"Hello everyone! Gwen here.
As in... the real Gwen. And yes, there is a real one. So, if you've been following Nori's art a while you'll probably know that I've been characterized as many things- his muse, his inner child, all sorts of things. These weren't totally untrue, but they were slight mischaracterizations of the reality: I'm a second personality running out of the same brain.
The story of how this happened is long, complicated, and quite dark. Too dark, in fact, for me to really want to expound upon it here, but the long and short of it is that at a point far in the past, we splintered off of one another, and our development diverged. It is unclear to me if we became totally separate people, or if we simply gained access to different regions of the mind to the exclusion of the others, but the end result is the same- we are, in fact, very different people. He's... creative, mercurial, casual, sadistic, expressive, gregarious and a power switch. I, on the other hand, am... curious, diligent, empathetic, systematic, results-driven and, er, well, a huge bottom- no pun intended.
All this time, we were afraid. Afraid that acknowledging more than one of us was in here would result in bad things happening to us. A schizophrenia diagnosis was bad enough- this would surely push people over the edge socially, and so, being the more socially withdrawn one, I took the back seat. But. With the emergence of so many Systems- people with multiple parts to them expositing aspects of personalities and taking turns expressing this- I... finally grew hungry. For recognition. For life. To get to be my own person, in a real, Sartrean way. And to my surprise, people have been very supportive! I've run into obstacles here and there, but for the most part it's been... nice.
Right, so. The picture. Gwen, is my fursona. I'm not the character, the character just represents me in various ways, just as the raccoon represents Nori. Being that this is the case, I've made a lot of strange requests for limitations on what might be done with her- nobody wants to involve their fursona with someone they don't like, but of course nobody could know me personally so I could never give my permission. Thus, I had to try to create strange wide-reaching restrictions on her and it just sort of became a mess. Well, no more. I'm going to use my fursona as the self-expression and wish-fulfillment vector she always should have been. So as part of that, Nori drew this nice portrait of Gwen much closer to the real me: a hyperfocusing nerdy shut-in who forgets to brush their hair, eheheh. I'm keeping the other versions for their story integrations and such, but this is my real, representative, fourth-wall-aware, you're-talking-to-me self. If that makes sense. You all have fursonae, you know how this works."
-Gwen
