BUT BUT BUT I WANT TO JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS :D

:3 ah let me guess the whole self identifying aspect of it.

That is part of it, yeah! I dunno, it is rather complicated...

x3 c'mon when are people ever not complicated~

But, if it's part of your imagination, how do they see the puppy?

They're part of my imagination too! I should do a comic explaining all this... XD

Don't do that, we'll lose you forever!

Why would people feel upset over this?

If someone doesn't listen to the whole thing, they may think I hate furries or something...Or by not wanting to be called one, I'm shunning the entire community. I'm not sure, but it happened a few times already. Peopel get much too defensive of it, when they really have no need to be.

That doesnt happen only with furries, tbh. And I've seen too much hotblooded people when anybody contradicts them as for really thinking we're the only ones with that issue.

I'm a little fuzzy on how the distinction here makes it less "furry". Then again, the term is so broadly used that I don't think it really has a specific definition anymore.

Another reason why I'd prefer not to be labeled like that. Its too broad, I'd have to deal with a wide range of stereotypes.

so your saying your crazy?

if forest stuck his tongue out i would have passed out from the cutness

I'm still not entirely clear on what "furry" means in this context myself. Because by the definition that I think of, it applies to probably a majority of people (including me) and so doesn't need a label: that definition being someone who likes art and stories in which animals act like people. And yet even though that's the definition I use, and I meet that definition myself, I don't like to call myself by that label.

Your relationship with Forrest kind of reminds me of my own relationship with Harriet Hedgehog. She is definitely NOT me because she's a ten-year-old girl and I'm a grown man--and yet her personality and situation are partly based on my own, both from now and from when I was her age.

I am sorry if people don't know the real you.

See, that's just it, there's really not a set definition of what "furry" actually statnds for, and I don't like that for one thing. everyone seems to have a different idea of what it meants to be one, and I'd rather not deal with the whole issue then try to stand up and declare, "I am a furry!"

I see it as a lifestyle in a way, though what exactly that is I'm still not entirely sure of myself, so its not too good of a definition either.

Forest does take a lot from me, even though he's not me. We have a lot of similar likes and dislikes, and we react nearly the same in some situations, but he's still not me. I try to show that by always drawing myself as a separate character from him when I get the chance!

Also thanks, but its really my own fault for people not knowing the "real me". They only see what I show them, so its not anyone's fault but my own.

Thank you for replying to me!

Yes, and that's just the trouble. If "furry" is such a minority thing that it needs a label, then I really don't want to use that definition to apply to myself because then I probably don't fit it anyway. I don't live any kind of "furry lifestyle", nor is my character what I wish I were or how I see myself--she's just a character, although she's the most personal to me of any I've conceived (I prefer to have multiple characters than any one "fursona", but they're all part me). Heh, I do the same--in a few pictures on my userpage I've jokingly said that her father is "me". That is, she talks to her offscreen father, and I claim that it's me talking to her.

I see. Well, I've read your comic and only got the impression that FW was a character--a likable character, but a character. (I'm confused about his abbreviation, though--if there were any letter other than "W" it would actually be shorter to say, not just to write. I kind of like Mouse's "Fowo" myself.)

hehehe i can relate to this!~

Oh? Run into this sort of thing before with someon? X3

to a degree!~ Im not my sona but he makes up a lot of desires, likes and things i wish i could be!~ i liked the way you put it, a big piece to the puzzle called me! XD Not my mirror reflection in furry form!~

Though i will say labels are the hardest thing to bypass because even not being part of the group or a considering yourself part of that label, your living with another label that was created for that ... if you get what im saying.

I like this.

Kudos!!