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Azure Paragon

2022-12-31T10:10:57Z

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' on Youtube and Xbox Live, born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003, until he moved to [[W:Texas|Texas]], marking 19 years of living in [[W:North Carolina|NC]]. He was formerly part of the Carolina Furs group. He returned to Fayetteville, North Carolina in June 2019 after attending and finishing university, then eventually moved out again and now lives in [[W:Houston, Texas|Houston, TX]] since February 2022. Since August of the same year, he has joined the military and is currently service as Active Duty in the US Army.

Azure is also a fursuiter as of October 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, especially from contents relating to Russia and Ukraine. He has also been networking more with Euro furries than before.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006. His current primary sonas (as of March 2022 since) is a Skydragon for a scalesona, while his actual fursona is a Demonic Coyote.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

Azure has now made use again of the "CommanderNilut" pseudonym from one of his Youtube accounts as intended to be a fursuit entertainment account. His other main YouTube account, "AzureParagon" (or "OctazurePrometheon", which lands on the same profile page), continues to be used for uploading modified music and video game music uploads.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's real-life personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure also planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" fursonas can either be a Siberian Husky, a German Shepherd, or a Spotted Hyena, which he believes best represents his all aspects of his overall personality together more than any other species, especially if they're not reptilian, dinosaurs, or mythological creatures. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually. If Azure had to choose only one out of the literal fursonas, his hyena character would be his best fit. In reality, Azure (and in-character, Maxx) is very silly and laughs a lot when he is in a positive mood upon hanging out with his friends online and offline.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet. His three fursonas mark together as his third major "persona" character as each third of the whole equation (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & his husky, hyena, and G-shep simultaneously for different purposes instead of dropping Octazure himself like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile. Eventually a list of all of his original characters, and his main fursonas (including Octazure & Rynø despite being a scalie).

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative representation of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, his hyena named Maxx, and a German shepherd named Evin. For literally an alternative version of Octazûrè, it would just be him in another species but purple. This means he would retain the same color scheme and other subtle features if he were ever depicted as anything other than a skydragon for the fun of it. Other characters such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, or his newly owned bull character, Wallace Moussavvy are entirely their own entity and not part of his main fursonas. The name " 'Nilut" once came from a Halo character he owned named "Anze 'Nilut(ee)" but has now used the surname for his upcoming T-Rex character, Rynø Nilut, or colloquially, "Rynø the Dino." The term "Nilut" is also referred to his military codename to his rex, similiar to the codename "Azure Paragon," which instead can be coined as a team name rather than an individual. This also coincides with his accumulation of his OCs created by him.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch. However the possibility of owning a separate coyote character is acceptable in his grasp too, especially upon conception.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

` = Fursuitted at event

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022`
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019` (Fursuit debut), 2021`
* [[DenFur]] - 2021`
* [[Texas Furry Fiesta|Furry Fiesta]] - 2022
* [[Stratosfur|Stratosfur]] - 2022
* [[Painted Desert Fur Con|Painted Desert Fur Con]] - 2023` (Dec. 29, 2022-Jan. 1)

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019
* Fayetteville ComicCon 2019, 2021` (x2; June` & October` '21)

== Fursuit ==

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File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
File:AzureParagon_Goggles.png|Pilot Goggles
File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg|"Scales" Jacket
</gallery>

The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Inkbunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2022-12-31T10:08:27Z

Octazure: Con attendance update

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' on Youtube and Xbox Live, born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003, until he moved to [[W:Texas|Texas]], marking 19 years of living in [[W:North Carolina|NC]]. He was formerly part of the Carolina Furs group. He returned to Fayetteville, North Carolina in June 2019 after attending and finishing university, then eventually moved out again and now lives in [[W:Houston, Texas|Houston, TX]] since February 2022. Since August of the same year, he has joined the military and is currently service as Active Duty in the US Army.

Azure is also a fursuiter as of October 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, especially from contents relating to Russia and Ukraine. He has also been networking more with Euro furries than before.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006. His current primary sonas (as of March 2022 since) is a Skydragon for a scalesona, while his actual fursona is a Demonic Coyote.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

Azure has now made use again of the "CommanderNilut" pseudonym from one of his Youtube accounts as intended to be a fursuit entertainment account. His other main YouTube account, "AzureParagon" (or "OctazurePrometheon", which lands on the same profile page), continues to be used for uploading modified music and video game music uploads.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's real-life personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure also planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" fursonas can either be a Siberian Husky, a German Shepherd, or a Spotted Hyena, which he believes best represents his all aspects of his overall personality together more than any other species, especially if they're not reptilian, dinosaurs, or mythological creatures. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually. If Azure had to choose only one out of the literal fursonas, his hyena character would be his best fit. In reality, Azure (and in-character, Maxx) is very silly and laughs a lot when he is in a positive mood upon hanging out with his friends online and offline.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet. His three fursonas mark together as his third major "persona" character as each third of the whole equation (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & his husky, hyena, and G-shep simultaneously for different purposes instead of dropping Octazure himself like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile. Eventually a list of all of his original characters, and his main fursonas (including Octazure & Rynø despite being a scalie).

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative representation of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, his hyena named Maxx, and a German shepherd named Evin. For literally an alternative version of Octazûrè, it would just be him in another species but purple. This means he would retain the same color scheme and other subtle features if he were ever depicted as anything other than a skydragon for the fun of it. Other characters such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, or his newly owned bull character, Wallace Moussavvy are entirely their own entity and not part of his main fursonas. The name " 'Nilut" once came from a Halo character he owned named "Anze 'Nilut(ee)" but has now used the surname for his upcoming T-Rex character, Rynø Nilut, or colloquially, "Rynø the Dino." The term "Nilut" is also referred to his military codename to his rex, similiar to the codename "Azure Paragon," which instead can be coined as a team name rather than an individual. This also coincides with his accumulation of his OCs created by him.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch. However the possibility of owning a separate coyote character is acceptable in his grasp too, especially upon conception.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

` = Fursuitted at event

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022`
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019` (Fursuit debut), 2021`
* [[DenFur]] - 2021`
* [[Texas Furry Fiesta|Furry Fiesta]] - 2022
* [[Painted Desert Fur Con|Painted Desert Fur Con]] - 2023` (Dec. 29, 2022-Jan. 1)

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019
* Fayetteville ComicCon 2019, 2021` (x2; June` & October` '21)

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
File:AzureParagon_Goggles.png|Pilot Goggles
File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg|"Scales" Jacket
</gallery>

The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Inkbunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2022-12-14T23:33:06Z

Octazure: Con attendance update

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' on Youtube and Xbox Live, born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003, until he moved to [[W:Texas|Texas]], marking 19 years of living in [[W:North Carolina|NC]]. He was formerly part of the Carolina Furs group. He returned to Fayetteville, North Carolina in June 2019 after attending and finishing university, then eventually moved out again and now lives in [[W:Houston, Texas|Houston, TX]] since February 2022. Since August of the same year, he has joined the military and is currently service as Active Duty in the US Army.

Azure is also a fursuiter as of October 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, especially from contents relating to Russia and Ukraine. He has also been networking more with Euro furries than before.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006. His current primary sonas (as of March 2022 since) is a Skydragon for a scalesona, while his actual fursona is a Demonic Coyote.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

Azure has now made use again of the "CommanderNilut" pseudonym from one of his Youtube accounts as intended to be a fursuit entertainment account. His other main YouTube account, "AzureParagon" (or "OctazurePrometheon", which lands on the same profile page), continues to be used for uploading modified music and video game music uploads.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's real-life personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure also planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" fursonas can either be a Siberian Husky, a German Shepherd, or a Spotted Hyena, which he believes best represents his all aspects of his overall personality together more than any other species, especially if they're not reptilian, dinosaurs, or mythological creatures. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually. If Azure had to choose only one out of the literal fursonas, his hyena character would be his best fit. In reality, Azure (and in-character, Maxx) is very silly and laughs a lot when he is in a positive mood upon hanging out with his friends online and offline.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet. His three fursonas mark together as his third major "persona" character as each third of the whole equation (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & his husky, hyena, and G-shep simultaneously for different purposes instead of dropping Octazure himself like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile. Eventually a list of all of his original characters, and his main fursonas (including Octazure & Rynø despite being a scalie).

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative representation of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, his hyena named Maxx, and a German shepherd named Evin. For literally an alternative version of Octazûrè, it would just be him in another species but purple. This means he would retain the same color scheme and other subtle features if he were ever depicted as anything other than a skydragon for the fun of it. Other characters such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, or his newly owned bull character, Wallace Moussavvy are entirely their own entity and not part of his main fursonas. The name " 'Nilut" once came from a Halo character he owned named "Anze 'Nilut(ee)" but has now used the surname for his upcoming T-Rex character, Rynø Nilut, or colloquially, "Rynø the Dino." The term "Nilut" is also referred to his military codename to his rex, similiar to the codename "Azure Paragon," which instead can be coined as a team name rather than an individual. This also coincides with his accumulation of his OCs created by him.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch. However the possibility of owning a separate coyote character is acceptable in his grasp too, especially upon conception.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

` = Fursuitted at event

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022`
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019` (Fursuit debut), 2021`
* [[DenFur]] - 2021`
* [[Texas Furry Fiesta|Furry Fiesta]] - 2022`

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019
* Fayetteville ComicCon 2019, 2021` (x2; June` & October` '21)

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
File:AzureParagon_Goggles.png|Pilot Goggles
File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg|"Scales" Jacket
</gallery>

The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Inkbunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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MILFurs

2022-12-14T23:24:04Z

Octazure: [Furry handle/OC name switch for another page's accessibility]

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[[File:Armed_Forces_Shields.png|thumb|450px|right|From left to right: [[W:United States Army|United States Army]], [[W:United States Air Force|United States Air Force]], [[W:United States Navy|United States Navy]], [[W:United States Marines|United States Marines Corps]], [[W:United States Coast Guard|United States Coast Guard]], [[W:National Guard of the United States|National Guard of the United States]], [[W:Military Sealift Command|Military Sealift Command]], [[W:Finnish Defence Forces|Finnish Defence Forces]], [[W:Canadian_Forces|Canadian Forces]], [[W:Australian_Defence_Force|Australian Defence Force]]]]
'''MILFurs''', also known as '''MilFurs''', '''Military Furs''' or '''Military Furries''', is a term to describe any [[furry]], or [[furry fan|fan of furry interests]], that is a present or former, active or reserve, member of a branch of a country's [[W:Military|military]] or [[W:Armed forces|armed forces]].

The concept of starting a list of MILFurs is credited to [[furry writer]] [[Allen Kitchen]] on the [[Usenet]] group [[alt.lifestyle.furry]] in the late 1990s.

Initially used to describe any furry personnel serving as a United States' [[W:Marines|Marines]], [[W:US Navy|Navy]], [[W:US Army|Army]], [[W:US Air Force|Air Force]] or [[W:US Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] service [[Male|man]] or [[Female|woman]] only<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.lifestyle.furry/browse_frm/thread/86c3e457625fdcca/96c800c02966c4f2?lnk=st&q=milfur&rnum=37&hl=en#96c800c02966c4f2 ''MILFur''] first appearance on alt.lifestyle.furry on October 29, 1998. Retrieved ?.</ref>, it was later agreed to be expanded to include furs serving, or discharged from, any military force from around the world.

Random comment heard in [[FurryMUCK]]'s [[The Purple Nurple]]:
{{q|"The furries and the Army have one thing in common... the Muck..." (author/date unknown)}}

