I thought it'd be fun to talk a bit about each lil guy I have cuz I don't really discuss this sort of thing in their bios!

✨Kelda Kelda is essential to me, being the first sona I came up with when joining the furry fandom in 2019. I remember having giddiness when I realized (at the age of 19) "I could be ANY animal I want??" and thinking my favorite choice would be a red sea serpent (fave color + animal). I was drawing Sea Beasts a lot around this time, so naturally Kelda became one. He's everything gendery/feelingy about me, and has always been a sort of "thing I want to let myself be" type of sona. I'm very stubborn on not letting him become a mascot or anything for me or my work, leaving that more to Coney and a few other ocs / my sea beast website logo. Kelda is extremely important to me but also just fun for me to make art of and build lore for. He me for real!

🎪Corteo My fucking purple!! Corteo was originally just a human/bug hybrid in my partner Patrick's ( bugscuffle ) headworld, but me being a furry I designed him a sona, eventually making him my sona. He's everything excited and free-spirited I want to be and feel, a big autism/special interest cope. He's also just a ton of fun to draw T_T I've loved Cirque du Soleil for years and years, the music especially really helped align my interests and I genuinely wouldn't be myself today if I didn't ever hear those songs. Corteo represents coming to terms with my younger self and still allowing myself to enjoy what I've loved for so long.

🪐Star Lightning This thing does so much for me holy shit. The TLDR of it is that it carries a lot of gender weight for me, namely werewolves (twilight princess inspo in particular) / outer space / 2001 / thunder & lightning. Now into the nitty gritty! Star Lightning is like my ultimate gender creature - everything I feel and don't talk much about. I consider myself nonbinary masc, but not really in the "he's not like other boys" way, more like a "that legendary pokemon is serving transmasc" way. He was also my first sona to use he/it pronouns, which is what I go by as well :^] I was big into Zelda growing up before I realized I was trans, and I loved Wolf Link. I stopped playing Twilight Princess for years because I think I just didn't know what to do next LOL but I have my own Wii now and will play it now and again, and I'm realizing how much the game/story/characters mean to me, especially the wolves (typical). Star Lightning's design was partially inspired by Wolf Link's, namely the head shape/bared teeth and the more animalistic features instead of a more cartoony "person-looking" furry. Another big chunk of Star Lightning originally came just from my adoration of astronomy, originally carried in the more peppy Rocketeer, but over time I found that my feelings about space/astronomy are a lot more sensitive than my other interests that I'm happy to be silly about. Star Lightning is one of my more serious sonas (though I do have fun with him sometimes). I also sparked an interest with 2001: A Space Odyssey out of fucking nowhere (I watched it when I was 10 and hated it) and it's become a film that is extremely comforting to me. If anyone ever wants to watch it I 1000% would recommend reading the sparknotes on the book it's based on FIRST and then watching the film, I promise you won't lose anything and only gain from it. It's famous for being "the best movie ever" and also "the worst movie ever" because it's very long and not much happens (hence why 10 y/o me thought it was awful) but growing up around movies / learning about special effects & just enriching my general love of space and finding my gender...... safe to say I feel very different about it now & I crammed all that into Star Lightning. Its monolith mega form (yet to be designed) & monolith markings on his hands are allusions to it. Also for the record if anyone needs to know - I'm a monolith enjoyer and not a HAL enjoyer when it comes to this story U__U Vibe me out with a giant mysterious slab & send me careening into my gender.

❤️‍🔥Smothered Another neurodivergence cope wooo!!! My favorite musician is Oberhofer, & Smothered stemmed from how I feel about his music. Smothered is the name of his most recent album, which I got to see release after like 7 years of no new albums, so fun!!!! I liked Oberhofer a lot in my senior year of high school, making Chrone based off the album Chronovision & how the music kinda felt in my ears, but I got really nihilistic just after graduating. I was less passionate about my work and life in general, pushing a lot of things away from me, including all his music because at that time it felt like "music for angsty teenagers". Later on with quarantine boredom I found that I actually really enjoyed the songs / lyrics / feelings / sound of it all, and I could see past the "angsty" assumption I grew about it, finding that it's not pretentious music but it's raw and straight from the heart instead. I really enjoy listening to it. Brad Oberhofer (frontrunner) does his independant rock with band mates but he also just does stuff on his own with piano, this mini album specifically really sticking to me at a sensitive point I hit recently. Meditating on it for hours left me feeling like a little seed struggling to root in the dead foliage of my old self, and the piano just felt like droplets of water. It's a very comforting album for me. That's why Smothered has all those rainy cloud motifs on him, as well as the flaming heart tail for how the more energetic music gets me going >:'^} He's basically just a husky that is how I am when I'm really into my tunes. Now that I live on my own I sing a LOT, which is something I very much project into Smothered. Plus, (bare with me) Lungs is based off my character Brad from my comic Sun Sprain, who is based off Brad Oberhofer, so getting to draw Smothered and Lungs hanging out is a very fun thing for me U_U Another fun little note on Smothered / this interest of mine in general is that I got to meet Brad at his concerts in Seattle & Tacoma (I went to both 2 nights in a row) and we had a very nice little conversation about art & feelings!!!!! A night I will treasure for good tunes and kind inspiring words. And here's the proof in the pudding.

