For those of you that don’t know, the furry fandom are people that like anthropomorphic animals. These are bipedal animals with human-like anatomy and characteristics. There are A LOT of furry-like characters in Gems of War, much more so than the average most games present.
I ended up officially becoming a furry 5 years ago in early 2011. It was as a result of watching the anime “Legendz: Tale of the Dragon Kings.” I really liked Shiron’s personality and art that ended up introducing me more to the furry fandom. I was familiar with what the fandom was prior to that, but I never really associated myself with it until then. I created the concept for my fursona around this time.
My fursona’s name, as many of you could probably guess, is Tacet. He is also known as Tacet the Tionerroroct [tee – on – er –er – ok], Tionerroroct being his species. He is more often than not just referred to by the abbreviated version of Tacet the Terror or most commonly as just Tacet. Tacet is a furred anthro dragon with feathered wings and a hand carved metallic neck brace. He is primarily black with bright cyan accents around his wrists, ankles, around his neck, and down the entirety of his spine to the tip of his tail. Some basic sketches of what he looks like are shown below:
Now or a brief bio. Tacet was born in a communist country known as the Tionerroroct Empire. He is within the bloodline of the highest and most corrupt beings of the society, who also are in control of most of the society. Tacet’s views defying their positions eventually gets him thrown into slavery. After several years of labor, he leads a revolt of the slaves for their freedom, but it ends in massive blood shed with the slave revolt ultimately losing. Ashamed of his actions, he fleas as far as possible away from the empire. He keeps the slave brace on as a representation of his failure, but also as a reminder that this isn’t over. Once he settles in the wild, the lives communally with several other species. There is a lot more to the backstory, but that should give the basic premise of the character.
The “of the 4th Gem” on my title on this forum is simply because I am the 4th, George William Smith IV to be exact.
People of the furry fandom tend to have a lot of furry friends. This tends to root from the fact that many people don’t quite understand what the furry fandom is, think it is strange, or think that they are animal rapists. One of the most criticized aspects of the furry fandom is the amount of porn that spawns from the fandom. This is one thing that the furry community is fairly even split on position. I am actually in favor of furry porn. Despite the obvious reason ;), there is a more substantial reason as to why I do. Despite popular belief, most furry porn is digital artwork, not 2 people in fursuits doing “things” together (known as yiffing ). Furry porn actually reduces the demand for videoed prostitution while increasing the demand for art; explicit art, but still art.
Furries also tend to role play as their fursona or other characters. This can range anything from written story based, to digital, to in person in fur suits. Most furries are extremely accepting and tolerant people, slightly influenced by the fact that the fandom tends to have a really bad connotation from the media.
I also have a boyfriend who is a furry. (I am a male bisexual. He is gay.) We have yet to actually meet in person due to the couple hour flight distance, but we have been going pretty steady for nearly a year now. We will be meeting this summer, so hopefully that goes well. He also likes reading me bed time stories, which I absolutely love. That ended up spawning this image:
And this was just something cute we got recently as icons:
I do have some other art and the such, but most of it wouldn’t be appropriate for posting on this PG forum.
But yeah, that is a basic rundown of everything I can think of at the moment. Feel free to ask me questions about it.