My username comes from it being my general name all over the internets. From LJ to convention badge names, Feathers has been through it all. But where did it start?
It's initially derived from an early character I created back when I was into Sonic the Hedgehog. I used to draw teams of three because of Sonic Heroes. Anyway, one day I drew up a team that consisted of an Albatross and two other ones I don't remember. His name was something stupid like Jack Feathers or something (sue me, I was young) and I decided I liked 'Feathers'. Shortly after, I made another team where I had a green goat (essentially a copy of Rouge the Bat, but a goat, and my favorite color) who I pasted the name 'Feathers' onto.
The goat soon left the Sonic fandom because it's a terrible place to be, and she eventually became a representation of myself (by then she wasn't a Rouge clone). She went through a lot of re-designs until she eventually became an Okapi (favorite animal) with a color scheme including white, black, green (favorite) and pink (least favorite). She was a mixture of all of my favorite and least favorite things. She's now my fursona (furry persona), but don't flip, I'm only furry in the sense that I make costumes and draw anthro things on occasion.
So Feathers is essentially me.