Sicstories

The above OC was designed by a good friend when I came out as trans about a year and a half ago. It was a fem version of a male skunk OC I used before that. Aside from the anthro features, I am overjoyed to say that I look quite a bit like this representation now, and I couldn’t be happier. My heart swelled when I looked in the mirror and made the connection!

I believe that when we make OCs of any kind, we devote a level of self-authorship to the task. Even if said OC is intended to be entirely used for kink purposes and isn’t meant to represent you (A thought that used to occur to me before I realized I was trans and enjoyed self-kink), your sexuality is a component of your self and reflects at the very least an aspirational aesthetic sensibility. What we fantasize about and want to bring to reality is as real and telling as what our day jobs are.

I am firmly in the camp that making an idealized ‘sona’ of some sort is an exercise in therapy. It helps highlight what you like about yourself and what you’d like to change if you could. That doesn’t mean these insights are always healthy, but they could very well be real and meaningful and could help you learn more about yourself. Mine certainly do! My most popular OC, Sam is both someone I’d love to embody but also someone I’d love to find in life, someone who sees beauty in everything and is accepting of others while being true to themselves and their passions.