==Military roster==

The following is an incomplete duty roster of former, retired, or reserve MILFurs. Active duty personnel may add themselves to it as long as does not violate [[W:OPSEC|OPSEC]]; please advise any [[WikiFur]] duty administrator if any active-duty personnel was added without their knowledge for proper removal from the list:
{| class="sortable wikitable" id="milfurtable" |
! Real name !! Furry name or handle !! Branch !! Country !! Status !! Species !! Notes !! Confirmed (Curators only) !! Article (Curators only)
|-
| [[Wendell Oliver Washer]] || n/a || US Army || USA || Discharged || n/a || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Miyagami Noriko]] || Ayukawataur || US Army || USA || Discharged || Felitaur || || Yes || Yes
|-
| ? || [[Jaden Heartdancer]] || US Army || USA || Discharged || Wolf/Lamb || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Robert Newell]] || Bobcatt || US Army || USA || || Bobcat || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Kasan|Jason Brooks]] || Kasan || US Air Force || USA || Medical Discharge || Snow Leopard || || Yes || Yes
|-
| ? || [[Ken Redtail]] || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Fox || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Richard Thatcher|Richard F. Thatcher]] || Tree Rat/RoadRodent || US Air Force || USA || Military retiree || || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Steve Carter]] || Esteban || US Air Force || USA || Honorably retired || Mouse || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Reagan Lodge]] || Sulaco || United States Marine Corps || USA || Discharged || || || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[Hyenafur]] || US Army National Guard/US Navy Reserves || USA || ?/? || Brown Hyena || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Primacorza|Alexander Ben Owens]] || Primacorza || US Marine Corp || USA || Deceased || Cougar || Non-combat death || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Shockwave|Allen Kitchen]] || Shockwave || US Air Force || USA || Discharged || Wolf || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Cybertigr|Dan Poore]] || Cybertigr || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Dragon || || Yes || None
|-
| n/a || [[Brutus D. Bernard]] || US Army || USA || Active || Saint Bernard || || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[Kamau D. Lyon]] || US Navy/US Navy Reserves || USA || Discharged (Honorable)/Active(1) || Barbary lion || (1) US Navy IRR || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[Swift Fox (person)|Swift Fox]] || US Navy Reserves || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Fox || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Atoro|Robert Jauss]] || Atoro || US Army || USA || Discharged (General) || Fox || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Azure (FurryMUCK)|Marion Skydancer]] || Azure || US Navy || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Dragon || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Weyfour WWWWolf|Urpo Lankinen]] || Weyfour WWWWolf || Finnish Defence Forces || Finland || Discharged || Wolf || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Commander Kitsune|Larry Wise]] || Commander Kitsune || US Navy || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Fox (kitsune) || Military retiree || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[IonOtter|John Antilety]] || IonOtter || US Navy /Sealift Command || USA || Discharged/Active || Otter || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Timm Woolfe|John Hey]] || Timm Woolfe || US Marine Corp || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Wolf || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Bob Guthrie|Bob M. Guthrie]] || Spirou || US Navy/USNR || USA || Discharged/Discharged (Honorable) || n/a || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Dwight Dutton|Dwight J. Dutton]] || Custer J. Winston || US Army || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || ? || Military retiree || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Gen.Talon|Kenneth Baker]] || Gen.Talon || US Army || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Otter || || Yes || None
|-
| [[Waarhorse|Henry Bestwick]] || Waarhorse || US Army/California Air National Guard || USA || Discharged (Honorable)/Discharged (Honorable) || Horse || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Tim Fitelson|Tim A. Fitelson]] || ? || US Navy || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || ? || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Tech Tygr|Phil Turner]] || Tech Tygr || US Marine Corps || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Tiger || || Yes || None
|-
| n/a || [[ShadowFox (Montana)|ShadowFox]] || US Marine Corps || USA || Discharged || Grey Fox || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Kengi Stargazer|Robert McGinnis]] || Kengi Stargazer || US Army || USA || Discharged (Medical) || Tiger/Snow Leopard || Combat Injuries || Yes || None
|-
| n/a || [[Navyraptor]] (Sidewinder) || US Navy || USA || Active || Dracoraptor || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Roy Calbeck|Scott Malcomson]] || Roy Calbeck || US Army || USA || Discharged || Unicorn || || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[Chiclet Cheetah]] || Canadian Navy Reserves|| Canada || Active || Cheetah || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Douglas KuddlKat]] || n/a || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Cat || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Lhayn|Lhayn Pony]] || US Army || USA || Discharged || Pony || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Cizkaro|Jesse]] || Cizkaro || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Arctic Fox || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Zwabbe]] || Royal Australian Navy || AUS || Active || Snowleopard || || Yes ||
|-
| [[SigmaWolf|Christopher Stroud]] || SigmaWolf || US Air Force || USA || Active || Wolf || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Flinch Ferrex|Hayley]] || Flinch Ferrex || US Army || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Black-Footed Ferret || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Kalta Desmon|LDC]] ||Kalta Desmon || US Army || USA || Active || Blackfox || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Lokidragon]] || US Air Force || USA || Discharged || Dragon || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Nanakifox]] || US Army || USA || ? || Fox || || Yes ||
|-
| ? || [[QBKebauet]] || US Navy || USA/Germany || Active || Tiger || || Yes || None
|-
| [[VegaGuy|Charles Vega]] || VegaGuy || US Air Force || USA || Active || Wolf || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Tokon Folf]] || US Army || USA || Active || Folf || || Yes ||
|-
| ? || [[Tyrrlin]] || US Army/US Army National Guard || USA || Discharged (Honorable)/Discharged (Honorable) || Gryphon || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Sjach Dragonkin]] || US Air Force || USA || Active || Dragon || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Kender3421|Alex Fischer]] || Kender3421 || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Dingo || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Gadgett Online|Jessica]] || Gadgett Online || US Army || USA || Active || Golden Fox || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Kanic]] || US Army National Guard || USA || Active || German Shepherd || || Yes ||
|-
| [[David P. Cannon]] || Tansil || US Navy || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Silverskunk || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Steve Gallacci]] || n/a || US Air Force || USA || Discharged || n/a || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Marsua Solaris|Catherine Place]] || Marsua Solaris || US Air Force|| USA || Discharged || Winged Jolf || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Ted Sheppard]] || Shep || US Marine Corps/US Army National Guard || USA || Discharged || n/a || || Yes ||
|-
| [[MattK1989|Matt Klabunde]] || MattK1989 || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Grey Wolf || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Margaras|Ryan Abbott]] || Margaras || US Army || USA || Deceased || Linx || Non-combat death || Yes ||
|-
| [[Allen Fishbeck]] || n/a || US Army || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || ? || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Allan Greenwald]] || Lupine Assassin || US Army || USA || Discharged (*) || Wolf || (*) [[W:Military_discharge#Entry_level_separation_.28ELS.29:_uncharacterized|ELS separation]] || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[D.O.P.R]] || US Army National Guard || USA || Discharged || Dragon || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Brian Kinnison]] || Snowdog || US Air Force || USA || Discharged|| ? || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Shmibo‎|B.M.S.]] || ShmiboWolf || US Army || USA || Active || Wolf || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Greg Bear]] || n/a || US Navy || USA || Discharged || ? || née Greg Spagnola || Yes || Yes
|-
| JenR || [[Danger Potato]] || US Army Reserves || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Oni Draft Mule || OIF Vet, U.S. Army Ordnance Corps || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[Zach MacHeel]] || US Navy || USA || Active || Wolf || || No data ||
|-
| [[Auraan|Gabriel Couch]] || Auraan || US Army || USA || Active || Jackal || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Skylar Rayn]] || US Marine Corps || USA || Active || Horse/Bear Hybrid || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Valkerie Asura]] || US Air Force || USA || Discharged (Medical) || [[Mithra]] || || No data ||
|-
| [[Vex (person)|Jason Lindsey]] || Vex || US Army National Guard || USA || Discharged || German Shepherd Wolf hound || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Chillimac]] || US Navy || USA || ? || [[Bear (species)|Bear]]/Wolf [[hybrid]] || || No data ||
|-
| [[Kana Clawson]] || ? || US Air Force || USA || ? || [[Cat]] || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Mak]] || US Army || USA || Active || Wolf || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Four-eyes]] || US Navy || USA || ? || Wolf || || No data ||
|-
| James Mouton || [[Mooty Moo]] || US Navy || USA || Discharged || [[Pit Bull]] || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Cat (person)|Cat]] || US Army || USA || Discharged || Cat || || No data ||
|-
| [[Dale Farmer]] || ? || US Navy || USA || ? || Bear || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Georgie]] || US Air Air Force || USA || ? || [[Skunk (species)|Skunk]] || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Kit an Amaideach Sionnach]] || US Army/USCG || USA || Discharged/Active || Kitsune (Fox) || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Smirk]] || US Air Force || USA || active || Cougar || || ||
|-
| [[LionkingCMSL|D. E. Miller, Jr.]] || LionkingCMSL || US Army National Guard || USA || ? || [[Lion]] || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Cy Neko]] || US Marine Corp || USA || ? || Japanese Bobtail || || ||
|-
| [[Grell Mcaff|WDM]] || Grell Mcaff || US Army || USA || ? || Maine Coon/Bear || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Sable Drakon]] || US Army || USA || Discharged || [[Gryphon]] || || ||
|-
| ? || [[AngelWolf]] || USMC / ARNG || USA || Discharged || [[Wing]]ed Wolf || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Wastrel]] || US Army || USA || ? || [[Pholf]] || || ||
|-
| [[RaF|Paul Bennet]] || RaF || US Air Force || USA || ? || ? || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Squirrelly]] || US Army || USA || ? || Dog || || ||
|-
| [[Lappoy Sindathol|F. R. Clark]] || Lappoy Sindathol || US Navy || USA || ? || [[Centaur]] || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Wolffpax]] || US Navy || USA || ? || Wolf || || ||
|-
| [[Ffang|C. L. Basso]] || Ffang || US Navy || USA || ? || [[Caracal]] || || ||
|-
| ? || [[FurryWurry]] || US Air Force || USA || Discharged || [[Tiger]] || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Nrasser]] || US Army || USA || ? || [[Snow Leopard]] || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Zarkel]] || US Navy || USA || ? || Dragon || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Barbarian]] || US Air Force || USA || ? || [[Dog]] || || ||
|-
| ? || [[RockyR]] || US Army || USA || ? || [[Raccoon]] || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Hunter Caribou]] || US Air Force || USA || ? || [[Deer]] || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Jade (MILFur)|Jade]] || US Navy || USA || Active || [[Nekotenshi]] || || ||
|-
| [[Ambergold Wolfeyes|D. Jean Cooper]] || Ambergold Wolfeyes || US Air Force || USA || ? || Wolf || || ||
|-
| [[Tarns|Wheeler]] || Tarns || US Navy || USA || Active || Giant Fox || || ||
|-
| [[Janus Raine|Raymond Powell]] || Janus Raine || US Air Force || USA || Active || North American Grey Wolf || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Jayce Rebel]] || US Air Force || USA || Active || Dragonwolf || || ||
|-
| [[Aeris N Fox|Nick]] || Aeris N Fox || US Navy || USA || Active || Fox || || ||
|-
| [[KensterFox|Kenneth Wilson]] || KensterFox || US Air Force || USA || Discharged || Red Fox || || ||
|-
| [[Kasia Sundreamer|Rose Wilson]] || Kasia Sundreamer || US Air Force || USA || Active || Pernese Fire-lizard || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Cougar2k2]] || US Army Reserves || USA || Active || Cougar/Puma/Mountain Lion || || ||
|-
| [[Daniel Mitchell]] || Evo Imako || US Army National Guard || USA || Discharged || Fox || || ||
|-
| [[Kaezon|Brett Costabile]] || Kaezon || US Army || USA || Active || Kasere(Tree Cat) || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Foxious Kit]] || US Army Reserves || USA || Active || Fox || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Reyu Zenfold]] || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Black Fox || || ||
|-
| [[Lostfox249|Matt Jee]] || Lostfox249 || US Marine Corps || USA || Discharged || Red Fox || || ||
|-
| [[Eric Robinson]] || Jedediah Angel || US Army || USA || Active || Jackalope || || ||
|-
| ? || [[SGTRedfield]] || US Army National Guard || USA || Active || Paint Mustang || || ||
|-
| n/a || [[Banshee]] || US Marine Corps || USA || Discharged || Blue Husky || || ||
|-
| ? || [[CalebOkami]] || US Navy || USA || Active || Hellhound || || ||
|-
| [[Christopher Brucker]] || [[Togo]] || US Air Force Reserve || USA || Active || Wolf || || ||
|-
| [[Fell Blackpaw|Blake Crahan]] || Fell Blackpaw|| US Navy || USA || Future Sailor || Fox/Coyote || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Poompow]] || US Army || USA || Active || Badger || || ||
|-
| [[Tristan Cutting]] || Applebrandy || US Army || USA || Active || Nightstalker || Signal Corps || ||
|-
| [[Michael Carroll]] || Ka'eo Ó Coileáin || US Navy || USA || Active || Tigershark || || No data ||
|-
| [[Kyle Klemmer]] || PO3 Novikov/Zerroch || US Navy || USA || Active || Coyote || || ||
|-
| [[Kandahar Brewer]] || [[Marinelaqs]] || US Army || USA || Active || Wolf || || ||
|-
| [[Blake Gardner]] || Azurnight/Gavinka || US Marines || USA || Active || Wolf/Folf || || ||
|-
| [[Andrew Kim]] || Soronix || US Navy || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Wolf || || ||
|-
| n/a || [[Harui]] || US Army Reserves || USA || Honorable discharge || Blue Dragon || OIF Vet, U.S. Army Ordnance Corps || ||
|-
| ? || [[Axee]] || US Army || USA || Active Duty|| [[Lion]] || || ||
|-
| BUCN EGO || King Nikos || US Navy || USA || Active Duty || [[Fennic Fox]] || SeaBee || || ||
|-
| D.B. || Master Yi || US Marine Corps || USA || Active Duty || Chupacabra || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Alekai Cottontail]] @AlekaiC4711 || US Navy || USA || Active Duty || Caribou-Dragon || || ||
|-
| N/A || [[Bloodstripe Bear]] @BloodStripeBear || USMC || USA || Honorable Discharge || Man Bear || || ||
|-
| Sam || Madapple || Canadian Sea Cadet Corps || Canada || Active Duty || Cheetah || Rank of Able Cadet (OR-2) || ||
|-
| RC || [[Azure Paragon]] @Octazure || US Army || USA || Active Duty || Skydragon || || ||
|-
| N/A || [[Skye Wilde]] @SkyetheGunFox || US Army || USA || Active Duty || Fox || || ||
|}

==Con MilFurs==

It used to be customary at early [[furry convention]]{{cn}} to have two meetings for military furries, a Saturday morning [[chow]] and a Sunday morning panel.{{cn}} Both were typically hosted by [[Commander Kitsune]], along with other panelists.{{cn}}

Here, furries from each branch of the service and also veterans can meet others like them and discuss over food or panels topics of interest.

== LJ MilFurs ==

The '''Military Furries LiveJournal community''', moderated by Ken Redtail and Commander Kitsune, is open to all furries of all branches of the service, even if they're just reserve.

They accept both active duty and former, whether retired or just completion of obligated service. It has been commonly affectionately referred to as the "Furry [[W:American Legion|American Legion]]" or "Furry [[W:Veterans of Foreign Wars|VFW]]".{{cn}}

The community also accepts members of any military that is currently an ally of the United States of America. Also welcome are furries that are interested in joining the military and wanting to learn more about what the lifestyle entails.

Rules{{cn}} of the community include no military bashing or interbranch bashing with the exception of light military humor. Operational security is strictly enforced by the [[moderator]]s so as to not endanger the safety of troops.

== Military Furs Forum ==

On July 17, 2008, the [[Military Furs Forum]] was created by Flinch Ferrex. Not intended to replace its LiveJournal community counterpart, it was created to offer another venue for Military Furries.

The forum offers a variety of boards for chatter, discussion and debate, [[role-play]]ing, and [[artwork]] both military and non-military in nature.

Like the LJ Community, the forum is open to military members of all branches in the United States or any of its allies, be they currently serving, retired, or discharged. Unlike the LJ Community, this forum does not give membership to civilians, [[military spouses]], or [[military dependant]]s as it was created solely for military members.

Furs with [[W:Military_discharge#Bad_Conduct_Discharge_.28BCD.29|Bad Conduct]] or [[W:Military_discharge#Dishonorable|Dishonorable discharges]] are discouraged from joining, but are not banned from the forum.{{cn}}

==References==

<references/>

==External links==

* [http://community.livejournal.com/militaryfurries/ Military Furries] - [[LiveJournal]] community
* [http://www.militaryfurs.com/index.php/ Military Furs Forum] website

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[[Category:LiveJournal communities]]
[[Category:Milfurs]]

MILFurs

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[[File:Armed_Forces_Shields.png|thumb|450px|right|From left to right: [[W:United States Army|United States Army]], [[W:United States Air Force|United States Air Force]], [[W:United States Navy|United States Navy]], [[W:United States Marines|United States Marines Corps]], [[W:United States Coast Guard|United States Coast Guard]], [[W:National Guard of the United States|National Guard of the United States]], [[W:Military Sealift Command|Military Sealift Command]], [[W:Finnish Defence Forces|Finnish Defence Forces]], [[W:Canadian_Forces|Canadian Forces]], [[W:Australian_Defence_Force|Australian Defence Force]]]]
'''MILFurs''', also known as '''MilFurs''', '''Military Furs''' or '''Military Furries''', is a term to describe any [[furry]], or [[furry fan|fan of furry interests]], that is a present or former, active or reserve, member of a branch of a country's [[W:Military|military]] or [[W:Armed forces|armed forces]].

The concept of starting a list of MILFurs is credited to [[furry writer]] [[Allen Kitchen]] on the [[Usenet]] group [[alt.lifestyle.furry]] in the late 1990s.

