Soni is a chance collision between my previous 'Sonas, Kosa and Imani, after I believed it was impossible to do so. Kosa's scars remained exactly the same, and yes, Soni is also half-blind, with one remaining green eye. He's a quagga, an extinct species of Plains zebra that scientists have been working on bringing back using DNA from twenty-three preserved specimens. His scars, as they did on Kosa, represent how I view myself, and how I beat myself up over things. They represent hatred of myself. His blindness still represents how I don't see things that are right in front of me before they are gone. Six guitar string-style stripes wrap around his front right leg, representing my love of music, and gold "veins" entwine over his right front ankle- similar to drawings that I almost constantly doodle onto that hand. One hoof is black, a throwback to the worst days of my life, and three hooves are white, as my hopes for the future. His red markings are in the color I constantly IM in, as well as connect to my nickname- Satan- and to my childhood, when my favorite color was red and my father promised me a red car when I turned 16. The grey and silver come from a username that I use and write under- Grey/Grey Theory. And Soni's almost-white tail is tipped with black in a nod to my rockstar dream. Six grey stripes in his mane are a connection to my sister, and, when adding the number of red stripes, create thirteen- my lucky number.
As for accessories, I wear the exact style of "gages" on Soni. His necklace- a raven feather with tiger stripes- is a nod to my spirit. Sometimes, he wears a grey pinstripe fedora with a blue and black Linkin Park bandanna tied around it, the exact same hat that I wear most of the time. It usually sits awkwardly on his head.
Soni's personality and temperament vary to extremes. At times, he can be stubborn and proud, then he can turn around and be extremely depressed and full of self-loathing. He believes himself unlovable, though all that he really wants is someone to love him. He's constantly on the edge of heartbreak, though he does his best to not let anyone know.
As for accessories, I wear the exact style of "gages" on Soni. His necklace- a raven feather with tiger stripes- is a nod to my spirit. Sometimes, he wears a grey pinstripe fedora with a blue and black Linkin Park bandanna tied around it, the exact same hat that I wear most of the time. It usually sits awkwardly on his head.
Soni's personality and temperament vary to extremes. At times, he can be stubborn and proud, then he can turn around and be extremely depressed and full of self-loathing. He believes himself unlovable, though all that he really wants is someone to love him. He's constantly on the edge of heartbreak, though he does his best to not let anyone know.
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On forms- If anyone wishes to draw Soni and cannot draw equines, he can be made into a thirteen-prong antlered wolf, hyena, or anthro goat, though his zebra stripes and mane will always remain. He is not, and will never be, anything else, and should never be seen as such.
Feel free to submit your own drawings of him, and please link back to any lineart that you may or may not have used. If you desire, I'll happily pay you back in either five pets from my trades or a picture of your own fursona/character.
(OMFG, I made a freaking anthro. o.o)
Many thanks to these artists for the below:
Tris
Crochet A Venin
Lock
Zephayer
Darkened Glory
Blackhorsebeth
Saccarine
Liongirl Mew
By Ekio
