Introduce your Characters!

I agree, I hope Nagino can learn to love her snakey side too, hehe. But she seems like a really interesting character either way! I think I've said this before but I love her colour scheme.

And sky, I'm loving Casey! XD Such a great concept! A little unfortunate about the diet though, haha. She's adorable. (I love spiders.)

I'm loving everyone's characters. They're all so unique and interesting and a blast to read about.

Here's someone you might recognise! (some people here have drawn her xD )


name: Zena (it rhymes with 'henna'; her full name is Zenaivrúnde but she never uses it.)
story title: she's from the same continuity as the Niralats. (it still has no title... placeholders exist for zena, such as 'sharkface'.)
personality: Aggressively independent and tough (and not particularly civil). Zena prefers to solve problems by fighting and is terrible at showing that she cares about people. She also is very competitive and hates being incompetent at anything-- she has a tendency to dismiss anything she is bad at or dislikes doing as stupid/irrelevant. She also swears a lot. When she does care about someone she may not always show it, but she'll be there when it counts.
family/relationships: Zena never knew her parents; as long as she remembers she's had to take care of herself and fight to survive. She has a bunch of half-siblings (her father, uh, got around) that she doesn't know about (yet). She did have one friend when she was young; a slave kid named Lathspell whom she pulled out of a shipwreck-- he didn't have anywhere else to go, so he stuck around with her and got dragged around on all sorts of adventures and shenaniganry.
occupation/hobbies: Zena lives in the ocean and battles sea monsters. She loves fighting and swimming and stormy weather and being badass.
goals/aspirations: She wants to be the strongestest. This is not an unreasonable goal.
brief story description: Basically she and Lathspell get seperated and years later a secret organisation captures Zena to study her and Lathspell accidentally finds her again, and they escape and have adventures! (There's a looot more to it than that but I have no idea how to include all the elements without it becoming a ridiculous textwall...)

Also more Q&A, this time with Zena! 8D (warning, just in case anyone is bothered by profanity: I wasn't kidding about her being incredibly foul-mouthed <_< )

Spoiler:

>8U! Allow me to wash that girlies mouth out with some soap!! ..maybe with the soap bar attached to ah 10foot long pole though

Good luck with that! (only about a million ways that could go wrong 8D;;; )

Edit: now with art!

Hehe, I did a bunch of those character Q&A thingies for various Chirault characters too.... I won't actually post them all to this thread because it would explode, but they're posted in the Gallery page of the webcomic, the first item under the 'miscellanea' link. XD

/digging up refs for another one'a these intros

name: Tiara (left) and Felix (right)

story title: It doesn't have an official title yet; I've just been calling it Wychwood

personality: Tiara is an angry delinquent; she can be really blunt and obnoxious, and while she feels deeply loyal towards her friends, it takes awhile for her to start to consider anyone that.

Felix has a strong sense of duty-- he will do what he has to for the sake of society, or what little he perceives of society (he doesn't get out much, and when he does he isn't in his own mind). He will put up with all sorts of shit if he believes it will do some good, or at least prevent widespread destruction.

family/relationships: Tiara never knew her original parents-- she was passed around between a lot of foster homes, and was considered a 'problem child'. She eventually went on the run a few months before her eighteenth birthday (which is the point where the story begins), after her pyrokinetic powers first showed up.

Felix's 'family' can be said to be his supervisors/various guardians at the secretive research institution in which he was raised; he believes himself to be a cloned half-breed, an experiment to create controllable soldiers with the magical abilities of demons, but human minds. He and a younger girl named Arcadia were the only surviving results; he thinks of her like a sister.

occupation/hobbies: Tiara rejects the idea of occupations as being necessary, and her hobby is being needlessly angry and also setting things on fire with her brain. She also spends a lot of time wandering around, especially into places she knows she shouldn't go.

