The Great Furry War of 2022

The Great Furry War of 2022 took place on Wednesday April 20th, 2022 on the Respawn Discord server. The verbal war primarily took place between Phyx and nearly everyone else attempting to prove that Phyx was a furry.

The war started between Phyx, a long time participant in Respawn Discord, and Maki Candy, a fairly new member to Respawn Discord at the time. Many believe that the conflict initialized from Maki replying to a comment by Phyx with a gif (seen on the right), however that is not true. The true beginnings was of when Phyx said "No respawn person of mine will ever associate themselves with original [P]uro", which was quickly followed by "he's a big crybaby and the game keeps ending because of his insecurity".

The argument continued about Puro, from the furry game, *Changed*, until the conversation moved to Phyx's Discord profile picture (and later their character reference sheet seen on the left). Following the loose description at this point of the conversation of what a furry is, it was agreed upon by mostly everyone actively talking that Phyx's character was, indeed, a furry as it was also created by the furry Incelcore, "***IM NOT EVEN THE ONE WHO MADE THIS PFP IT WAS [Incelcore]***".

Shortly after, Maki stated that anyone within Respawn Discord "...immediately qualifies us all to be furries", to which that statement was reacted to with the Respawn Discord emoticon *'yes'* by Dan, agreeing with Maki and confirming her statement. This agreement caused the conversation to split and spiral into whether or not feathers would also make one a furry, the term 'featheries' being made in the process by Dan.

His agreement also fell inline with the secondary opinion of aliens also being deemed furries, to quote Dan, "IF YOU SAW AN ALIEN AND IT LOOKED LIKE A WHOLE ASS FURSUIT IT WOULD STILL BE A FURRY" as well as "[N]amus are furries [I] hate to tell yall this". Both of these statements came to the dismay of Phyx as well as Quin who had joined Phyx's side.

Consistent squabbles continued to be shot at either side as all those who opposed slowly came to the realisation of anthropomorphic birds falling under the umbrella of Furry. Memes started to be introduced such as Walter White from *Breaking Bad* as well as "Is this a butterfly?".

Two fairly iconic video game names appeared, first appeared *Dark Souls*, then followed by *Team Fortress 2*, both of which notoriously known for containing a heavy furry population. This following quote is pulled from Incelcore talking to Phyx, "Aren't you the same person who like the souls franchise? Souls players are either degen anime [fans] or femboy furries, no in between". Phyx then gloated about having 900+ hours in *Team Fortress 2*, then saying to ignore the rest of their Steam game library. However, Phyx does not have their Steam set to private, so now this following information can be revealed: Phyx has played the games (with their recorded playtime at the time) *Team Fortress 2* (983 Hours), *Dark Souls III* (405 Hours), *Elden Ring* (137 Hours), *Counter Strike* (67 Hours), *Changed* (10 Hours), and *Deepest Sword* (1.2 Hours). Those listed here are popular video games with majority played by furries.

After leaving alone played games, Incelcore then posted a screenshot of Phyx responding to a work-in-progress reference sheet (seen on right) with Phyx saying "oh my god hes such a [hecking] furry...its so cute". This caused an uproar for Phyx, but then was quickly forgotten about as the reintroduction of Xenomorphs being furries, to which the subcategory of Scalie found its place into the conversation.

Two definitions where then placed by Maki, one for being a furry, and one for being a scalie. "[F]urries are anthro animals," she said, "scalie is a subcategory for non fluffy furries but still furries. [I]f it's a hummanoid with animalistic features, or an animal with human emotion/expression, it's a furry". Maki's definition of 'Scalie' was then deemed false by Bentcheesee, an avid furry, "...a scalie is reptile or anything of the scaled cold-blooded type...". The difference was a matter of including amphibians within the classification of Scalie.

The verbal war slowly began to die down after that until Dan created an image of Toxic admitting to being a furry. One final clash of words of Toxic being everyone's worst nightmare came to an end with Phyx admitting to watch *Zootopia* if one would watch *Red vs. Blue*.

Much later after the war had finished and Phyx had refused to admit to being a furry, Phyx then proceeded to change their profile picture to a fox wearing a shirt that reads "I am not a furry BUT..." while holding a mug with Puro on it (as seen on right).

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