The Internet Vulpine

My fursona, the Internet Vulpine, is an internet fox (v. v. packetus) which is a subspecies of the red fox native to the internet.
The idea for basing my fursona's design in networking & internet came from a love for the internet as a whole, the possibilities unlocked, the people it allowed me to meet, not to mention the Furry community existing mostly on and largly because of the internet, combined with me just being a general nerd, fascinated with networking & computers (like, I am a qualified network engineer) it seemed like a natural fit.
Unlike previous iterations of my fursona, who were more seperate characters, I view the Internet Vulpine as more of just a representation of myself. Primarily because while it is kinda fun to give reasons for why they are and make them more realistic/relatable by coming up with a in-universe explanation for any changes. For example, my old fursona, I, and thus by extension the Internet Vulpine are all trans, and while I have not, my fursona(s) have canonically had HRT & surgeries, with my old fursona I would say they actually took meds & had someone slice them open, which, yes, is more realistic & relatable, which can be nice, it is also less funny than saying, the Internet Vulpine's HRT was editing their blend shapes & their surgery was performed in Blender's Edit mode (even if some of there are details of their biology (which I will not go into here), that are intended to be mostly rooted in actual human biology)

Ether

The ether, named after Ethernet, which in turn was named after the historical idea in which that light was propagated through a medium called the ether or luminiferous aether that is omnipresent throughout the universe.
In this context, the ether refers to a pseudophysical representation of the internet, which is the world the Internet Vulpine lives within.
Visually when viewed from the inside, the ether takes on a bright purple, red & pink appearance filled with white stars, and a repeating grid pattern. Depending on how the ether is observed this grid may appear as a 2 dimentional flat grid, or a grid projected in equirectangular projection, resembling the🌐 globe with meridians symbol commonly used to refer to the internet, which depicts the ether, which has a blue appearance viewed from the outside,