Felix reads a lot, and occasionally paints in his spare time (he's pretty bad at it though). A lot of his time is taken up by training and going on missions for the organization that employs him, although for parts of them he is literally not in control of his own actions so I'm not sure whether that counts. XD

goals/aspirations: Tiara doesn't really have any goals, except maybe to be free-- what kind of free she isn't sure of yet, except that she'll know it when she sees it. Having some kind of purpose would be nice, too, or at least a productive outlet for her abilities.

Felix wants to believe that he is being used for good, and hopes that eventually he may be in control of the things he does.

brief story description: While on the run, Tiara is found by the militant arm of an organization that researches and wields magic to clean up the remaining traces of the demon invasion; they offer her room and board (and amnesty from the police) if she lets them study her powers, and over time the possibility of productive employment. She meets Felix while there; they end up becoming friends, and start finding out some rather weird things about the organization.

Then some other shit happens (idk how far into it I want to get, suffice to say there are Conspiracies involved :U )

..because I want some questions for these guys hehe! XD Let me share with you a bit about my ALIENS.

Spoiler:

Name: (From left to right) Derek, Val, Nic, Jackie
Story title: Jackie's Story (BEST TITLE I know - it's actually one of my biggest regrets when I jumped too soon into making this comic XD I would have liked to think of something a lot nicer for a title - but I also didn't think I'd get past 3 parts for this story and then 19 parts later I realized I was in too deep to change)

Personality: For Derek and Val, it kind of depends on who they are around! They are both very sarcastic individuals who are constantly bickering with each other. They've been with each other so long that they're basically fed up with one another. Get them alone though and they're both a bit better well behaved. Jackie is a nervous little ball of fluff who wants to give you lots of hugs and kisses - unless you're mean or scary. Nic is an overprotective brother who is pretty indifferent towards most things and just wants to go back to the afterlife already because he is dead XD

Family/relationships: Derek is Val's older brother. Their only other family was their parents who are now dead/gone. Nic is Jackie's older brother and they don't have parents because they're all born from the same place. They have a bunch of brethren back on their home planet but they don't share as close as bonds with them - because they're all, by their nature, scared of everything and prefer to stay at home and do nothing much at all. And that's boring. (Let it be known though that - secretly Jackie shares these instinctive worries - but Nic is the oddball who goes against his nature and wants to explore and go on adventures, and since Jackie looks up to him, she forces herself to agree with that idea too!)

Occupation/hobbies: When Derek and Val aren't locating random aliens to invite to their abandoned planet to mess with for their amusement, Derek likes to invent things and play with all these technology related. And Val likes to read books. All of the books. Especially the romance ones.

Nic liked going on adventures when he was still alive, and Jackie just likes hanging out with her brother.

Goals/aspirations: Val and Derek's only real goal is to survive. (They're actually stuck to being on isolated planets and not getting too involved with other aliens, because they have bounties on their heads. This is why they're so sick of each other and started slowing inviting soome aliens to their planets so they have someone else to interact with for a while. )

Jackie's goal is to get her dead brother back and KEEP HIM BACK. Because that seems like a hard thing to accomplish for her. Nic wants to go back to the afterlife and be reborn already XD

Brief story description: The story is basically Jackie getting drawn into a strange game by Derek in hopes it'll bring back her dead brother. That really is it - in a nutshell! I think I've talked enough about these guys XD Hopefully still not too bad since it was for four characters in total.

Aww poor Jackie, Nic just wants to leave her ;3;
(I really like the comic, incidentally C: )

Eee I'm glad!! ;u;
And nooooooo- he doesn't waaant to leave her! UnU It is just.. the RIGHT THING TO DO /strikes a noble pose

awww ;3; (I can't help it I really like sad zombie characters...)
(and yeah that was the impression I got from the comic; the way you described it here made it sound more like he didn't want to stay at all xD;; )

....hmm! guess I'll do these two next!


