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Huan-yue
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Nerio
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Oran
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:11 am


o Introduction...

In advance, I'd like to thank you for taking your time to check out my concepts and/or leave me critiques. I really appreciate any tid bit you could leave for me, though it's not required. Also, if you would rather PM then that would be fine too. Oh ask questions also! Thank you once again for dropping by & have a great day. :3
PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:12 am


o Updates

7.27.07 >> Started concept :'D
9.01.07 >> 166k...Editing concepts more..
10.08.07 >> Edited Nerio & tweaked Inverted Flame concept.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:15 am


o Concept 1
[whatshouldicallthis]
From afar this vial seems to be partially full of cloudy water, but as you lean closer, you can see that the waters are actually swirling slowly and "playing" what seems to be..a memory? But how can this water have a memory?! Water..doesn't even have a mind..does it? Focusing your eyes a bit more, you watch the scene and notice that it's completely in black and white except for a small, brilliant green fish. It seems to be swimming contently back and forth in the memory but now your curiousity takes over as you also listen intensively on a beautiful but sorrowful singing emitting from it.. Why would a lake remember this? Instead of recording a memory in its entire splendor, this lake seemed only to dedicate its thoughts to this emerald painted fish. What's so special about this fish? And...how, even after the storm, did this memory come to be when it's made of water? ...Is that..Shira's legendary song?

...What feelings did this lake truly possess?

*The fish was supposed to represent Shira D: Green for the beauty of the Yggdrasil tree and the world.Water for the water of the world-- I'm sorry, I over thought this. T__T;;


Name: Nerio [Greek:water]
Guardian: Namini
Gender: Male
Fel Essence: ? above ?
Soul: White Lion [1][2][3]
Hair color: Silvery white with some sharp icy blue and deep water blue strands.
Hair style: Uneven but still smooth looking. A long rat tail, either braided or like twisted and then adorned with shinies. This is supposed to appear like a lion's tail. C:
Eye color: White pupil-less, Black Sclera ... or perhaps a vivid green?
Skin color: Sunkissed, mildly tanned.
Markings on skin: None
Clothing style: Circus themed --> Ringleader x Punkish
Horns: None
Ears: Small lion ears
Accesories:
Personality: Though intelligent and straightforward, he has quite the temper since he finds it difficult to express his "sensitive" feelings. (Sadness, happiness, apology..) He snaps at others easily, but when he realizes his folly he attempts to apologize..though apologizing is his weakest point. His personality in a few words: childish, protective, and an odd kind of affection.
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Extra/Power?: Power in stages>>

Stage Frei: There are certain memories in which a person adds unreal details to in attempt to remember the event. For example, if you recalled a n event and you said that "Remember when Eiry slapped Roux at that one party? :'DD? " and then everyone else is like "Um...that..never happened."
Nerio could remove these falsities and reveal the true memory.

Stage Sigel: Temporary "photographic memory". Nerio would be able to temporarily copy someone else and their actions (cooking, painting, etc) or spread this style of memory to someone else. For example, if David wanted to cook for his date but Namini wasn't home, Nerio would give him the power to "see" how his sister did it before and copy her.

Stage Valsaros: Memory claws. Basically, Nerio would, as a defense only thing, "pierce" one's mind and unlock suppressed memories to cause them pain. // (other option) A brief flash of amnesia [defense]

Mystery stage?! XD WHY AM I THINKING THIS FAR--

Alter memories.
PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:16 am


o Concept 2

Inverted Flame
Wearing the illusion of being your average flame, you notice as you lean closer to it that instead of emitting heat it seems to give off a cool, almost cold air. But..it's a flame right? Flames should be giving off heat and light! Then you notice something else parculiar...it's not spreading any light. A darkness seems to creep up on things around the flame as if the darkness is the light that the flame should be shedding. So here we have a corrupted flame, one that refuses to give warmth and light to others but seems to absorb warmth instead...


