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We are the warriors that built this town

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I have gotten a lot of love and interest in this pic! I really hope that :iconantaresiceslayer: gets every bit of it as well. She did the hard part drawing this pic.

25 years ago we came to furry fandom. Aside from a few models who put on the gloves to appear exotic and dangerous we didn’t see any fighters, but what we did see was a lot of potential. So we set up our ring… probably the first ring in furry fandom that wasn’t just a prop… and we invited anyone willing to give the sweet science a chance into the ring. We had a lot of people give it a go! All of them memorable people even if it didn’t stick to them. They had fun and we had fun! Those were good times! 

Over the years we made a lot of friends… and a lot of enemies. We were loved and celebrated as well as hated and resented. We inspired people to be more like us and we were just cheaply copied by others. We were befriended and we were betrayed. SO many times people wrapped their arms around us to give us a hug and so many times it was only to put a knife in our backs.

We were the trend setters. The path finders. We were the first to set foot in the ring and bleed for everyone’s entertainment. We take pride in that. Our blood is soaked into every ring in the furry fandom. Our sweat. Our dreams. We have seen a lot we love and take pride in what happened in these rings and we have seen a lot that has brought us sadness and shame. But that is the sport of life, isn’t it? We give and we take. We land blows and we are hit by blows.

We have seen the community grow into everything from would-be heroes to pitiful cowards. All of our blood has mixed in this sport. When any one of us bleeds it is soaked into the great canvas in combat sport and all of our blood and our sweat and our dreams has mixed. We are all family, love it or hate it. Deny it or not. We were inspired by people. Many furry fighters were inspired by us and they themselves inspired even more.

We may not be the first fighters… but we may be the first career oriented fighters in furry fandom and all roads lead to us in some way. We weren't one hit wonders… we fought and we won. When we did lose we kept going. Two and a half decades or more later we are still here and this is still our sport. Can you face us? Can you look us in the eyes and say with confidence and conviction that you have done right, if not by us but by the spirit of combat sports? Have you done right by all the fighters out there before you? Should we be proud of you or should you be knocked on YOUR ASS?

As a child, you would wait

And watch from far away.

But you always knew that you'd be the one

That work while they all play

In you, you lay, awake at night and scheme

Of all the things you that you would change,

But it was just a dream!

 

Here we are, don't turn away now,

We are the warriors that built this town.

Here we are, don't turn away now,

We are the warriors that built this town.

From Dust.

 

The time will come, when you'll have to rise

Above the best, and prove yourself

Your spirit never dies

Farewell, I've gone, to take my throne

Above, don't weep for me

Cause this will be the labor of my love

 

Here we are, don't turn away now,

We are the warriors that built this town

Here we are, don't turn away now,

We are the warriors that built this town

From Dust.

 

Here we are, don't turn away now,

 WE ARE THE WARRIORS THAT BUILT THIS TOWN   

Here we are, don't turn away now,

WE ARE THE WARRIORS THAT BUILT THIS TOWN

From Dust

youtu.be/o3W5ngVTtRE

Lyris copyright Imagine Dragons.
(from left to right) Sheridan, Prowl, Kat, Sierra, Demonique, Beth, and Scarface are copyright me.
All the hard work making this pic goes to :iconantaresiceslayer: It's also good to see such a good illo of Sheridan, he never did get enough love!

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shawnricks851's avatar

Looks super awesome, Sierra, Sheridan, Prowl, Beth, Scarface, Kat, and Demonique are amazing interesting characters:D:love::clap::clap::clap::boogie:, yaaaaaaay.


Awesome from Antares:D:clap::clap:, and Imagine Dragons' awesome Warriors song:D.