So, would you?
- Hell yeah, there’s no downsides!
- I would if it’s what it takes to be my preferred gender.
- Maybe, I’m kinda torn…
- No! I don’t want to be my fursona for real…
Some clarification:
- You would be the only one turned into an anthro, everyone else is still human.
- If you have multiple fursona, you’d have to choose one.
- The gender of the fursona you chose to turn to would match your preferred gender.
- You wouldn’t receive the superpowers of your fursona if they had one. You wouldn’t become extremely large, have superpowers (especially not omnipotence or shapeshifting), or anything else other than an ordinary anthro.
My response:
Personally, I’m kinda torn. Becoming both my fursona and my gender at the same time would be a dream come true. Being my fursona isn’t just a downside, it’s what I wanted.
But, in this scenario, I’d be the only anthro raccoon-- or anthro at all-- in the sea of humans. Thinking about it, if humans already discriminate against others just because of sexuality and gender (think of queerphobia and transphobia), imagine how they’d react to a completely different species, one that looks like an animal.
It’d be cool to be my girl fursona, but very hard with how humans behave to anything different from them (also, funnily enough, I imagine myself as my fursona commenting on humans when I wrote that sentence).
Gosh, can you imagine how baffled everyone else would be? The other ramifications as well… Furries around the world would be hounding (heh, pun) you to demand you change them as well, or tell them how you changed, and your only answer would be “ehh??” You’d be the focus of all the late night talk shows, probably get way more than just fifteen minutes of fame. If played right, you could be a celebrity within the year.
Clothing would be a whole issue. Your entire wardrobe would (likely) become immediately useless. Shoes and socks aren’t gonna work for most anthro feet, and not many pants, skirts, or dresses have tail holes. Most people would have to learn a whole new skillset of seamster/seamstress(/seamstex?) to re-make your wardrobe.
And the big game hunters – if man is the most dangerous game, what does that mean for a former-human-now-elevated? How long until one of them tries to get a new trophy to mount on their wall? Where do the laws fall on that? Would it be murder or animal cruelty?
There’s a whole ethical debate to follow on health care; would you go to a doctor, or a veterinarian? How would your diet change? Lost pf people have Pokésonas and Pokémon naturally subsist on mainly berries that don’t exactly exist in our boring world. Most real-world animal diets are pretty-well understood, though, so I suppose you could work something out.
Can’t forget the scientists, who would love so very much to have a peek at your anatomy and figure out what and why and how and end up blaming it on quarks or something before locking you in a government facility for forever.
You’d be either a superstar or shunned, renowned or rejected, noteworthy or non grata… it would really be up to the people around you. And they’d be stinky humans, so probably you’d end up a pariah.
But anyway yeah I would definitely do it in a heartbeat