GG1 in her anthro horse cyborg form, commissioned from the breathtakingly talented snackish (https://www.furaffinity.net/user/snackish)

Her story:

She begins as a combat-ally NPC (Non-Player Character) in a virtual reality game played by my character Michael Sauerpüss the grey foxaroo. Literally an iron horse. Of the few episodes I drew of my comic this is probably the least embarrassing one to show the character’s original form: http://www.foxaroo.ca/d/20070717.html .

Michael becomes so fond of the character that his skilled friend Patrick builds a working replica of her in his garage, much to Michael’s delight. Through a succession of accidental upgrades she eventually becomes mostly flesh and blood. I haven’t worked out the details but the key points are that she receives a learning CPU from a terminator style robot that Michael and Patrick defeat (or an MI5 style agency, I haven’t made up my mind yet), alien self-repair nanites, and finally she is caught in a machine invented by a mirror-universe version of Dr Robotnik that turns robots into people. Sometime after that she intentionally has a USB port installed on her body to interface with machines, including vehicles. She is able to “feel” and control the functions of a regular locomotive in a similar manner to the way the Na'vi of Pandora (in James Cameron’s Avatar) are able to feel and control the beasts they rode.

Shortly before her conversion to antrho she becomes the subject of a custody battle. The CEO of the software company which produced the VR game lodges a claim that as she violates copyright she is in fact their intellectual property. When she becomes a living breathing horse Michael argues for the defense that she is now a person and therefore no longer anyone’s property but her own. However a medical examination reveals that her motherboard and HDD are still present, attached to her spine halfway down her back. She has a normal brain in her skull that operates her body, but her mind and memories are still on a computer. The plaintiff then argues that she is not a person but an artificial semi-organic construct. I’ve yet to decide how the court case will finally be settled.

Inspiration:

The character was originally inspired by Dr Who’s K9, created by Bob Baker and David Martin. I first called her “GG”, which old English slang for racing pony (much like K9 is a play on “Canine,” the Latin for dog). Later I added the “1” when I learned of the superb General Electric locomotive designed by Raymond Lowey for the Pennsylvania Railroad.