Rain and Anton met at a local party in their late teens. Anton noticed her first, her mismatched ear tips drawing his attention. He found her unique look incredibly cute and appealing. The fact she didn't try to hide it with dye was a clear sign of self confidence. Anton's interest was peaked.

Making his way up to her, he politely introduced himself when the chance arose. Rain happily accepted Anton's gentle advances. He was a cute young fox, but his face was utterly generic and forgettable. This soon caused some laughs by both when she thought he had left in the party traffic. When she wasn't looking, he had simply moved a few steps to let some people by. Rain continued laughing as Anton mentioned that his nickname at work was "Generic Fox Number 6" on account of his forgettable face.

His face might have been forgettable, but the person behind the face certainly wasn't. Anton was just a lowly construction worker at the time, but he had ambition for greater things. Though rough and tough when needed, especially on the job site, he was also well spoken, well read, and well mannered. His personality fit well with Rain and her sometimes volatile, though never violent, temper. The two continued seeing each other and were soon dating.

After they got married, Rain focused her efforts at being a homemaker, managing the household affairs and finances. Anton greatly appreciated her efforts and spent his time focusing on climbing the ladder in the construction business. Taking the classes and working the long hours necessary to better himself.

Anton was successful both at work and at home. Rain was quite a fertile vixen and soon the house was full of little pups. His days were full, taking care of both work and children. The freedom he had when younger was mostly gone, yet he enjoyed every moment of it.

Finally, that forgettable face became more recognizable as Anton finally reached his goal and became a project manager. The special hard hat he wore made him much more recognizable on the job site.

At home, Rain's hard work was paying off as well. Teaching herself about investing, she soon found herself wrestling out business trends and investing accordingly. Putting Anton's income to work, the vixen couple had quite the fortune by the time Anton retired.

The two thought they would happily spend their last few years together in retirement, but fate had other ideas. Continuing with her investments, Rain came across the rapidly developing, but still experimental, Bio/Synthetic neuron conversion process. Investigating further, the thought of living on together in robot bodies seemed like an interesting adventure to her. Anton was soon convinced as well. It was a scary proposition full of unknowns; to live as a soul bound to a synthetic brain. The possibilities were too tantalizing to pass up though. Being synthetic meant one could survive FTL travel, the two could spend their new lives exploring the galaxy together.

After some donations, investments, letters, and emails; the two got themselves in as some of the first people to be converted into what would later be known as "second life". It was a difficult adjustment to make, but the two were always there for each other.

Both worked a variety of jobs during the centuries after being converted. Rain continued her investment work, eventually starting her mining and refining company. As society took to the stars, it hungered for resources. Rain found her business growing by leaps and bounds, but was getting overwhelmed in the leadership role. Her firey temper also was becoming a liability. She asked Anton to take over the day-to-day management while she remained the figurehead and focused her time on VI management.

Anton excelled at his new role, growing the company and staying competitive. Much like Rain, Anton only ever saw money as a means to an end. Though the two of them are among the wealthiest people in the known galaxy, both remain humble and approachable. They have been heavily involved in many charities, donating their excess income primarily towards efforts to have first-livers colonize other worlds via sub-light sleeper ships.

Now over 700 years into their second life, the two foxes love for each other is as bright as ever. Both will admit to being workaholics, keeping the business running smoothly. They will always make time for the most valuable thing they have, each other.

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Anton's Current body is a Schafer Bodyworks Sportsman Mk 25 vase chassis. Schafer Bodyworks rose to prominence in the personal chassis market with their commitment to long term product support. While other manufacturers supported chassis and components for mere decades, Schafer Bodyworks earned a reputation for functionally unlimited support for their old products.

Long term support became increasingly important for second lifers as chassis technology matured. Once this maturation occurred, people found themselves no longer needing to upgrade bodies every 5-10 years. A 50 year old chassis design worked just as well as one designed 6 months ago. That is, if you had access to the replacement parts necessary to maintain it.

For second lifers, a persons chassis is how they physically manifest themselves to the world. While some happily swap chassis frequently to get the latest and greatest, many more people became quite fond of a particular make, model, or configuration.

Many manufacturers saw this trend, but Schafer Bodyworks took it to the extreme with fantastic results. Unnecessary black boxes were stripped from their designs early on. Those that remained out of necessity were made modular to allow them to be perpetually upgraded. They purchased and maintained the production rights to all major components. Tooling for older components was mothballed, rather than scrapped, whenever possible to allow in-house production to resume. For components they could no longer manufacture, they maintained all necessary production documentation and would license them to custom chassis shops for a very modest fee.

The results of these practices spoke for themselves. Critical parts for other manufacturers chassis would typically become unavailable, at any price, after only 40-60 years after being discontinued. Reverse engineered copies of these parts were often not as good as the originals. By contrast, Schafer chassis were frequently being used hundreds of years after being discontinued with no reverse engineering of parts necessary.

All of this effort of course resulted in a Schafer chassis often being significantly more expensive than an equivalent from other manufacturers. This was offset by their chassis maintaining fantastic resale value, if a person ever chose to upgrade. If that person became fond of a particular configuration and wanted to keep it, access to replacement parts would never be in doubt.

These practices had other side effects. The burgeoning semi-custom and custom chassis shops began focusing on Schafer chassis for their accessories and modifications due to the long product life. Customers also followed this trend, knowing that any custom work they had done to their bodies would be usable for decades or centuries to come.

Despite all the customization options, Anton's body is quite plain. Though built with the highest grade components available, his external appearance is assembled from the standard factory available cosmetic panels. He likes the quiet simplicity that comes with a forgettable face, like he had in his first life. It also makes parts replacement simpler when he gets himself damaged during his various hobbies and adventures.

The Sportsman Mk 25 is made specifically for people like Anton who enjoy the outdoors. Built for reliability under harsh conditions, it can take ridiculous amounts of abuse and continue operating. While it is not recommended to make it to the end of a ones escapade being held together with bailing wire and duct tape, there are countless posts on the Schafer customer forums proudly demonstrating such feats of durability and in-field repair.

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Unlike Rain's vase body, Anton's is waterproof down to 25', with options that can increase this further. His body is closer to the norm for VI management abilities; processing power for several hundred to several thousand VIs. The entire lower third of his vase is batteries, allowing him to go all day without recharging. Spending power on VI management will reduce this to several hours before needing to recharge. Also unlike Rain's body, his internal batteries can power a mobility frame for a short time.

As is typical for second lifers, his bodies mouth and tongue are purely cosmetic, used for visually expressing oneself. While physically capable of biting and chewing, his body cannot eat or swallow. The bodies voice synthesizer is located at the back of his mouth. The bottom of his lower jaw is designed to be transparent to sound, allowing him to speak clearly without moving his mouth if he chooses to. There are no provisions for breathing. The olfactory sensors in the nose have a fan to draw air through.

With touch sensitive synthiskin only on his head, Anton relies on his soul being acclimatized to his body to have tactile sensation in his neck and vase. This is common practice for second life bodies and greatly reduces maintenance.

Like many second lifers, Anton has a wide array of both mobility frames and full remote bodies. As with Rain, he's perfectly comfortable in his vase form, often only using his mobility frames and remote bodies on the weekends. Day to day tasks he leaves to be done by the VI servants.

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This fantastic refrence was made my the skilled  CosmoKokshwa. Original is here, https://www.furaffinity.net/view/33087934/