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 Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:34 pm
. . . ALL ABOUT AKSAJA . . . ______________________________________________________ AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORMName: Aksaja (pronunciation: Ack-sah-jah)
Meaning: Flash of lightning
Origin: Sanskrit
Nicknames: Aksi (he'll kill you if you actually use it, but it's there), 'Saj, 'Saja
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Faction/Race: Monsters/Dragon (lightning-based)
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual. As long as it's pretty and useful, awesome! (see Q&A below for more info on his 'type'!)
Personality: If you had to pick two words to describe Aksaja's personality, those words would be 'lazy a**'. For the most part, he would quite prefer to just sit around and let others do all the hard work whilst he does the bare minimum to get by, or provides the brains behind the operation. Though he's strong and smart, possessing the capacity to do well in things, he simply ... won't, most of the time. About the only things he'll expend energy on is feeding himself (if need be), collecting 'conquests' and causing trouble. Whether these conquests are sexual, or simply people he thinks that he can use to do things for him ... either way, it still makes his life easier. Or so he believes. He's never really had any close friends, simply because he does tend to use people and then discard them when their use has run out. In his mind, he's probably better off alone anyway. No one in his family or social circle back home really understood him, so he dismissed them all rather early in his life. In truth, he's a lonely person deep down, but he'd never show it, and it seems likely that he'll simply remain alone all of his life - drifting about through the world causing what chaos he can without ever expending any real effort to make personal connections with others.
Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy? In Draconic society, young males are expected to leave their parents' home at a certain point and start to make their own way in the world. By this time, they're supposed to have picked a direction for their lives and possibly even a mate. But Aksaja hasn't done this... he'd much prefer to hang around at home and waste his time on flings and essentially partying. Despairing, his parents have sent him off to school in a 'new environment' in hopes that this will somehow 'straighten him out' and give him some kind of direction for his life. They don't really know all that much about the school itself or the curriculum - just the name of it and rumors that it's a 'good school'. If they were to find out that any type of free thinking etc is encouraged there, it's possible there could be problems later on down the line with Aksaja continuing to attend. XD Which would be fun plot!
FEAR: Astraphobia - fear of thunder and lightning. This Fear allows Aksaja to create an electrical charge in his body and then 'zap' other people with it. At this stage, he has to concentrate pretty hard to build up the charge so most of his bolts are fairly small. In general, a 'normal' shock from him might immobilize a limb for a few moments and cause a small burn. If there was ever a situation where he could sit around doing nothing but 'charging up' for ten minutes or so he might approach about half the strength of a true lightning bolt - but that's an unlikely situation.
Natural Ability: Shapeshifting. Where Aksaja comes from, almost all dragons can shapeshift back and forth from dragon to a humanoid form that looks more or less like an elf. Even while in this form, however, the dragon cannot hide or get rid of certain features - usually slit-pupiled eyes and some form of their coloring/markings from their dragon form. Dragons can also take 'half-forms', and/or shift only certain parts of their bodies. For example, one could be mostly humanoid but still have wings or claws. Or they could be in a sort of half-form with scaling and even more dragon-y extras. The older a dragon gets, the faster and more controlled their shifting becomes. Aksaja's shift from mostly humanoid to full-dragon takes about five minutes at this point. To do something like grow wings onto his humanoid form takes about a minute. Even smaller things like claws forming and minimal scaling/armor take something like ten to thirty seconds. Also, at this stage, Aksaja cannot shift to the mostly humanoid form without a great deal of concentration and it's hard for him to stay in that form for very long. So generally he will always be in the form on his cert - which includes wings, tail, and some scaling.
Further Notes on Shifting: It was pointed out in a crit that the above was a bit confusing/misleading so I will clarify here. For the most part, Aksaja has three "main" forms. A fully dragon form, a mostly humanoid form, and an in-between or half-form. The half-form is the one that's the most fluid and easiest to maintain. Examples:
1. Humanoid base with wings and tail
2. Humanoid base with scaling and/or claws instead of fingernails
3. Humanoid base with only wings, or only tail
4. Humanoid base with wings, tail and scaling
All four of those are technically considered a half-form, and most of the changes that occur (aside from having wings or maybe claws) are more cosmetic than anything and would not effect things mechanically in a fight situation. Basically anything that's on a humanoid base with draconic features 'added' on is all one 'form' if you want to think of it like that. At this point, he cannot do things like make his legs digitigrade, or completely change his arms to 'dragon' arms. Those things might come later, adding a fourth form, 'anthro' to the forms he can take.
