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 Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:50 pm
 The cursive crawl, the squared-off characters
these by themselves delight, even without
a meaning, in a foreign language, in
Chinese, for instance, or when skaters curve
all day across the lake, scoring their white
records in ice. Being intelligible,
these winding ways with their audacities
and delicate hesitations, they become
miraculous, so intimately, out there
at the pen's point or brush's tip, do world
and spirit wed. The small bones of the wrist
balance against great skeletons of stars
exactly; the blind bat surveys his way
by echo alone. Still, the point of style
is character. The universe induces
a different tremor in every hand, from the
check-forger's to that of the Emperor
Hui Tsung, who called his own calligraphy
the 'Slender Gold.' A nervous man
writes nervously of a nervous world, and so on.
Miraculous. It is as thought the world
were a great writing. Having said so much,
let us allow there is more to the world
than writing: continental faults are not
bare convoluted fissures in the brain.
Not only must the skaters soon go home;
also the hard inscription of their skates
is scored across the open water, which long
remembers nothing, neither wind nor wake.
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:52 pm
funds
what i want: single child, girl
how much i have: 20k pure
how much i need: 20 mil XD
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:53 pm
Name: Rose Moria Szyagel
Preferred Name: Reeve, written "Rêve".
Age: --
Sex: Female
Race: Genuine Gaian mutt (.25 muse + .25 winged enforcer + .5 human)
Occupation: Video game tester (what)
Hair Color: Auburn/red
Hair Style: Short and messy (x)
Eye Color: Bright aqua
Build: Average, leaning towards voluptuous. Reeve has flesh on her bones.
Special Characteristics: Reeve has tiny wings (white with black tips) which at later stages she will be able to "grow" to the correct span for flight; her ears are slightly pointed, and may be feathered at the tips. On her collarbone, there's a tiny black marking in the shape of a star.
Abilities: Reeve possesses no true active abilities beyond her wings and the use of them; all of her powers beyond are passive, and she is unaware of them.
She has a mild talent for most intellectual pursuits, but these are neglected in favor of near-obsessive video-game playing. She specializes in speed runs of fighting games. When not playing video games she is generally being educated in martial arts by her mother. Because one of her great-grandparents is a muse of tragedy, contact with her may cause others to rash actions or short bouts with depression. Alternatively, she is able to inspire people to write lyric poetry. Finally, she can produce weak echoes of someone else's powers when she's within a certain range.
Personality: She inherited all of her parents' talents, and yet uses none of them. Reeve is extremely awkward socially, preferring to interact with someone through the internet or writing. Her computer is her baby, second only to her game consoles in her heart. She is flaky; comparable to a soaked, vicious kitten, she is easy to pity but hard to love. She is a very big bird person. She has wings, and resents them. In MMORPGs, she always plays the healer or the tank, preferring the healer.
Relationships:
Bellatrix Szyagel - Mother
Arnor Szyagel - Father
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:56 pm
Name: Szyagel Yi Xue
Aliases: Bellatrix Szyagel, Da Chun Guo
Age: 28
Sex: Female
Race: Greek Muse (+.5 winged enforcer)
Occupation: Bureaucrat
Hair Color: Wine purple
Hair Style: A boyish cut that falls around her mid-ear, all of even length
Eye Color: Blue/purple
Build: Slim, toned.
Special Characteristics: Bellatrix has retractable wings (one pair behind her ears, one behind each ear).
Abilities: Bellatrix is the child of two half-Musa, and from their sacrifice of their powers she came into her full abilities. She is the muse of Prophecy, technically an Oracle; her specific powers fall along the range of foresight, the prediction and causation of tragedy, and the writing of poetry. She is proficient with Wing Chun kung-fu, possibly a third rank black-belt. Also, she can bury you in so much paperwork you'll never see the other side of it.
