~4/9/2019.

first comic with needle, who was assigned a fursona extremely spontaneously. she has problems with accounting for her own existence, and i was familiar enough with the vague "state of being" in my head to know it might take months or years just to get an opportunity again to start working with this part of my brain if i didn't put my foot down. it worked out really well, i've realized she is a VERY active part, and it's 100 times harder to process the thoughts and emotions without acknowledging the part feeling them.
i always try to just accept and feel them on my own at first and not jump to giving names and fursonae, but this was one i was just way too familiar with trying to process as not a separate part already, and the ability to acknowledge and sort priorities appropriately internally has really helped my ability to function a lot.

needle is a part split secondarily from gray with some elements removed from dupe, and they can struggle to notice she's present at all, as the headspace feels extremely similar to their own. needle also tends to gravitate towards gray and dupe.