'Sona' Thoughts
Thinking about it, I've never liked making 'myself' in things ... avatars, picrew makers, games, I've never really been fond of doing it ... but perhaps it's because since I was online (2010 and on), I've almost always used my OCs as a representation of myself (because they tend to have a lot of me that subconsciously bleeds in).
The only mild exception to this was my early devART days where I used doodles of 'me' as I am to decorate my journals, or boxes, or even avatars ... though as time passed, that slowly phased out to use Resu instead, and even more so when I moved off devART to Tumblr. It was Resu, then Hideki, and now Sylvie. Even in games, I prefer to make Sylvie than even consider making something to represent myself. That, or just something separate from me, but perhaps with the colours I like.
Case in point, my Warframe drifter ... a guy, but lots of pinks and blanks and pastels muddled in.
My Spirit City avatar is just pinks and browns, with my style of clothing.
Palia is the closest I've gotten to someone looking like 'me', but even then, it's not my hair colour (I did have red highlights at a point, but that was way back in high school). ... which speaking of, I need to return to at some point now that they have animal handling as a mechanic.
I guess some part of me has been wanting some physical representation of myself ... or some 'mascot' that's not just my OCs, because my OCs stand on their own feet with their own development, but I also use them to represent me. It's not gonna change anytime soon from me using Sylvie everywhere (they are my comfort character and emotional support after all, and Hideki lasted 7 years as my comfort character), but I wanted some 'sona', some design that is just ... a design, of stuff I like.
I had Cotton, but they're just ouppy shaped, not something that can interact with things, and I'm not changing its design because I've had it for years.
Anyway, this is not a coherent blog post, it's just me rambling and musing on things, and in a weird way I'm at least happy I did make some design of something that I like and could see as a ... 'hey, it's not me, but it represents things I like'. I do hope she sticks, she's cute. Her design is simple enough to draw, and get art made of (and that was on purpose).
Funny that I'm hella not a furry, but I just wouldn't find comfort in making something that's human and a 'sona'.
Either way!!! Random thoughts, disconnect of the self yadda yadda, she's cute and fluffy