Personality: Once upon a time, people held competitions in "ice-melting" to get Bella to loosen up. As a matter of fact, they still do. Raised in a society where her only real worth was in her womb, Bellatrix does not welcome being seen as a woman and actively attempts to 'educate' people to that fact. She is a talented bureaucrat, even if she is awkward socially; breaking people's hands when they get too close to your possessions tends to wreck the party experience. Though she does not form attachments well, she is incredibly proprietary and is not unwilling to maim or even kill people she sees as stepping onto her territory. In fact, she might be considered alarmist in this respect. Bella is a firm believer in Bad Touch and shuns most physical contact with people. At least she's polite?
History: Born in a dystopian China, Bella ran away from home at age eleven and for approximately seventeen years pretended to be a boy four years older than herself. After sleeping with her superior, she spent a year as his concubine before finally returning to her family and learning that she was indeed a Muse; at the time, she was pregnant, but she miscarried the child close to the end of her third trimester. She met Arnor upon her emigration to Gaia and, after a year of dating, married him. A doll named Ophelia was cursed, and attempted to cause him to suicide by self-starvation; Bella used her Muse abilities to break him out of the spell, and nearly died in the process.
Read the full story here.
Relationships:
Erato (Muse of Lyric Poetry) - Grandmother
Kratos ("Strength") - Grandfather
Melpomene (Muse of Tragedy) - Grandmother
Zelus ("Jealousy") - Grandfather
Althaia Palapatros (Muse of Truth) - Mother
Xun Da Jian ("Conviction") - Father
Arnor Szyagel - Husband
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:02 pm
Name: Arnor Szyagel
Nicknames: Arne
Age: 31
Sex: Male
Race: Human
Occupation: Poet
Hair Color: A red shade not unlike embers
Hair Style: Medium length, to his shoulder blades
Eye Color: Green
Build: Obviously masculine; average otherwise
Special Characteristics: Arnor has a marking on the back of his left hand, in the shape of a devil's trap. Occasionally, it still bleeds due to the ink used to make it. It requires blood to maintain it. He has small fangs.
Abilities: The marking on his hand elongates his lifespan so it's approximately equal to Bella's. That's about it.
Personality: Arnor loves to have fun; he enjoys the social scene and the awkward, cold Bella that results. He is easily fascinated by things and truly adores the written word. He's educated and definitely talented when it comes to his work, but as he is the inheritor of a large estate he feels no need to publish his works or actually work. He finds the proletariat amusing. When he gets angry, he's very slow to cool down. He is a passionate man with well-defined ideas of what he wants out of life. Bella is his muse; he professes that without her, he wouldn't be able to write poetry at all. His greatest phobia is of humanoid dolls. Though he becomes ill at the sight of blood, he requires it as a source of food for the tattoo on the back of his hand.
History: Arnor is the second of two children, and the only boy. When he was young, his family used to take him to weekly parties for a man who had no children, but possessed a doll named Ophelia. One night, the man was murdered and the doll disappeared. A year later, his sister Rohanna died- she fell out of a window. After that, his mother went delirious, convinced that Arnor was Rohanna and that he had, in fact, never existed. For a time, Arnor played along; eventually, though, after seeing how this troubled his father, he stopped and sought to remind his mother of his existence. He attended college for a degree in creative writing, and then Ophelia resurfaced. He purchased her from the owner, who literally died one hour after payment was completed to Ophelia's beautiful song. The case went to court, and it was there that he met Bellatrix Xun. They dated- he was fascinated by her, and she felt she owed him for tiny favors he paid her -and eventually married. He almost died, when he finally owned the clockwork Ophelia, but Bella's timely intervention saved him. He feels guilty for almost killing her and is currently trying to pay her back any way he can.
link to the full will go here
Relationships:
Cristina Szyagel nee Daye (Opera singer) - Mother
Lief Szyagel (Film director) - Father
Rohanna Szyagel (deceased) - Sister
Bellatrix Szyagel nee Xun - Wife
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:25 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:30 pm
to-do list:
1. images mostly
2. find some way to accumulate funds
3. wat
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