There's a blogger challenge thing going around. People are looking back at how they looked in their newbish days. I've wanted to do a post like this for a while, and a combination of the challenge and nostagia from the end of a decade has given me the push I needed. See, as a furry, my SL identity is linked closely to the avatar I wear. More than clothes, more than a skintone, more than hair. With the right avatar, I feel like "me". So here begins part one of the history of my quest for "me" in SL.
When I first joined SL, I didn't stick around long. For the two or three days I was on, I was a human avatar with system hair, system shoes, and system skin. Oh, and angel wings (partially due to my aversion to playing human characters, and partially because of the name I picked). I didn't pick the furry avatar at signup because... well, I still have nightmares about those eyes. At this point in time, the quality of free avatars a newbie fur could hope for was.... yeah.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/timechaser/Snapshot_048.png So I ran off to IMVU, where I made stuff for a good while.
When things at IMVU went sour (trust me, IMVU staff makes Linden Labs look like a gift from above), a few friends and I jumped back into SL. I was extremely fortunate this time around because Wingless Emoto's free avatars were just begining to make the rounds. So now, with friends to roam the grid with and finally furry, I stuck around.
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Now that I was enjoying SL, I felt comfortable enough to buy some lindens. The Wingless avatar was nice, but it didn't feel right. And it was a little too "toony" for my tastes. Actually, most furry avatars at the time tended to look really cartoonish. The only one with enough realism for my taste was the Werehouse.
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When I first joined SL, I didn't stick around long. For the two or three days I was on, I was a human avatar with system hair, system shoes, and system skin. Oh, and angel wings (partially due to my aversion to playing human characters, and partially because of the name I picked). I didn't pick the furry avatar at signup because... well, I still have nightmares about those eyes. At this point in time, the quality of free avatars a newbie fur could hope for was.... yeah.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/timechaser/Snapshot_048.png So I ran off to IMVU, where I made stuff for a good while.
When things at IMVU went sour (trust me, IMVU staff makes Linden Labs look like a gift from above), a few friends and I jumped back into SL. I was extremely fortunate this time around because Wingless Emoto's free avatars were just begining to make the rounds. So now, with friends to roam the grid with and finally furry, I stuck around.
Now that I was enjoying SL, I felt comfortable enough to buy some lindens. The Wingless avatar was nice, but it didn't feel right. And it was a little too "toony" for my tastes. Actually, most furry avatars at the time tended to look really cartoonish. The only one with enough realism for my taste was the Werehouse.