Initially used to describe any furry personnel serving as a United States' [[W:Marines|Marines]], [[W:US Navy|Navy]], [[W:US Army|Army]], [[W:US Air Force|Air Force]] or [[W:US Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] service [[Male|man]] or [[Female|woman]] only<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.lifestyle.furry/browse_frm/thread/86c3e457625fdcca/96c800c02966c4f2?lnk=st&q=milfur&rnum=37&hl=en#96c800c02966c4f2 ''MILFur''] first appearance on alt.lifestyle.furry on October 29, 1998. Retrieved ?.</ref>, it was later agreed to be expanded to include furs serving, or discharged from, any military force from around the world.

Random comment heard in [[FurryMUCK]]'s [[The Purple Nurple]]:
{{q|"The furries and the Army have one thing in common... the Muck..." (author/date unknown)}}

==Military roster==

The following is an incomplete duty roster of former, retired, or reserve MILFurs. Active duty personnel may add themselves to it as long as does not violate [[W:OPSEC|OPSEC]]; please advise any [[WikiFur]] duty administrator if any active-duty personnel was added without their knowledge for proper removal from the list:
{| class="sortable wikitable" id="milfurtable" |
! Real name !! Furry name or handle !! Branch !! Country !! Status !! Species !! Notes !! Confirmed (Curators only) !! Article (Curators only)
|-
| N/A || [[Skye Wilde]] @SkyetheGunFox || US Army || USA || Active Duty || Fox || || ||
|-
| [[Miyagami Noriko]] || Ayukawataur || US Army || USA || Discharged || Felitaur || || Yes || Yes
|-
| ? || [[Jaden Heartdancer]] || US Army || USA || Discharged || Wolf/Lamb || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Robert Newell]] || Bobcatt || US Army || USA || || Bobcat || ||
|-
| [[Kasan|Jason Brooks]] || Kasan || US Air Force || USA || Medical Discharge || Snow Leopard || || Yes || Yes
|-
| ? || [[Ken Redtail]] || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Fox || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Richard Thatcher|Richard F. Thatcher]] || Tree Rat/RoadRodent || US Air Force || USA || Military retiree || || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Steve Carter]] || Esteban || US Air Force || USA || Honorably retired || Mouse || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Reagan Lodge]] || Sulaco || United States Marine Corps || USA || Discharged || || || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[Hyenafur]] || US Army National Guard/US Navy Reserves || USA || ?/? || Brown Hyena || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Primacorza|Alexander Ben Owens]] || Primacorza || US Marine Corp || USA || Deceased || Cougar || Non-combat death || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Shockwave|Allen Kitchen]] || Shockwave || US Air Force || USA || Discharged || Wolf || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Cybertigr|Dan Poore]] || Cybertigr || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Dragon || || Yes || None
|-
| n/a || [[Brutus D. Bernard]] || US Army || USA || Active || Saint Bernard || || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[Kamau D. Lyon]] || US Navy/US Navy Reserves || USA || Discharged (Honorable)/Active(1) || Barbary lion || (1) US Navy IRR || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[Swift Fox (person)|Swift Fox]] || US Navy Reserves || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Fox || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Atoro|Robert Jauss]] || Atoro || US Army || USA || Discharged (General) || Fox || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Azure (FurryMUCK)|Marion Skydancer]] || Azure || US Navy || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Dragon || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Weyfour WWWWolf|Urpo Lankinen]] || Weyfour WWWWolf || Finnish Defence Forces || Finland || Discharged || Wolf || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Commander Kitsune|Larry Wise]] || Commander Kitsune || US Navy || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Fox (kitsune) || Military retiree || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[IonOtter|John Antilety]] || IonOtter || US Navy /Sealift Command || USA || Discharged/Active || Otter || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Timm Woolfe|John Hey]] || Timm Woolfe || US Marine Corp || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Wolf || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Bob Guthrie|Bob M. Guthrie]] || Spirou || US Navy/USNR || USA || Discharged/Discharged (Honorable) || n/a || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Dwight Dutton|Dwight J. Dutton]] || Custer J. Winston || US Army || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || ? || Military retiree || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Gen.Talon|Kenneth Baker]] || Gen.Talon || US Army || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Otter || || Yes || None
|-
| [[Waarhorse|Henry Bestwick]] || Waarhorse || US Army/California Air National Guard || USA || Discharged (Honorable)/Discharged (Honorable) || Horse || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Tim Fitelson|Tim A. Fitelson]] || ? || US Navy || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || ? || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Tech Tygr|Phil Turner]] || Tech Tygr || US Marine Corps || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Tiger || || Yes || None
|-
| n/a || [[ShadowFox (Montana)|ShadowFox]] || US Marine Corps || USA || Discharged || Grey Fox || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Kengi Stargazer|Robert McGinnis]] || Kengi Stargazer || US Army || USA || Discharged (Medical) || Tiger/Snow Leopard || Combat Injuries || Yes || None
|-
| n/a || [[Navyraptor]] (Sidewinder) || US Navy || USA || Active || Dracoraptor || || Yes || Yes
|-
| [[Roy Calbeck|Scott Malcomson]] || Roy Calbeck || US Army || USA || Discharged || Unicorn || || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[Chiclet Cheetah]] || Canadian Navy Reserves|| Canada || Active || Cheetah || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Douglas KuddlKat]] || n/a || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Cat || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Lhayn|Lhayn Pony]] || US Army || USA || Discharged || Pony || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Cizkaro|Jesse]] || Cizkaro || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Arctic Fox || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Zwabbe]] || Royal Australian Navy || AUS || Active || Snowleopard || || Yes ||
|-
| [[SigmaWolf|Christopher Stroud]] || SigmaWolf || US Air Force || USA || Active || Wolf || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Flinch Ferrex|Hayley]] || Flinch Ferrex || US Army || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Black-Footed Ferret || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Kalta Desmon|LDC]] ||Kalta Desmon || US Army || USA || Active || Blackfox || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Lokidragon]] || US Air Force || USA || Discharged || Dragon || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Nanakifox]] || US Army || USA || ? || Fox || || Yes ||
|-
| ? || [[QBKebauet]] || US Navy || USA/Germany || Active || Tiger || || Yes || None
|-
| [[VegaGuy|Charles Vega]] || VegaGuy || US Air Force || USA || Active || Wolf || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Tokon Folf]] || US Army || USA || Active || Folf || || Yes ||
|-
| ? || [[Tyrrlin]] || US Army/US Army National Guard || USA || Discharged (Honorable)/Discharged (Honorable) || Gryphon || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Sjach Dragonkin]] || US Air Force || USA || Active || Dragon || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Kender3421|Alex Fischer]] || Kender3421 || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Dingo || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Gadgett Online|Jessica]] || Gadgett Online || US Army || USA || Active || Golden Fox || || Yes ||
|-
| n/a || [[Kanic]] || US Army National Guard || USA || Active || German Shepherd || || Yes ||
|-
| [[David P. Cannon]] || Tansil || US Navy || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Silverskunk || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Steve Gallacci]] || n/a || US Air Force || USA || Discharged || n/a || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Marsua Solaris|Catherine Place]] || Marsua Solaris || US Air Force|| USA || Discharged || Winged Jolf || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Ted Sheppard]] || Shep || US Marine Corps/US Army National Guard || USA || Discharged || n/a || || Yes ||
|-
| [[MattK1989|Matt Klabunde]] || MattK1989 || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Grey Wolf || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Margaras|Ryan Abbott]] || Margaras || US Army || USA || Deceased || Linx || Non-combat death || Yes ||
|-
| [[Allen Fishbeck]] || n/a || US Army || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || ? || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Allan Greenwald]] || Lupine Assassin || US Army || USA || Discharged (*) || Wolf || (*) [[W:Military_discharge#Entry_level_separation_.28ELS.29:_uncharacterized|ELS separation]] || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[D.O.P.R]] || US Army National Guard || USA || Discharged || Dragon || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Brian Kinnison]] || Snowdog || US Air Force || USA || Discharged|| ? || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Shmibo‎|B.M.S.]] || ShmiboWolf || US Army || USA || Active || Wolf || || Yes ||
|-
| [[Greg Bear]] || n/a || US Navy || USA || Discharged || ? || née Greg Spagnola || Yes || Yes
|-
| JenR || [[Danger Potato]] || US Army Reserves || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Oni Draft Mule || OIF Vet, U.S. Army Ordnance Corps || Yes || Yes
|-
| n/a || [[Zach MacHeel]] || US Navy || USA || Active || Wolf || || No data ||
|-
| [[Auraan|Gabriel Couch]] || Auraan || US Army || USA || Active || Jackal || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Skylar Rayn]] || US Marine Corps || USA || Active || Horse/Bear Hybrid || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Valkerie Asura]] || US Air Force || USA || Discharged (Medical) || [[Mithra]] || || No data ||
|-
| [[Vex (person)|Jason Lindsey]] || Vex || US Army National Guard || USA || Discharged || German Shepherd Wolf hound || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Chillimac]] || US Navy || USA || ? || [[Bear (species)|Bear]]/Wolf [[hybrid]] || || No data ||
|-
| [[Kana Clawson]] || ? || US Air Force || USA || ? || [[Cat]] || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Mak]] || US Army || USA || Active || Wolf || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Four-eyes]] || US Navy || USA || ? || Wolf || || No data ||
|-
| James Mouton || [[Mooty Moo]] || US Navy || USA || Discharged || [[Pit Bull]] || || No data ||
|-
| ? || [[Cat (person)|Cat]] || US Army || USA || Discharged || Cat || || No data ||
|-
| [[Dale Farmer]] || ? || US Navy || USA || ? || Bear || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Georgie]] || US Air Air Force || USA || ? || [[Skunk (species)|Skunk]] || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Kit an Amaideach Sionnach]] || US Army/USCG || USA || Discharged/Active || Kitsune (Fox) || || ||
|-
| ? || [[Smirk]] || US Air Force || USA || active || Cougar || || ||
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| [[LionkingCMSL|D. E. Miller, Jr.]] || LionkingCMSL || US Army National Guard || USA || ? || [[Lion]] || || ||
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| ? || [[Cy Neko]] || US Marine Corp || USA || ? || Japanese Bobtail || || ||
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| [[Grell Mcaff|WDM]] || Grell Mcaff || US Army || USA || ? || Maine Coon/Bear || || ||
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| ? || [[Sable Drakon]] || US Army || USA || Discharged || [[Gryphon]] || || ||
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| ? || [[AngelWolf]] || USMC / ARNG || USA || Discharged || [[Wing]]ed Wolf || || ||
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| ? || [[Wastrel]] || US Army || USA || ? || [[Pholf]] || || ||
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| [[RaF|Paul Bennet]] || RaF || US Air Force || USA || ? || ? || || ||
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| ? || [[Squirrelly]] || US Army || USA || ? || Dog || || ||
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| [[Lappoy Sindathol|F. R. Clark]] || Lappoy Sindathol || US Navy || USA || ? || [[Centaur]] || || ||
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| ? || [[Wolffpax]] || US Navy || USA || ? || Wolf || || ||
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| [[Ffang|C. L. Basso]] || Ffang || US Navy || USA || ? || [[Caracal]] || || ||
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| ? || [[FurryWurry]] || US Air Force || USA || Discharged || [[Tiger]] || || ||
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| ? || [[Nrasser]] || US Army || USA || ? || [[Snow Leopard]] || || ||
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| ? || [[Zarkel]] || US Navy || USA || ? || Dragon || || ||
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| ? || [[Barbarian]] || US Air Force || USA || ? || [[Dog]] || || ||
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| ? || [[RockyR]] || US Army || USA || ? || [[Raccoon]] || || ||
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| ? || [[Hunter Caribou]] || US Air Force || USA || ? || [[Deer]] || || ||
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| ? || [[Jade (MILFur)|Jade]] || US Navy || USA || Active || [[Nekotenshi]] || || ||
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| [[Ambergold Wolfeyes|D. Jean Cooper]] || Ambergold Wolfeyes || US Air Force || USA || ? || Wolf || || ||
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| [[Tarns|Wheeler]] || Tarns || US Navy || USA || Active || Giant Fox || || ||
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| [[Janus Raine|Raymond Powell]] || Janus Raine || US Air Force || USA || Active || North American Grey Wolf || || ||
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| ? || [[Jayce Rebel]] || US Air Force || USA || Active || Dragonwolf || || ||
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| [[Aeris N Fox|Nick]] || Aeris N Fox || US Navy || USA || Active || Fox || || ||
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| [[KensterFox|Kenneth Wilson]] || KensterFox || US Air Force || USA || Discharged || Red Fox || || ||
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| [[Kasia Sundreamer|Rose Wilson]] || Kasia Sundreamer || US Air Force || USA || Active || Pernese Fire-lizard || || ||
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| ? || [[Cougar2k2]] || US Army Reserves || USA || Active || Cougar/Puma/Mountain Lion || || ||
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| [[Daniel Mitchell]] || Evo Imako || US Army National Guard || USA || Discharged || Fox || || ||
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| [[Kaezon|Brett Costabile]] || Kaezon || US Army || USA || Active || Kasere(Tree Cat) || || ||
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| ? || [[Foxious Kit]] || US Army Reserves || USA || Active || Fox || || ||
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| ? || [[Reyu Zenfold]] || US Navy || USA || Discharged || Black Fox || || ||
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| [[Lostfox249|Matt Jee]] || Lostfox249 || US Marine Corps || USA || Discharged || Red Fox || || ||
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| [[Eric Robinson]] || Jedediah Angel || US Army || USA || Active || Jackalope || || ||
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| ? || [[SGTRedfield]] || US Army National Guard || USA || Active || Paint Mustang || || ||
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| n/a || [[Banshee]] || US Marine Corps || USA || Discharged || Blue Husky || || ||
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| ? || [[CalebOkami]] || US Navy || USA || Active || Hellhound || || ||
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| [[Christopher Brucker]] || [[Togo]] || US Air Force Reserve || USA || Active || Wolf || || ||
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| [[Fell Blackpaw|Blake Crahan]] || Fell Blackpaw|| US Navy || USA || Future Sailor || Fox/Coyote || || ||
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| ? || [[Poompow]] || US Army || USA || Active || Badger || || ||
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| [[Tristan Cutting]] || Applebrandy || US Army || USA || Active || Nightstalker || Signal Corps || ||
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| [[Michael Carroll]] || Ka'eo Ó Coileáin || US Navy || USA || Active || Tigershark || || No data ||
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| [[Kyle Klemmer]] || PO3 Novikov/Zerroch || US Navy || USA || Active || Coyote || || ||
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| [[Kandahar Brewer]] || [[Marinelaqs]] || US Army || USA || Active || Wolf || || ||
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| [[Blake Gardner]] || Azurnight/Gavinka || US Marines || USA || Active || Wolf/Folf || || ||
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| [[Andrew Kim]] || Soronix || US Navy || USA || Discharged (Honorable) || Wolf || || ||
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| n/a || [[Harui]] || US Army Reserves || USA || Honorable discharge || Blue Dragon || OIF Vet, U.S. Army Ordnance Corps || ||
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| ? || [[Axee]] || US Army || USA || Active Duty|| [[Lion]] || || ||
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| BUCN EGO || King Nikos || US Navy || USA || Active Duty || [[Fennic Fox]] || SeaBee || || ||
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| D.B. || Master Yi || US Marine Corps || USA || Active Duty || Chupacabra || || ||
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| ? || [[Alekai Cottontail]] @AlekaiC4711 || US Navy || USA || Active Duty || Caribou-Dragon || || ||

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| N/A || [[Bloodstripe Bear]] @BloodStripeBear || USMC || USA || Honorable Discharge || Man Bear || || ||

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| Sam || Madapple || Canadian Sea Cadet Corps || Canada || Active Duty || Cheetah || Rank of Able Cadet (OR-2) || ||

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| RC || [[Octazure]] @AzureParagon || US Army || USA || Active Duty || Skydragon || || ||

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==Con MilFurs==

It used to be customary at early [[furry convention]]{{cn}} to have two meetings for military furries, a Saturday morning [[chow]] and a Sunday morning panel.{{cn}} Both were typically hosted by [[Commander Kitsune]], along with other panelists.{{cn}}

Here, furries from each branch of the service and also veterans can meet others like them and discuss over food or panels topics of interest.

