The Bright and Massive Team Hatoful Question Box

[davidn]

In what might turn out to be the culmination of this insane chapter of my life, we - as the largely accidentally-formed Team Hatoful - got together for a webcam session and answered questions from the people who have so enjoyed our specific voiceover of an assortment of pigeons and the versions of the characters that we've projected on to them. This two-hour special includes an explanation of how the group came to be, details of the recording process, opinions on characters, a really nicely crafted table, impressions of each other, a giant Yoshi, plot speculation, future plans, and me running away twice. ...and My Little Pony.

Part One

Part Two
For me, the most surprising moment happened quite early on, when it was suddenly revealed that I had been listening to ravenworks' voice years before I met him, as part of Misteroo's legendarily berserk Arfenhouse series. You can plainly see my brain melting from about here onwards.

I first found those because Misteroo was in the ZZT community at the same time I was (what else could cause the kind of mental decay necessary to produce something like that?), and with the combination of that and discovering kjorteo's link to xaq who were both on a furry-related forum I used to visit but somehow never directly talked to either of them... budgiebin is the only one not to have had a shocking revelation that went back to the very first place I established myself on the Internet! What's that going to be, once we eventually discover it?

Comments

[davidn]

It's "zed", and it will be "zed" until I'm dead.

It was definitely a launchpad for me as well, in ways that I couldn't even begin to fathom at the time... it's certainly ultimately responsible for me being in those videos above. I, too, discovered furries through it thanks to the images that Kracken and Nadir used to put on their livejournal, and it led me through the uncomfortable process of realizing that I was one of them.

There's nothing else quite like it (apart from perhaps a lunatic asylum on fire) - it's very difficult to imagine what my Internet existence (and, therefore, admittedly, life) would have been like if I had discovered the Internet and ZZT at separate times rather than simultaneously.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, it feels a little strange being a non-fur in this group sometimes. While I won't deny enjoying some amount of the community's artwork (hey, if the proportions are right and the art quality's decent...), I've just never been able to identify myself as "furry." It's like one of those survey questions you ponder over for a moment before finally just checking "no" and moving on.

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

For me, furry's a fun hobby and creative outlet. Furry's different things for different people, and you don't have to subscribe to anything to really *be* furry. The only requirement I can think of is having an anthro avatar, but I know people active in the community who don't even have that, so there are exceptions to everything.

[davidn]

Yes, I didn't have one until about 2008 even though I'd been in the community for years by then - somehow I just hadn't been able to think up a good representation of myself. Even though I would have considered myself 'furry' then, it definitely made me feel invisible, like I couldn't participate and interact in the same way that the rest of the community could.

I absolutely hit the jackpot with the first commission I ever got from anyone, though - I absolutely loved it and have continued to use it as my main avatar for many years since!

[davidn]

Each of us has things in common with the team, and also properties that make us entirely unique among them! We're pretty diverse in our backgrounds and approaches, which I think contributes to our charm a lot. Although the method by which someone chooses to present themselves on the otherwise faceless Internet is one of the most immediately visible things...