Over the course of time I have had to unalive my own characters because of silly reasons. Here I will be bringing them back and telling y'xll why the reasons for unaliving them were full of bull.
Ari R.E. (They/Them)
Canonically this is a feline self-fursona albeit incomplete (no glasses or asymmetric long hair). Ari R.E. is RE RE, and my first two CHOSEN initials are R. E.
Why did I unalive this fursona of mine?
This is a fursona made in ArtBreeder's sibling ThisFursonaDoesNotExist.com when I was 18-19. SOME pedantic people out there have called that site art theft. Firstly: AI models cannot exactly reproduce their training data. Secondly, AI-created material is legally ownerless. I cannot afford to commission people and I have an inability to hand-draw stuff that isn't worse than Sonichu. I have no other options besides what I do, and it's basically ableist to pedantically crush my characters.
Canonically this is a feline self-fursona albeit incomplete (no glasses or asymmetric long hair). Ari R.E. is RE RE, and my first two CHOSEN initials are R. E.
Why did I unalive this fursona of mine?
This is a fursona made in ArtBreeder's sibling ThisFursonaDoesNotExist.com when I was 18-19. SOME pedantic people out there have called that site art theft. Firstly: AI models cannot exactly reproduce their training data. Secondly, AI-created material is legally ownerless. I cannot afford to commission people and I have an inability to hand-draw stuff that isn't worse than Sonichu. I have no other options besides what I do, and it's basically ableist to pedantically crush my characters.
Xavier Qazalt/XaveQazalt/Chiugite (EFFECTIVELY she/her during Chiugite, they/them + ze/zor during Xavier Qazalt era)
Oh THIS sona... Well this fursona was my first one, made with Oob's Character Maker. I was 16 and transfem during the time when first making it, and some of the extra lore happened when I realized I was enby, so ultimately this sona is kinda... transitional... (pardon the pun). Admittedly this sona names aged like eggnog, so I might as well call this sona Xave Basalt to clean it up for modern standards. This fursona species is canonically a shiny Mew + Mewtwo hybrid (same technically for the above), but with Pikachu and Lucario ears, and ShockSlayer's hat and Pigy's nose. Given the side of ShockSlayer I saw around the time, this aged like day-old eggnog.
Why I unalived this fursona?
I was rudely informed about stuff about Oob that is very visibly apparent, and it gets annoying to hear stuff I already knew years ago. The person who told me this is a scary person to many in part due to his status as a very firey admin in many retro places.
Oh THIS sona... Well this fursona was my first one, made with Oob's Character Maker. I was 16 and transfem during the time when first making it, and some of the extra lore happened when I realized I was enby, so ultimately this sona is kinda... transitional... (pardon the pun). Admittedly this sona names aged like eggnog, so I might as well call this sona Xave Basalt to clean it up for modern standards. This fursona species is canonically a shiny Mew + Mewtwo hybrid (same technically for the above), but with Pikachu and Lucario ears, and ShockSlayer's hat and Pigy's nose. Given the side of ShockSlayer I saw around the time, this aged like day-old eggnog.
Why I unalived this fursona?
I was rudely informed about stuff about Oob that is very visibly apparent, and it gets annoying to hear stuff I already knew years ago. The person who told me this is a scary person to many in part due to his status as a very firey admin in many retro places.
Naki was the first name for this sona, but I had another far different name for them (collective) a trifle later. (Digi, due to them being only makeable with 3D printing.) They were not originally intended for a sona, if anything they were intended for being generic. I made this when I was 12 and updated it when I was almost 17 to have an extra face on the back of the head. Ultimately it bore out that I am plural due to events eons ago that have a VERY complicated story behind them, so this was accidentally more correct. It's an STL file with no materials, so... This model was never intended to represent anything in particular, and was made through a 3D art process in which even I do not know what I make is supposed to represent (mashups, and this is above board legally due to there being no CC-BY-ND in play anywhere). After the past two fursonas went bust, I decided "Sometimes it's OK to be proud of what you've got." And debated using it for a VTuber because it's 3D, original, and easy to animate.
