Okay. I am going to try and keep this SHORT but this is an issue that has been bugging me for literal years!
If you remember, back in the day, the days of the Nintendo DSi and the wonderful world of Flipnotes, you may recall there was a platform with which to share your flipnotes and find countless others as well. That place was called "Flipnote Hatena."
Again, trying to keep this short, but it's kinda hard because what you see here is a character; her name is Rhapsody the Bat. At least, what you see is the culmination of years of obsessing over her after originally finding this character on Flipnote Hatena drawn by an artist named "Darkbunny" at the time but I believe shortly before Hatena ended, she changed her name and made it actually impossible to find her only knowing this and maybe her real name was Samantha or just Sam and the main reason why I have been trying to find her-...*sighs* This character, drawn and animated to a nightcore version of this song (which I believe was a popular animation meme at the time), was among my first ever furry crushes, forming in me feelings I had no clue what to do with at the time but definitely helped lead me in the direction of finding out who I really am. She is definitely to thank for me being a furry, and her artwork has inspired me to draw; I mean, just look at this! She did not look like this on the DSi, I can assure you of that! She was a chibi-style character with much less detail and, even, my first attempt at "drawing" her was me actually putting paper against my DSi screen and tracing her because I wanted to keep her in mind, and from those tracings, I drew her and a couple of other characters (named Rye the Albino Fox, Devion the demon fox, and Angeon, whom I don't think I drew but was among her lore) until eventually improving my skill enough to make this! I have search for many years to see what became of her after Hatena closed and I have found other Hatena artists, ShinyEevee (now named Pupom), Yuna1997 (I believe was the number), Pocho, I've found other Flipnote artists whom I used to watch on Flipnote Hatena, but this mysterious Darkbunny character still alludes me and it has been the most frustrating, actually physically depressing feeling I have ever held with me, and I know -- if for some reason you, or anyone!, is still reading this -- this probably all seems weird or like some weird obsession -- it is! It's an obsession for this Rhapsody character whom I actually fell in love with at the age of 13 or 14 and shaped me into who I am now and the desire to find and thank the original artist involved. God! You guys didn't see the original animation where she came from and this particular still image, this one nor the other one of her and Devion set to a different equally haunting song when paired with the image that just provoked some odd feelings I was far too young to understand but GOD did it resonate with me TO THIS DAY that I might actually start crying if I keep typing!
Please, Darkbunny from Flipnote Hatena one the DSi, circa 2009-2012, if by some miracle this gets around to you, I just want to say, truly and deeply from the bottom of my heart: Thank you. Your amazing artwork, your incredible character design, and your awe-inspiring animations really left a long lasting impression on me. As I kid, I could have never known what it would have done to me and my developing mind, but as I mind has now developed, I can only look back and see that I have you to thank. You've inspired me; you've helped shape my life into what it is today; you and your characters, among such others as Ember from Spyro: A Hero's Tail and Amy Rose from the Sonic series, left an impression on me that I carried throughout my entire adolescense and teenage years and should I not have proceeded the way I did, well, I couldn't even imagine how my life would be at this moment. I can assure you, I would either still be "in the closet" or at most have come out much later than I did. So, once again, sincerely, Thank You.
