Final Fantasy​ is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and is developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square). The series began in 1987 with the eponymous video game conceived by Sakaguchi as his last-ditch effort in the game industry; the title was a success and spawned sequels. The video game series has since branched into other genres such as tactical role-playing, action role-playing, massively multiplayer online role-playing, racing, and fighting.
Although most Final Fantasy installments are supposedly independent stories with various different settings and main characters, they feature identical elements that define the franchise. Recurring elements include plot themes, character names, and game mechanics. Plots center on a group of heroes battling a great evil while exploring the characters' internal struggles and relationships. Character names are often derived from the history, languages, and mythologies of cultures worldwide.
Popular Furry Related Characters:
Chocobo are birds of many colors, but mostly yellow, used primarily as mounts, replacing horses in the Final Fantasy world. Chocobos appear in nearly every game. They are commonly known for their trademark Kweh or Wark noises. While timid in the wild, and vicious if threatened, they tame rather easily and make good transports. Chocobos have occasionally been sighted as lightly armored war mounts in which case they can assist their riders with beak and claw. Most often they can be caught in the wild and ridden without fear of random encounters, escaping after the player dismounts. While ordinary Chocobos are yellow, certain rare breeds are of different colors and have special abilities, such as crossing mountains or flight. An even rarer, more extreme variant is the Fat Chocobo (or Chubby Chocobo), which resembles a morbidly obese yellow chocobo. Moogles are small winged cat-like creatures that appear throughout Final Fantasy games since Final Fantasy III, but have also appeared in many other Square Enix games including the Seiken Densetsu series, the Chocobo game series, and the Kingdom Hearts series. Moogles' appearances change between games, but almost invariably involve a whitish color, fluffiness, and a red pom-pom on their heads. They are known for their trademark sound kupo, as well as nya, the Japanese form of the word meow, referencing their design evolution from cats. In Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, they appeared to look more like rabbits than cats, but still had their wings. Viera are bunny people from Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance and Final Fantasy XII. Burmecians, from Final Fantasy IX, are a race of anthropomorphic rats {according to many indications in the game, and by Squaresoft} who mainly live in two cities, Burmecia and Cleyra. The Ronso, from Final Fantasy X, are a race of blue furred, lion-like humanoids who live on Mt. Gagazet, which they consider sacred and guard fiercely. Ronso are formidable warriors, being very tall and amazingly strong, and are known for their strong sense of honor and loyalty, as well as their pride and quickness to anger. The long, sharp horn sported by all adult male Ronso is a symbol of esteem and a source of great pride to the wearer, and to lose this horn is considered extremely shameful.
There are also a number of popular characters from the series that feature tail, cat-like ears, bunny features, or lion features.