hanalei truly is, though, is a trailblazer. She is always one step ahead of me. That is her role: to navigate through the fog of life and show me the way to somewhere better.

Hanalei is literally a rock star. I am not. Not yet, anyway.

(Full article here)

So, nonconformity has been a consistent theme throughout my life, and the signs were there even when I was *really* little. That was one of the motivators that led me to the furry fandom in general. (The other motivator was: "where can I find the beach episode of Redwall?")

Parallel to all that, I always thought horses were super cool and majestic. But I'm not at all "majestic." That's what led me to think about zebras -- in my view, they're an off-kilter and untameable horse (in the positive sense). Now *that's* more like me. And then there's my magenta stripe. I wasn't born with it. It's more like a tattoo. That represents the agency I exert over my own human body, which is a very important part of my story.

Also, the Fruit Stripe zebra was a childhood favorite.

[Loosf]

I am so glad I get to present both as a toy furry
and a robot furry.

Reading everyone's reasoning and history of shaping themselves in this delightful idealized self representation is just

thank you so much

[giantplant]

I sort of bounced between animal fursonas for a while after I decided being a furry could be pretty neat. I believe my first sona was a fennec fox and I also tried some more generic canine creatures for a while? None of them ever really felt like they fit me. It was a few years ago (2021 or so) that I tried designing a plant character. It was initially conceptualised as a Deltarune fan character but I liked the design enough that I started using it as a sona. Eventually I decided to move that character in a different direction and create a new plant character for use as a sona, which I use to this day. For some reason I'm just able to see myself more easily in plant characters than animal characters. Nowadays I have multiple plant or plant-adjacent characters and I consider all of them to be "sonas" in the sense that they are projections of my own mind.

[a_random_fox]

Foxes are rather clever animals, but not very strong, both of which i consider true about myself. They are not as social as for example wolves, which also fits me. I like how they look. Gray fox specifically was admittedly chosen mostly because red foxes were so common and i wanted something that was a bit more "special" i guess. The markings are a mix of natural gray fox stuff and stuff i came up with playing around with Kaylinks fox maker.

Regarding the robot part, i like sci-fi in general and robot characters in specific. It also ties into some backstory i came up with for it involving a paralell universe version of me uploading their mind into that robot fox form. The robot parts being hidden beneath a mostly organic looking exterior works on symbolic level with me being relatively normal looking but having a bunch of internal stuff that most people don't know and would consider weird.

The species dragon in my profile doesn't refer to a fursona, that one is a kintype. Though the fox fursona is so much a part of me at this point that it might as well be a kintype.

[flaxenPhoenix]

I like dogs and foxes are like dogs but more exotic and also from the moment I had set my eyes on Fennekin for the first time I was like "holy shit I Need one"

[kittybot]

Wow, I'm really amazed at how many robot furries there are here! It makes me really happy.

This is gonna be hella long, haha.

I've always identified with animals. I played make believe a lot as a kid, right up into my teens, with the excuse that I was playing with my younger (by 6 years) sister. All kinds of animals, though I often gravitated towards cats. I felt an affinity towards ravens, crows, and coyotes as I got older, especially once I hit the year or two in my teens where I got into Wicca - they always just felt 'witchy' to me, tricksters, magickal. But it took until my mid-teens to start realizing that felines had more meaning to me than just a favorite animal, and until my late 30s to realize anything at all about coyotes.

Ridiculously long backstory about becoming a genderweird furry:

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Animorphs came out when I was 10 (I'm old!) and I immediately latched onto it. My best friend was also into it and we obsessed over it, constantly talking about it. We obsessed over The Lion King a lot as well, but Animorphs was always more intense. At this time I split psychologically, in what I and my psychiatrist now suspect was a bout of DID, though I'm not sure what triggered it at that time specifically. My alters were all named after Animorphs characters based on their initial personalities, but almost immediately developed quite differently and in exaggerated ways. My best friend either split as well or just really enjoyed playing with different personalities as a game (something that made me very confused about the experience until discussing it with my psychiatrist very recently; I couldn't figure out why this 'game' was so important to me and why I was always 'playing it' even when I wasn't around my friend, and why it felt so real). Her personalities were also based on Animorphs and likewise developed differently and in exaggerated ways. We referred to them collectively as 'the headvoices' and they were present constantly when we were together.

Less important to the furry experience, but maybe relevant to the gender/sexuality one, is that my 'Rachel' persona and her 'Tobias' one (Tobias was always very special to me, I had a huge crush on him as a character in the books) had a romantic relationship, and we would act this out in some of my earliest non-platonic experiences. We never parsed this as 'me' and 'her' having a romantic relationship, it was 'just the headvoices'. It's still confusing to think about now, but I think it was definitely the beginning of being attracted to queer feminine people, and my first interaction with the idea that someone can have a different gender than what they look like externally. She was a year younger than me and when I went to high school at 13 we started drifting apart, and over the course of the year, the headvoices faded away and I went back to feeling like a singlet. When she joined high school when I was 14, we reconnected, but the headvoices 'game' was over. We never discussed it again, even after getting back in touch as adults. It's so confusing to think about, now. I'm still trying to figure out how to parse it and how it affected my current self.

