Who would have known I could have so much stuff? I swear I'd be so weighed down I couldn't move if I had it all on at once.

So... I made a ref sheet for updated!Tonk, but here are the stuff she has. Most are optional -- the gold earrings, collar, medallion, "x" on ear (that's new! It's actually from my swamp-wallaby design. YESIKNOWANOTHERFURSONA but one you guys never saw ;3) and new iPod shuffle are necessary :3

And here are the detailed notes about the items, their significance, their special bits and the situation in which I wear them :3


Earrings. I kind of consider these trademark; two in each ear, four altogether, all chunky gold that wrap snug around the ear's edge. I don't have giant holes -- they're of the hook-and-latch design showed (not exactly clearly) here. All representations of me are to drawn with these, unless you're actually sketching from a photo or from real life :3 I used to have ear piercings where these ones are (cartilage), but one got infected and closed, and we never found earrings like these. So I gave up and all my holes have healed over.

Collar. Relatively new addition and possibly the first time I've drawn my own fursona with a collar. Part of the hesitation to wear a collar was that Lemming wears a collar (dark blue with white spikes); my fursona's already similar enough to him. But I guess I'm safe with a crimson collar. This -- my primary fursona -- wears it at all times, but I don't wear it in any other form.
Collar (back). Simple note -- the part at the front to which the medallion's string attaches is gold, but the buckle, always at the back of the neck, is silver. There are five holes; it's always tightened to the middle hole. The strap sticks out slightly, but not nearly as much as Lemming's (because his collar is a million times too big).

Medallion. So not obsessed *shifty eyes* Okay, so this is representative of Fuyuki Shido, my favourite character from the anime GetBackers. He wears a gold medallion on a necklace in the anime. I imitated this for a while, but I didn't like it. I like the collar idea a lot more. The medallion is hung on a black leather strap that somehow attaches to that gold bit on the collar. There are two things about this string and the medallion: the first is that it can get longer (not ridiculously so, it's just not a set length) but the string is always longer than the medallion's diameter (like this picture doesn't demonstrate), and the second is that it should look like it's halfway through a violent swing -- it only lies against my chest when I'm unhappy, at all other times it should be floating weirdly, with the string gently curving behind it. If my fursona is sitting still and has a reasonably sane look on her face it can be acting like a normal medallion. It's a big flat golden disk, by the way; you almost never see it straight-on but it's round.

Fepo. Let me introduce you to Fepo! I don't even actually own this baby yet xD We ordered a red iPod Shuffle (which you should do, too, by the way; part of what you pay for red products goes to charity) and had "For Educational Purposes Only" engraved on the back (yes, I picked, and stfu, I like it). So it's Fepo. Essentially it's a metallic pink-red. Now, it's kind of weird... The lead (which is white) should be wrapping loosely around my fursona's body, not quite touching, and Fepo is never ever clipped to anything (as a human, Fepo'll either dangle or sit in my pocket). The lead is much longer than the actual iPod Shuffle's lead. If Tonkitty doesn't have the buds (earphones) in her ears, they'll be slung around her neck. If they're in her ears, the lead fuses in front of her; if they're around her neck, it fuses behind her head.
Fepo (back). As you can see, "For Educational Purposes Only" is engraved on the back. Note the capitals. It's usually impossible to see the writing as it's really tiny (have you seen these Shuffles? You could swallow them by accident!); you're more likely to see the big Apple symbol on here. The Apple website has pictures of iPods, be sure to check it out.
Fepo (earpiece). They're white with silver mesh and they have a tiny grey "L" for left or "R" for right on them. This kind drive me bloody insane but they look cooler than my giant black earmuff-style ones xD

