Hi! I’m DarkOverord!
I’m an agender (∅ it/its, however they/them is okay) furry artist from the UK who has been a typo since November 2004. Initially I joined deviantART to post Sonic the Hedgehog fanart, but somewhere along the way I couldn’t spell what my edgy 15-year-old self wanted as a username and here we are. I decided to stick with it as it was “too much of a hassle” to register again, which has been highly advantageous apparently I’m one of the few people daft enough to make that typo. Somewhere along the way I stumbled forum to forum to eventually wind up on Fur Affinity, and still did Sonic art ha! Eventually I finally drifted over to furry art fully and have been actively doing so since 2013.
These days I normally go around as a vampire hedgehog, but between 2005 and 2016 I was mostly around as a red dragon below, which you may recognise more!
Okay DO, you said “normally”?
Right… Okay this is going to be a thing, if you’re not interested in Identity Talk you can just not open the below spoiler and carry on with the rest of the page. Otherwise you’re about to get gender, sexuality and other identity aspects of me.
I’m Agender, though sometimes I also file some things under Neutrois and while they overlap the two aren’t identical, it does suit me sometimes with how I present at least online. I do like to use ∅ to represent my gender (as in, null), and while I did ramble about it back in October 2022 since then I’ve detached further from “he/him” to the point where it’s extremely uncomfortable to be used in reference to me, I don’t want to be male as I was assigned at birth, and I’ve slightly detached from “they/them” too but I’ll always keep that as relevant to me because I want to keep it normalised. I feel completely detached to not just the gender binary but also non-binary, “it/its” is right for me and my lack of gender, I’m technically non-binary but I also don’t feel attached to that as an identity either. I’m also obviously technically transgender as well, like even if I personally don’t use that label for myself I ain’t cis, duh. Under an ideal universe I’d actually be neither male or female IRL too, but that leads in to a later part of my identity…
I’m gosh darn gay and pretty ace! But not completely asexual, sometimes I am in the mood to do more in that regard, or find others sexually attractive, but not in a way that could really be explained by demisexual (though I do have overlap). Regarding my sexual/romantic attraction it is admittedly a little awkward admittedly to go “I’m gay, here’s the MAN flag” immediately going “I’m not gender at all” but my preference is in masculine individuals, and I admit that does come across in my art. But like all things queer that’s not a 100% thing, my partner is trans and does not identify as masculine, I have other friends I’m in to who aren’t either.
This is possibly the most complicated part of me is the fact that I came to realise that my identity never really revolved around being human. I always felt a little odd and every time others complimented my fursona features that I would blush and such from it as if they were my actual features. Eventually enough therian friends were like “you can use θΔ we give you permission if you need it for some reason?” that I settled on it, that’s why my profiles on sites will say θΔ, and this is what I alluded to earlier, my ideal me would be neither male or female, likely null and and one of of my fursonas.
AND THIS IS WHERE IT GETS COMPLICATED
I identify as all of these and more, hell did you know of these 8 images 6 are called “DarkOverord”? I mostly these days identify as the red vampire hedgehog, it resonates with me is the most.
But being a dragon with huge wings is me. Being an hollow inflatable toy is me. Being some gooey pokémon is me. Being some rubber dragon is me. Being a robot dragon is me. And being a tanuki is also me. So honestly it’s just gonna be easier for you just to go “yup, that’s DarkOverord” and watch as you compliment any of my fursona features I just squirm and blush happily.
But you know what none of this is? Human. It’s not my identity, I only wish to be The Creature.
Seen as I am talking about identity and pride. This is still an aspect of my identity, while I don’t exactly run around in rubber “on main” as it were, it’s still something that is a part of me. I enjoy rubber and gear, and that is an inseparable part of me, as if that wasn’t obvious from a decent chunk of my art which very shiny.
That all said, over the years I’ve amassed a lot of various characters, be they Sonic OCs or other fluff/scale/squeakballs, so there’ll be plenty of that in the art section. There’s also some weird stuff there I guess! One day I’ll make that page public!
Other than being a huge furry, I threw myself in to UK Higher Education to do a physics degree and I enjoy video games. They’re mostly single player though! Typically platformers like Sonic and Mario are where I’m at, though Pokémon has managed to stick around for a while. I also enjoy games like Stardew Valley, Fantasy Life and WoW I guess!
While in university, between June 2010 and August 2012, I ran the Manchester Furs (MancFurs for short) meets that ran once a month in the city, we used to call them mini meets but they haven’t been “mini” since like, 2009. While an incredibly stressful activity (do you know how much furries will try to bring their own drinks in to a bar? Or just try to charge full scale laptops off bar electricity????) it was honestly rewarding to help enable the community to get together and socialise. It was also a way of giving back to the community as when I first started attending the meets in 2007, I don’t think if some furs didn’t actively try to drag me around, I wouldn’t have stuck around. It also ended up with me attending Confuzzled in 2009, 2010, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024!
Speaking of conventions, while I’m not so active in the Sonic community anymore, I attended Summer of Sonic in 2011 and 2016 as well as STC Con in 2014!
So now you know about me! Woo!