Reason for unaliving this character:
Two white transfem admins on an LGBTQ+ Discord server (same backgrounds to the people who lead me to end the green fursona with my heterochromia, just on a different server) said in a very very very hostile (kept throwing around words like "doesn't matter" with regards to the subject, so basically gaslighting) way that this POTENTIALLY had a CHANCE of being appropriative, even though MULTIPLE indigenous people from different backgrounds I have spoken to have told me this is FINE, and they ARE qualified to discuss this, UNLIKE said admins. I take advice from qualified people on subjects like this, because I am not foolish enough not to do so.
Reason for unaliving this character:
Two white transfem admins on an LGBTQ+ Discord server (same backgrounds to the people who lead me to end the green fursona with my heterochromia, just on a different server) said in a very very very hostile (kept throwing around words like "doesn't matter" with regards to the subject, so basically gaslighting) way that this POTENTIALLY had a CHANCE of being appropriative, even though MULTIPLE indigenous people from different backgrounds I have spoken to have told me this is FINE, and they ARE qualified to discuss this, UNLIKE said admins. I take advice from qualified people on subjects like this, because I am not foolish enough not to do so.
Characters In Need of Lifesaving But Are Not Dead Yet
r/enn(n)-tan (colloquial based off of "r/traa-tan and friends", so not actually their name)/TransENBYori/Sayori+Coolyori
Any Pronouns (long story, this consists of my bigender edit of my enby edit of Redditor u/ChaoticNeutralAtBest's Butch Transbian/Masculine Transgirl version of the Sayori template, and u/Green_cryptid's transmasc enby template [long story, also both u/Green_cryptid AND u/ChaoticNeutralAtBest are transmasc in some form.]), Human+Cryptid (u/Green_cryptid did the template as a self-portrait albeit based on the transmasc Coolyori outlines). Honestly just r/traa-tan's enby friend.
I made this while barely still 17 via layering my bigender edit of my enby edit of Redditor u/ChaoticNeutralAtBest's Butch Transbian and Masculine Transgirl template (I initially made the pink glasses use the dark and grey of the long-blue-haired enby one, and the hair color of the transmasc Coolyori template's highest surviving resolution [none of its creators have the original file, and only jpeg quality casualties exist of it now], all done via Pixlr's eyedropper and paint bucket tools with help from the Magic Wand tool.), and then using the Color layer blend mode to overlay it with an isolated version of u/Green_cryptid's transmasc enby template.
Reason for drama-zapping and lifesaving:
u/Green_cryptid was the one who used the Coolyori outline, NOT me, and we basically washed it AND made the quality better by extension and made it into something new, plus no creator condemned us. Please do not accuse me of tracing because I cannot physically do so even if I wanted to. If you accuse me of tracing, you ARE ableist and untruthful on the matter. Please listen to people qualified to discuss things.
Any Pronouns (long story, this consists of my bigender edit of my enby edit of Redditor u/ChaoticNeutralAtBest's Butch Transbian/Masculine Transgirl version of the Sayori template, and u/Green_cryptid's transmasc enby template [long story, also both u/Green_cryptid AND u/ChaoticNeutralAtBest are transmasc in some form.]), Human+Cryptid (u/Green_cryptid did the template as a self-portrait albeit based on the transmasc Coolyori outlines). Honestly just r/traa-tan's enby friend.
I made this while barely still 17 via layering my bigender edit of my enby edit of Redditor u/ChaoticNeutralAtBest's Butch Transbian and Masculine Transgirl template (I initially made the pink glasses use the dark and grey of the long-blue-haired enby one, and the hair color of the transmasc Coolyori template's highest surviving resolution [none of its creators have the original file, and only jpeg quality casualties exist of it now], all done via Pixlr's eyedropper and paint bucket tools with help from the Magic Wand tool.), and then using the Color layer blend mode to overlay it with an isolated version of u/Green_cryptid's transmasc enby template.
Reason for drama-zapping and lifesaving:
u/Green_cryptid was the one who used the Coolyori outline, NOT me, and we basically washed it AND made the quality better by extension and made it into something new, plus no creator condemned us. Please do not accuse me of tracing because I cannot physically do so even if I wanted to. If you accuse me of tracing, you ARE ableist and untruthful on the matter. Please listen to people qualified to discuss things.