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So. From the pics, do you prefer....
  Praying Mantis?
  Spiny Flower Mantis?
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Dark_Musashi

PostPosted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:04 am


So. Time to post the quest thread somewhere.
... I'm too lazy to complete it now. O_<
Will post intro and banner later.
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Username: Dark_Musashi
Mule SN's: Carmen Villaradio
IoDM Newbie? (Y/N): Yes
Serum: Serum 54: Praying Mantis OR Spiny Flower Mantis
CODE for your quest banner(s): none yet
PostPosted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:18 am


The victim
Most of this part is being reworked in order to make it all believable and as new as possible.
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Name:Carmen Villaradio

Age:around 27-28

Pysical Appearance: Average build. Tan skin. Light brown hair, almost orange due to a previous bleaching experience, cut short, slightly curvy. Dark gray eyes. A mole near the mouth. Often seen wearing loose clothes and a pair of washed-off pink baskets. Accurate picture at the right.

Personality:Kinda shy, a bit drawn back. Gets easily pissed off however. Dependant, feels obligated to rely on someone else, but won't trust men easily. While at first seeming determinate to reach her objectives, she has the bad habit to push them off for later, and finding new goals to reach. (IN PROGRESS)

History:Carmen was born in a hispanic familly at New York. She has a 20 year old brother, Juan. Her mother, Maria, used to be a nurse but left work as soon as she stopped working. Her father, Rodrigo, is providing the money in the familly as well as Juan. As a kid, Carmen was beaten up by her father, and as a teen, she wanted to be like the girls form her class, breaking their boyfriends to drain gifts and money from them. She managed to get laid with a classmate in last year.
After school, she attended university, but obviously, she wasn't good enough for it. Therefore, she went to live with her boyfriend, Paolo, who did not ended up broken and broke, but took advantage of her. Not having qualifications nor independance, she couldn't apply for a steady job, and went under the humiliation of doing student jobs. That, until she got the guts, after many years, to leave him, after seeing this Feral Labs ad in a journal, wanting people to test new treatments. Wanting to do something useful of her life, but most of all, wanting an occasion to leave her boyfriend without having to look for an appartment, she applied.
(IN PROGRESS)

Other Info: -Was good at history and geography back in school.
-Had a catholic education, but has more of an atheist philosophy.
-Wanted to raise lizards back in childhood. Gave up after one lizard she caught appeared to be a small snake that bit her. Has issues with legless animals since then.
-Cooks well.

Birthday:somewhere around autumn 1979

Occupation:guinea pig

Sexuality:straight

Mother:Rodrigo Villaradio

Father:Maria Nargolamez

Status:single

Likes:music, bright colors, birds, walking reptiles, autumn, barbecue

Dislikes:loud noises, rodents, snakes, worms, summer, young children, vegetables


Why she was chosen to come to the island?
she's finally left her boyfriend and saw an ad, where the Feral Labs looked for someone for "testing". This work implies testing medical products and injections. Not having enough education for this, she didn't think about the consequences on her health and life. That's why she accepted to fly on an helicopter to the main labs, to be part of an important months-long program. Or so they said. Anyway, the supposed length of the program isn't too scary, since she looks for both a place to momentarily live in and earn money before finding an appartment back to the city.

Why a Mantis?
Carmen hates men. She's not so feminine. She is dominated. A mantis EATS males. When talking about these insects, females come to mind, not males. Those are dominating grass-sized beasts. And Moreau seems to have a thing for irony. So there.
And there are not enough insects and I'm fascinated by mantises.(IN PROGRESS)

Dark_Musashi


Dark_Musashi

PostPosted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:31 am


The animal

Praying Mantis (Mantis Religiosa) OR Spiny Flower Mantis (pics somewhere on this page)
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Mostly a south European insect. However, if you're talking about other species of mantises.. holy crap, they're almost everywhere where snow dosn't exist half of the year. More than 2000 species of mantids. Anyway, while we talk here about the main European specie, most of these informations apply to all mantids. Excepted the appearance, of course, they are not all long and green and thin and scary.

Appearance: up to 7 cm long for the females. Males are 2 cm shorter. Only insects whose head can turn up to 180°. Huge eyes allowing almost 360° of vision. When you watch a mantis, a clever eye trick makes it look like it is always watching you back. I can't say it's true, but it's far from wrong either, I hope if the case ever happens, you are way bigger than the mantis. Usually bright green or brown body.