== LJ MilFurs ==

The '''Military Furries LiveJournal community''', moderated by Ken Redtail and Commander Kitsune, is open to all furries of all branches of the service, even if they're just reserve.

They accept both active duty and former, whether retired or just completion of obligated service. It has been commonly affectionately referred to as the "Furry [[W:American Legion|American Legion]]" or "Furry [[W:Veterans of Foreign Wars|VFW]]".{{cn}}

The community also accepts members of any military that is currently an ally of the United States of America. Also welcome are furries that are interested in joining the military and wanting to learn more about what the lifestyle entails.

Rules{{cn}} of the community include no military bashing or interbranch bashing with the exception of light military humor. Operational security is strictly enforced by the [[moderator]]s so as to not endanger the safety of troops.

== Military Furs Forum ==

On July 17, 2008, the [[Military Furs Forum]] was created by Flinch Ferrex. Not intended to replace its LiveJournal community counterpart, it was created to offer another venue for Military Furries.

The forum offers a variety of boards for chatter, discussion and debate, [[role-play]]ing, and [[artwork]] both military and non-military in nature.

Like the LJ Community, the forum is open to military members of all branches in the United States or any of its allies, be they currently serving, retired, or discharged. Unlike the LJ Community, this forum does not give membership to civilians, [[military spouses]], or [[military dependant]]s as it was created solely for military members.

Furs with [[W:Military_discharge#Bad_Conduct_Discharge_.28BCD.29|Bad Conduct]] or [[W:Military_discharge#Dishonorable|Dishonorable discharges]] are discouraged from joining, but are not banned from the forum.{{cn}}

==References==

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==External links==

* [http://community.livejournal.com/militaryfurries/ Military Furries] - [[LiveJournal]] community
* [http://www.militaryfurs.com/index.php/ Military Furs Forum] website

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Azure Paragon

2022-11-30T09:09:15Z

Octazure: Career change - military involvement

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' on Youtube and Xbox Live, born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003, until he moved to [[W:Texas|Texas]], marking 19 years of living in [[W:North Carolina|NC]]. He was formerly part of the Carolina Furs group. He returned to Fayetteville, North Carolina in June 2019 after attending and finishing university, then eventually moved out again and now lives in [[W:Houston, Texas|Houston, TX]] since February 2022. Since August of the same year, he has joined the military and is currently service as Active Duty in the US Army.

Azure is also a fursuiter as of October 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, especially from contents relating to Russia and Ukraine. He has also been networking more with Euro furries than before.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006. His current primary sonas (as of March 2022 since) is a Skydragon for a scalesona, while his actual fursona is a Demonic Coyote.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

Azure has now made use again of the "CommanderNilut" pseudonym from one of his Youtube accounts as intended to be a fursuit entertainment account. His other main YouTube account, "AzureParagon" (or "OctazurePrometheon", which lands on the same profile page), continues to be used for uploading modified music and video game music uploads.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's real-life personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure also planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" fursonas can either be a Siberian Husky, a German Shepherd, or a Spotted Hyena, which he believes best represents his all aspects of his overall personality together more than any other species, especially if they're not reptilian, dinosaurs, or mythological creatures. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually. If Azure had to choose only one out of the literal fursonas, his hyena character would be his best fit. In reality, Azure (and in-character, Maxx) is very silly and laughs a lot when he is in a positive mood upon hanging out with his friends online and offline.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet. His three fursonas mark together as his third major "persona" character as each third of the whole equation (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & his husky, hyena, and G-shep simultaneously for different purposes instead of dropping Octazure himself like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile. Eventually a list of all of his original characters, and his main fursonas (including Octazure & Rynø despite being a scalie).

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative representation of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, his hyena named Maxx, and a German shepherd named Evin. For literally an alternative version of Octazûrè, it would just be him in another species but purple. This means he would retain the same color scheme and other subtle features if he were ever depicted as anything other than a skydragon for the fun of it. Other characters such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, or his newly owned bull character, Wallace Moussavvy are entirely their own entity and not part of his main fursonas. The name " 'Nilut" once came from a Halo character he owned named "Anze 'Nilut(ee)" but has now used the surname for his upcoming T-Rex character, Rynø Nilut, or colloquially, "Rynø the Dino." The term "Nilut" is also referred to his military codename to his rex, similiar to the codename "Azure Paragon," which instead can be coined as a team name rather than an individual. This also coincides with his accumulation of his OCs created by him.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch. However the possibility of owning a separate coyote character is acceptable in his grasp too, especially upon conception.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019 (Fursuit debut), 2021
* [[DenFur]] - 2021
* [[Texas Furry Fiesta|Furry Fiesta]] - 2022

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019
* Fayetteville ComicCon 2019, 2021 (x2; June & October '21)

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
File:AzureParagon_Goggles.png|Pilot Goggles
File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg|"Scales" Jacket
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The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Inkbunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2022-03-31T21:01:49Z

Octazure: /* Furry Convention attendance */

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' on Youtube and Xbox Live, born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003, until he moved to [[W:Texas|Texas]], marking 19 years of living in [[W:North Carolina|NC]]. He was formerly part of the Carolina Furs group. He returned to Fayetteville, North Carolina in June 2019 after attending and finishing university, then eventually moved out again and now lives in [[W:Houston, Texas|Houston, TX]] since February 2022. Azure is also a fursuiter as of October 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, especially from contents relating to Russia and Ukraine. He has also been networking more with Euro furries than before.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006. His current primary sonas (as of March 2022 since) is a Skydragon for a scalesona, while his actual fursona is a Demonic Coyote.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

Azure has now made use again of the "CommanderNilut" pseudonym from one of his Youtube accounts as intended to be a fursuit entertainment account. His other main YouTube account, "AzureParagon" (or "OctazurePrometheon", which lands on the same profile page), continues to be used for uploading modified music and video game music uploads.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's real-life personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure also planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" fursonas can either be a Siberian Husky, a German Shepherd, or a Spotted Hyena, which he believes best represents his all aspects of his overall personality together more than any other species, especially if they're not reptilian, dinosaurs, or mythological creatures. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually. If Azure had to choose only one out of the literal fursonas, his hyena character would be his best fit. In reality, Azure (and in-character, Maxx) is very silly and laughs a lot when he is in a positive mood upon hanging out with his friends online and offline.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet. His three fursonas mark together as his third major "persona" character as each third of the whole equation (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & his husky, hyena, and G-shep simultaneously for different purposes instead of dropping Octazure himself like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile. Eventually a list of all of his original characters, and his main fursonas (including Octazure & Rynø despite being a scalie).

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative representation of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, his hyena named Maxx, and a German shepherd named Evin. For literally an alternative version of Octazûrè, it would just be him in another species but purple. This means he would retain the same color scheme and other subtle features if he were ever depicted as anything other than a skydragon for the fun of it. Other characters such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, or his newly owned bull character, Wallace Moussavvy are entirely their own entity and not part of his main fursonas. The name " 'Nilut" once came from a Halo character he owned named "Anze 'Nilut(ee)" but has now used the surname for his upcoming T-Rex character, Rynø Nilut, or colloquially, "Rynø the Dino." The term "Nilut" is also referred to his military codename to his rex, similiar to the codename "Azure Paragon," which instead can be coined as a team name rather than an individual. This also coincides with his accumulation of his OCs created by him.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch. However the possibility of owning a separate coyote character is acceptable in his grasp too, especially upon conception.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019 (Fursuit debut), 2021
* [[DenFur]] - 2021
* [[Texas Furry Fiesta|Furry Fiesta]] - 2022

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019
* Fayetteville ComicCon 2019, 2021 (x2; June & October '21)

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
File:AzureParagon_Goggles.png|Pilot Goggles
File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg|"Scales" Jacket
</gallery>

The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Inkbunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' on Youtube and Xbox Live, born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003, until he moved to [[W:Texas|Texas]], marking 19 years of living in [[W:North Carolina|NC]]. He was formerly part of the Carolina Furs group. He returned to Fayetteville, North Carolina in June 2019 after attending and finishing university, then eventually moved out again and now lives in [[W:Houston, Texas|Houston, TX]] since February 2022. Azure is also a fursuiter as of October 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, especially from contents relating to Russia and Ukraine. He has also been networking more with Euro furries than before.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006. His current primary sonas (as of March 2022 since) is a Skydragon for a scalesona, while his actual fursona is a Demonic Coyote.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

Azure has now made use again of the "CommanderNilut" pseudonym from one of his Youtube accounts as intended to be a fursuit entertainment account. His other main YouTube account, "AzureParagon" (or "OctazurePrometheon", which lands on the same profile page), continues to be used for uploading modified music and video game music uploads.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's real-life personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure also planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" fursonas can either be a Siberian Husky, a German Shepherd, or a Spotted Hyena, which he believes best represents his all aspects of his overall personality together more than any other species, especially if they're not reptilian, dinosaurs, or mythological creatures. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually. If Azure had to choose only one out of the literal fursonas, his hyena character would be his best fit. In reality, Azure (and in-character, Maxx) is very silly and laughs a lot when he is in a positive mood upon hanging out with his friends online and offline.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet. His three fursonas mark together as his third major "persona" character as each third of the whole equation (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & his husky, hyena, and G-shep simultaneously for different purposes instead of dropping Octazure himself like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile. Eventually a list of all of his original characters, and his main fursonas (including Octazure & Rynø despite being a scalie).

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative representation of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, his hyena named Maxx, and a German shepherd named Evin. For literally an alternative version of Octazûrè, it would just be him in another species but purple. This means he would retain the same color scheme and other subtle features if he were ever depicted as anything other than a skydragon for the fun of it. Other characters such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, or his newly owned bull character, Wallace Moussavvy are entirely their own entity and not part of his main fursonas. The name " 'Nilut" once came from a Halo character he owned named "Anze 'Nilut(ee)" but has now used the surname for his upcoming T-Rex character, Rynø Nilut, or colloquially, "Rynø the Dino." The term "Nilut" is also referred to his military codename to his rex, similiar to the codename "Azure Paragon," which instead can be coined as a team name rather than an individual. This also coincides with his accumulation of his OCs created by him.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch. However the possibility of owning a separate coyote character is acceptable in his grasp too, especially upon conception.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019 (Fursuit debut), 2021
* [[DenFur]] - 2021

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019
* Fayetteville ComicCon 2019, 2021 (x2; June & October '21)

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
File:AzureParagon_Goggles.png|Pilot Goggles
File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg|"Scales" Jacket
</gallery>

The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Inkbunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2022-03-01T19:54:36Z

Octazure: Major life updates & contextual changes

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
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'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' on Youtube and Xbox Live, born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003, until he moved to [[W:Texas|Texas]], marking 19 years of living in [[W:North Carolina|NC]]. He was formerly part of the Carolina Furs group. He returned to Fayetteville, North Carolina in June 2019 after attending and finishing university, then eventually moved out again and now lives in [[W:San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio, TX]] since February 2022. Azure is also a fursuiter as of October 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, especially from contents relating to Russia and Ukraine. He has also been networking more with Euro furries than before.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006. His current primary sonas (as of March 2022 since) is a Skydragon for a scalesona, while his actual fursona is a Demonic Coyote.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

Azure has now made use again of the "CommanderNilut" pseudonym from one of his Youtube accounts as intended to be a fursuit entertainment account. His other main YouTube account, "AzureParagon" (or "OctazurePrometheon", which lands on the same profile page), continues to be used for uploading modified music and video game music uploads.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's real-life personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure also planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" fursonas can either be a Siberian Husky, a German Shepherd, or a Spotted Hyena, which he believes best represents his all aspects of his overall personality together more than any other species, especially if they're not reptilian, dinosaurs, or mythological creatures. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually. If Azure had to choose only one out of the literal fursonas, his hyena character would be his best fit. In reality, Azure (and in-character, Maxx) is very silly and laughs a lot when he is in a positive mood upon hanging out with his friends online and offline.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet. His three fursonas mark together as his third major "persona" character as each third of the whole equation (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & his husky, hyena, and G-shep simultaneously for different purposes instead of dropping Octazure himself like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile. Eventually a list of all of his original characters, and his main fursonas (including Octazure & Rynø despite being a scalie).

