fursona

Yep, I'm one of those people that likes the funny animal people. You know the ones.

Kero

An anthro creature, vaguely dragonic in nature. Two brown horns, pointed back. Long white hair, with also white fur coating its underbelly. Floppy ears poke out from its hair. Kero is waving, and has a mostly neutral, but slightly friendly expression.

Fig. 1: Kero

Personality

Kero is me if I wasn't nerfed by anxiety and impulse control. If you don't otherwise know my personality this description is useless, too bad for you :(

Lore

He's who him? His full name is 'The Honda Summer Savings Event'. But most of the time he goes by Kero. I used to also call this guy "Loaf" but now via mitosis that's become an entirely different fursona.

Kero arrived on Earth after his egg crashed into a Honda dealership. He certainly was the hottest hit of the summer. (his egg while falling through space reached a temperature of [LOOK UP WHAT A HOT TEMPERATURE IS] kelvin. woah mama!)

Kero again, against a backdrop of a stormy rocky beach.

Fig. 2: Detailed headshot

Every 50 years Kero dies and is reincarnated in a different dimension with no memories of previous lives, except random visions in dreams. Until then he just kinda wanders around and gets into mischief.

What species is he? Hell if I know. Just a creature.

Design

Kero's been my sona for a few years now. Even though I've been a furry since 8th grade, whenever that was, I only finally decided upon a sona when one of my friends sat me down and forced me to answer questions until I arrived at a design. What a great friend. She isn't even a furry (though she has a cousin who was a big popufur fursuiter who got cancelled for something that apparently isn't true. Neat!)

Fanart

A small 3D printed figurine of Kero holding a frog, held in my own hand.

Made by a friend! Kero REAL??

A chibi knitted version of Kero made out of yarn. The nose is rather bulbous.

Made by 인절미! Kero REAL!!

A 3D modeled version of Kero doing a fortnite dance.

Made by an enemy

A drawing of Kero with a huge teethy maw

Made by Grausampossum for artfight!

Kero lying down eating a slice of pizza. He's got such a mischevious grin.

Made by Liatris_RN for artfight!

Loaf

A grey anthro canine, with a beige underbelly and beige paws. He is wearing glasses. There's a small beige spot beneath his left eye. The tuft at the end of his maw kinda looks like a moustache.

Fig. 3: Loaf

Design

Eventually the urge to be some kind of canine became irresistable and I designed another fursona that's more of a self-representation. Kero became too much of a character and not just "me" - ergo, Loaf. I tend to favor very simple designs to ensure my characters are easy for me to draw, haha. We've got one spot under the eye, and then the kinda moustache-y deal going on with the muzzle.

Loaf sits atop a hill, arms crossed, looking neutral. In the corner, he is climbing a staircase. Lots of purple clouds/speech bubbles surround him.

Fig. 4: Getting up to activities, probably

I have no idea what species Loaf is. Maybe a coyote / wolf mix, with some dragonic ancestry (b/c im so used to drawing kero that my canine snouts sometimes look slightly dragonic, haha)

Loaf is also the name I use for myself in furry spaces. A guy I ran into at a furry dance party misremembered my name as "bread, or toast, or something like that" which was funny.

Thoughts on Furry

Being a furry has always been deeply important to me for reasons I've never been able to adequately understand myself. It's inextricably tied up in my queer experience / identity. And it's weird that it's been such a big deal for so long, especially since only this past year have I been going to furry events in person. But I've always been the type of person to be very serious about very silly things, so it fits in with the rest of my personality.

Often on train rides I daydream about turning into a werewolf, but then my daydreams are disrupted by me theorizing what phonemes a wolf maw could make, strategies to avoid getting experimented on by the government, pretending to be a vtuber but actually just being a wolfboy... I feel like a parody of myself.

Misc Links

Furries, Art, God - A video essay about the tension between art being simulataneously silly nonsense but also profound and moving — i.e. the furry experience & my general aesthetic sensabilities.
1000 Acts of Decency - Furry Ace Attorney/Danganronpa. An absolutely ridiculous premise, but executed so fantastically and impressively. Basically as good as Ace Attorney, imo. Played this with some friends, t'was incredibly fun. More people need to play this.
Trainwreck - A furry version of the nonary games. Seriously, what's with all the great furry takes on popular mystery VN-adjacent games?