Physical Description: In his full dragon-form, Aksaja has a fairly 'typical' dragon body. He stands on four legs, with armor-plated scales and powerfully muscled hindquarters. Looking at his body-type, Aksaja is definitely built more for speed than power, as he's not incredibly huge and bulky. When he's fully grown, an average-sized human would come up to just above his knee. At this age, an average-sized human would come up to around his shoulder/neck. He also has large wings which come up out of his back and razor-sharp claws on all four feet. Upon his head and down his neck there is a sort of 'crest' of vaguely lightning-bolt shaped spines with skin stretched in between then. This crest is fully mobile and tends to reflect his mood. When it's up and the skin is taut, it means that he's interested in something, or paying attention. Flat to his head/neck signals aggression, and there are various other subtle positions between that are quite hard to read for any who are not also dragons. The skin on the crest can also change slightly in color when he's showing off ... or trying to attract a mate. The normal color is black, and when that color changes, it's usually to a dark grey, similar to his base body color. See ref below for basic color/design.
Eye Colour: Golden
Hair Colour/Style: Black with two gold streaks. The part is on his right, with most of his bangs sweeping across to the left. There are longer bangs on the side, and the rest of his hair is pulled up into a high ponytail atop his head. See ref
Skin Colour: Dark tan
Clothing Style/Colours: He rather likes black and gold, in any combination. Other than that, artist's freedom. Though it would be cool if the tattooing on his shoulders could show~
Extra: Aksaja has pointed, elf-like ears and slit-pupiled eyes. He also normally keeps his tail and wings whilst in 'human' form, though he can appear almost completely human. The only things that he cannot shift away is the pointed ears, eyes, and tattooing. He is still able to fly with those wings in human form - though it's impossible in any kind of enclosed space because of how large they are when opened. Upon his shoulders and parts of his chest and legs, Aksaja has tattoos in black similar to the darker golden Maori-like designs on his dragon form. He also has lightning-bolt tattoos on his face (both cheeks). See refs.
References: face sketch - human, colors ref - dragon, Gaia Avvie, Sosi chibi, Maori tattoos
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:35 pm
. . . MANDA Q&A . . . ______________________________________________________ Q.Rabid Ice Weasel I think you should elaborate more on why he is misunderstood. Does he have some weird traits in his personality? It seems a little like a stab at depth, considering he seems like a normal teenage boy otherwise. Is he REALLY misunderstood, or does he just feel misunderstood? DETAILS MAN I WANT THE DIRTY FILTHY DETAILS |D Manda Mostly the 'misunderstood' thing has to do with his cultural background. I mentioned that most dragons are expected to choose a direction for their life and a mate etc. but I'll elaborate on that here. Dragons are traditionally rare and special creatures. There aren't very many young dragons around because the species as a whole has a low birthrate/survival rate. So every single dragon is expected to do their 'duty' to preserve the race. Homosexuality and simply flinging about without choosing a mate fairly quickly is heavily frowned upon - even if the flinging is only with females. Because generally flings do not produce offspring, as a female dragon who is unmated will have less of a chance of raising offspring on her own, so their bodies simply do not produce viable eggs if they aren't actually mated. Aksaja likes females and males, constantly pursues flings that go nowhere, and refuses to 'settle down'. In a more human-like society, that is pretty much considered to be 'oh he's just being a teenager, it's no big deal', but in draconic society it's HUGE deal, and no one understands why he can't just cut all of that out and grow up, essentially. So uhm. To answer your question, it's sort of both 'typical teenager' and actually being misunderstood - mostly because of his attitude. Rabid Ice Weasel The only other thing I could possibly b***h about is a few of his physical traits. For one, why does he have pointed ears? Does he have horns or protrusions other than his crest? Should his ears be bolt-shaped like his crest? I don't see any correlation between his "natural form" and having elf ears. Secondly, he seems to have a lot of possible forms. This can be misconstrued as "Stuishness" if h can pretty much take any form he wants. I'd suggest having just 2 or 3, his "natural form", and his "human" form and MAYBE one in-between with dragon legs/scales/crest/eyes/wings. Right now it just seems like you want him to be able to look a bunch of different ways and be able to fly sometimes but not others, run fast sometimes but not others, have pretty-pretty scales sometimes and not others. Manda