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 ]

[Taiko Knox]

A Toymaker that dives to the bottom of the lake and finds items to use in her toys. She uses the hovercraft thingy to store the things she finds. one day she finds the Reve Rouille or, the rusty dream machine, and something happens. not good at predicting but, this is what i think xD

[Blue Darling]

I like the idea that she might end up as a toy herself

[Freya Sirad]

Super Awesome User

Long ago in the far east, a traveling diver met and fell in love with a gentle woman, who agreed to come with him back to the west in his cliffside cottage home. They had a child, a young girl, who had an active and happy childhood. While her father taught her how to properly dive in the vast oceans beside their home, her mother kept her entertained with various stories and folk tales from her mother's homeland. However, one night, the father did not return from one of his ventures. Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months and the father still did not return.

He will never return.

The young girl grew up watching the solemn form of her mother at the edge of the cliff, piercing eyes towards the mocking waves and forever waiting for the man she loved to return. To busy herself and bring in some money to support them both, the girl began to craft toys to sell in the village, using the diving lessons her father taught to gather various decorations from the ocean floor. Eventually, she began to notice her mother smiling at these toys, epecially those influenced by her homeland, and so the daughter continued to hone her toymaking skills.

One day, while returning home, she did not see her mother at the usual place on the cliff and knew that it was over. The mother could not bear to wait anymore and so joined her lost lover in the sea.

The madam is placing her heart into the toys she makes because it represents the tragedy that she had witnessed. Because of which, she is growing into a toy herself as a consequence, in order to forever preserve the memory. As for the reve, inside this crab-like toy are the shadows of a happy couple, but if you squint, there'll be a smaller shadow of a little girl dancing between them- the rusty dream.

Yeah, I know, it's a mighty stretch. sweatdrop

That's so sad yet sweet at the same time. I love it. crying

[Ron Dickles]

AlexDitto

I don't know, it feels like a tragedy of love, not death. I would suspect that her heart will be broken... and the rusty little crab somehow represents this lost love. Remember, inside the crab "dance the shadows of a long forgotten tragedy." The shadows dance! It's almost bittersweet. Like... memories...

I think the toymaker stuff is spot on, but I haven't really seen anyone think about the top hat... how the top hat fits in with all this. Maybe the top hat was her lover's?

Perhaps the top hat is a symbol/precurser to her loneliness and want for an ideal mate,someone who will appreciate her intellect and thirst for life/adventure.I can only speculate based on the style of the toys and her diving materials that she lived in a time where women were not appreciated or known for their intellect.She makes a wind-up man in her ideal image,and the little pearl heart gives him life and the ability to think freely and feel.Unfortunately,he doesn't feel for her.Tragedy ensues.

[Sou Soi]

Ron Dickles

AlexDitto

I don't know, it feels like a tragedy of love, not death. I would suspect that her heart will be broken... and the rusty little crab somehow represents this lost love. Remember, inside the crab "dance the shadows of a long forgotten tragedy." The shadows dance! It's almost bittersweet. Like... memories...

I think the toymaker stuff is spot on, but I haven't really seen anyone think about the top hat... how the top hat fits in with all this. Maybe the top hat was her lover's?

Perhaps the top hat is a symbol/precurser to her loneliness and want for an ideal mate,someone who will appreciate her intellect and thirst for life/adventure.I can only speculate based on the style of the toys and her diving materials that she lived in a time where women were not appreciated or known for their intellect.She makes a wind-up man in her ideal image,and the little pearl heart gives him life and the ability to think freely and feel.Unfortunately,he doesn't feel for her.Tragedy ensues.

I think you two are on to something, considering the crab is also a daruma doll it represents unfulfilled wishes.

[Bubonic Groove]

AngeIsThanatos

My theory is pretty much the same as others; Mademoiselle is an abalone diver who one day finds some strange heart-shaped pearls inside a shell. She takes them back to her workshop where she makes toys as a hobby (toys inspired by her travels to the Far East) and decides to put the heart pearls inside the toys to see if anything happens. Miraculously, they come to life and this gives her an idea; she makes herself a lifesize man toy to try and relieve her loneliness. She builds him but he rejects her and runs off and, broken-hearted, Mademoiselle jumps into the ocean and apparently drowns. Her toys, left to fend for themselves, decide to try and find her and all jump into the ocean themselves one day, and that's how they become washed up on the beach.

(I made myself a bit sad typing that. emo )

It's probably not 100% accurate and there might be more to the story than that, but that's pretty much what I'm expecting.

I really like this theory

[Ron Dickles]

Sou Soi

Ron Dickles

AlexDitto

I don't know, it feels like a tragedy of love, not death. I would suspect that her heart will be broken... and the rusty little crab somehow represents this lost love. Remember, inside the crab "dance the shadows of a long forgotten tragedy." The shadows dance! It's almost bittersweet. Like... memories...

I think the toymaker stuff is spot on, but I haven't really seen anyone think about the top hat... how the top hat fits in with all this. Maybe the top hat was her lover's?

Perhaps the top hat is a symbol/precurser to her loneliness and want for an ideal mate,someone who will appreciate her intellect and thirst for life/adventure.I can only speculate based on the style of the toys and her diving materials that she lived in a time where women were not appreciated or known for their intellect.She makes a wind-up man in her ideal image,and the little pearl heart gives him life and the ability to think freely and feel.Unfortunately,he doesn't feel for her.Tragedy ensues.

I think you two are on to something, considering the crab is also a daruma doll it represents unfulfilled wishes.

I think it would be pretty cool if we were :'D

[V i r]

defiitely a toy maker of some kind
it's a very cute story so far c:

[Ageisia]

Maybe she salvages things she finds under the ocean and brings them home to fix them?

[Vaginal Soup]

This gal is super crafty-I love her!

[Opera Phantomess]

Pepper, you are just too awesome to help us understand the story! And your art is something to die for. xD

I love all thse speculations. Makes me want another Reve. xD

[Queen Lucia]

The art is adorable! whee

I always thought she was a toy maker who lived off the southern coast of France, who invented creations that revealed her past. In this case, Asian based toys and trinkets. Perhaps she's like a human version of The Little Mermaid, in that she collects foreign objects for her inventions.

[Katara daughter of Water]

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!

I like this theory only I would alter it a little in that she pours her own lifeforce into making this mannequin man whom she falls in love with but eventually she can no longer sustain his life and her own and dies or becomes a doll herself so he may live. The mannequin man who is now made real forever mourns the loss of his love Mademoiselle.

[Elenawing]

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.

i think THIS is the best idea anyones had on this biggrin

[Ungoliath]

I'll make it simple: A girl who makes toys and for that she needs abalone pearls. The first Daruma pose is what she will do and the focus of the story, maybe some kind of weird magic involved at the fourth stage. And a twist over the seventh.