Name: Ruya/Lior
Guardian: Namini Nao
Gender: Androgynous
Fel Essence: Inverted flame
Soul: Falling/shooting star
Hair color: Smoky, like a fading black to grey
Hair style: Wavy and layered: like flames
Eye color:
Skin color: Pale with a soft pinkness in the cheeks.
Markings on skin:
Clothing style:
Wings: Dark with sparklies in it 83;;
Horns: ?
Ears: Elven
Accessories: Lots of silver-> Bangles, rings, a black choker with a bright diamond in the middle, earrings..("stars")
If it did have horns, I think a cool accessory would be like beaded jewelry hanging from them to make it look like a constellation or something..
Personality: Introverted, manipulative, unpredictable
Alignment: Neutral evil
Extra/Power:

1st stage >> Can emit flames from its fingertips that instead of burning, rots whatever it touches. Ex: If it grasps a flower with its fingers emitting this flame, the flower will not burn but begin to decay and turn into a cold pile of mush. When used on another person though, it will only leave a large bruise if the amount of contact is short. If there is a long span of contact, the affected area will become temporarily paralyzed. [Leo]
2nd stage>> Can create an burning arrow that when shot appears to be like a shooting star. Once struck, the arrow does not burn the prey but sets a "poison" into the body that makes a person feel as if they are on fire, causing them to be temporarily paralyzed. [Scorpio&Sagittarius]
3rd stage >> Can create healing moonlight from its hands for itself and/or others. [Cancer&Virgo]

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:18 am


o Concept 3
Time ebb..
PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:19 am


o Extra souls& essence scraps
*Bolded are my favorite :< I really wish I could use them..

Souls:
Red Panda soul, Flamingo soul, Phoenix soul, Gryffin soul, Pegasus soul, otter soul, dragonfly/damselfly soul..

Jinmenju
Jinmenju (Ninmenju) is a strange tree illustrated in Toriyama Sekien's Konjaku Hyakki Shūi. It grows in remote mountain valleys in China. The jinmenju's fruit appear to be human heads. The faces are always smiling or laughing, even as they fall from their branch.


Essences:

Shards of Happiness/Abandoned Happiness
When an unfortunate event finds you, there's no escaping the trail of devastation and pain it leaves behind. Not every one and thing can have their happiness restored to its previous condition and because of this, every now and then you will find some shards of happiness left at the sight of their misfortune. But it should be impossible right? For happiness to take a solid form, but it's true for there it is in this little vial. Glowing pathetically, these shards seem to emit a soft laughter as you lean closer to them. Laughing? Shards of happiness?! Has the storm corrupted even what shape our emotions take?

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:20 am


o Guardian

[Name] Namini Nao | "Mini" or "Nami"
[Age] 16
[Height] 5'4"
[Weight] 105 lbs
[Appearance] With a small framed body and large dark blue eyes, Namini gives off a childish appearance. Her wavy auburn hair is adorned with lowlights and an unusual layered cut. She has porcelain skin thanks to her always having an umbrella.
[Personality] Incredibly clumsy and airheaded, Namini is constantly switching between jobs, though she always gives forth her best effort when at a job. She is pretty optimistic, though sometimes depression embraces her. She is innocent when it it comes to sexual matters and easily wears a blush. She's always trying to better herself and help everyone around her, especially her brother. There have only been a few times where she has become angry, and in those situations she becomes anti-social, lazy, and allows herself to indulge in junk food. Overall, she can be viewed as a child with her small random bursts of temper and her large amounts of energy!

[Likes] Art, cooking, animals, plushies, oranges, sleeping

[Dislikes] the dark, celery, perverted conversations: awkward situations

[Occupation] High schooler who works random jobs on the weekends and sometimes during school nights. Her most current job is as a hostess/waitress at a Fletcher's Fondue in Durem. Previously, she has been through six jobs: a stocker, cashier, waitress, office assistant, delivery girl, and telemarketer.

