Reve's story (so far anyway) : heart theft

Favorite pose from this evolution?

shark swipe	9.5%	[ 110 ]
stolen heart	18.2%	[ 210 ]
hole-hearted	26.3%	[ 304 ]
vacant eyes	7.1%	[ 82 ]
cavalier's miniature	5.6%	[ 65 ]
cavalier's hat	12.5%	[ 144 ]
none	2.8%	[ 32 ]
I'm here to completely throw off your poll just for a bit of gold >:D	18.0%	[ 208 ]
Total Votes:			[ 1155 ]

[Phantom Wickit]

The Toymaker bit has already been said quite a few times, it's the story I'm interested in. She seems to be a bit adventurous for a toy maker, sort of like Willy Wonka was with his candy. I would love to see the ocean inspired poses to continue, but I can see her getting inspiration from all sorts of things (look at the main Reve pose, it's so unique)

I'm really looking forward to seeing where this item goes later on, where the story goes "down hill" so to say. I can totally see rusted, odd, and even ghostly poses coming from it. Whether it's a result of her getting older, a lover leaving or people losing interest in her inventions we can only guess at this point. I love the idea of her eventually pouring out her soul into her work, and the tole it will take on her as a person (or getting injured and having to replace parts of her make up with toy materials)

All in all, this is my favorite item. It takes a certain taste and imagination to appreciate. Toyshark is totally my favorite pose ever, I'll be sad to let it go when we have to change for prom (I was running around yelling "chomp" when it first came out)

PS: Do we get some hints?

[ZNK]

I see there is a marine life theme o-o So some good toys would be:

A turtle
A wined up frog

(add more later)

[GillyBBY]

I'm loving how she gives each of her toys a little heart <3

[Phantom Wickit]

ZNK

I see there is a marine life theme o-o So some good toys would be:

A turtle
A wined up frog

(add more later)

I'm hoping for a sea monster or squid myself. I would love to see what she could do with a kraken toy. heart

[ZNK]

Cloverwick

ZNK

I see there is a marine life theme o-o So some good toys would be:

A turtle
A wined up frog

(add more later)

I'm hoping for a sea monster or squid myself. I would love to see what she could do with a kraken toy. heart

O_O I would love to see that her lover was a pirate! That would totally make sense...

[Phantom Wickit]

ZNK

Cloverwick

ZNK

I see there is a marine life theme o-o So some good toys would be:

A turtle
A wined up frog

(add more later)

I'm hoping for a sea monster or squid myself. I would love to see what she could do with a kraken toy. heart

O_O I would love to see that her lover was a pirate! That would tally make sense...

I picture her work shop being in some kind of cliff side french cottage-port town, and her lover being some form a sailor would totally work.

Gah, curse you ZNK and Pepper-Tea! You're getting me over excited for future evolutions, I'm not going to want to wait! gonk

[Lady Pyre]

Well "Reve Rouille" means "rusty dreams," does it not? One thing that immediately struck me with the first pose was how very East-meets-West it was. The little crab fellow looks like a debonair European Daruma doll living at the turn of the century. And Daruma dolls represent wishes (dreams) to be fulfilled.

The second picture reminds me of clam divers. How they have little buckets that bob on top of the water, while they hold a line to it an dive looking for pearls to fill the basket with. I'm not quite sure what Mademoisele is picking up off the bottom of the ocean floor, though.

The toys in the third evolution are, again, very East-meets-West. The kite, which originated in China. The design of it... maybe a koi with phoenix wings? The little doll especially. She has the flowing kimono robes with a victorian bustle. She has the look of a China doll, but is an automaton. Also, in this picture, the toymaker is putting a tiny heart into each of her creations. At the same time, it appears as if doll joints are showing up on her person. Perhaps, she is putting a bit of her own lifeforce into her toys and, as they become more lifelike, she herself turns into a doll.

[ZNK]

Cloverwick

ZNK

Cloverwick

ZNK

I see there is a marine life theme o-o So some good toys would be:

A turtle
A wined up frog

(add more later)

I'm hoping for a sea monster or squid myself. I would love to see what she could do with a kraken toy. heart

O_O I would love to see that her lover was a pirate! That would tally make sense...

I picture her work shop being in some kind of cliff side french cottage-port town, and her lover being some form a sailor would totally work.

Gah, curse you ZNK and Pepper-Tea! You're getting me over excited for future evolutions, I'm not going to want to wait! gonk

Don't curse us crying

[PrincessPussypants]

I adore the poses so far, not to mention the story and beautiful art. I'd love a wind up key for our avatar's back too
= u=

/fantasizes

Keep up the good work

[Twilight Charnel]

Madam is an... Abalone diver, I believe. But diving was not her true passion, oh no! While she works, she gathers materials for herself. And every night, she would go home, and she would weld and sew and create all her little toys, from beautiful kites to gorgeous clockwork doll, she would work into the night and sometimes the early hours in the morning... But she did not realize how cruel the sea could be...

[Overslept]

While very hard to follow I'm glad to see Reve branching out in all directions. After the first incarnation everyone was expecting steampunk x retro circus which would have been cool albeit a little trite. This way its tumbling head over heels through genres from the original circus like stuff, to the undersea adventure, and now a clockwork toy maker, brilliant.

[water-drop-07]

This EI's gonna make me cry, isn't it? gonk

I don't have a theory yet. Maybe at the next evo. I will...

[Kecitich]

wow, this is good. I am gonna tell that someone special about this thread.

Could she be a witch that put spell into the toys and make them alive and chat with her all day long? mrgreen the catch could be she was once a toy too, so there is a mother of toymaker witch out there.

Maybe these bring-toys-alive action is for her son who is lost when he was young sad

[Crimple]

The story beings with a toymaker who lives alone in a cottage by the ocean. All day she spends foraging the ocean beds and all night she spends crafting them into beautiful toys. The ocean saw that the toymaker was lonely so offered her an enchanted clockwork heart which brought her mannique to life. The lonely toymaker fell in love with the mannique despite herself. But as the enchantment wore off, the sea spray ate at his joints and his clockwork heart slowly came to a stop. The brief happy life they shared became a distant rusty dream.

...well that's just my take on the toymaker and her tragedy biggrin
Can't wait to see where the Reve's story takes us!

[Rairi Sakurai]

=D
I like that art a lot!