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I have a concept in mind now, but you see there are quite a few different variations of it. It sometimes has different names, different abilities, different meanings but it's really all the same symbol at it's core. A black dog or a black apparition in the form of dog. Gwyllgi (dog of darkness if I remember correctly) I think is one name, Grim is another, some just call it the 'black dog'.

So I was perhaps wondering, that instead of just choosing one myth about it, I take them all, toss it in together and write up something myself. Like, I'd write a story about the death of the black dog and instead of showing off the myth, I'd give links to every single actual myth I can find about the creature. I realize perhaps this isn't allowed and if it's not then that's okay... but if it's not should I just go about and pick one single myth about the black dog?

Also, out of curiousity... I've been thinking about a death backstory just for the sake of it and because the black dog's eyes are different in many stories (someone who's helping me said that some say they were yellow, red ... green... such and such) change, I was perhaps wondering to myself how I might pick a color. In one thing I found on the Grim, it said that some people might even die from making eye contact with him for he is a sign of death. I've been debating on pure black eyes, wolf-ish eyes (black and yellow) and then yesterday I came up with a new idea: blind. I just wanted to make sure that would be okay... like I have a good reason for it... the reason I came up with yesterday is something like:

'The apparition began to loose it's powers from lack of belief and as it was fading it decided it did not wish to die the death it had always represented, so it chose to be reincarnated as a human and see what it could become, however in order to do so it needed energy. The last of it's energy was in it's eyes and so to reincarnate itself, it gave up it's sight.'

Sort of thing. Would that be okay as a summary of death and reasoning for blindness?

I don't understand your second statement. Aren't Fa'e myths reborn? So why would it be infringement if the Grim was reborn? He has to die, except he's just ensuring he'll be reborn via loss of the power in his eyes. O.o neh?

Mmm well that works because somehow I want him blind. It doesn't really matter how it happens.

So if ... like... I could do something like... him not being happy with being a symbol of death and as he fades he looks back and wishes he had another chance to be something better then that... and Airi gives him a chance and he bargains with his eyesight? Would that work?

Yeah, Vashu's Suraj is mute. Sorry Mahii. ^^;

Headless Horseman, right? Didn't he still speak? *thought he laughed* I haven't actually read into the mythology though...

Suraj will be questing to get his voice back ^^ Tis a rather big part of being the firebird, after all, with his pretty birdsongs.

I wouldn't see it as a problem, but maybe PM Vash to be sure? I think she'd be okay with it, but just check ^^

I think that might work, Zan. It's a neat twist. But you don't actually need to give a magical reason for his loss of eyesight. You could say that because he was a dog spirit in his past life when he became a human there was conflict between his "dog sight" and his "human sight" which then lead to him eventually losing his sight. ^^