Music for the Day

I don’t think it’s a secret that I have multiple versions of Daren. Daren Crevan, my main OC; Daren the kitsune, also known as A-Fox; Daren the Ninetales, known as A-Ninetales; Daren the Spacesune, though they don’t call themselves Spacesunes; and Daren the Divine Ninetales, the all-powerful deity. You can also count Daren in his werefox/weredraox form, A-Fox in Tails230’s Deity Stone series, and even Astrid, Daren’s TG form, as their own separate characters. So, there are a lot of versions of Daren.

Is it because of outrageous narcissism, especially since my own name is Daren? Or is it because I’m just that uncreative in naming stuff? I lean more to the latter with the dosage of things falling into place like that.

To explain, when I first created who is now known as A-Fox, it was with the full intention that he would be Daren Crevan’s feral kitsune form. In fact, though I haven’t revealed it in the stories proper, Daren is a kitsune who has already lived for over a hundred years by that point. So, it made sense to me to set it up with the stories Deviant Reunion/Battlefield being the ones that revealed it.

But then I stopped working on Deviant Reunion/Battlefield and slowed down my writing. And it got worse while working for Amazon. And while technically I was still writing, it was for a class during much of the same period and remains incomplete. And then A-Fox steered himself away from the core Daren, effectively becoming his own character, one who is gluttonous and eager to make others round.

A similar thing happened with A-Ninetales. He was initially supposed to be one of the many forms A-Fox takes, with plans to make him just as fat as the other forms. But then, because of an out-of-the-blue role-play session with Trask, who updated A-Ninetales’s ability, so he grows from fire and such, he began steering his own path away from A-Fox. As such, where there was just one, now there were three.

As for Daren the Spacesune part, it wasn’t that special. When Donnie started his Spacesune universe along with Fizzie, he was making various users of the Crimson Flag chat into Spacesune characters within the verse, usually the ones with the fox fursonas. After a while, he did mine, and since the others’ Spacesunes were known by their usual character’s names, it was only natural that the same happened to me. And so, Daren the Spacesune was born.

As for Daren the Divine Ninetales, while the others (except the Spacesune) were more incidental in their creations, he was more deliberate. So when I went over to Alterflane with the idea, it was with complete certainty that this would be an alternative version of Daren. Not only that, but I also brought in some of the ideas that I was thinking of going through with the main Daren stories so that, even if I don’t write them, they exist in some form.

As for the others, I won’t get into detail only because this journal is long enough as it is. But regardless, I hope this sheds some light on why I have so many versions of Daren. And boy, do I feel like an uncreative hack for letting that happen.