Evva and Haleth

I finally finished another picture of Evva!

She's with the draft horse, and one of the planet spirits.
This is a few years after the story. Her hair's a little longer. She's got the burn scar on her shoulder, and she has her two pendants (though one is hidden under her shirt, or it would have been too cluttered).
It turned out pretty good!
She's holding some star fire in her hand, which she drew from that star-shaped pendant.
Haleth, the horse, doesn't have a saddle, because I wanted to draw his pretty dapples. But it would probably be very hard to ride him without a saddle, because his back is so broad! I've ridden a draft mule once, but I had a saddle. I can't imagine trying to stay on without one.
Ooh, I'll try to find a picture of him!
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Here he is! One of the mules from when I worked at Yosemite (He's not even as big as Haleth). I actually used his name for one of the mules at Evva's farm!
That's not me riding him. It's just one of the random guests. I have no idea who she actually is @_@

Alternate Me

I have two characters that I use to more or less represent meyself in stories. Fern, of course. Who can turn into animals and such. And who goes into movies and books to interfere, because it's fun to interfere!
And then in my Pokémon fanfic, I have Cara. I guess I named her middle school, and I was obviously very lazy about coming up with her name. As it's just my name with a different first letter.
Cara and Fern are essentially the same character in different worlds. One has magic, and the other trains Pokémon.

I don't actually write for Fern too much. I draw pictures of her, and I have a lot of notes for what she does. But there's very little actually written out for Fern's stories (except for an ancient X-Men fanfic, which never seemed worth posting even on fanfiction).
I wrote a little bit of her in Coco, mostly to blow off some steam for my Coco craze.


I have written a lot for Cara.
And I try to write her like me. If I had access to a roster of bad-ass magical creatures.

It's kind of interesting, because it makes me look into my own flaws and see how I can use them in magical worlds with anime and game characters.
I discovered a couple interesting things about myself during this. Like how Cara is very protective of her friend and her Pokémon. Which probably has to do with her being possessive of food and stuff (I once blew my stack when I went to a camp and someone ate almost all of my special chocolate. So I used that with Cara, hollering at her best friend for accidentally eating her donut). The protectiveness kind of runs into possessiveness. Don't eat my chocolate! Don't hurt my friends!
I've also tapped into some other problems I used to have. I used to have a bad temper when I was younger.

And since Cara is younger than me (she's fallen way behind my actual age) I figure I can still use those.

But hey. This gives me good opportunity to work on fixing those flaws! You can't fix them if you don't realize they're a problem.

Revision Three

Since I finished the first draft of Arrin's frustrating story, I'm now working on a different project.
I really need a break form Arrin's story XD
So I'm doing my third revision of Evva's story.
I thought it was in decent shape. Or at least, that the first two chapters were in decent shape because I've gone over them a few times. But I've already spent a lot of time tidying up sloppy paragraphs, making things clearer and more focused.

I don't have too many big edits I need to make. The only big thing is to bring out one of the characters.
I don't have any feedback on this story, so I don't have any directions to go for more fixes. I'll work on strengthening the writing and see if anything else pops up.

Animal pictures!
(I'm almost done sharing all the old ones, so I won't have to post as many once I'm done~ )

Miniature horse


Kune kune pig


Alpaca

Coming Back to Life

Sometimes when a character dies at the end of the movie, it doesn't feel like they've died.
Because when you watch the movie again, there they are just as they were before.
I only feel that way for characters that die at the end. And only if they're a character with a big role.
I guess because they spend more time alive?
Anyway, one example is in Van Helsing.


There's one instance of a character dying that I've only seen once. Or in this case, played. Zack Fair. Because I don't have the proper console to replay Crisis Core.

So maybe a character really does feel dead if I don't go back and rewatch them.
Though Zack's death is rather pivotal in following games, so that may be a factor?

There's even some of my own characters that don't feel dead. Or I guess, mostly just one character. He the only one so far that fits the categories I listed above.

(There's another reason some characters may not feel dead. Because I like to use Fern to alter movies and books, and she saves some people XD )

Pokemon: Into the Unkown

I was going through some old files recently, and one popped out at me.
It was part of my Pokémon fanfic that I wrote for a contest on Deviantart. It included the Pokémon Unown. And it was titled "Into the Unown."
And of course, Frozen 2 now has that song "Into the Unknown."

Here it is-the first line in the text (it's old - don't judge it).

It's so bizarre when I see my ideas appear in very popular movies (like Avatar, Coco, and Frozen).

Anyway, let's have some more animals!


Chacoan peccary




Red Panda


Francois langur (babies are born bright orange, and darken in the first few months)

It's really weird watching movies and getting alarmed for a minute that people are getting near each other without wearing a mask.

Quick Characters

There have been a couple instances where I created a spur-of-the-moment character to fill a gap in a story. And I ended up really liking those character, even though they have very little screen time.
The first of these was Joaquin, Evva's adopted brother.
And now there's another. I created her at the end of Arrin's story. We need to see what direction Arrin is headed after the events of the story. I had decided beforehand what her animal partner was, and it's an African animal. So it would make sense for Arrin to spend some time in Africa. It's not common for a mage to apprentice on a different continent, but it can happen. And Arrin would be glad to get away for a while. So her new mage instructor is from Africa and Arrin goes there to train with her
I've been learning some about the Samburu through conservation groups, but I still have to learn a lot more about their culture before I can do the teacher proper justice. She doesn't even have a name yet, because I don't know how their naming works.
But she's really cool! I like her a lot.

I guess there must be an interesting reason for why I get so attached to spur-of-the-moment characters. Maybe they're more pure or something? Like they're based off of instinct, not thought (I have no idea. This is wild speculation). But I really want to write more with her and Joaquin. At the very least, some short stories.

Animal Picture time!

Grizzly Bear


Wolverine


Mexican Gray Wolf