Optional

Ring. To represent Keahi, an enigmatic ring he inherited from his mother. He figured that since she was an Arcanine the little symbol was a flame, but actually his mother had it made for him and the symbol is supposed to represent both a flame and a broken eggshell, in reference to his name, Hawaiian for "little flame". He was going to get it for his coming-of-age birthday but his mother was assassinated almost a year before then. Tonkitty wears it on the equivalent of a middle finger, on her right paw. It's quite visible. She wears it when she's feeling energetic or passionate, "full of fire" xD

Charm bracelet. To represent Tempest. There used to be other charms on it, but she tore them off. When she was a little girl, she collected charms. One of them was a little house. At the time it had no meaning, but she came to regard it as representative of her own home and family. When she left her home to chase dreams of becoming a surfing champion, she took the bracelet. She returned hurriedly when she received a tip-off that someone was looking for her family, and found the house in ruins and only one of her younger twin sisters still there. She threw away all the childish charms to strip herself of delusions and kept the house to remind her of what was taken away from her. Oo, tragic! Like Tempest (who wears it as an anklet), Tonkitty wears it on her left hindpaw. She kind of wears it in a down mood when she needs stuff to fortify her secure world.

Dogtags. To represent Dolly Liu, aka Salt. They have no special meaning, or so it seems. There are a few things to be said for them: they refer blatantly to the military, which she technically transferred out of before she even bought them. Also, they are the only tomfoolery Dolly allows; she doesn't wears anything else unnecessary or unmilitary. Finally there's the joke in them -- Na being sodium and Cl being chloride, the two atoms that compose salt; they also separate her dual specialities in poisons (chloride is noxious) and explosives (sodium explodes on contact with water). The dogtags are, whether she'll admit it or not, to remind her that she's done everything she wanted to do, and to remind her also that she's free. Tonkitty wears the dogtags on her tail or wrapped around her right foreleg. She wears them in a defiant mood.

Bumblebee charm. The only thing I actually have xD This is to represent Luis, as she can turn into a bumblebee. The skill says a lot about her nature -- determined and very, very naïve xD The jewel in the middle represents to me the things she loves: it has a certain chill in it to symbolise her adoptive father Ice, yet it reflects red-gold as a symbol of Ice's twin brother Fire, and there's always a green side, enigmatically portraying Luis's connection to her parents' other brother, who died before she was born. It's a dusty gold colour, except for the multi-coloured jewel (which is actually like glue or mirrored plastic or something cheap but eh). Tonkitty wears it on her tail or around her neck. I've been wearing this a lot lately, and it has a couple of purposes: to uplift (flying insect), to cynically comment on knowledge (bumblebees should be phyisically incapable of flying but they don't know that so they fly anyway), and as a tribute to Ice, who died recently. (I cried. A lot.)

Crucifix. To represent Paige, a rather disturbed character I have. She was an orphan for as long as she could remember, and the only time she had a home was when a Protestant orphanage took her in. On an excursion she got spooked and went looking for the orphanage's local Church of England, the only place she felt safe, and she got lost, falling off the radar into homelessness again. She's a frail and clingy adult who has a surprising tough streak that seems made corporeal in her untalkative and aggressive thylacine dæmon Donegan. Tonkitty wears it wrapped around her right front paw or on her tail. She wears it when she's afraid or lonely.

Stud. A small diamond stud to represent Jay. The earring no doubt has no significance to him, but he thinks it makes him look cool. I actually messed up on this, it's in his left ear and also it's down the bottom -- so imagine it on Tonkitty's left ear and just below the bottom gold earring. xD; She wears it when she's flirty or playful.

