Hi guys! My name's Kio (Kio Rou).
I'm new to this site and pretty much to furry in general, although I've liked/lurked/heard about it for quite a while online.
I like listening to music and studying/producing it (electronic mostly, I've just started out, though), and I am starting to learn how to draw (motivated by furry/creature/epic art, mostly but learning to sketch and basic stuff first - wish I found this sooner because I'm really enjoying learning) and I am also studying programming a little bit
I'm still not settled on my fursona because I don't want to accidentally be too much like someone else's original character and I can't really draw properly yet, but I know it will be somewhere along/between the lines of wolf and dog.
My name Kio comes from some older sort of aliases I've associated with, I don't mind it being pronounced Kee-Oh or Ky-Oh ^^ Rou means several things, oddly enough it seems to also refer to wolf in Japanese.
I am from the UK and I'm 18 (although I've always felt kind of ageless), I live with my parents and study from home (rarely go out, actually, lately) have never attended a furry convention (I'm kind of shy irl). I have altocelarophobia, aquaphobia and arachnophobia (the three As, besides anxiety/depression, batophobia/acrophobia/agoraphobia/uranophobia which sort of intermingles with the first) so that affects my life a bit.
What draws me to furry is mostly the art and the characters in it. I like animals/nature in general and also animal characters with anthropomorphic personality (i.e. talking, sometimes regarded as feral I heard) and/or appearance (I heard this is called anthro), also I've always find cartoon/funny animals very appealing, tbh I kind of see all of that under the "furry" scope.
My favorite species of animal (although, I find all interesting, really) are wolves, dogs, foxes and other canids, as well as big/wild cats such as tigers, lions, lynxes, etc.
I like fantasy(?) creatures such as dragons, pokemon/digimon/etc, griffin, kitsune, etc, you get the idea...
I suppose I'm also sort of otherkin/therian, except it's more along the lines of remembering past lives (distorted memories) and those are several, like one life I was an arctic wolf (that might sound cliche but I honestly did not know how popular wolves were, I see media often depicts them negatively) and I seem to only being canid(-ish), I'm not sure if I want to use a "theriotype" as a fursona, though. To add, my personality is apparently INFP
http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/infp/ I think I've always been like this, even across lifetimes.
Sometimes I'm serious, sometimes I'm playful and sometimes I delve into mystical things, also my mom (in this life) is a witch, not sure if they're wiccan, though but she doesn't know about the fact I'm otherkin/therian or furry. Also, I feel more feral and other times more "anthro" but I never feel entirely human.
Welp, I think that's pretty much it, although I kind of like to type so I probably could write enter libraries about me and what I have left of my past life memories (may be I should take up story-writing/RP? x3)
However, nice meeting you all and thanks for reading my introduction *wags his tail and offers a paw*
Btw, for all those celebrating, especially, happy Chinese new year!