At
any social gathering, you'll often find two types of people - the
confident ones who liven things up and capture attention, and the shy
ones who would rather have a quiet evening and avoid doing anything
that might make them look silly. Mike is one of the latter, though most
of the people he hangs around with are the former. This wouldn't be a
problem, but many of them are aware of Mike's very personal
fetish
for macros and paws, and capitalising on Mike's submissive nature, they
find it rather amusing to thrust the spaniel into such situations
head-first, whether he is willing or not. Quite literally, he sometimes
just allows people to walk all over him. Mike's life can therefore be
looked at in one of two ways - a story of repeatedly being bullied into
submission by his friends, or one big long sexual fantasy. The choice
is yours.
As
I am not a furry, I do not actually identify with any of my characters
as a 'fursona'. However, out of all my creations, Mike is perhaps the
closest realisation of my own personality within my artwork.
Mike actually predates Rocky as a design, taking the form of Cassie's
original partner in much of my yiffy work from about 2003. However,
even at this stage, Mike was shown to react to Cassie's advances in a
somewhat startled manner. It is this same slightly uncertain
personality which has more recently appeared in my paw fetish work. The
character himself is a very simply designed anthrospaniel; not
particularly muscular or heavily built, fairly unremarkable in form, in
some ways reflecting his 'everyman' persona. And with a name as
ordinary as "Mike", it is quite possible that many others are able to
easily identify with this downtrodden personality in the same way as I
have sometimes come to do.
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