One of the things that really stuck with me from these experiences though was the idea of transforming into an animal. I'd been pretending to be an animal as far back as I can remember, when I got into anime as a young teen, I immediately started drawing catgirls, and invented a kemonomimi persona for myself that was loosely based on a tiger. When I was 15 I joined the Sinfest webcomic forums (which were very different at the time; they're all radfems now and the old forums are gone, but at the time it was almost the opposite of that, with the forums split into factions of 'Pirates' and 'Pimp Ninjas', the latter of which were just as regressively sexist as they sound). Around this time, I'm not sure how, I started finding art by Jeremy Bernal, Dr Comet, and AimeeKitty online and was really interested, seeing the content as sort of 'elevated kemonomimi' designs. There was an outspoken furry in the forum who saw my interest in this and told me I was a furry too. He introduced me to furry art in general, and at some point when I was 16 I saw an article in the newspaper about South China tigers, with a photo, and immediately - that was it, that was me. I updated the kemonomimi character to be an anthro (still in an anime style, since I was still obsessed with anime at the time), a South China tiger, and a pirate (since I was now dating the captain of the Pirate faction on the forum). This is around when I started drawing constantly, something I'd been doing on and off my whole life, but I started carrying a sketchbook with me everywhere and was probably doing 5 - 10 pages a day in it. After moving in with the pirate captain guy after graduating high school, I started finding other favorite furry artists, including Weremagnus and Zeriara. I decided to make my fursona a 'Bernal style' (as I called it) furry with more animalistic features and that felt so right.

Fast forward 5 years, I was in my third adult relationship with the guy who would become my husband (ex-husband, he was extremely abusive) and living in the US, working as a furry artist for a living. I'd already redesigned my fursona several times, and it was now a feminine, neotenic, pastel tiger I made to reflect my IRL identity at the time. I'd been watching Chobits and having really intense feelings about being a 'doll', a human-passing robot, and decided to make my fursona an anthro-passing robot doll, but felt like I couldn't talk about this openly - it was too weird, and my husband was obsessed with seeming as 'normal' as possible (I think to this day that he's gay and I was clearly his beard, even to himself). But then a friend of a friend (who is now my platonic partner, over a decade later) moved in with us. It's nonbinary (agender specifically, but we didn't have those terms at the time - it said 'genderless' and I often used the term 'null' or 'nullgender') and at the time its fursona was a robot (it's just a synthetic creature now, not specifically a robot), which it was open about. I'd never heard of being nonbinary before, I was only vaguely aware of the concept of being transgender and thought that it only meant trans women specifically - I had no idea trans men existed either. But I'd been feeling weird about being a girl for a long time, obsessing over the idea of being skeletally thin so I would have no breasts and narrow hips, without knowing what these feelings were. When it introduced those concepts to me it was like being hit by the Gender Truck. I made my fursona publicly a 4' tall robot doll with set of new reference sheets, split it into four versions: 'transgender' (flat chested but AFAB), null (no sexual characteristics at all), male, and dualsex (using the h*rm slur at the time), and started going by ey/eir/em.

I rocked the 4 versions for years, and while I loved the design of 'transgender' Farore (my original fursona name, taken from a baby names website and only later realized to be from Legend of Zelda, oops - it just goes by kittybot, now), I was drawing and roleplaying the null version more and more. I got involved with a group of friends who liked really weird and unusual furry stuff, robots and space and aliens and plushes and latex and all kinds of kinks and scifi/fantasy stuff, and it encouraged me. I started dating my girlfriend (agender at the time) whose fursona was (at the time) a liquid latex four-eyed panther and that encouraged even more weirdness and focus on being synthetic and genderweird, eventually updating my gender identity to 'agender' and switching to xe/xyr/xem.

In 2013 I escaped my abusive ex, and immediately started presenting more masculine and 'weird'. I bought a binder and a bunch of men's clothing, got a mohawk and a lip ring (I was forced to present feminine and 'normal' by my ex), started using it/its pronouns, and redesigned my fursona to be just one version that looked more obviously robotic with the previous 'null' colors. Over time this design was developed and updated until it looks like what I have now! Being a robot just feels so right - I've identified as nonhuman in some shape or form as long as I've been alive, whether that was pretending to be an animal as a little kid or more generically thinking of myself as 'not a person' in my 20s, and that identity has really solidified into something I'm more intentionally aware of in my late 30s. I don't really have a good word for it, as 'otherkin' seems to be more for fantasy creatures than scifi, and 'therian' seems to be for extant animals only, and usually some flavor of wereanimal or feral animal too. 'Machinekin' has been the closest I've come, but usually I just say 'nonhuman' and leave it at that.