Diet: basically, they eat various insects, small spiders, and sometimes, tree frogs, lizards, mice, or even hummingbird. Insect eggs aren't a no-no. They eat about anything at is small enough to be caught.

Hunting strategy: most of the time, they stay still, in their famous praying position, on a plant, where they look like a stem or a leaf. When their prey comes near, their strong forelegs catch it. These spiny arms are very strong. When stuck, the prey is bitten at the neck, paralyzed from such an injury, and eaten. Other mantises species, such as the Spiny Flower Mantis are coloured and hide more specifically on flowers. The wings can only be used by some males, smaller than females, to fly, their main use is intimidation against birds, other insects or lizards. Have a nice lunch.

Breeding: during summer, the little terrors breed, and during this act, or even after, the female eats the male starting by the head. They need proteins to lay eggs, you know. About laying eggs, they lay between 300 and 400 egs, surrounded by white ooze becoming solid shortly after to protect the babies. Said babies often start eating siblings at their birth. I know, you sometimes wish too you were allowed to kill your annoying little brother. Anyway, a female potientially can lay about 12 of these egg packs in their whole life, but adults often die during winter.

Some useful links: http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/mantids/praying/
http://exoticpets.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=exoticpets&zu=http://www.mantisuk.com/default.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantodea

Some photographs: http://www.shawnolson.net/media/1_Shawn_mantis_holes_3605.jpg
http://www.soulpix.com/animals/mantis/mantide_religiosa_1.jpg
http://www.soulpix.com/animals/mantis/praying_mantis.jpg
http://www.soulpix.com/animals/mantis/mantide_religiosa_3.jpg
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38525649/?qo=124&q=by:blepharopsis&qh=sort:time+-in:scraps
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/36979993/?qo=206&q=by:blepharopsis&qh=sort:time+-in:scraps

OMG ACCURATE DRAWINGS. Okay, not accurate. And those are coloured sketches, not drawings, I admit. You know what? Forget they even exist.
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... basically, I don't care about anything, I would just be glad to see hair remaining on her head. Not even the whole thing.
PostPosted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:34 am


Donation stuff

I'll only say it once:
DON'T DONATE TO ME.
I could get the money and/or items I need if only I worked. I'm not that poor. I'm more looking for an opportunity to get an IodM than money.
Please, keep your golds for the questers who really need it.
Thank you.

Dark_Musashi


Dark_Musashi

PostPosted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:35 am


You can post, now.
.. if you want.
I swear, one day, I'll post more stuff. And drawings and pics. I'm just too damn lazy right now. gonk
PostPosted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:43 am


Hey there!

Interesting start so far. I love the abused woman to praying mantis thing, though I feel sorry with anyone that gets, uh, 'involved' with her past a certain phase. gonk

Sylan


Dark_Musashi

PostPosted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:27 am


Sylan
Hey there!

Interesting start so far. I love the abused woman to praying mantis thing, though I feel sorry with anyone that gets, uh, 'involved' with her past a certain phase. gonk

Thank you. 3nodding
I swear I'm gonna post interesting stuff but, god, I'm so lazy, I'm Sloth incarnated. Procrastinatiooooooooooon.
PostPosted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:35 am


*Dances*

Evils of Truth and Love


Dark_Musashi

PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:52 pm


Put some images. Whee 4laugh
PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:22 pm


Iona: Don't eat me! D:

Jema Fox


Dark_Musashi

PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:30 pm


Carmen: I.. err... don't eat people yet. Not in my eating habits. Might change if you're in fact a very well disguised chocolate Easter bunny, however. O_o
PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:49 pm


*Dances, disguised as a... birdie* Whee.

Dark_Musashi


Dark_Musashi

PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:13 pm


*Brings the quest back to life*
PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:34 am


*Pokes* Thread not dead.

Dark_Musashi


Dark_Musashi

PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:40 am


NOTE:
I've found a most interesting sort of mantis there:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38525649
I don't feel like changing the thread right now for two reasons:
-the animal I had in mind is still a mantis, with the same habits and such, only the appearance changes;
-I'm not sure whether to keep the Praying Mantis as the serum or to choose instead the Spiny Flower Mantis. That's why I'm putting a poll.
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