Characters

Since Tara was feeling lonely I'll post :D
I've been working on making actual characters for once. And I mean characters with which I will have my conversations with. For the most part I eavesdrop or I just know the characters well enough after a while. Right now I've composed a list of traits, kind of like what you would find in a game of Dungeons and Dragons or an RPG.

So for this I used a random number generator, for age I picked an age group. For example, 18-30 and used the resulting numbers and assigned them to a 'character' slot. Then I used a random name generator to find interesting words to make names. I put those words into google translate from English to Latin, then I take the Latin to Japanese, then Japanese to English, then English to Latin. You might say "Well what's the point of that? You'll just get the same thing." And I'd say, "WRONG"

Because Google translate fails so terribly at translating, you'll get different words as you switch them between the languages, so you'll be able to find synonyms and other interesting sounding words. If you stumble across one you like, great! If not keep going. Eventually you will hit a wall of repetition, just pick another word to go by in the results and continue.

Then I used a random number generator between 1-1000 and assign the number to the following categories with no discrimination or number tweaking. This will create the little quirks and flaws that make your character seem real. For the Jung-Meyer-Brigg part and the role, use a random number generator of 1-16 and find the complete list with descriptions of the personality types. Then go through the list with the random number pointing to the location of the personality. For example, if the number was 4, you'd go to the fourth personality in the list and use that. The 'Role' is just an additional thing that you can find in the Jung-Meyer-Brigg personality description. You may have to do some hunting to find it, but it can be helpful to get an overall feel for the character and what their role is amongst other people.

For the birthday, find a random day generator and get some days. Then find their astrological sign and attach that to the character. Then compare the characters astrological signs and compatibility to see who gets along with whom.


Role
Jung-Meyer-Brigg
Birthdate
Sign
Name Last First Middle
Gender
Age
Level
Strength Health Points (1-1000) Attack power Max carry weight

Constitution Stamina (1-1000) Endurance Vitality

Dexterity Agility (1-1000) Reflexes (1-1000) Speed (1-1000)

Intelligence Intellect Mind Wits

Charisma Presence Charm Social

Wisdom Spirit Psyche Sense

Willpower Sanity Personality Ego

Perception Alertness Awareness Cautiousness

Luck

Education

Size Mass Height

Appearance

Social standing


And then you're done! Woot!

Imaginary Friends

I wonder how many authors have imaginary friends. I think in a way all characters are sort of like imaginary friends. Though I don't know how many writers consider their characters to be so.
Take it another step. I wonder how many writers talk to their characters.
I actually find it really helpful to do that. If I can't think what'll happen next in a story, or how someone will react to something, I ask my character. It's actually pretty fun to hold a conversation with my characters (in my head - I don't talk to them out loud).
I think Nicole thinks I'm weird for doing this.
But at least I know I'm not the only one! Crystal says her characters like to ignore her.
I'm feeling lonely on the blog, so you guys should post your thoughts on the subject!

Fang

So I tried to draw Fang, Fern's wolf. He didn't turn out very good. But anyway, here he is.

Since Fang is a rather plain black wolf with brown eyes, I was trying to figure out a way to make him recognizable. Maybe he could wear something. Like a collar. But Fang gets a lot of action, and a collar could get caught on something. Then an idea clicked into my head. A wristband sort of thing. One that fits snug enough to not get caught. It's made of thick wires of gold, silver, and copper (I think the last is copper). They're all twisted together. Here's a picture of it.

And here's a random picture of Fern. Just experimenting with different expressions, ex.

KITTTTEEEEYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I FINALLY GOT A KITTEN!!!
I've been trying to talk Mom into letting us get another one for THREE YEARS. And she finally gave in.
Here she is!!! Her name is Leaf. She's such a sweetheart! She's such a purr machine. She loves to cuddle and play.
As much as I loved Midnight, she was not a lap cat. Leaf is much more of a lap cat.
Here's some of my first pictures of her.

Ben Sketch

The lines look funny because I darkened them on the computer and didn't try to make them look fancy. Anyway, I sketched this during class. It's Ben from the front, because I don't have any good pictures of him from the front.

Recycle

Guess who's never gonna recycle again?
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Snuggle

So, I recently wrote my first attempt at anything remotely like romance. Come to think of it, I haven't gone back to edit the corrections Ellen and Nicole made on it. It's only a page long. Anyway, it's for Fern and Ben. For a long time, they go on as best friends, though they kind of like each other. But they've never mentioned it to the other, so they keep on being friends. Except they're happy being really good friends, so that's not too bad. So, my story takes place when they sort of "Get together."
I guess I'll post the short story when I edit it. Though probably anyone who reads it on the blog will have already read it to edit it for me. ^-^'
Actually, it made Nicole go "aww," so that was cool! At least it brought out an "aww."

