Reintroducing Fru Fru (sketch) (Patreon)

Fru Fru has been a character of mine for over 2 years now, but I haven't done much with them given that they are meant to represent negativity and anger; emotions that I have frequently, but have always struggled to channel into my artwork.

Fru Fru himself (He/Him/His) was originally designed to be a sleazy prostitute. And I owed a lot of that early design to a former patron. This patron would then go on to doxx me.

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So I'm reworking the character from scratch. Making them into something better than they were before.

The Real

For this version of the character, I've envisioned them as being an artist. A furry artist much like myself. And hence a major "meta" to them now is that more than just anger, they now represent the anger, resentment, and unbridled rage so many of us artists feel when doing what we do.

The patron who doxxed me? He stabbed me in the back and then lied about it for two years, all for someone he'd never met. But its easy to do that kind of thing to someone when you don't see you as an actual person. -I was never real to them, just a dispenser of pornography. And so when the time came to hurt me, they didn't give it a second thought. Situations like that are what give Fru Fru their darker subtext.

Fru Fru is aspirational. As a poodle, he was already cut from a different cloth, but years of negativity have hardened the otherwise soft-and-loving poof into into a more more street-hardened thug. Hence the contrast hard and soft elements in their design; the heart on his belt, vs the sinew of his arms; the floof of his hairdo vs the angular nature of his face. 

And obviously they're queer, though a totally different beast from the conceptual LGBT+ of today. The word 'FAG' captioned on his half shirt are an open admittance to his sexuality, but also a visual attack on anyone that would be offended. Once again, hard and soft come together; 'fag' denotes effeminate degeneracy, while he him himself carries the attitude of a toxic homophobe; not so much of a contradiction, as it is a rejection of the various sociopolitical attitudes inherent to the modern LGBT+ movement.

Yes, he's gay but he's not your ally. Yes he's gay, but he doesn't care about politics, feminism, anti-fascism, or trans rights. Yes he's gay, but you could call him nigger faggot tranny and he wouldn't be insulted because he already self identifies as such.

The Kink

Yesterday I posted similar looking sketch where I gave Vince and Vouge clothes, and this was intentional because for a long time I've wanted Fru Fru to be another character in Vogue's story.

Pulling from elements of Lovecrafts "Color from Outer Space", Star Trek TNG's "Skin of Evil", and Venom from the Spiderman Franchise, Fru Fru accidentally came into contact with primeval inkwell that by fell to earth. It was created by a now unknown race of being at the beginning of time who sought to purge themselves of all darkness and hatred so that they might 'ascend'. This race then cast the ink well into the deepest voids of space, never expecting that billions of years later it would land on a planet where sentient lifeforms had evolved. 

Seeking the greatest source of negativity it could find a the time, the inkwell merged itself with Fru Fru's body, transforming the artist into the anthropomorphic embodiment of the inkwell itself, right down to the subatomic level. As a result, Fru Fru's body is now flush with inkwell's black cosmic ink, as well as displaying certain liminal attributes such as hyper-elasticity, vore, and absorption. 

But of course, the angrier Fru Fru becomes the more the ink builds up in his body, resulting in busty boy transformations as seen above. -The joke being that as a furry artist, he's always angry.

The only hope Fru Fru has to get rid he inkwell (allegedly) is to somehow purge it from his body much in the same way that ancient race did. But this would require him first being able to let go of his anger and find peace -things that are likely never to happen. Perhaps a certain big-bootied space alpaca can show him the way, but until then Fru Fru will remain as this ink filled rage-golem.

Closing Facts

You can't hear what I draw, but I want to make a point of stating that out of all of my characters, Fru Fru has the deepest voice. (I think Leopold may have the highest?), but bar none Fru Fru's voice is deep and bassy. Deeper than what anyone should ever expect from a poodle.

Fru Fru is extremely nice to service and retail workers, but looks down on those who go into the armed services. Because quote, "Solders are soft, because they can shoot back at their enemies." He's also very belligerent towards older veterans, seeing no reason to respect quote, "Some fat diabetic asshole wearing a cap from the army surplus store." As he holds onto a belief that older veterans (aka Vietnam war boomers) are entitled man-children.

Fru Fru smiled once, when he was beating up a street preacher. And he got an erection that one time a church in his city burned down.

Fru Fru likes punk and aggressive music, but he doesn't really care for rock, metal, or grunge all that much. Punk-rap, electropunk, noise, and industrial are more suited to his tastes. And when asked about country, he say that he'd commit suicide if he was ever forced to listen to it.

He likes french fries.

He's been known to call his asshole, his 'bussy'. 

His theme-song is Black Paint by Deathgrips.