[History]: Growing up under a single mother, Namini grew up in a world where her mother was everything. Though she also had an older brother who she adored, though he picked on her constantly, all she could see was the happiness of life through her mother's eyes. Then one day her mother died in a car accident and Namini was devastated. She mutilated herself for days until her brother stepped in and got her guidance. She then realized that her mother wouldn't have been happy at her then, and so Namini decided to continue her life with an optimistic thought where ever she went. She now lives in Durem with her older brother, 24, in a small apartment complex.

She wishes for...: confidence

[Clothing] Since she's short on money, she chooses to wear simple, airy clothing. Occasionally she'll wear something formal and exquisite, but she prefers not to. [Everyday clothes - Waitress uniform]

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:08 pm


o Credits & thank you's

[Lab 305], Raevans, and Raevan artwork is © to Kyoupiruchi.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:50 pm


The Memory Fragments fel essence is really great! The memories of a lake is a unique idea, and I'd be very curious to see how this would come to play in your Raevan and his powers.

I'd like to ask, why are Nerio's eyes black sclera and without a pupil? Is that due to his soul, or would the fel essence's nature have an effect on that? I think it'd be interesting to play off the lake idea and make his eyes mirrors, or perhaps a rolling color of blue that never seems to stay the same hue...or scenes from the memory of the person looking into them (perhaps that can be a power?). *can get carried away, ignore her*

Huan-yeu will be beautiful, I love her hair. My only concern is the ghost - do ghosts have souls, or is the ghost itself a soul? O: I'm not asking that as a question, but more as an idea for you to consider in your RP to aquire it.

Your essences are great, and I'll be interested to see if you continue on the theme of things that are broken, or if you'll find something that should be broken and is, in fact, whole. ;3
PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:59 pm


I think I gave Nerio black sclera because I wanted his eyes to represent the moon's reflection on the dark waters, but I love your ideas. I might have his eyes flicker different colors as he "eats" since I'm hoping to have him eat bad memories from like the minds of plants, fish and stuff like that, as if to ease their pain. Haha, I imagined a flickering computer screen. 8D;;

And thanks for pointing out the ghost thing with Huan-yue. I think..the ghost itself is a soul? I'm..not sure if there's a difference! Thanks xDD I have more research to do now. Thank you so much Chrystali for your advice.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:33 pm


I think if you use ghost as the soul you will need to discover what kind of ghost it would be. The ghost of a human? The ghost of something else? What is it a ghost of because that's something important and would change things in different directions. There aren't just "ghosts" like whisping things that had no life - they used to be something and you can't just disreguard what they used to be.
PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:37 pm


Okay. So like if I used a Preta, I'd have to like..clarify it? Like..I think Pretas are humans. Yeah, they were jealous or greedy humans in during their lives and when they die they like..crave for something. XD Like they are never satisfied. I was trying to find a soul that was like..completely different from the shards of happiness. :3

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:41 pm


I'm more than well aware of what a hungry ghost it. I've studied Buddhism for many years. But what kind of creature lead the greedy life and now lives wandering for years and never being satisfied?

If it was a human what did that human do in his life that brought him to this point?
PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:47 pm


Oh, WOW. I'm extremely impressed -- you seem to have put in a lot of thought on these. You make me want to construct a thread myself. heart

That said: I confess that my favorite of the two is Nerio. I can almost imagine him in my head -- I'd love to sketch him sometime for you. His personality strikes me as... conflicted? -- someone who wants to be affectionate, but is held back by an inability to express it properly? Maybe I'm wrong, but I get a strangely lonely feeling from the whole concept.

And as far as Huan-yue, I still call her very, very interesting -- the soul itself intrigues me, as far as how it would react to the essence, perhaps it was drawn to it by a desire to devour the solid emotion. And the raevan herself would be very interesting as well -- is her need to please due to an ability to 'feed' on pleasant emotion? Sweet though it is, I think that the nature of the soul should be emphasized as well.

Sorry for the long, rambly comment -- I hope it's helpful~! *hug*

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