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative representation of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, his hyena named Maxx, and a German shepherd named Evin. For literally an alternative version of Octazûrè, it would just be him in another species but purple. This means he would retain the same color scheme and other subtle features if he were ever depicted as anything other than a skydragon for the fun of it. Other characters such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, or his newly owned bull character, Wallace Moussavvy are entirely their own entity and not part of his main fursonas. The name " 'Nilut" once came from a Halo character he owned named "Anze 'Nilut(ee)" but has now used the surname for his upcoming T-Rex character, Rynø Nilut, or colloquially, "Rynø the Dino." The term "Nilut" is also referred to his military codename to his rex, similiar to the codename "Azure Paragon," which instead can be coined as a team name rather than an individual. This also coincides with his accumulation of his OCs created by him.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch. However the possibility of owning a separate coyote character is acceptable in his grasp too, especially upon conception.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019 (Fursuit debut), 2021
* [[DenFur]] - 2021

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019
* Fayetteville ComicCon 2019, 2021 (x2; June & October '21)

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
File:AzureParagon_Goggles.png|Pilot Goggles
File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg|"Scales" Jacket
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The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Inkbunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2021-01-02T12:59:51Z

Octazure: More spelling tweaks

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' on Youtube and Xbox Live (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. He now lives back in Fayetteville, North Carolina again as of June 2019 since. Azure is also a fursuiter as of 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, especially from contents relating to Russia and Ukraine. He has also been networking more with Euro furries than before.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

Azure has now made use again of the "CommanderNilut" pseudonym from one of his Youtube accounts as intended to be a fursuit entertainment account. His other main YouTube account, "AzureParagon" (or "OctazurePrometheon", which lands on the same profile page), continues to be used for uploading modified music and video game music uploads.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's real-life personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure also planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" fursonas can either be a Siberian Husky, a German Shepherd, or a Spotted Hyena, which he believes best represents his all aspects of his overall personality together more than any other species, especially if they're not reptilian, dinosaurs, or mythological creatures. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually. If Azure had to choose only one out of the literal fursonas, his hyena character would be his best fit. In reality, Azure (and in-character, Maxx) is very silly and laughs a lot when he is in a positive mood upon hanging out with his friends online and offline.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet. His three fursonas mark together as his third major "persona" character as each third of the whole equation (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & his husky, hyena, and G-shep simultaneously for different purposes instead of dropping Octazure himself like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile. Eventually a list of all of his original characters, and his main fursonas (including Octazure & Rynø despite being a scalie).

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative representation of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, his hyena named Maxx, and a German shepherd named Evin. For literally an alternative version of Octazûrè, it would just be him in another species but purple. This means he would retain the same color scheme and other subtle features if he were ever depicted as anything other than a skydragon for the fun of it. Other characters such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, or his newly owned bull character, Wallace Moussavvy are entirely their own entity and not part of his main fursonas. The name " 'Nilut" once came from a Halo character he owned named "Anze 'Nilut(ee)" but has now used the surname for his upcoming T-Rex character, Rynø Nilut, or colloquially, "Rynø the Dino." The term "Nilut" is also referred to his military codename to his rex, similiar to the codename "Azure Paragon," which instead can be coined as a team name rather than an individual. This also coincides with his accumulation of his OCs created by him.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch. However the possibility of owning a separate coyote character is acceptable in his grasp too, especially upon conception.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019 (With fursuit)

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
File:AzureParagon_Goggles.png|Pilot Goggles
File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg|"Scales" Jacket
</gallery>

The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Inkbunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2021-01-02T12:54:55Z

Octazure: Missing words added and minor typo / spacial corrections

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' on Youtube and Xbox Live (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. He now lives back in Fayetteville, North Carolina again as of June 2019 since. Azure is also a fursuiter as of 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, especially from contents relating to Russian and Ukraine. He has also been networking more with Euro furs than before.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

Azure has now made use again of the "CommanderNilut" pseudonym from one of his Youtube accounts as intended to be a fursuit entertainment account. His other main YouTube account, "AzureParagon" (or "OctazurePrometheon", which lands on the same profile page), continues to be used for uploading modified music and video game music uploads.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's real-life personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure also planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" fursonas can either be a Siberian Husky, a German Shepherd, or a Spotted Hyena, which he believes best represents his all aspects of his overall personality together more than any other species, especially if they're not reptilian, dinosaurs, or mythological creatures. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually. If Azure had to choose only one out of the literal fursonas, his hyena character would be his best fit. In reality, Azure (and in-character, Maxx) is very silly and laughs a lot when he is in a positive mood upon hanging out with his friends online and offline.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet. His three fursonas mark together as his third major "persona" character as each third of the whole equation (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & his husky, hyena, and G-shep simultaneously for different purposes instead of dropping Octazure himself like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile. Eventually a list of all of his original characters, and his main fursonas (including Octazure & Ryno despite being a scalie).

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative representation of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, his hyena named Maxx, and a German shepherd named Evin. For literally an alternative version of Octazûrè, it would just be him in another species but purple. This means he would retain the same color scheme and other subtle features if he were ever depicted as anything other than a skydragon for the fun of it. Other characters such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, or his newly owned bull character, Wallace Moussavvy are entirely their own entity and not part of his main fursonas. The name " 'Nilut" once came from a Halo character he owned named "Anze 'Nilut(ee)" but has now used the surname for his upcoming T-Rex character, Rynø Nilut, or colloquially, "Rynø the Dino." The term "Nilut" is also referred to his military codename to his rex, similiar to the codename "Azure Paragon," which instead can be coined as a team name rather than an individual. This also coincides with his accumulation of his OCs created by him.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch. However the possibility of owning a separate coyote character is acceptable in his grasp too, especially upon conception.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019 (With fursuit)

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
File:AzureParagon_Goggles.png|Pilot Goggles
File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg|"Scales" Jacket
</gallery>

The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Inkbunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2021-01-02T12:51:32Z

Octazure: Lots of reclarification of his characters, plans changed and updated, and cultural insights updated too + website profiles re-purposed & resurrected, etc.

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' on Youtube and Xbox Live (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. He now lives back in Fayetteville, North Carolina again as of June 2019 since. Azure is also a fursuiter as of 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, especially from contents relating to Russian and Ukraine. He has also been networking more with Euro furs than before.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

Azure has now made use again of the "CommanderNilut" pseudonym from one of his Youtube accounts as intended to be a fursuit entertainment account. His other main YouTube account, "AzureParagon" (or "OctazurePrometheon", which lands on the same profile page), continues to be used for uploading modified music and video game music uploads.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's real-life personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure also planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" fursonas can either be a Siberian Husky, a German Shepherd, or a Spotted Hyena, which he believes best represents his all aspects of his overall personality together more than any other species, especially if they're not reptilian, dinosaurs, or mythological creatures. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually. If Azure had to choose only one out of the literal fursonas, his hyena character would be his best fit. In reality, Azure (and in-character, Maxx) is very silly and laughs a lot when he is in a positive mood upon hanging out with his friends online and offline.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet. His three fursonas mark together as his third major "persona" character as each third of the whole equation (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & his husky, hyena, and G-shep simultaneously for different purposes dropping Octazure himself like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile. Eventually a list of all of his original characters, and his main fursonas (including Octazure & Ryno despite being a scalie).

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative representation of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, his hyena named Maxx, and a German shepherd named Evin. For literally an alternative version of Octazûrè, it would just be him in another species but purple. This means he would retain the same color scheme and other subtle features if he were ever depicted as anything other than a skydragon for the fun of it. Other characters such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, or his newly owned bull character, Wallace Moussavvy are entirely their own entity and not part of his main fursonas. The name " 'Nilut" once came from a Halo character he owned named "Anze 'Nilut(ee)" but has now used the surname for his upcoming T-Rex character, Rynø Nilut, or colloquially, "Rynø the Dino." The term "Nilut" is also referred to his military codename to his rex, similiar to the codename "Azure Paragon," which instead can be coined as a team name rather than an individual. This also coincides with his accumulation of his OCs created by him.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch. However the possibility of owning a separate coyote character is acceptable in his grasp too, especially upon conception.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019 (With fursuit)

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
File:AzureParagon_Goggles.png|Pilot Goggles
File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg|"Scales" Jacket
</gallery>

The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Inkbunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. He now lives back in Fayetteville, North Carolina again as of June 2019 since. Azure is also a fursuiter as of 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, but also aims to learn French for not only enjoying the way it sounds but also directly for his job opportunities to broaden later on.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative version of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, while others such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, are entirely their own entity.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" side will be a Siberian Husky, which he believes best represents his overall personality more than other types, such as but not limited to: Wolves, coyotes, German Shepherds, foxes, or more, including any hybrid combinations. His husky character will not be mixed with any other species. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet slated at the end of September 2019, and subsequently his Husky character, whose full name is Zakyratta Syvatoplousky. This would mark his third major "persona" character (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & Zak as simultaneous duality instead of dropping his predecessor in terms of active use like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019 (With fursuit)

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
File:AzureParagon_Goggles.png|Pilot Goggles
File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg|"Scales" Jacket
</gallery>

The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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File:AzureParagonJacket.jpg

2019-12-14T02:12:42Z

Octazure:

== Licensing ==
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File:AzureParagon Goggles.png

2019-12-14T02:08:26Z

Octazure:

Azure Paragon

2019-12-14T02:05:08Z

Octazure: /* Furry Convention attendance */

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. He now lives back in Fayetteville, North Carolina again as of June 2019 since. Azure is also a fursuiter as of 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, but also aims to learn French for not only enjoying the way it sounds but also directly for his job opportunities to broaden later on.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative version of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, while others such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, are entirely their own entity.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" side will be a Siberian Husky, which he believes best represents his overall personality more than other types, such as but not limited to: Wolves, coyotes, German Shepherds, foxes, or more, including any hybrid combinations. His husky character will not be mixed with any other species. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet slated at the end of September 2019, and subsequently his Husky character, whose full name is Zakyratta Syvatoplousky. This would mark his third major "persona" character (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & Zak as simultaneous duality instead of dropping his predecessor in terms of active use like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[Midwest_Furfest|Midwest Furfest]] - 2019 (With fursuit)

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
</gallery>

The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. He now lives back in Fayetteville, North Carolina again as of June 2019 since. Azure is also a fursuiter as of 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, but also aims to learn French for not only enjoying the way it sounds but also directly for his job opportunities to broaden later on.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative version of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, while others such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, are entirely their own entity.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" side will be a Siberian Husky, which he believes best represents his overall personality more than other types, such as but not limited to: Wolves, coyotes, German Shepherds, foxes, or more, including any hybrid combinations. His husky character will not be mixed with any other species. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet slated at the end of September 2019, and subsequently his Husky character, whose full name is Zakyratta Syvatoplousky. This would mark his third major "persona" character (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & Zak as simultaneous duality instead of dropping his predecessor in terms of active use like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019
* [[MidWest FurFest]] - 2019 (With fursuit)

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019

== Fursuit ==

<gallery>
File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
</gallery>

The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
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Azure Paragon

2019-12-14T02:01:57Z

Octazure: Fursuit entry added - updated a few situational facts as well

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. He now lives back in Fayetteville, North Carolina again as of June 2019 since. Azure is also a fursuiter as of 2019, and enjoys honing in his video and photography hobbies, which he has been doing since 2008.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, but also aims to learn French for not only enjoying the way it sounds but also directly for his job opportunities to broaden later on.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative version of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, while others such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, are entirely their own entity.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" side will be a Siberian Husky, which he believes best represents his overall personality more than other types, such as but not limited to: Wolves, coyotes, German Shepherds, foxes, or more, including any hybrid combinations. His husky character will not be mixed with any other species. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet slated at the end of September 2019, and subsequently his Husky character, whose full name is Zakyratta Syvatoplousky. This would mark his third major "persona" character (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & Zak as simultaneous duality instead of dropping his predecessor in terms of active use like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019

== Fursuit ==

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File:LemonbratStudiosOctazureFursuit2019.jpg|Studio Image
File:azureparagon_fursuit_octazure.jpg|Personal Image
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The first fursuit made for Azure Paragon is a partial suit by Lemonbrat Studios. According to the client himself, the operation went very smoothly thanks to his strict supervision of making sure the suit was progressively and consistently made within the timeframe of 2019 from January to November 1st as the final deadline. The suit was completed half a month early, during October, and turned out solid in terms of appearance. The structure was made with fairly standard and somewhat basic materials, so the durability is only decent but not incredibly sturdy, especially during intensive usage. This is evident with the tail, as while it is large and heavy, it drags on the floor when walking with it in use.

The parts featured include but are not limited to: The head, internal fan with components, head gem permanently attached on the head inside the "crown spikes" on the forehead, outdoor-oriented feet, paws, sleeves, the tail, and Azure's very own custom modified leather jacket, painted in purple with dark blue scale markings to help represent the rest of his body as well as "thicken" the appearance to help equalize the overall whole body proportions when looking at him.'

Azure also plans on eventually purchasing a full fursuit of his main skydragon character, but has yet to determine who or which studio will manufacture one. Meanwhile, he might also consider practicing on making fursuits recreationally.

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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2019-12-14T02:01:07Z

Octazure:

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2019-12-14T01:58:11Z

Octazure:

Azure Paragon

2019-09-25T04:13:46Z

Octazure: a few technical corrections & reducing redundancy

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since September 2011 and the state itself since February 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. He now lives back in Fayetteville, North Carolina again as of June 2019 since. He will also have a partial fursuit finished & released in November 2019, & will also have a full fursuit, hopefully in 2021 or 2022.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, but also aims to learn French for not only enjoying the way it sounds but also directly for his job opportunities to broaden later on.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative version of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Zak, while others such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, are entirely their own entity.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom. This shows his admiration for the famous animator and director, Don Bluth, which has decidedly influenced his analysis for character design style and change, as well as tropes in visual storytelling.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" side will be a Siberian Husky, which he believes best represents his overall personality more than other types, such as but not limited to: Wolves, coyotes, German Shepherds, foxes, or more, including any hybrid combinations. His husky character will not be mixed with any other species. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet slated at the end of September 2019, and subsequently his Husky character, whose full name is Zakyratta Syvatoplousky. This would mark his third major "persona" character (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & Zak as simultaneous duality instead of dropping his predecessor in terms of active use like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-detailed w/complex textures & iridescence is his ideal style, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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2019-09-25T03:57:40Z

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== History edits request deletion ==

Hello there! I would like to also request that someone can delete most (not all) of the previous edits of the wikifur page of me please? It would be much appreciated, reduce log clutter, and simplify the list. Only the very first page version (to denote date of original creation establishment) and the most recent edit (which was minutes ago) be spared if you can, please.

Talk:Azure Paragon

2019-09-25T03:55:15Z

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Azure Paragon

2019-09-25T03:51:16Z

Octazure: Some new content text added mostly in the characters section & elsewhere. Nearly all existing text has remained the same though.

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since 2011 and the state itself since February 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. He now lives back in Fayetteville again as of June 2019, for long-term. He will also have a partial fursuit released in Autumn 2019 and will have a full fursuit as well, hopefully in 2021 or 2022.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]] or other forms of visual art in general, including but not limited to films, animation shows, comics, or fine arts, and also hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]] someday. Storywriting is also an activity he values. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills. His side-hobbies are photography and composing/editing music.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, but also aims to learn French for not only enjoying the way it sounds but also directly for his job opportunities to broaden later on.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative version of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Arby, while others such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, are entirely their own entity.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays. As of 2019, a redesign has encroached in arts.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure planned on a redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. V1 was before he was thick, muscular & mature (V2). V3 = fully scaled w/Kaiju traits. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" side will be a Siberian Husky, which he believes best represents his overall personality more than other types, such as but not limited to: Wolves, coyotes, German Shepherds, foxes, or more, including any hybrid combinations. His husky character will not be mixed with any other species. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually.

