Meet the RPI Furs!

Art and bios from a few of our members!

Capt. Preston Apollo
A protogen who's he/him/they/gay! Currently trying to specialize in semiconductor manufacturing, although I've had experience with embedded hardware programming as well as PWR systems. I've been a furry since high school, an artist well before that, and a gamer through and through. The trick is to know your limits, but to never stop trying.

Music Tastes: sci-fi VGOSTs, microceleb pop? (Jack Stauber, Tom Cardy), sh#%post metal (Joel Vargskelethor)
Video James I Like: Rimworld, Stellaris, Oxygen Not Included, Utopia Must Fall, FixFox
Books I've Loved: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dune, The Wandering Earth
Bluesky: @protogenapollo.bsky.social

Ro
I’m a roe deer, he/him, and gay. Currently majoring in Aerospace Engineering, trying to add a double major in music. I’m a longtime clarinetist (11 yrs), aspiring pilot, and I’ve been a furry since late high school

Music Tastes: Classical, jazz, techno, alt rock, indie rock
Video Games: MSFS2020, Forza Horizon, Minecraft

Dragoon
yo i am dragoon and i like cats waow. he/they and gay till proven otherwise. CS major doing the theory/algos pathway. been a furry for a while, prob since like late elementary school / early middle school. i like games and anime and just general nerd interests.

Music Tastes: metal, emo rock, jpop, folk, basically anything but country
Video Games: Resident Evil, Fortnite, DDR, Pokemon, Xenoblade Chronicles, Toontown
Books I like: Warrior Cats, Wings of Fire, and Junji Ito works
Twitter: @thefurrydragoon

Ultraviolet
My fursona is a primarily purple serval (probably with some black, white, and a bit of cyan). His name is tentatively “Ultraviolet” because I like UV radiation. Additionally, he has some fur markings that fluoresce under UV light (probably the cyan coloration). His tail is quite a bit larger than average (servals typically have relatively small tails). No visual representation of my fursona exists at the moment, but hue shifting a photo of a serval to make it purple gives a good starting point.

I’m dual majoring in electrical and computer & systems engineering. I’m a member of the Acacia fraternity, and I also volunteer at The Forge, where I print hundreds of furry stickers to distribute to fellow humans™️.

My favorite food is fried rice. Cooking is fun, but I’m not great at it yet, though I at least have the skills to not burn the house down.

My favorite Wii game is Super Mario Galaxy (space is very cool, especially black holes). I also like New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Wii Sports very much. My favorite game series is The Legend of Zelda. I also like Minecraft (and I prefer Java Edition because of its superior redstone mechanics and various other aspects). Some indie games I like include Webfishing, Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy, Inscryption, Dredge, and Slay the Princess.
In terms of music I mostly listen to videogame soundtracks.

I’m part boykisser and part girlkisser. The flag for that is purple in the middle. Mmm… purple…

P.S. I like cats.

Skye
An eastern coyote who thinks flamingos are the best thing since sliced bread. Been a furry ever since a friend called me a furry many moons ago. Working on my PhD in compyuper scienz. I also majored in Graphic Design/Advertising, I like computer graphics and visual design systems, and I really enjoy the flexibility of html/css for creating a user interface for basically whatever program I want (js is great, fight me).

Music tastes: A venn diagram excluding the intersection of post-2015 and popular.
Video Jaimes I like: SWTOR, Minecraft, Transformice, Squeakross, Snowrunner, Dirt Rally 2, Battlefield
Books I like: The Enchanted Library :duckypls: , The Goblin Emperor, Robin Hood (Howard Pyle)
Fursuit: Yes. It Skye, the blue yote.
Social Media: Ain't nobody got time for that.

Pebbles
An otter boy who dabbles in a variety of interests including electrical engineering, programming, sysadmin, cryptography, quantum information science, etc. I am a long time furry and nerd in general. Currently a doctoral candidate in physics.

Music tastes: bossa nova, vaporwave e.g. dreamcorp, Walter Wanderley
Video james I like: Factorio, Runescape, Minecraft, Melvor Idle, Age of Empires
Books I like: Baroque Cycle, Gödel Escher Bach, The Emperor's New Mind
Cons I go to: AC, NYFB, F², FWA
Fursuit: Razz, a blue saber tooth cat made by RumWolf
Text editor: vim!
E-Mail: pebbles@otter.cx
Bluesky: @pebbles.cx

Commissioned art by arboret

Original art by foxstory

Vixey Foxwish
I’m a North American red fox therian who happens to be transfeminine, and I use it/its pronouns.
=^ . ^= I’m working toward my second bachelor’s degree from RPI (in Computer Science) and also hold a Biomedical Engineering degree from RPI. I guess you could say the first degree was motivated by wanting to become my fursona and the latter degree in CS was directed by the job market. I have a peer-reviewed research publication (https://riojournal.com/article/134189/) on red foxes in a scientific journal, and my paper won the McKinney Writing Contest at RPI… I suppose my autistic fox obsession was harnessed toward a useful goal. Something of a greymuzzle and probably the oldest current active member in the RPI furry community.

I have been making and sharing original creative works in the furry fandom since 2010, with hundreds of visual works, scores of animations, more than 70 poems, and a completed young adult science fiction novel whose main characters become their fursonas, which I’m querying to literary agents. You can request a private free copy if you’d like to give it a read! I’m also a devoted collector, commissioner, and archivist of furry artworks. If you’re an RPI furry and want to check out the Vixey Furry Art Gallery (aka my living space), and we’ve talked before, hmu for a tour. Here’s where you can find my writing, artwork, and animations:

DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/foxstory
FurAffinity: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/foxstory/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@foxstoryUSA
Tumblr: https://foxstory.tumblr.com/
X: @foxstoryDA