In the 90s, when I was underage and looking at furry stuff, I used the character Ox from Breath of Fire as a fursona. It was common for people to go as TrunksX or Vegeta999 or some other anime character. I was also going as a dragon called Dark Holy, which was a shapeshifting mana beast/black dragon. Then I came up with “Mutable Beast,” which was a werelion in the 2000s. In the early 2010s, I used the Hypnobeast lion fursona to promote my hypnotherapy business. In the last few years, I’ve returned to Dragon with my old gamertag, Stellario.
Was a dragon as a youth, back high school or such, didn’t really stick with the fandom strongly during college.
Then college in 08 picked up being a tiger/wolf chimera. Been running with that one ever since.