Azure's character has gone through a redesign with a whole new reference sheet slated at the end of September 2019, and subsequently his Husky character, whose full name is Zakyratta Syvatoplousky. This would mark his third major "persona" character (after Azure & far after Almodar, respectively), but intends to keep both Azure & Zak as simultaneous duality instead of dropping his predecessor in terms of active use like he did with Almodar. New art of Almodar hismelf has also recently been made as of 2019, by other artists, & hopes to get around to making a reference sheet to that character as well. Azure also will design a frilled lizard & a hyena as minor "persona" OCs in the meanwhile.

Like the previous 2 major OCs betas, Azure conceptualized Zakyratta originally as a coyote-wolf character mixture, but realized a husky would fit his overall personality far more accurately, and decided to embrace & finalize it in-touch.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* Dragon*Con - 2019

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-realism with low colors is his ideal aim, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos. He will also continue to hone in his professional art life including graphic design, but also wants to revisit printmaking & ceramics.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2019-06-25T04:28:51Z

Octazure: Fixing a few typing mistakes

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctōmȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prȍmetheǫ̈n]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], aspiring [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since 2011 and the state itself since February 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. He now lives back in Fayetteville again as of June 2019, for long-term. He will also have a partial fursuit released in Autumn 2019 and will have a full fursuit as well, hopefully in 2021 or 2022.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a professional visual artist that favors his skills in illustration and mixed media, preferring analog over digital art unless asked otherwise. He was a university student and graduated with a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]] in May 2019.{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music and photography with his own camera as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]], and hopes to also make contributions as a [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]]. He could also consider [[voice acting]] as a side-job someday. His favorite forms of visual art are drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but enjoys branching off further on both a technical and conceptual level upon experimentation, practice, and honing his skills.

He has also taken a recent interest and careful consideration in wanting to learn some foreign languages for the benefit of his career possibilities as well as personal interest in their respective culture and the languages themselves. Currently, he is learning Polish, due to his hypnotic fascination of Slavic culture, history, & fiction/films, but also aims to learn French for not only enjoying the way it sounds but also directly for his job opportunities to broaden later on.

Azure may also consider any other foreign languages to learn from but wishes to take his time mastering at least one while having an admiration for the Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for both creative and literary reasons. His interests are however still mainly in art itself.

He also has other Original Characters of various species, some representing an alternative version of Octazûrè, such as his Siberian Husky, Arby, while others such as Domnall, the Sirenian Ocean Dragon, are entirely their own entity.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratops]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratops]]. He rarely ever plays second life, which he has from his very first account since August 2006.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fan-art and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first organized [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first proper [[furry convention]] experience in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. However before those events (respectively), he met with furries in real life in personal meetings back in 2011 and 2012 before the CaroWinds meet. He also attended [[Megaplex X]] from July 28 - 31, 2011 but knew virtually no one, and the experience was only sparingly enjoyable due to how differently it was handled. As a result of the lackluster satisfaction, this is what he would call furry convention #0 in his counts, further punctuated by the fact that there was a 3-year gap before attending Megaplex again, let alone any furry convention for that matter. Megaplex XIII was a much improved experience for him, meeting closer to his true intentions and further helped thanks to knowing more friends there over the years, mostly from online, to meet them as well as his best friend attending with Azure that time.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002.) His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom.

=== Characters ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïon Prȍmetheǫ̈n ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, humorously nicknamed '''Draggybutt''' or '''Wildberry''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled Armathian electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%. This would mean that he is a draconic creature from planet Armathia that is a direct biological offspring to the lunar dragon and skydragon species. By default, Azure appears to portray at age 22 by default, but can vary between late-20s and mid-30s in other artworks. He's also seen as his thicker 41/19-year old self in most images nowadays.

Formerly, he was 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighing 288 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Nuclear Lightning, with some abilities of Wind. Wind abilities are expected of a skydragon, but in his case, it's not the primary element. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia and visits Earth on occasion. Various artworks, whether pornographic or not, do not often follow this in-universe tie-in.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and Diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is exceptionally frequent/virile and enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his aggressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in his canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures: Cryoclock Chronicles'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR, when put into an RPG combat role context / fight-data type, but can also serve as a HUNTER. Most of his offense types are short-ranged combat by his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers, bazookas, and thunder boomerangs with the occasional long-range such as his energy gun pistol and red laser rifle.

Azure's personality type is [[ENTJ-A]]; He has an aggressive attitude and his sheer sense of distrust towards other beings can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and ultra-sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally twisted sense of cynicism, he is open to his best friend in real life, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

Azure will have a full redesign with a new ref sheet on August 2019, as celebration of his own character's 15th anniversary since conception in 2004. Before his character was a purple anthropomorphic skydragon, Azure was an unnamed blue feral dragon with silver components on it. This was inspired by a t-shirt he used to own as a kid, from the company TopHeavy, that had two same dragons facing each other and breathing fire. The same principle could be said with his dinosaur character, Almodar, whom he conceived as a red (crimson) Pentaceratops in 2000-2001 before changing his design to a beige Protoceratops in Spring 2002.

Moreover, while Azure Paragon has drawn various characters of his own over the years, either as general stand-alone or characters meant to be in one of his stories, he plans on creating a canine side of himself. Since his skydragon is going through a revision, which includes becoming 100% "scalie," his "furry" side will be a Siberian Husky, which he believes best represents his overall personality more than other types, such as but not limited to: Wolves, coyotes, German Shepherds, foxes, or more, including any hybrid combinations. His husky character will not be mixed with any other species. This is also further convinced thanks to owning a husky onesie suit (Kirugumi, or an animal pajama), which was purchased and worn in his attendance on FWA 2019. He may also consider some of his other characters to be in an IP/story eventually.

=== Furry Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2011, 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015
* [[Anthrocon]] - 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2019

=== Other Conventions attendance ===

* Fayetteville Arts Convention - May 2006
* ConCarolinas - 2012, 2016, 2018
* HeroesCon @ Charlotte - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest in [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.
His favorite forms of creating artwork are Drawing/Illustration, followed by Painting and a more recent enjoyment for Print Media, with Ceramics as a former third.

His art styles are best described as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-realism with low colors is his ideal aim, especially if it involves digital art in Ultra HD display (4096ppi or higher). Oil pastels and acrylic paints are his forte in traditional art.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He does not draw fanart as often anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos.

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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[[Category:Dragon characters]]
[[Category:Japan]]

Azure Paragon

2019-06-25T04:09:34Z

Octazure: Forgot to provide an edit summary. These edits are an overall update regarding my life (both past and current), plans/intentions, and updated information about my characters, etc. + minor technical tweaks too

Azure Paragon

2019-06-25T04:00:10Z

Octazure:

Azure Paragon

2018-07-23T09:19:52Z

Octazure: Some updates on the context of foreign languages, his OC's surname, and spelling / character adjustments had to be made.

Azure Paragon

2018-07-10T06:27:57Z

Octazure: A needed update and set of tweaks and additions needed to be made for this person in regards to his characters, current interests, accomplishments, & other.

Azure Paragon

2016-03-09T22:18:53Z

Octazure: Some information refinements and titular corrections needed to be made.

Azure Paragon

2016-03-08T16:51:26Z

Octazure: Updates of information from various areas tweaked for more contextual accuracy. Also, this page will need references and other important additions in the mean time. Please don't forget~

User talk:Spirou

2015-05-26T20:04:35Z

Octazure: /* Requesting compromise */ (format tweak)

<div style="float:right; border:2px solid #bbbbbb; width:150px;">
<center>'''Discussion Pages'''</center>
*[[/Archive1|Archive 1]] (August 2005 - October 2006)
*[[/Archive2|Archive 2]] (October 2006 - January 2007)
*[[/Archive3|Archive 3]] (January 2007 - September 2007)
*[[/Archive4|Archive 4]] (September 2007 - February 2008)
*[[/Archive5|Archive 5]] (February 2008 - September 2009)
*[[/Archive6|Archive 6]] (March 2010 - April 2010)
*[[/Archive7|Archive 7]] (April 2010 - May 2011)
*[[/Archive8|Archive 8]] (May 2011 - September 2011)
*[[/Archive9|Archive 9]] (October 5, 2011 - October 14, 2012)
*[[/Archive10|Archive 10]] (October 15, 2012 - May 2013)
*[[/Archive11|Archive 11]] (June 4, 2013 - May 8, 2015)
</div>
'''Older conversations have been archived. Please view the links on the right review old threads.'''

== WereHusky ==

Why did you move "WereHusky" to "WereHusky (person)"? Planning to make [[WereHusky]] be about weres who turn into huskies? --[[User:EarthFurst|EarthFurst]] ([[User talk:EarthFurst|talk]]) 20:02, 18 May 2015 (EDT)
:I have a disambiguation page with two Werehusky's on hold. Need to load that page up. Sry - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 21:38, 18 May 2015 (EDT)

== Requesting compromise ==

Excuse me, but the reverts you have been causing are not what I have expected. I do not appreciate some of the more "real-life" based contents being taken out.

It has given me an incredibly great deal of sheer frustration and resent that some of the contents that are more objective-based, are being smashed away. The contents involving the convention attendance and the biography of myself / history should be left available as it is true, and I ask right now to please bring those back at least while they can still be corrected in how its written. The name of the character has been permanently changed from other sites, and I am the owner of those characters (Azure and Almodar), so if it isn't too much to ask, it would be appreciated if you can at least return the way I edited them and leave those alone or only delete content that is relating to the characters' recently edited information themselves, but not the names please.

This has been going way beyond too far to the point where I have to make a direct contact to you. I do not want this "juggling of editing" to continue under the same subjects repeatedly.

With sheer sincerity,
~Azure Paragon

P.S: I'm not sure what contact method is best for you, but if you need to reach me, my email is AzureParagon@gmail.com. I want this to be fixed in peace ASAP.

:Every single edit has had the character's name, looks and stats have changed over and over, having to be fixed/edited back continuously. This has been pointed out before, but these same actions has been repeated again and again. Editors should not have to spend time over and over juggling/fixing this everchanging data, and no, you cannot ask how people should edit your article. In short: the latest edit was reverted because of the same continous, non-helpful/serious edits - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 14:01, 26 May 2015 (EDT)

Would it be acceptable to intend on future edits going on a new route? By that, I mean whole new contents to be added from, such as, plans, new sections such as Photography section, Video Gaming, etc. Those would not be small changes. Although I would like to know if, in addition to that, if updating con attendance is okay?

As for miniscule informational edits. I'm also thinking the minor character info. edits can be left up to you or a major WikiFur editor staff, but it would probably help to search any official info. of Azure outside of this site. Of course it's not required, but a suggested sparetime task. Best I leave that to your hands now.

[[User:Octazure|Octazure]] ([[User talk:Octuazure|talk]]) 16:04, 26 May 2015 (EST)

User talk:Spirou

2015-05-26T20:02:14Z

Octazure: /* Requesting compromise */ (Reply to Spirou)

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== WereHusky ==

Why did you move "WereHusky" to "WereHusky (person)"? Planning to make [[WereHusky]] be about weres who turn into huskies? --[[User:EarthFurst|EarthFurst]] ([[User talk:EarthFurst|talk]]) 20:02, 18 May 2015 (EDT)
:I have a disambiguation page with two Werehusky's on hold. Need to load that page up. Sry - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 21:38, 18 May 2015 (EDT)

== Requesting compromise ==

Excuse me, but the reverts you have been causing are not what I have expected. I do not appreciate some of the more "real-life" based contents being taken out.

It has given me an incredibly great deal of sheer frustration and resent that some of the contents that are more objective-based, are being smashed away. The contents involving the convention attendance and the biography of myself / history should be left available as it is true, and I ask right now to please bring those back at least while they can still be corrected in how its written. The name of the character has been permanently changed from other sites, and I am the owner of those characters (Azure and Almodar), so if it isn't too much to ask, it would be appreciated if you can at least return the way I edited them and leave those alone or only delete content that is relating to the characters' recently edited information themselves, but not the names please.

This has been going way beyond too far to the point where I have to make a direct contact to you. I do not want this "juggling of editing" to continue under the same subjects repeatedly.

With sheer sincerity,
~Azure Paragon

P.S: I'm not sure what contact method is best for you, but if you need to reach me, my email is AzureParagon@gmail.com. I want this to be fixed in peace ASAP.

:Every single edit has had the character's name, looks and stats have changed over and over, having to be fixed/edited back continuously. This has been pointed out before, but these same actions has been repeated again and again. Editors should not have to spend time over and over juggling/fixing this everchanging data, and no, you cannot ask how people should edit your article. In short: the latest edit was reverted because of the same continous, non-helpful/serious edits - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 14:01, 26 May 2015 (EDT)

:Would it be acceptable to intend on future edits going on a new route? By that, I mean whole new contents to be added from, such as, plans, new sections such as Photography section, Video Gaming, etc. Those would not be small changes. Although I would like to know if, in addition to that, if updating con attendance is okay?

As for miniscule informational edits. I'm also thinking the minor character info. edits can be left up to you or a major WikiFur editor staff, but it would probably help to search any official info. of Azure outside of this site. Of course it's not required, but a suggested sparetime task. Best I leave that to your hands now.

User talk:Spirou

2015-05-25T11:22:25Z

Octazure: /* Requesting compromise */ (still correcting misspells; having just woke up doesn't hold good eyesight unfortunately)

User talk:Spirou

2015-05-25T11:19:25Z

Octazure: /* Requesting compromise */ (accidental mispell on email, corrected)

User talk:Spirou

2015-05-25T11:18:45Z

Octazure: /* Requesting compromise */ (one word corrected in mispelling + P.S statement added in message)

User talk:Spirou

2015-05-25T11:16:51Z

Octazure: /* Requesting compromise */ new section

Azure Paragon

2015-05-25T06:27:42Z

Octazure: Photography mention accidentally added; is not needed.

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctomȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prometheon]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since 2011. He is part of the Carolina Furs group.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]], [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]]. He is also open to doing art to his creative freedom for films, Bad Dragon, and more.

In real life, Azure loved playing video games very frequently during his childhood and even considers his activities and art as a whole, to have influenced his years well. His favorite platform is Nintendo 64.
Additionally, the desire to make music & write novels in conjunction to his art to tell stories is planned.

Online, Azure is socially awkward, shy, reluctant to open up, and is excessively cautious. Offline, he is more at ease. His preference of digital vs. analog life is both, but handled separately, and not combined.

Currently, he is working on personal art projects, hobbies to take habit of, and catching up on arts and ideas for the summer season mid-year of 2015.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratop]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratop]]s.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fanart and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely came out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]] in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom.

For furry conventions, his 2nd con is BLFC 2015, and would like to return to BLFC 2016 due to its inspirational theme and the opportunity to meet more people that couldn't come for 2015. In addition, his intentions is to attend as many fur conventions as possible per year when his career is in.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002).

