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I can make the small changes to him. Brown hair, brown eyes and dark skin. I was just trying to play my usual character here. He usually has blue hair and eyes, along with a fair skin tone. I am also more use to an anime storyline.

I could show you pictures of the character I was trying to portray, even though his looks had to change some on this fact.

(Drats, and I was hopping to have blond hair and blue eyes. Well, back to the drawing board.)

I will change these minor details if you wish. I have no problem, seen as they have not been mentioned and don't affect his powers or abilities.

By the way, I'm taking the Mary-Sue test for my average character profile. The original Tesunie that is.

Fine....
besides having to recolor my art.... stare

(Just joking! It is easy really. Photoshop! Got to love that program! rofl )

Meet Lae! (If I got it right.)

It looks nice. Better than other pieces I have seen (or done myself). I could post some of my earlier works and that would show you how far I have come. I also bought guides on how to draw, though I found them useless.

The best way to learn how to draw a certain style is to find some art in that style you really like, and draw using them as references.

Worked for me!

As long as I get better than the art arena, I'll be fine.

Anything better than, and I quote it though I don't know who commented saying this, "What the F*** is that!"

I looked at that and went, well that just helped me so much. What was wrong with my picture? Where the eyes off? Did he have something on his face?

I don't mind comments, even those that say I did a bad job. If they can tell me what I did wrong, then it will be fine.

Name: Nej
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Magic?: Dragon bonded to a Bronze dragon by the name of Nonriavi. Thus, any magic he manifests usually has to do with enchantment or creation of items.
Appearance: Nej is reasonably tall, about six feet, but he has a lankiness about himself that gives him the image that he hasn't quite grown into his height yet. This image is also helped by his seemingly perpetual clumsiness that probably spawns from the length of his legs and the relative largeness of his feet.

He has dirty blond hair that is a bit strawy and hard to manage, so he pulls it back into a short ponytail of sorts with string. This is also so he can work with out it getting too far into his face. His skin is a lighter olive color than is typical for someone from Feretris and is dirtied slightly by the light speckles of freckles on his checks and his nose, which is rather prominent. His eyes are a shade watery azure, which, apart from his nose, is probably the most obvious thing about himself, considering the relative plainness of the rest of himself.

He also has very poor hearing (as a side affect of being his ears being boxed so often as a child) and will flinch when ever anyone (be it man or woman) raises a hand against him. He is also averse to being touched on the side of the head.

As far as dress goes, being a slave he dresses very modest, in reasonably cleaner clothes (considering he is usually occupied as a personal servant, only occasionally called to work as a skilled laborer as he is decently good with his hands). He also has a small wooden necklace: a (self) carved figurine of what just maybe is supposed to be a dragon, but looks like a dog with wings and horns as Nej had only seen Nonriavi once when he carved it, it is strung with twine through a hole in the figurine's head. This figurine (as mentioned in History) was requested ("carve me anything") by his mistress at the old compound he lived in. She found it "scary" and instead insisted he keep it and turn it into a necklace or some such.

Nonriavi: Nonriavi probably looks bigger than he actually is, do to his prominent muscles and large wings. His fish-like frill (that runs down his neck all the way down to his tail) probably doesn't help the fact much either. His scales, of course, are bronze, tainted only slightly with sickening green, the same color as his eyes. Nonriavi has two large horns that curl only slightly back around towards his head.

Personality: As a child Nej was often boxed for being to bold when speaking to women or being to curious, which has resulted in him being very careful when he speaks and when he makes an action. He'll often pause before he speaks, to think things through and consider the consequences of what he might be saying. Even in the middle of sentences he'll stop abruptly for up to a half a minute at time to rethink or rephrase what he is saying. He is also prone to being profusely apologetic whenever he does make a mistake. Even if it isn't his fault, he'll apologize and bow deeply and abundantly. He is also very humble and doesn't think it his place to ask for much, if anything at all.