The elf ears thing also has to do with 'my' dragons, and their origins. They live in a very fantasy-oriented setting, so the norm in their area is elves, not humans. Thus, the elf ears were kind of ... developed so that they 'blend' with the humanoid population of the area when they choose to shift and go wander about among them. They do know of humans. There just aren't a lot of human settlements/what have you in their area. For the second part of this question I'm actually going to edit the base info in his form above. Ary Keeyara And what relationships did he have in the past that made him feel as if he couldn't get close to people? You mention his family and perhaps it's them, but for him to have such a strong avoidance of personal relationships I feel I want an indepth reason. It's possible that you know these reasons and they're just not listed, but what about how his family (or someone else?) treated him made him feel this was the one and only way to live? And like rapid, if he's supposed to be a bit of an outcast in some way I'd love to know some of his habits or practices that make him such! Manda The thing is, he's never really had any true relationships in his life. XD Even his relationship with his parents has been one of frustration, misunderstanding, and 'why can't you be like all the other nice young dragons?!'. I think also, in a way, he feels like if he actually gets close to anyone, they might start pressuring him to do things, or be 'responsible' or something like that - since that's all his parents ever wanted from him. He's much more the 'free spirit' type (and a lazy a** lol), and that simply DOES NOT FIT into draconic society at all, as explained above. Most dragons that turn out like that end up leaving and becoming loners, if they don't get chased out at some point, because they won't 'contribute' and etc. His parents sending him off to school is sort of their last-ditch effort to try and make him conform, and it probably won't work. Imbri Hah, wow....Yeah, this guy kinda sums up a coworker of mine, seriously to a T, so it gives it a REALLY realistic feel for me, which I think is awesome. So that leads me to ask a couple things, what does he have going on that could get other people to do things for him? And then, you say he's the "brains behind the operation", is he really, or does he THINK he is? Manda Well, for one thing he's pretty damn good-looking lol. And he's completely not above essentially lying to get what he wants. Like telling someone 'help me out and I'll help you out', and then never showing up to help (or only doing so if he's not busy/it seems fun/something). He'll 'give back' just enough to keep people hanging on his line, but no more a lot of the time. Or if he says he'll help you out, what he really means is that he'll trick someone else into helping you. As for being the brains behind the operation - a lot of the time, he really is. He's quite smart, as mentioned in his personality...he's simple 'misguided' and uses those smarts completely for his own benefit, and to find new ways to be lazy. XD Imbri When his parents sent him off to school, how did he manage to get by? (Once again, basing this off my coworker, his parents left for a month and he literally could not do a thing for himself. He came to work with a thick slab of cheese between to pieces of bread for "Dinner" ) Manda He does know how to do things for himself lol. I think I mentioned that he won't expend energy except to feed himself or something like that. Essentially, he has been taught how to take care of himself and do things. He'd just... muuuuch prefer not to, and to have other people do stuff for him, rather than lifting a finger. Imbri I love his FEAR, it seems really appropriate. Shapeshifting also seems appropriate for him/being a dragon, but I wonder if maybe having some sort of natural charm (which would help convince people to do stuff for him) might also be beneficial? Manda The way that I see it, he does have a natural charm, when he turns it on in order to get people to do things for him. XD I just ... wasn't sure about listing that as an 'ability'. Since it's more like an aspect of personality or whatever~ Imbri His family doesn't understand him, do they really not understand him or does he think that they don't (Yay, teenage years!)