A Toyena is a fictional species created by kaidaskingom on FA. She has received help developing them from family and her close friend, jellysquish on FA. The species was first created in the summer of 2015, when Kaida, being the bored person she is, roamed a random aisle at a random store, and came across tiny wind up toys. After a long time and many, many mistakes, she came up with the pun, Toyena, a mix of the words toy and hyena. Taking her idea in that store and her pre-existing hyena character, Tucker, and combining them to create the first ever Toyena. The transition of hyena to Toyena was fairly easy, her and her character already had a fond liking of Steampunk, and this took it to the next level. She never did want a “complete” species, but after pitching the idea to her sister, father and friend, she got a way better response the she hoped. She has created a Tumblr for her species to share the idea, but after an issue with Tumblr, she has moved to Furaffinity and also Facebook.
The species’ lore has only grown since then with her and her friend’s research into windups, robotics, steampunk, and hyena anatomy. Every day the species gets a little bit better refined. After hundreds of sketches, hours of daydreaming, and lots of failed attempts, we have created what you see today on this webpage. The species is nowhere close to being 100% complete so we thank every one of you for sticking with us on our journey.