=== Character ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïôn Prometheon ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, nicknamed as '''Draggybutt''' or '''Purple''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%.
By default, Azure appears to be age 19 in design. He's also seen as his 41-year old self in some images.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Lightning, followed by Fire, then Ether/Sky. He uses white electricity and blue fire.

Octazûrè served in the '''Armathian Dragon Alliance''' as an Army division spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, astral cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer. At the the [[Human]] equivalent age of 38, he resigned from combat as his main-role and has switched to turning into a Master Sergeant overtime. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia & visits Earth.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is frequent/virile & enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his agressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in the canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR. Most of his battles are short-ranged combat due to his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers and twin blade katana/longsword.

Azure's social and personality type rotates between [[INTJ-T]] and [[ENTJ-T]]; His envy and life-perfecting attitude (including art and anything else he's interested in) can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and hyperly sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally cynical dialogue, he is open to his Master, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest for [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.

His art styles are best describesd as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-realism with low colors is his ideal style.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He no longer draws fan art anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos.

As of current, Summer 2015 is his plan to make macabre & hyper-realistic art (personal projects only).

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2015-05-25T06:19:36Z

Octazure: Major update: Info. edited via events, current news, info. of Azure, personality/social type, etc.

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[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almǒdår Quetzalôctomȏn]]
[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûrè Prometheon]]
'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993 at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]], [[musician]] and [[photographer]] who has lived in [[W:Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte, North Carolina]] since 2011. He is part of the Carolina Furs group.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Azure Paragon treats music as a hobby while pursuing a career as a [[game artist]], [[gameplay innovator]]/[[supervisor]], [[story writer]], and [[story director]]. He is also open to doing art to his creative freedom for films, Bad Dragon, and more.

In real life, Azure loved playing video games very frequently during his childhood and even considers his activities and art as a whole, to have influenced his years well. His favorite platform is Nintendo 64.
Additionally, the desire to make music & write novels in conjunction to his art to tell stories is planned.

Online, Azure is socially awkward, shy, reluctant to open up, and is excessively cautious. Offline, he is more at ease. His preference of digital vs. analog life is both, but handled separately, and not combined.

Currently, he is working on personal art projects, hobbies to take habit of, and catching up on arts and ideas for the summer season mid-year of 2015.

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure has been around the edge of [[furry fandom]] since 1994, joining actively since August 13, 2001, mostly as an [[artist]], drawing original [[character]]s, starting with a crimson-red [[anthropomorphic]] [[pentaceratop]]s character named '''Almodar Quetzaloctomon''' (Simplified naming), which was later changed to a beige-colored [[Protoceratop]]s.

He discovered internet [[furry art]] sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Between June/July 2007, Azure had discovered FurAffinity through Halo fanart and OC images. He has also been playing video games with animal characters since the mid-to-late 1990s, mostly with NES and Nintendo 64 games, both with his local sibling and friends at the time, and alone. Some also came from other consoles.

Azure had completely came out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]] in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching films, which technically marks passively being involved in the fandom.

For furry conventions, his 2nd con is BLFC 2015, and would like to return to BLFC 2016 due to its inspirational theme and the opportunity to meet more people that couldn't come for 2015. In addition, his intentions is to attend as many fur conventions as possible per year when his career is in.

Azure joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007. He is part of the Carolina Furs group. Azure Paragon has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, containing his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002).

=== Character ===

'''Octazûrè Hypệrïôn Prometheon ''', also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''', '''AzureParagon''' or '''Azure''' for short, nicknamed as '''Draggybutt''' or '''Purple''', is a [[gay]] Western Skydragon (full description: an [[amethyst]]-scaled electrolunar skydragon). His scale/fur ratio is 78%/22%.
By default, Azure appears to be age 19 in design. He's also seen as his 41-year old self in some images.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His main element power is Lightning, followed by Fire, then Ether/Sky. He uses white electricity and blue fire.

Octazûrè served in the '''Armathian Dragon Alliance''' as an Army division spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, astral cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer. At the the [[Human]] equivalent age of 38, he resigned from combat as his main-role and has switched to turning into a Master Sergeant overtime. Canonically, he was born from planet Armathia & visits Earth.

He likes to exercise, [[stripteasing]], [[dance]]/[[rave]], [[composing]] (both digital and real instruments), [[painting]], [[animate]], [[3D modeling]], [[body modeling]], refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games. His favorite fruit is strawberry. Azure's sex drive is frequent/virile & enjoys being with guys.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined, vigilant, intense, bold, eccentric, and earnest. Despite his agressive and assertive sense of ambition, Azure is a mentally/emotionally scarred living being. Some has rumored him to later be called the "Lonely Legend," in the canonical science-fantasy adventure novel fiction, ''Anthroventures'' (2012) as a supporting character. His Battle Archetype is WARRIOR. Most of his battles are short-ranged combat due to his main preference of weapons: Shock sabers and twin blade katana/longsword.

Azure's social and personality type rotates between [[INTJ-T]] and [[ENTJ-T]]; His envy and life-perfecting attitude (including art and anything else he's interested in) can get in the way of his happiness sometimes. He can also be occasionally bitter and hyperly sadistic in humor. Despite his violently brutal and exceptionally cynical dialogue, he is open to his Master, whom he trusts fondly and extremely intimately.

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] – 2014
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2015

== Art ==

Azure has been drawing actively since 1993, trying to make a career from it. Azure has a great interest for [[dragon]]s, and enjoys drawing them in his spare time.

His art styles are best describesd as [[surreal]]-[[impressionist]], containing dream-like lighting effects, textured colors that are appealing, and a somewhat [[Van Gogh]]-quality to the overall composition, giving it a semi-[[realistic]] look on his major works. Hyper-realism with low colors is his ideal style.

Azure also would love to try other art styles to fit the variety of his techniques and gallery, despite not being his primary preference in art style. His most common subject matters are dragons, fantasy worlds, dreams, macabre, and comfort/friendship. More concepts and objects are also welcomed. He is best with painted backgrounds/scenery being his greatest asset, while anatomy is his main weak point.

Azure used to draw fanart frequently from 1997-2009 starting from [[Zelda]] and [[Nintendo]] [[fan art]] offline, and [[Halo]] fan art in [[deviantART]] from 2006-2011. He no longer draws fan art anymore, but still welcomes the possibility of doing so during his spare time for fun. Azure also has a habit of making many logos.

As of current, Summer 2015 is his plan to make macabre & hyper-realistic art (personal projects only).

== Photography ==

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2015-02-20T22:51:10Z

Octazure: Accent edits

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'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993, at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]] and [[photographer]]. Azure currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina and has lived in NC since 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Of all his favorite [[W:Video game console|gaming platforms]] ([[W:3DS|Nintendo 3DS]], [[W:Dreamcast|Dreamcast]], [[W:Nintendo 64|Nintendo 64]] and [[W:personal computer|personal computer]]s), he considers the Nintendo 64 to be his favorite console. One of his favorite games is [[W:Microsoft|Microsoft]]s' [[W:Halo (series)|Halo]]. His favorite series of all time is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda The Legend of Zelda]. His favorite video game is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime Metroid Prime].

Azure Paragon also has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002)

[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazûre Prometheon, his fursona (Conceptualized in 2004, Established in 2009)]]

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure Paragon has been in the furry fandom since August 13, 2001, starting with drawing original characters, with a crimson-red anthropomorphic pentaceratops character named Almodar (which was soon changed to a beige-colored Protoceratops in 1st Quarter 2002). Later, he discovered furry art from the internet sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006.

Azure had officially come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]] in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching movies.

Azure had joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007 @ 1:30 AM (EST/GMT-5) with an account, the first actual furry site he joined.

=== Character ===

[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almodar Quetzaloctomon, his first character (Conceptualized in 2001, Established in 2002)]]

'''Octazûre Hyperiōn Prometheon''' (also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''' or '''Azure Paragon''' for short; Can be said/typed as "Azûre" to prevent confusion from other people's fursonas with the name "Azure"), is a [[gay]] amethyst-scaled western electro-lunar Kiraptagon(*) skydragon. He serves in the Armathian Dragon Alliance as an ARMY division spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, astral cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His elemental abilities are lightning(78%, primary, innate master ability), fire(19%, secondary, bio-peripheral/back-up ability), & ether/sky(3%, tertiary, passive ability-only).

He likes to exercise, stripteasing, dance/rave, compose (both digital and real instruments), painting, animate, 3D modeling, body modeling, refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined and earnest.

(*) 55% Dragon, 35% [[Kitsune]], & 10% [[W:Utahraptor|Utahraptor]].

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] - 2014

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2015-02-20T22:49:48Z

Octazure: Accentuated changes to his name (OFFICIAL)

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'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993, at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]] and [[photographer]]. Azure currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina and has lived in NC since 2003. He is part of the Carolina Furs group.

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Of all his favorite [[W:Video game console|gaming platforms]] ([[W:3DS|Nintendo 3DS]], [[W:Dreamcast|Dreamcast]], [[W:Nintendo 64|Nintendo 64]] and [[W:personal computer|personal computer]]s), he considers the Nintendo 64 to be his favorite console. One of his favorite games is [[W:Microsoft|Microsoft]]s' [[W:Halo (series)|Halo]]. His favorite series of all time is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda The Legend of Zelda]. His favorite video game is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime Metroid Prime].

Azure Paragon also has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002)

[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazure Prometheon, his fursona (Conceptualized in 2004, Established in 2009)]]

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure Paragon has been in the furry fandom since August 13, 2001, starting with drawing original characters, with a crimson-red anthropomorphic pentaceratops character named Almodar (which was soon changed to a beige-colored Protoceratops in 1st Quarter 2002). Later, he discovered furry art from the internet sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006.

Azure had officially come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]] in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching movies.

Azure had joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007 @ 1:30 AM (EST/GMT-5) with an account, the first actual furry site he joined.

=== Character ===

[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almodar Quetzaloctomon, his first character (Conceptualized in 2001, Established in 2002)]]

'''Octazûre Hyperiōn Prometheon''' (also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''' or '''Azure Paragon''' for short; Can be said/typed as "Azûre" to prevent confusion from other people's fursonas with the name "Azure"), is a [[gay]] amethyst-scaled western electro-lunar Kiraptagon(*) skydragon. He serves in the Armathian Dragon Alliance as an ARMY division spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, astral cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His elemental abilities are lightning(78%, primary, innate master ability), fire(19%, secondary, bio-peripheral/back-up ability), & ether/sky(3%, tertiary, passive ability-only).

He likes to exercise, stripteasing, dance/rave, compose (both digital and real instruments), painting, animate, 3D modeling, body modeling, refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined and earnest.

(*) 55% Dragon, 35% [[Kitsune]], & 10% [[W:Utahraptor|Utahraptor]].

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] - 2014

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2015-02-14T17:51:28Z

Octazure: Geographical terminology & year-dates tweaked

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'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993, at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]] and [[photographer]].

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Of all his favorite [[W:Video game console|gaming platforms]] ([[W:3DS|Nintendo 3DS]], [[W:Dreamcast|Dreamcast]], [[W:Nintendo 64|Nintendo 64]] and [[W:personal computer|personal computer]]s), he considers the Nintendo 64 to be his favorite console. One of his favorite games is [[W:Microsoft|Microsoft]]s' [[W:Halo (series)|Halo]]. His favorite series of all time is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda The Legend of Zelda]. His favorite video game is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime Metroid Prime].

Azure Paragon also has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002)

[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazure Prometheon, his fursona (Conceptualized in 2004, Established in 2009)]]

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure Paragon has been in the furry fandom since August 13, 2001, starting with drawing original characters, with a crimson-red anthropomorphic pentaceratops character named Almodar (which was soon changed to a beige-colored Protoceratops in 1st Quarter 2002). Later, he discovered furry art from the internet sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006.

Azure had officially come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]] in Orlando, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1994-1995 when watching movies.

Azure had joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007 @ 5:41 AM (EST/GMT-5) with an account, the first actual furry site he joined.

=== Character ===

[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almodar Quetzaloctomon, his first character (Conceptualized in 2001, Established in 2002)]]

'''Octazure Hyperion Prometheon''' (also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''' or '''Azure Paragon''' for short), is a [[gay]] amethyst-scaled western electro-lunar Kiraptagon(*) skydragon. He serves in the Armathian Dragon Alliance as an ARMY division spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, astral cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His elemental abilities are lightning(78%, primary, innate master ability), fire(19%, secondary, bio-peripheral/back-up ability), & ether/sky(3%, tertiary, passive ability-only).

He likes to exercise, stripteasing, dance/rave, compose (both digital and real instruments), painting, animate, 3D modeling, body modeling, refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined and earnest.

(*) 55% Dragon, 35% [[Kitsune]], & 10% [[W:Utahraptor|Utahraptor]].

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] - 2014

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2015-02-14T17:46:02Z

Octazure: Spacing tweak

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'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993, at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]] and [[photographer]].

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Of all his favorite [[W:Video game console|gaming platforms]] ([[W:3DS|Nintendo 3DS]], [[W:Dreamcast|Dreamcast]], [[W:Nintendo 64|Nintendo 64]] and [[W:personal computer|personal computer]]s), he considers the Nintendo 64 to be his favorite console. One of his favorite games is [[W:Microsoft|Microsoft]]s' [[W:Halo (series)|Halo]]. His favorite series of all time is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda The Legend of Zelda]. His favorite video game is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime Metroid Prime].

Azure Paragon also has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002)

[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazure Prometheon, his fursona (Conceptualized in 2004, Established in 2009)]]

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure Paragon has been in the furry fandom since August 13, 2001, starting with drawing original characters, with a crimson-red anthropomorphic pentaceratops character named Almodar (which was soon changed to a beige-colored Protoceratops in 1st Quarter 2002). Later, he discovered furry art from the internet sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Azure had officially come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]] in OL, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1995 when watching movies.

Azure had joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007 @ 5:41 AM (EST/GMT-5) with an account, the first actual furry site he joined.

=== Character ===

[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almodar Quetzaloctomon, his first character (Conceptualized in 2001, Established in 2002)]]

'''Octazure Hyperion Prometheon''' (also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''' or '''Azure Paragon''' for short), is a [[gay]] amethyst-scaled western electro-lunar Kiraptagon(*) skydragon. He serves in the Armathian Dragon Alliance as an ARMY division spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, astral cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His elemental abilities are lightning(78%, primary, innate master ability), fire(19%, secondary, bio-peripheral/back-up ability), & ether/sky(3%, tertiary, passive ability-only).

He likes to exercise, stripteasing, dance/rave, compose (both digital and real instruments), painting, animate, 3D modeling, body modeling, refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined and earnest.

(*) 55% Dragon, 35% [[Kitsune]], & 10% [[W:Utahraptor|Utahraptor]].

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] - 2014

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2015-02-14T17:45:16Z

Octazure: Spacing edits for readability

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'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993, at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]] and [[photographer]].