So, a friend of ours that did one of the plushie days with us last year, is a good artist on deviantart. I sort of did an art trade with her. I drew her cute little Umbreon-person, and she drew Fern and Ben for me. She just put it up today.

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Aww!
I love how Fern has commandeered Ben's jacket. She loves his jacket, so she's always stealing it. Though occasionally he lends it to her (Ben's hair is browner than that, FYI).
(I'm also drawing one of Crystal's characters as a thank-you for her drawing Katani, and she also drew Fern a while ago. Though they're better artists than me. Heheh. Oh well. It's fun trying something along the lines of Crystal's style. I just have to color the background of her picture and then I'll put it up)

Kenshin

So, I finally finished reading Rurouni Kenshin!
As you may be able to tell, I really like the characters. Especially Kenshin. The plot isn't bad. The reason I say it's "not bad" instead of "very good" is because I'm very picky about my plots and I'm not as excited about fight-centered manga as I am about others. It's very good though and I recommend it.

In other words, I have a small collection of cards and postcards and stuff that I've gathered over the years. If I see a card with a picture I'm drawn to, I buy it. I recently looked up some of the artists online. Here's the links to three artists of whose cards I seem to have several.
One
Two
Three

Baby Mewtwo and Distances

So, today I finally got around to a project I've been meaning to do.
On Soreina, my dragon planet, I've been wondering how large the continents and oceans are. A while ago, I looked up the circumference of Earth and the width of America and the Pacific Ocean, ex. So today I wrote rough estimates for the width of the three Soreina continents as well as the oceans between the continents. It's kind of nice to have that down finally.

I've been trying to intersperse stuff about my stories in with all these other random posts I've been putting up.
So, I finally painted the baby Mewtwo I made earlier this summer. Here he is.
Awww. Baby Mewtwo. I'll have to include him in my fanfic eventually because I looves him. And I have it all set up also.
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Fairs and Repairs

So, yesterday Ellen, Nicole, Kelly, Crystal and I went to the Scottish games. Dad and his friend Carter came too. Everyone stayed the night since we had to leave early in the morning, so we had 8 people sleeping in our house at once. That was a record. We could actually fit several more people in the living room, which was interesting.
The games were awesome, as usual. I love looking at the different booths. I got some kunai knives in honor of May and Lanfan. Heheh. I realllly wanted to get the master sword, but I got a reverse katana earlier this summer so I guess one sword is enough for the year... That booth is there every year though, so hopefully they'll have that one again (this was the nicest cheap one I've found so far). And Dad got me a distant Christmas present there too.
And today there was an Asian fair thing near my house, so I went there. I saw one guy there that wasn't asian. I felt sooo out of place. I wanted Ellen, Kelly, Crystal, or Jenny as a guide. But there was one booth with a lot of cheap anime stuff. I spent $23 and got a tone of things to keep and give as gifts. I got this amaaazing figure of Alphonse that moves at the joints. You can even open him up and take his head off like they do in the anime. And he comes with a kitten, so you can put it in his armor!
Ahh, I like figures, as long as they're good.

In other news, here's some pictures I've been meaning to put up. When we went up to Virginia City over the summer, a lady at one of the shops had some broken figures that she gave me. The dragon was missing some toes and his horns. The horse was missing some of the feathers. So I used air-dry clay to recreate them. As a note, never use air-dry clay to mold small delicate stuff. The poor dragon's horns have broken several times. I'll use the fimo or sculpey next time I want to do something like this. Use air-dry clay for bigger, tougher stuff.
The Pegasus is ammmazing. It's so beautiful!

Here's the feathers I painted.

Here's the dragon.

Here's the horns.


And the fore-feet.


And here's a little deer from my grandparents house who was missing a leg.

Tyra and "Fern"

Okay, first a brief explanation.
I blame Ellen and Crystal entirely because they're amazing artists and when I asked them to draw my characters, they did amaaazingly.
As you know, around the beginning of summer I discovered what a kiriban was and won 2 pictures from wonderful artists on Deviantart, one of which did the lovely picture of my dragon Heyoa (the other is still pending).
And a few weeks ago, I got a paypal account, which has a significant contributing factor in the following events.
So now I've actually bought a couple commissions from artists. And two of them came in todayyyy!!!!!
I asked the artist Sunimo to draw one of my dragons for me. The dragon that's the mascot of my blog. Basically, if Fern were ever to transform into a dragon, this is what she would look like.
Admittedly, it's very different from what I expected, but it's very good.



And then I asked Griffsnuff to draw a chibi of Tyra for me. It's sooooo adorable! I looves her!


I shall most certainly post the next one when it comes on.