? And is there anyone he really respects/really disrespects in his family that might have formed those opinions? Manda I've already kinda answered the first part of this in a couple of different ways, so gonna skip that. XD But as for the rest... I don't think that there's much of anyone in his family that he has any respect for. Outside of his family, however, there are all kinds of stories of a few 'terrible' dragons that left or were chased out of the dragon lands and society at some point or another. The most recent and famous of these is a wind-dragon named Verin, who not only ran off (leaving his mate behind), but came back after some time with a male elven lover and took over a cave near the edge of the draconic lands as his own. Even worse, he had been given charge of a single egg from his mate, and raised the son that hatched from it to also participate in his 'perversions' rather than sending the son back to be raised as a 'true' dragon should be. Aksaja has actually dreamed at times of someday meeting this famous dragon who has broken with tradition and gone his own way. As for who he likes the least, that would probably have to be his father - who is a very 'upright' and traditional dragon. He's also an older dragon, and frowns upon any sort of 'new' ideas, even if the new idea is a decade old at this point. Unaru I am left to wonder though, it seems like he is subconsciously a very guarded individual with his apathy and laziness and I'm wondering if that guard is there to hide anything other than the fact that deep down he is a lonely guy. Does he have any great fears or secret ambitions that are just either too troublesome to pursue or perhaps he doesn't feel that he can succeed so he just feels laziness is the easier route? Or does he really just not know what he wants to do with himself aside from find other forms of being lazy? XD His fear seems appropriate too, and clearly can grow along with him, and I like the detail you put into his shape shifting ability :3 Manda I would say, at this point, it's probably more that he doesn't really know wtf he wants to do with himself in life - other than not be a traditional 'stick in the mud' dragon like everyone else he knew back home. If you asked him, he'd probably say that he just wants to spend his life taking the easy route and so on like you mentioned. As he develops as a character I think it would be awesome if he did find something or somehow he actually did care about, because that would throw him for a huge loop until he figured out how to deal with it XD. I'd like to try and do that in later plot for him if I get him, I think~
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:36 pm
. . . AKSAJA Q&A . . . ______________________________________________________ Q.Zee Oddwyn Does he have a 'type' that he prefers when looking for flings? What kind of person interests him. And how does he handle angry Ex-girlfriends? Aksaja What is my type? Really, if you haveta ask that, then you haven't been paying attention, girl! First off, they've gotta be smart. Or good at doing somethin' ... I don't just pick up useless people. Second, there's no way I'll take on somebody that's, y'know. Ugly. Cause that just ain't cool. Uhmn, and exes? Meh. They don't make much of a difference. I'll just ignore 'em, or get somebody else to take care of 'em for me. *smirk* Ary Keeyara Why does he dislike being called Aksi? Does it have a certain connotation, did someone used to call him it, etc.? Aksaja Uhm, are you serious? Do you know how idiotic and girly 'Aksi' sounds? It's just... stupid, okay? u-u
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 7:22 pm
Almost forgot! Open for crits~ :3
Ask me anything! Aksaja might just answer in his own words ... as you can see above. Or if you'd like to specifically ask him a question, fire away 8D
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:58 pm
Does he have a 'type' that he prefers when looking for flings? What kind of person interests him. And how does he handle angry Ex-girlfriends?
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:15 pm
Ooh good questions! I'll add those in later on~ <3
Also, it's not only girls but also boys that he fllings with LOL *needs to add that too*
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:23 pm
Alright so in honesty I couldn't find much to crit, so I kind of started nitpicking.
First and definitely bitchiest, does his name have a specific meaning? When I first looked it reminded me of someone hitting random keys on a keyboard. REALLY that's probably just because I have no idea how to pronounce it? A pronunciation key would be rockin'.
I think you should elaborate more on why he is misunderstood. Does he have some weird traits in his personality? It seems a little like a stab at depth, considering he seems like a normal teenage boy otherwise. Is he REALLY misunderstood, or does he just feel misunderstood? DETAILS MAN I WANT THE DIRTY FILTHY DETAILS |D
The only other thing I could possibly b***h about is a few of his physical traits. For one, why does he have pointed ears? Does he have horns or protrusions other than his crest? Should his ears be bolt-shaped like his crest? I don't see any correlation between his "natural form" and having elf ears. Secondly, he seems to have a lot of possible forms. This can be misconstrued as "Stuishness" if h can pretty much take any form he wants. I'd suggest having just 2 or 3, his "natural form", and his "human" form and MAYBE one in-between with dragon legs/scales/crest/eyes/wings. Right now it just seems like you want him to be able to look a bunch of different ways and be able to fly sometimes but not others, run fast sometimes but not others, have pretty-pretty scales sometimes and not others.