⚜️Kedmond Kedmond helps me with my masculinity in general. I made him very quickly and impulsively and I love him! I unfortunately had some icky circumstances leaving me extremely ashamed of being masc to the point where I wasn't taking my HRT on time and it got really bad. Thankfully therapy & my friends helped me back on track and I now have a little "gender ritual" I do weekly. Kedmond helps me give some beauty and dignity to being masc, which I very much need. He carries a few things I'm insecure about like having a larger body & being a a little physically vulnerable (namely around the chest & the large mark on the back of his thigh) and makes them easier for me to swallow. Since making him I've felt okay about not being completely thin & having a more squared-off face / etc. Testosterone hit me like a bullet train and after 7+ years on it I have definitely physically changed a lot. Kedmond makes me feel a little more handsome (but still gentle) in my skin.

🛍️Kell This was originally an insert for a headworld/story concept Patrick was working on for a while. It involved a fictional furnishing store called Orco / Orca's Cove that had been abandoned in a dead mall, and under some shpooky asbestosy circumstances it became dilapidated incredibly fast, causing the architecture to ruin and anyone who wandered inside to be turned into something else. My "Orcosona" was me as a former Orco employee turned into a monster. That's also why his name is just my name lol! He later branched out into becoming a sona to encapsulate my interest in dead malls / "new gothic" / entropy of consumerism etc. Which is why I decided to call him an "entropy monster". I have a few other ones based on some other random things that I think about a lot! Pat & I joke a lot about the inherit appeal of decrepit superstores and old places we used to go to as kids and these guys are sort of the blooms of that fascination and slimy nostalgia.

⚾9-Spot I'd say 9-Spot is my sona that's the least like me - like Corteo, he was just the furry form of my bug oc 9-Spot, but after enjoying his character so much & his relationship to my other bugs / other bugs in the headworld, I just sort of took him in as a sona. It also helped that my friend Grape agreed to make a suit of him for me >:^] He's currently my favorite fursuit to wear casually, he's a fun personality to take on! When I first made 9-Spot he was an arrogant meanie who was getting out of some internalized transphobia, learning to enjoy himself as who and what he was. Later on I developed him to have struggles with neurodivergency, but now I find when I draw him / write for him he's very proud of the person he is despite it all. His sona form for me is mostly just for fun now. A little generic-furry-core treat.

🌼Cookie Cookie was originally going to be an adopt but I liked him too much :^} I click a lot with more old-fashioned clothing styles / decorating styles, at random little points between the 1800s to the 1960s. Cookie leans a lot closer to the 1800s. Just my little comfort Victorian dog thing!!!!!!! Cookie leans a lot into my nonbinary identity where a sona like Kedmond would lean more into my masculinity. Cookie gives me a lot of comfort for a more graceful side of myself I wish I could express a little more. Also "cookie" was one of my favorite words growing up, so having a sona with a cute name like that is a lot of fun T.T

🐉Owain My buddy PJ ( Sproutlette) and I did a sona design trade a bit ago, as we love one another's designs and know each other pretty well but are so picky with sonas!!! I made them Snaccharine and they made me Owain. After a lot of thinkin I finally landed on something for him that fits - it's an appraiser & collector pal! Sort of like how Cookie is my 1800's liker, Owain is my 1900s-60's liker. Along with his interests in collectables reflecting mine, he's also sort of a branch off Kelda, a more modernized sea monster who's inspired by his "it came from the ___" heritage. As much as I love Kelda and Cookie, I am very much a creature of the digital age U.U but I am still very in touch with the more old-fashioned things that make me happy. Owain is my main friend for that sort of thing!

🌴Coney For years now I've had some sort of tropical sona, and Coney is my current one :^] I originally made his design with the idea of making him into a fursuit myself, but eventually that idea sorta wore off. However, he stuck around and I love him!!! He's sort of a mixture of general tropicalcore furry & mysterious interesting ghostly guy who appears in and out of this realm and such. Very psychic pokemon that knows ghost type moves sort of thing. He's the leader of a little headworld I have that's horrifyingly underdeveloped HKGDFJ but hopefully in the future I will round it out a little more U.U

🕹️Buk Buk is my oldest sona on Toyhouse! I made him way back in like 2017 I thiiiink, and he's gone from being a truesona to a romantically repressed teencore guy to a warm-blooded gamer and I couldn't be happier for him. I like video game history / retro consoles / rumors a lot, and Buk is now sorta my embodiment of that! I created a little lore for him in his "haunted cartridge" tab, which although I haven't touched for a long time, I think about it a lot and I'm very fond of it. He's also part of PJ's Arcade Backlot headworld, and playing around with that is a lotta fun >:^} He's just sort of my all-around fun guy!

🏜️Keli I brought Keli back from the dead cuz I missed him T_T he's a little dude I made based off my love for desert levels & their music in games, specifically with his pelt & name inspired by Kalimari Desert in Mario Kart 64. He's mostly just for fun! In mid 2020 I really got into making sonas just for the heck of it, and Keli is definitely my favorite one in that bunch. Very dragony and silly, very Mario enemy flavored, very good. I can't wait to draw him more! I absolutely must!