This was a very long and tedious project back then.
My (at that point soon to be girlfriend now ex-wife) learned about me from a mutual friend, was nudged in my direction, we joked around and then she drew a momochrome fox for me, who was holding a Mango.
This fox became my fursona.
She did many more pieces of him, I bought some.pieces, then we changed his design after we broke up made him into a more demon looking being.
After she moved out of our shared flat I finally had the courage to get her cast out of my life entirely, grabbed the fox and archived him.

A few friends had to encourage me to finally go the step in the direction of my skunk, I tried out different artists until finally finding Tikaani, with whom I created Fussel from scratch over roughly a month.

It was a looooong time, and he is now already target of another planned change and will probably step back as my fursona, but I love my spotty lil guy to death! <3