I originally designed my avi (the right side) to be this cheerfully colored character to contrast the grump that I am. When I was feeling moody and I came on this site, I'd see her silly little orange/pink self and be like "aaaaahhhh but this is JOLLY, I must post with optimism cause that's who she's meant to be!"
And in some weird way it amused me.
Of course I kind of broke her character with this current sad face cause life got too cruddy to shake it off. Her smiling pink-eyed face was contrasting me too hard lmao sorryjolly
So I played around with her colors, and my silly character-creator brain is like "dude, no, this is someone else now. Make this a story"
and just like that, I'm amused again

Do you get this attached to your avis?
Like, you just cant help thinking about ways to make them into legit OCs and formulate stories for them
no matter how unintended it was from the start lol

Sometimes I come up with a story or connection between myself and my avatar, but not always.
My last avatar was just a cute thing that I came up with and liked, but there wasn't much else behind it.
I made the one I have now because I just wanted to sit in the sun barefooted and garden or something, and that's the vibe this avatar gave me.