... no matter where life takes us.

This has been a picture and a change a long time in the making. Over the past few months my mate and I have been seriously considering the kind of people we are and the kind of people we have been. We are happy with the changes and growth we have seen, it has made us stronger and brought us closer together. We have started to identify the things in life we define ourselves by and the types of people we aspire to be. No longer am I a giddy and hyperactive college-aged person, whose personality is split into three basic sections as I try to become comfortable in my own skin. My mate has grown to look at the world in new lights and look within to find what really matters most. Our fursonas have been the same for the seven years since we met, save possibly when we got married five years ago, I think that’s when we added the collars. With these recent revelations we feel it is time for them to grow just as we have to more accurately represent who we are now. The old colors and descriptions are still them- that period of time will always be a part of us- we simply feel it is time that our representative characters caught up with us.

Kinaru probably has the largest changes of the two. His original ‘my eyes are bleeding’ bright colors have been toned down significantly. I still have a bit of high saturation color in there as a call back to that time when I was known for my joy and glee; a trait that has transitioned over time to a much nicer sense of contented tranquility. The belly fur and face fur has been connected, but his face pattern still goes over his eyes, one of the feature that really defines Kinaru as Kinaru along with his cross pattern in my mind. I’ve always imagined myself as having those bright green eyes, and the original version of Kinaru was going to have them until I realized how much it would fade into the green on his face in the original colors. Kinaru’s collar has been switched to a bracelet on his left arm; it still represents his status as Med-Night’s mate, however as I feel a lot more comfortable in the leadership position it seems a bit more fitting. Overall I feel his look is a good bit more mature, and while I know I am (hopefully) not at the peak of self-awareness I feel over time I have slowly transitioned to a more adult mindset of holding to who I am and taking care of those who are close to me.

Med-Night’s color pattern has subtly changed to a more playful puppy appearance. Originally, Med was almost purely wolf, partly due to negative stereotypes about wolves and negative self-views of herself. Over time she has come to see who she really is and how that person is indeed a good person. She also learned how much joy she makes and gets out of the simple things in life, which better reflects the shiba-inu side of her. As such her fursona has changed to better show the pup part of her while still retaining some of the inner strength that the wolf has. Plus she looks adorable as a brown puppy-dog with those lilac eyes and pink nose :P

Med-Night and lineart- Nightwolf714

Kinaru and coloring- me