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Of all his favorite [[W:Video game console|gaming platforms]] ([[W:3DS|Nintendo 3DS]], [[W:Dreamcast|Dreamcast]], [[W:Nintendo 64|Nintendo 64]] and [[W:personal computer|personal computer]]s), he considers the Nintendo 64 to be his favorite console. One of his favorite games is [[W:Microsoft|Microsoft]]s' [[W:Halo (series)|Halo]]. His favorite series of all time is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda The Legend of Zelda]. His favorite video game is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime Metroid Prime].

Azure Paragon also has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002)

[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazure Prometheon, his fursona (Conceptualized in 2004, Established in 2009)]]

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure Paragon has been in the furry fandom since August 13, 2001, starting with drawing original characters, with a crimson-red anthropomorphic pentaceratops character named Almodar (which was soon changed to a beige-colored Protoceratops in 1st Quarter 2002). Later, he discovered furry art from the internet sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Azure had officially come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]] in OL, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1995 when watching movies.

Azure had joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007 @ 5:41 AM (EST/GMT-5) with an account, the first actual furry site he joined.

=== Character ===

[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almodar Quetzaloctomon, his first character (Conceptualized in 2001, Established in 2002)]]

'''Octazure Hyperion Prometheon''' (also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''' or '''Azure Paragon''' for short), is a [[gay]] amethyst-scaled western electro-lunar Kiraptagon(*) skydragon. He serves in the Armathian Dragon Alliance as an ARMY division spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, astral cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His elemental abilities are lightning(78%, primary, innate master ability), fire(19%, secondary, bio-peripheral/back-up ability), & ether/sky(3%, tertiary, passive ability-only).

He likes to exercise, stripteasing, dance/rave, compose (both digital and real instruments), painting, animate, 3D modeling, body modeling, refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined and earnest.

(*) 55% Dragon, 35% [[Kitsune]], & 10% [[W:Utahraptor|Utahraptor]].

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] - 2014

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2015-02-14T17:44:47Z

Octazure: Minor tweak on site chronology: Joining FurAffinity

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'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993, at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]] and [[photographer]].

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Of all his favorite [[W:Video game console|gaming platforms]] ([[W:3DS|Nintendo 3DS]], [[W:Dreamcast|Dreamcast]], [[W:Nintendo 64|Nintendo 64]] and [[W:personal computer|personal computer]]s), he considers the Nintendo 64 to be his favorite console. One of his favorite games is [[W:Microsoft|Microsoft]]s' [[W:Halo (series)|Halo]]. His favorite series of all time is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda The Legend of Zelda]. His favorite video game is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime Metroid Prime].

Azure Paragon also has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002)

[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazure Prometheon, his fursona (Conceptualized in 2004, Established in 2009)]]

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure Paragon has been in the furry fandom since August 13, 2001, starting with drawing original characters, with a crimson-red anthropomorphic pentaceratops character named Almodar (which was soon changed to a beige-colored Protoceratops in 1st Quarter 2002). Later, he discovered furry art from the internet sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005 (including YiffStar), joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Azure had officially come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]] in OL, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since The Land Before Time back around roughly 1995 when watching movies.

Azure had joined FurAffinity in December 21, 2007 @ 5:41 AM (EST/GMT-5) with an account, the first actual furry site he joined.

=== Character ===

[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almodar Quetzaloctomon, his first character (Conceptualized in 2001, Established in 2002)]]

'''Octazure Hyperion Prometheon''' (also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''' or '''Azure Paragon''' for short), is a [[gay]] amethyst-scaled western electro-lunar Kiraptagon(*) skydragon. He serves in the Armathian Dragon Alliance as an ARMY division spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, astral cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His elemental abilities are lightning(78%, primary, innate master ability), fire(19%, secondary, bio-peripheral/back-up ability), & ether/sky(3%, tertiary, passive ability-only).

He likes to exercise, stripteasing, dance/rave, compose (both digital and real instruments), painting, animate, 3D modeling, body modeling, refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined and earnest.

(*) 55% Dragon, 35% [[Kitsune]], & 10% [[W:Utahraptor|Utahraptor]].

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] - 2014

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2015-02-14T17:41:56Z

Octazure: Chronological events, identity addressing, and dates corrected and updated about Azure's real-life history in the furry fandom.

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'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993, at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]] and [[photographer]].

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Of all his favorite [[W:Video game console|gaming platforms]] ([[W:3DS|Nintendo 3DS]], [[W:Dreamcast|Dreamcast]], [[W:Nintendo 64|Nintendo 64]] and [[W:personal computer|personal computer]]s), he considers the Nintendo 64 to be his favorite console. One of his favorite games is [[W:Microsoft|Microsoft]]s' [[W:Halo (series)|Halo]]. His favorite series of all time is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda The Legend of Zelda]. His favorite video game is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime Metroid Prime].

Azure Paragon also has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002)

[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazure Prometheon, his fursona (Conceptualized in 2004, Established in 2009)]]

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure Paragon has been in the furry fandom since August 13, 2001, starting with drawing original characters, with a crimson-red anthropomorphic pentaceratops character named Almodar (which was soon changed to a beige-colored Protoceratops in 1st Quarter 2002). Later, he discovered furry art from the internet sometime in 2004, and even deliberately found adult dragon art sometime in March 2005, joined an American Dragon: Jake Long fan forum in June of that year, and associated with more scalies in deviantART starting from April 2006. Azure had officially come out socializing directly in the [[furry fandom]] within their sites in 2009 as a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure Paragon''', as being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]] in OL, Florida from July 24 - 28, 2014. His inspiration for scalies, reptiles, dinosaurs, and dragons has sparked progressively since his viewings on The Land Before Time back around roughly 1995 when watching movies.

=== Character ===

[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almodar Quetzaloctomon, his first character (Conceptualized in 2001, Established in 2002)]]

'''Octazure Hyperion Prometheon''' (also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''' or '''Azure Paragon''' for short), is a [[gay]] amethyst-scaled western electro-lunar Kiraptagon(*) skydragon. He serves in the Armathian Dragon Alliance as an ARMY division spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, astral cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His elemental abilities are lightning(78%, primary, innate master ability), fire(19%, secondary, bio-peripheral/back-up ability), & ether/sky(3%, tertiary, passive ability-only).

He likes to exercise, stripteasing, dance/rave, compose (both digital and real instruments), painting, animate, 3D modeling, body modeling, refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined and earnest.

(*) 55% Dragon, 35% [[Kitsune]], & 10% [[W:Utahraptor|Utahraptor]].

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] - 2014

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2015-01-18T20:27:25Z

Octazure: A few titular corrections

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'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993, at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]] and [[photographer]].

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Of all his favorite [[W:Video game console|gaming platforms]] ([[W:3DS|Nintendo 3DS]], [[W:Dreamcast|Dreamcast]], [[W:Nintendo 64|Nintendo 64]] and [[W:personal computer|personal computer]]s), he considers the Nintendo 64 to be his favorite console. One of his favorite games is [[W:Microsoft|Microsoft]]s' [[W:Halo (series)|Halo]]. His favorite series of all time is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda The Legend of Zelda]. His favorite video game is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime Metroid Prime].

Azure Paragon also has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002)

[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazure Prometheon, his fursona (Conceptualized in 2004, Established in 2009)]]

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure Paragon officially come out socializing in the [[furry fandom]] in 2009 (Early 2006 in deviantART) with a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure the purple dragon''', with '''Azure Paragon''' being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]].

=== Character ===

[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almodar Quetzaloctomon, his first character (Conceptualized in 2001, Established in 2002)]]

'''Octazure Hyperion Prometheon''' (also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''' or '''Azure Paragon''' for short), is a [[gay]] amethyst-scaled western electro-lunar Kiraptagon(*) skydragon. He serves in the Armathian Dragon Alliance as an ARMY division spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, astral cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His elemental abilities are lightning(78%, primary, innate master ability), fire(19%, secondary, bio-peripheral/back-up ability), & ether/sky(3%, tertiary, passive ability-only).

He likes to exercise, stripteasing, dance/rave, compose (both digital and real instruments), painting, animate, 3D modeling, body modeling, refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined and earnest.

(*) 55% Dragon, 35% [[Kitsune]], & 10% [[W:Utahraptor|Utahraptor]].

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] - 2014

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[Youtube]]

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Azure Paragon

2015-01-05T11:00:45Z

Octazure: Small information update tweaks on his elemental abilities mentioned.

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'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993, at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]] and [[photographer]].

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Of all his favorite [[W:Video game console|gaming platforms]] ([[W:3DS|Nintendo 3DS]], [[W:Dreamcast|Dreamcast]], [[W:Nintendo 64|Nintendo 64]] and [[W:personal computer|personal computer]]s), he considers the Nintendo 64 to be his favorite console. One of his favorite games is [[W:Microsoft|Microsoft]]s' [[W:Halo (series)|Halo]]. His favorite series of all time is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda The Legend of Zelda]. His favorite video game is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime Metroid Prime].

Azure Paragon also has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002)

[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazure Prometheon, his fursona (Conceptualized in 2004, Established in 2009)]]

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure Paragon officially come out socializing in the [[furry fandom]] in 2009 (Early 2006 in deviantART) with a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure the purple dragon''', with '''Azure Paragon''' being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]].

=== Character ===

[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almodar Quetzaloctomon, his first character (Conceptualized in 2001, Established in 2002)]]

'''Octazure Hyperion Prometheon''' (also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''' or '''Azure Paragon''' for short), is a [[gay]] amethyst-scaled western electro-lunar Kiraptagon(*) skydragon. He serves in the Armathian Dragon as an army spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, cosmic cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His elemental abilities are lightning(78%, primary, innate master ability), fire(19%, secondary, bio-peripheral/back-up ability), & ether/sky(3%, tertiary, passive ability-only).

He likes to exercise, stripteasing, dance/rave, compose (both digital and real instruments), painting, animate, 3D modeling, body modeling, refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined and earnest.

(*) 55% Dragon, 35% [[Kitsune]], & 10% [[W:Utahraptor|Utahraptor]].

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] - 2014

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's Youtube
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's Facebook Profile (artist account)

* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on Twitter
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]

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Azure Paragon

2015-01-05T10:54:54Z

Octazure: A couple of images were added upon attempt & some small information has been added to tweak up the accuracy about AzureParagon's fandom involvement and character facts. Format fixing is highly recommended.

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'''Azure Paragon''', formerly '''CommanderNilut''' (real name '''Ryan Cook''';{{cn}} born on January 2, 1993, at the [[W:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan),{{cn}} is a freelance [[artist]] and [[photographer]].

== Biography ==

Azure Paragon is a university student studying for a [[W:Bachelors of Fine Arts|Bachelors of Fine Arts]] in [[concentration of Illustration]].{{clarify}} Of all his favorite [[W:Video game console|gaming platforms]] ([[W:3DS|Nintendo 3DS]], [[W:Dreamcast|Dreamcast]], [[W:Nintendo 64|Nintendo 64]] and [[W:personal computer|personal computer]]s), he considers the Nintendo 64 to be his favorite console. One of his favorite games is [[W:Microsoft|Microsoft]]s' [[W:Halo (series)|Halo]]. His favorite series of all time is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda The Legend of Zelda]. His favorite video game is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime Metroid Prime].

Azure Paragon also has a fascination with [[dinosaur]]s, his first [[character]], '''Almodar''', being a [[W:Protoceratops|protoceratops]], with his first [[anthropomorphic]] character version being a blood-red, crimson [[W:Pentaceratops|pentaceratops]], [[reptile]]s, and fantasy [[dragon]]s in 2001 (apricot-beige Final being in very early of 2002)

[[File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png|thumbnail|right|Octazure Prometheon, his fursona (Conceptualized in 2004, Established in 2009)]]

== Fandom involvement ==

Azure Paragon officially come out socializing in the [[furry fandom]] in 2009 (Early 2006 in deviantART) with a [[scalie]] [[fursona]] named '''Azure the purple dragon''', with '''Azure Paragon''' being his first, officially drawn, fursona character. In June 30, 2012, Azure attended his first [[furmeet]], [[CaroWinds]], with [[Megaplex XIII]] being his first [[furry convention]].

=== Character ===

[[File:Almodar crimson legion combatant leader by azureparagon-d5ba0xs.jpg|thumbnail|right|Almodar Quetzaloctomon, his first character (Conceptualized in 2001, Established in 2002)]]

'''Octazure Hyperion Prometheon''' (also known as '''Azure Enigma Paragon''' or '''Azure Paragon''' for short), is a [[gay]] amethyst-scaled western electro-lunar Kiraptagon(*) skydragon. He serves in the Armathian Dragon as an army spec-ops/stealth-ops star soldier, cosmic cowboy, space ranger, cyber pirate, weapon smith and visual event artist/photographer.

Standing at 6'11" (2.1 meters) and weighting 290 pounds (131.5 kilograms), his body's [[scale]]s are blue-violet with a [[W:Periwinkle (color)|periwinkle]] [[underbelly]], indigo eyes and Ivory [[horns]]. His hair is Platinum, sporting a sky blue head gem. His [[male]] [[genitalia]] is onyx black. His elemental abilities are lightning and fire

He likes to exercise, stripteasing, dance/rave, compose (both digital and real instruments), painting, animate, 3D modeling, body modeling, refine his weaponry, hang out with other beings (preferably scalies and other dragons), take interesting and visually appealing photos, use computers for both prioritized importance and fun activities, attend conventions of his interests, watch animation shows, listen to trance music and video game/orchestrated and synthesized musical soundtracks, writing poetry, stories, dream logs, event logs (journal and diary), and play video games.

His personality is distinctively kind, loving, humorous, energetic, ingratiating, obsequious, worrisome, determined and earnest.

(*) 55% Dragon, 35% [[Kitsune]], & 10% [[W:Utahraptor|Utahraptor]].

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Megaplex]] - 2014

==External Links==

* [http://www.azureparagon.weebly.com/ Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's official website
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's Youtube
* [https://www.facebook.com/Octazure Azure Paragon] - Azure Paragon's Facebook Profile (artist account)

* [http://azureparagon.deviantart.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[deviantART]]
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~azureparagon Azure Paragon] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on [[InkBunny]]
* [http://azureparagon.sofurry.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[SoFurry]]
* [https://twitter.com/AzureParagon Azure Paragon] on Twitter
* [http://azureparagon.tumblr.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Tumblr]]
* [http://www.y-gallery.net/user/azureparagon/ Azure Paragon] on [[y!Gallery]]
* [http://azureparagon.artician.com/ Azure Paragon] on [[Artician]]
* [http://azureparagon.storm-artists.net/ Azure Paragon] on [[Storm-Artists]]

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File:Azure ~ Serious Stance (Complete, Resized).png

2015-01-05T10:41:54Z

Octazure:

== Licensing ==
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