Arm warmer. To represent Donar, a shepherd who wound up as a sheep himself (now you don't see that every day). The image of a black sheep with a red bead as an eye appears on a home-knitted sweater he frequently wears under his jacket. His younger sister Bethanie made it for him. He loves his family quite a lot but has never mustered the courage to return to them knowing that he ran away from them once. From a young age he had responsibility thrust upon him and in an uncharacteristic move it totally abandonned him for a while. Shortly after his unwilling induction into the ranks of anthro Pokémon (which shouldn't be so resented, seeing as he'd be inducted into the ranks of lightning victims had nothing been done for him), he escaped from his mother and his eight siblings and the constant workload for the eldest son on a farm without a father. What the sheep itself means to him is a mystery -- I doubt he's ever thought about it -- but it's certain that he wears it in dedication to Bethanie and the rest. Tonkitty wears it on either foreleg, whenever she needs a reminder of the burden of responsibility that she is being asked to shoulder in her turbulent teens :3

Acorn. This is so archaic I can't even think where to begin xD My very first roleplay character (well, before that I had constantly changing meaningless characters), in his very first story, much in the style of some shounen adventure, left his home at a summons to higher things, and the one thing he took with him was an acorn from his front yard (God only knows why). For a little while the acorn was noted with him, and he used it to bolster himself -- and, indeed, it seemed at points to have magical powers -- but then it faded out of memory. He's got plenty of other trinkets and representative odds and ends -- the old daggers he also had as a fledgling character, his Siamese bat Queenie, the Bookwyrm (or, as he was very stupidly called by me once, the Bykeworm; ah, good times), his badger-dæmon Mew (teehee), his Scanner, his Blood Gem... But, hell, I decided to search my memory and find something absolutely obscure. The acorn threaded on a string; Tonkitty will either hang the acorn from her tail or tie it onto Fepo's lead. This one's to remind me how effing dumb I was when I was younger and hopefully how much less dumb I am now xD

Scarf. OH DEAR LORD I AM A FANGIRL. This scarf is worn around the neck over the collar (or on the forehead just under my hair in human form). It's what Shido's headscarf thing looks like in the manga. Originally he was designed as a teenage delinquint, which stuck for the anime, but in the manga he got changed to a more Native Indian style... at the end of volume 3, I think, or maybe 4.
Scarf (end). These designs are consistent, by the way! Three lines, three circles, three... um... they really, really look a lot like sperm o_O IT'S PALE GREEN BY THE WAY, THE ONLY GREEN TONKITTY EVER WEARS. She wears it when she wants to be suave 8) or when she's just chilly xD
Scarf (middle). Shido's actual scarf is more complex than this but I simplified the design to the part that's usually visible (he has a lot of hair hanging over the rest). It looks kinda like a musical note, which is ironic considering his relationship with Madoka.

Necklaces. Always great to group these. AR ERGH DEATH... these are also from manga!Shido. (He's cool in the manga. Does a lot of staring and swearing.) The topmost is a carved bone bead on cord; the second is a chain link on a much finer chain; and the bottom is beads, the colours of which are invented by me. The fat beads are orange-red, the skinny ones are blue, the one the feather hangs from is purple and the feather itself is black with white down. The necklaces are a group and must all be worn together, in this order. They're either hanging from Tonkitty's tail or on Fepo's lead right next to Fepo himself. She wears these in conjunction with the scarf to emphasise it, or not; she likes the feather as a reference to all feather-related characters (Maggie, for example, and whatever-her-name-was -- ooh, you can tell she was a main character xD) and to birds in general (I like birds <3).

Bandages. Who can they possibly be for? They're actually for Blacky, who is (possibly?) my best-known character (I talk about him a lot). He doesn't actually wears bandages and blood-stained ones are sorta emo (not that he's not emo ;3). As you can see, it's the right hind, and if you do know Blacky you'll know that's the leg he limps with :3 Rules about this are that the bloodstains are optional for the part around the foot and the bit that trails but there's always a little blood on the thigh part. Also, the foot and thigh parts are obviously separated, and there's a dangling end there too. She wears these in emoing-out pictures o: They literally represent how much deeper mental scars are than physical ones (so lucky I don't have any xP).


Some of this will make more sense when I put up the pencil ref, which has a lot less to do with optional trinkets and a lot more to do with mandatory ones ;3

...Wowie it's late x_x