Princess Badgerine was a character I made for my big 2011 FurAffinity art dump, depicted holding an axe and standing on top of a pile of skulls. Her demeanor was inspired by the badgers of Redwall more than anything; I hadn't read one of the books yet, but I had seen the animated adaptation on PBS.
The story behind the rabbit I'm referring to as Benny from here on is a bit different. Back in 2005 when I first started using the Internet as an interactive rather than passive form of entertainment, I severely annoyed people on a game development forum by having and holding to literally any politically conservative or Christian viewpoints whatsoever; the fact that I was rather boisterous, fervent, and (for my age at least) eloquent only made them seethe harder.
At one point, one of these amateur game developers made a game (really just a long string of RPG cutscenes with no interactivity beyond advancing the text boxes) mocking people on the forum, and I had the dubious honor that my character's personality had SOME bearing on my real temperament and beliefs rather than just applying my name to some completely whole cloth character. This character wound up stealing the show and being far and away the most popular, being impossible to "vote off" when polling between episodes. Such was the frustration that my at the time pretty basic furry interests were exaggerated and distorted into being a fervent and boisterous animal molester underneath the Christian firebrand exterior.
Seeing the reflection of what others thought of me made me self-reflect and see just how good, cool, and awesome it was to make people angry just by being Christian, and that I shouldn't try to fit in with those guys by compromising or trying to affect a troll/agitator general persona. I didn't stick to this perfectly, and the environment around me got more gay and more navel-gazing "games don't need to be fun, they just need to express yourself" postmodern malaise year by year.
I sorta took up the Green Arrow's appearance from the depictions of the "real" me in the RPG cutscenes cartoon series or whatever you want to call it, and applied it to an anthropomorphic rabbit. This because my year in the Chinese zodiac is the Year of the Hare/Rabbit (and my sign in the Western zodiac is Sagittarius, the archer), I always thought bunnies were kinda cute, came from a large family, all that sort of stuff. Possibly also a reference to Skippy from Disney's animated Robing Hood.
Naming this character Benny rather than Nathan has both a deep and a shallow meaning as well. The shallow part being that "Benny" is just "bunny" with one letter changed, the deeper one being that when I was first born my parents tried saying both the names Benjamin and Nathan to see which I responded to better, so technically Benjamin was the first try and could easily have wound up being my real first name.
Rabbits, badgers, and bears are all neat in their own ways, but I can't keep one as a fursona. The reason is a very simple vanity - their tails are too short for my tastes, might as well just be a human at that point. Both of these characters have tails, just too short of tails to be visible at the standard 3/4 viewpoints you tend to need for character depiction most often.
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