Apart from that, Nej's mind tends to run wild. He was punished for being bold and curious, so he keeps silent, but it doesn't keep his mind from asking questions or in general being active. The only time he is able to exercise that pent up thought is when he is working. Seeing as he is good with his hands, he often was asked to carve or craft or create and through this was able to keep himself thinking and his mind from rotting. Otherwise, he keeps intensely silent on his thoughts. He only speaks when spoken to, and usually very to the point and only providing the asked for information.

Upon being able to converse with Nonriavi, Nej has learned to be more open, but only with the dragon and in his dreamscape. It has also allowed him to relieve some of his over active mind, being able to talk with someone who pretty much knows what he's going to say anyways.

History: The old lady who ran the compound (Edace) had only one daughter, a middle aged woman by the name of Uruma. Uruma herself had one daughter, Milelin, who was only five years older than Nej himself. Uruma and Edace had not gotten along for years since before Nej arrived at their compound. As it had happened, Uruma had been caught trying to steal a good deal of money from Edace, but had been caught red handed by Edace herself. The elderly woman had turned to doting on her granddaughter and bestowing all her energy on the girl.

As far as Nej went, the boy was trained into the position of primarily a general personal servant, running about, making beds, listen to Uruma talk about her day before bed, etc. etc. From time to time he was asked to help the older servants (being very young at the time he was not quite able or skilled enough to do them by himself) in various projects. He would knit, work wood, and other some such things. Uruma and Edace were both very strict mistresses, and neither were reluctant to punish Nej or the other slaves for acting in a way they found disrespectful.

Milelin took a fancy to Nej as he grew older and eventually requested to her grandmother that he worked as her, and only her, personal servant. Edace granted this request; Nej was twelve. Milelin often requested that he carve her things from wood, as she rather liked his handiwork, and began to keep a collection of the ones she liked best at her bedside.

At age fifteen, Nej had his first dream encounter with Nonriavi. The dragon, a great deal larger than Nej and enormous with his muscled build and the frozen breath emanating from his nostrils (because, for some reason, wherever they were in this dream, it was cold and white, despite Nej not being cold in the least), intimidated the poor slave a great deal. Nej fell straight back onto his back covering his eyes.

"Whatever you are, beast or spirit or demon, I did not mean to trespass on your territory or insult you any way. I apologize! Oh, I am sorry! So sorry! I mean no offense!"

Nonriavi, although he did not know this was the dragon's name at the time, leaned in close, his massive head nearly touching the slave boy's nose. "Nej..." And then he woke up, in a dead sweat.

It was the next day that Milelin requested that he carve something for her: anything. Nej, still fascinated by the creature he saw in his dreams, carved a small figurine (about the height of 2/3 of his pinkie) of the creature. It was a crude representation, really, more like a horned dog with wings and claws. It actually didn't look that much like a dragon at all.

Milelin smiled when he finished it and gave it over to her. "It's such a strange thing. Fantastic, really," she said. She ran her fingers over it and around its wings. After a pause, during which Nej waited patiently, she spoke again. "But it's too scary. He looks so mad." She pressed the figurine back into his hand. "You keep it. Turn it into a necklace, it's small enough for that." Nej did, carving a small hole through the figurine's head and strung it with twine. He still wears this necklace to date underneath his shirt.

Edace died of old age when Nej was sixteen. Her will explicitly stated that everything (compound, slaves, etc.) was to be handed over to her granddaughter Milelin not her own daughter. Uruma, who had been expecting to inherit the compound, was furious and often struck out against her daughter. Or, more often, she hit Nej, who stood (as was his duty) between her and Milelin.

It wasn't even a month before Uruma found a way to strike a blow to her daughter that couldn't be blocked. As Nej (who Uruma knew for quite sometime was Milelin's favorite) had not been bought by Edace, but rather by her and thus was not inherited by Milelin, Uruma had the power to do as she wished with him. In other words, she could sell him. Far, far away. And that's what she did. At the first opportunity, Uruma sold Nej to Eldic Estates. This is where he is now, and has been for almost a year and a half.





(( I don't have a picture yet, but Roka urged me to post without it. ^^; Crit anyone?


By the way, this is my first post in the guild: HI EVERYONE! -enthusiastic wave- <3 ))

-jokingly boxes Roka over the ear for that- D:< You helped me, dork.