Character: tragia
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Tragia (originally named Antidev)[1] was the first fursona of the artist Anti_Dev, created in oct/2008. He was replaced by Crew in jan/2014. He is also the protagonist[2] of the series The Secret Lives of Flowers.
He is an anthropomorphic weasel (an original species called "great horned weasel") who is small and slender, with a red and beige body. He wears a green cap with a pin of Anti Dev's icon, with his horns poking through the hat. He has an ear piercing and a goatee. His age is "canonically unknown, but he’s in his early 20s"[3] (although his earlier model description, seen below, gave it as 24.)[2]
2014 Model Sheet description
Name: Tragia
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Height: 4' 3"
Weight: 105 lbs.
Species: Great Horned Weasel
Tragia is the protagonist of my (currently dead) comic The Secret Lives of Flowers. He's a porn shop clerk living in post-apocalyptic America. He lives in a trailer with his two pets: a white ferret named Bagel and an alligator named Rex. He has a thick Southern drawl and likes to tinker with machinery, such as his outboard fishing boat which he converted into a jet.
He is an orphan and never knew his parents. His best friend is a bartender called Skids, whose family is very fond of Trag. Both the porn shop where Trag works and Skids' bar are owned by the same person: a human named Cray. Tragia thinks Cray is "sketchy" and has reason to believe he's involved in some shady business.
Tragia has green blood, which is a result of having hemocyanins instead of hemoglobin. Basically, his blood contains an abundance of copper rather than iron. He has to take copper supplements to remain healthy, but other than that it doesn't affect him much.
Trag is outgoing and friendly. He wears his heart on his sleeve, unlike Skids, and has a fondness for hyperbole. He's gay and likes to flirt, even with straight guys (ESPECIALLY with straight guys). His lack of manners and tendency to swear frequently are a turnoff to some. His hygiene has also been called into question a few times.
He is never, ever seen without his hat. Ever.
Tragia lives in an artificial swamp biome on top of a skyscraper with a non-anthro ferret named Bagel. He works at Late Show Video which is run by a sketchy human named Cray. He's really good with machines and built a fishing boat that turns into a jet.[4]
In the comic Naked Hot Tub Party he is seen wearing braces.
Trivia:
- In 2010, Anti Dev sketched a "weird goat fursona" that he almost used instead of Tragia.[5]
- His eyes are hazel.[6]
- Anti Dev said he imagines Tragia's voice to be like Rusty from Squidbillies (Daniel McDevitt). "Rusty’s voice is essentially how I imagine Trag would sound, right down to the accent."[7]
- He used to be an environmental activist when he dated Beck, and is a world-class pool shark.[8]
- Got kicked out of college for running a campus gambling ring.[9]
- He can't take off his hat,[10] or else he "turns into a fucking monster".[11]
- For this reason, his hat is sewn into his scalp.[12]
- Has named every single opossum in his swamp. He tends to favor names based on foods. Dr. Potato is his favorite.[13]
- Has a foot fetish, which Skids exploits for free massages.[14]
- Became a vegetarian for love. He eats meat again now but most of the recipes he knows are still vegetarian.[15]
- Sleeps in a hammock and usually falls out of it at least once a night, often without waking up.[16]
- Has never gotten sick in his life.[17]
- This stems from a superpower he possesses: "Tragia has a healing factor and is immune to all diseases".[18]
- He is not wooed by dining out. "Wining and dining him doesn’t work. He’s be more impressed if you could cook him something yourself."[19]
- Anti Dev has stated Tragia is his second sluttiest character, below only Gunnar. Chet "also ranks pretty high up there".[20]
- Anti Dev has said that, out of his characters, Gunnar and Tragia could probably be "gooners",[21] which he defined as "Basically just somebody who masturbates for extremely long periods of time until they experience a kind of high from it."[22]