Peze, the coyote, came about kind of sideways. I had a mute coyote named Peze that I'd designed as a one-off years ago and decided that I wanted a coyote character to draw with my (now a therian transfem) girlfriend's werewolf fursona. I kept the name and muteness, and redesigned it to be more natural looking and came up with co/yo/te pronouns, which felt right for something really designed to be completely inhuman, even if co is arguably a wereanimal and is anthro most of the time when co isn't fully feral. But oops, all theriotypes! Coyote also felt so right, too, in a way that the kittybot didn't, like co expressed a completely different part of me. Co even has different kinks than kittybot, different pronouns of course, a slightly different version of the same gender (maverique/nonbinary), and expresses my nonverbal episodes. I thought of co as an alternate fursona, of which I already have several (including a big buff male tiger that took over my identity completely for a few years before I realized he was kind of the expression of some bullshit gender role stuff my ex had pounded into my head, even if I did learn a lot from being him, so when I figured that out last August he got retired and kittybot came back to the front). But the more I spent time with my girlfriend in ways that felt good and validating (and the more I figured out that it was okay for Peze to talk, though co still is nonverbal sometimes), the more I realized that co is more than just a furry character, co is me, co is a therian even if kittybot isn't.

That realization brought me to .. oh, I'm plural! I don't have a mind palace or much internal dialogue - I'm only one critter at a time, I'm just.. sometimes one critter and sometimes another. Hence why I use 'I' and not 'we'. There are more of us than just Peze and kittybot, but those are the main two. It's been really hard trying to parse how I can have one critter that's a therian while the other ones don't identify as that, and how I fit into plural and therian settings. It's been weird to figure out and has taken a LOT of talking with my girlfriend and wife and friends to put words to what's going on with me, since my experiences are so different from the other plural and/or nonhuman critters I know. I don't even know any other robots, since my platonic partner isn't one anymore! So it's cool to see so many here. I've been slowly edging into socializing with my girlfriend's mostly-therian group of local friends for the first time since moving here 4 years ago, and being more vocal about being plural and nonhuman in the last month or two with my existing friend group online. It's still a journey, but I feel like I know so much more about myself now.

I don't know who else might come to the front over time, but kittybot (I don't go by Farore anymore, except as a business name for my work as a furry artist) has been such a stable primary critter for me in one form or another and Peze is such a strong presence that I think this is going to be me for a long time. At this point, while I call them both fursonas, they're really more just like expressions of my mental images of myself, of who I am when I'm being myself (whoever 'myself' is at the time) and not just putting up a mask for socializing with strangers. Kittybot-as-a-fursona has a little bit of backstory and setting for it to exist in, but it's more just a fun creative exercise than anything. As for my current gender and sexuality, it's a bit complicated - kittybot is more or less genderless (in identity and body) and grey-ace and Peze is 'mystery gender' (with a vaguely-transmasculine body) and reciprosexual, both consider themselves nonbinary maveriques, both are kinky, both are demiromantic and more or less sapphic (and are attracted to the same people - I have relationships as a system, not individually). Other common critters are very context-based, but most likely will never be present on this forum, so I don't really need to detail them x)

Gallery of kittybot over time starting with the oldest design I still have art of (some images have chest piercings, but no NSFW details as the character has none; the last picture has some robot organs showing):

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And Peze over time:

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That's a very long post and you get a cookie if you read the whole thing. I hope it answers the question at any rate!

[EdenCoven]

That's a very long post and you get a cookie if you read the whole thing. I hope it answers the question at any rate!

Image links are busted. I'd like to see them if you wanna try imgur or whatever. Robots and dolls are wonderful

[DarkOverord]

Wow, I'm really amazed at how many robot furries there are here! It makes me really happy.

I admit:

I'm not gonna bore you with all the DO alts, robots, squeaky things, goo, pokémon, they're the reason for all the other DarkOverords who are refusing to be called anything other than DarkOverord, I've tried.

'cus I didn't want to make the page even bigger I didn't go in to that

It's always neat seeing other peeps who identify as synthetics actually talk about how they came to understanding that for themselves though as a few have in here though

[EdenCoven]

To talk about being synthetic... we have sort of two angles on it. We had some difficulties distinguishing some aspects of Mira, the cat, from Trinket, the doll. For the latter, we thought she might be good as a cute robot toy, but a few things pushed us in this direction instead. Either way, it's her lack of physical feeling, and the way she likes to play, and the way she feels sort of bound up in us. And the fact that she likes cute things. She has a sexuality but it doesn't pop up directly much because indulging it is difficult and it takes up too much of her energy.

But a lot of the feelings that led her to this form were really Mira's, and they're much more bound up in some of the opposite impulses, if that makes sense? Mira's very sensation-focused and definitely likes being an animal properly, but they're pretty prone to fantasies of being a thing. A beloved object. Something with a purpose and whose value is inherent, with no expectation of earning it. Most of the time she's focused on being a pet for essentially the same reasons. It's an older desire in us than even having sexual feelings at all, so it's not even just that. Trinket's name was originally intended for some erotic writing along those lines until our doll claimed it for herself because it was perfect. A small and precious object, of sentimental value.

So those two are very tied together in a lot of ways. There's so many ideas that can lead someone in that way. Sorry we keep posting but there's just so much stuff in our head that things spill out bit by bit.

[kittybot]

That's a very long post and you get a cookie if you read the whole thing. I hope it answers the question at any rate!

Image links are busted. I'd like to see them if you wanna try imgur or whatever. Robots and dolls are wonderful

Should be fixed now, sorry about that!