I really do like his character, don't get me wrong xD
YOU ASK FOR CRIT YOU GET AS MUCH CRIT AS I CAN SQUEEZE OUT OF MYSELF D<
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:42 pm
XDD It really IS more like he has 2-3 forms, MAYBE 4. It's just not explained very well I guess. Other than doing something like turning his nails into claws, most of the stuff he can do other than fully 'human' or fully 'dragon' is just .... cosmetic. Like having more or less scales or something like that.
Aside from that, it's:
Dragon form
'Human' form
'Half' form with wings/tail/some scaling on body
As for elf ears. Mostly, this guy is based on my own 'concept' for dragons, and they all have pointed ears in 'human' form, it's just... a thing... XD; Never really had an explanation for it. But it might be cool to change them to more 'bolt' shaped like his crest is o:
For the reeeeeessssst. I'll add stuff into the personality section later 8D
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:11 pm
His concept seems pretty neat and I loooveee dragons. I do have some questions, since you wanted a crit! They're a bit along the lines of Rapid's.
Why does he dislike being called Aksi? Does it have a certain connotation, did someone used to call him it, etc.? And what relationships did he have in the past that made him feel as if he couldn't get close to people? You mention his family and perhaps it's them, but for him to have such a strong avoidance of personal relationships I feel I want an indepth reason. It's possible that you know these reasons and they're just not listed, but what about how his family (or someone else?) treated him made him feel this was the one and only way to live? And like rapid, if he's supposed to be a bit of an outcast in some way I'd love to know some of his habits or practices that make him such!
Good luck with everything. <3 He seems like a cool character.
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:11 pm
Hah, wow....Yeah, this guy kinda sums up a coworker of mine, seriously to a T, so it gives it a REALLY realistic feel for me, which I think is awesome. So that leads me to ask a couple things, what does he have going on that could get other people to do things for him? And then, you say he's the "brains behind the operation", is he really, or does he THINK he is? When his parents sent him off to school, how did he manage to get by? (Once again, basing this off my coworker, his parents left for a month and he literally could not do a thing for himself. He came to work with a thick slab of cheese between to pieces of bread for "Dinner" ) I love his FEAR, it seems really appropriate. Shapeshifting also seems appropriate for him/being a dragon, but I wonder if maybe having some sort of natural charm (which would help convince people to do stuff for him) might also be beneficial? His family doesn't understand him, do they really not understand him or does he think that they don't (Yay, teenage years!)? And is there anyone he really respects/really disrespects in his family that might have formed those opinions? (Crit back? Viveca )
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:19 pm
Updated with all questions to here answered! Thanks guys!
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:24 pm
Hmm, I like him =0 When you think of a Lightning dragon you tend to think more along the lines of 'fast paced and wiry' and the fact that Aksi (Yes, that is what I'm going to call him XD its far too amusing) is a lazy a** b*****d is pretty amusing. I am left to wonder though, it seems like he is subconsciously a very guarded individual with his apathy and laziness and I'm wondering if that guard is there to hide anything other than the fact that deep down he is a lonely guy. Does he have any great fears or secret ambitions that are just either too troublesome to pursue or perhaps he doesn't feel that he can succeed so he just feels laziness is the easier route? Or does he really just not know what he wants to do with himself aside from find other forms of being lazy? XD His fear seems appropriate too, and clearly can grow along with him, and I like the detail you put into his shape shifting ability :3
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:32 pm
Oh, good questions! Answered in Q&A above! Thanks~
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 8:44 pm
I am so bad at this...dear lord.
I have to say I really like his character make-up. You've answered pretty much any question that I might have posed, and even some I didn't even think to ask. I especially like that he comes from a fantastical world where Elves make up the majority of the population, giving him the pointed ear look. I have always seen dragon humanoids of this sort with the elfish touch, personally. He seems like a fun character to get involved with (probably more negatively with his user-tendencies) or at the very least to watch as he uses others like pawns in chest. ;3
I had a question about what kind of things he would want to back up intellectually, such as running a club or being the smarts behind a science project, but that was pretty much answered. XDD
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:08 pm
XD Thank you very much for the crit! I think it would be fun if he started/ran a club (if he comes into existence) but idk exactly what type yet LOL
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