names: Phantom (the kid) and Shruikan (other dude)
story title: Alizaron
personality: Phantom is secretive and creative and inquisitive, and hates being treated like a helpless kid. Phantom believes in letting people prove themselves rather than making assumptions. Shruikan is accustomed to living as an outsider and having to fight to prove himself and gain even an ounce of trust/respect-- and secretly it really bothers him that no one cares about him. They are both huge dorks.
family/relationships: Shru is an orphan; his mother left and his father was killed in battle when he was still just a kid; he's been pretty much alone ever since. (He had quite a few sexual relationships over the years but he almost never formed an emotional connection to his lovers). Phantom has an overprotective father and knows nothing about their mother. Phantom and Shru are very close friends. C:
occupation/hobbies: Shruikan is a drifter and a skilled fighter, and he's also pretty good at making things. (Having a lot of skills gives him more opportunities to not be rejected. While he's good with his hands and survival skills, he's not intellectual at all and is illiterate.) Phantom is the smart one and likes solving mysteries and knowing how things work, but has never had an occupation due to being a kid. Both love flying a lot!
goals/aspirations: This changes over the course of the story, but in general they want to help each other out and survive and also not have the world be destroyed/taken over by creepy people.
brief story description: (quick worldbuildy note: There are two significant cultures in this world, the Elves and the Daimonen. They don't get along.) Phantom is an agendered elf kid with a mysterious sickness and a weird ghost dude who visits them in their dreams. One day Phantom finds Shru injured and passed out in the forest and decides to take care of him; Shru thinks this is really weird because he's a half-blood and no one likes him, but he sticks around anyway and they become friends, and eventually he finds out Phantom is sick. Shru uses the Alizaron (Daimon magic, basically) to heal Phantom, with the side effect of Phantom also becoming part Daimon-- Phantom can't stay with the Elves anymore and runs away with Shru, and they go on Adventures! (And meanwhile, Phantom's father thinks something terrible happened to his kid and he goes on a quest for revenge... yep. U: )

(Ah, oops sorry! XD; I did kinda focus on his bad attitude about the whole thing hehe. Basically just imagine him as an old man who hates everything now 8'D But its because he's dead and not because he's old, "I am too old dead for these adventures")

And oooh those guys! I really admire their goals and ambitions haha XD! True friendship is using your powers to make the other one healthy at the cost of becoming an outcast in society just like you - and running away together! X3

Yep! 8D
(Phantom already felt like an outcast on the inside anyway, so becoming one outwardly didn't seem like a big deal to them xD )

...Hahaha this is really funny to me; I have a character named Nic with a very similar attitude xD

Really!? Even spelt out like Nic and everything? XD

(Although I bet it probably isn't a short nickname for "Nicole" - which is Nic's full name haha)

hahaha no xD
It is spelled Nic but it's short for Nicolas.

(Do all the fishy aliens have opposite-gender names? xD )

....damn I was gonna post a picture of him but I don't have any that aren't super shitty inconsistant scribbles. xD;;; Guess I can add him to the list of people I need art of...

Yes! I want to see him! XD And then Nic and Nic can be grumpy zombie bro's.

And heeeeee YES! They all have gender swapped names. It's because technically they are genderless and never even KNEW about genders until some alien researchers found their planets and taught them a little about it. (They also gave them some clothes since they were like WOW whats on your bodies thats cool I want that.)

I've always kind of wanted to find a way to have a short little "All About Z'narnians" type thing explaining more about Jackie's kind but just.. haven't ever gotten to finding a way about going about that yet haha.

hehe, perhaps we could make the next story forum topic be about a worldbuilding aspect like that! Or it could be worldbuilding in general but that might be too broad of a topic xD;;

and yesss zombie bros 8)

Ah, so I realized I have a character of mine lined up for my blind dates - and haven't introduced them here yet eheh!

Going to fix that then!

Spoiler:

Name: Percy (Short for Percival - he's the taller/older/greeny Fishy Bro) and Cadby (The shorter/browner/grumpy fishy bro)
Story title: No story for now~
Personality: Percy is a laid back down to earth guy. He's pretty chill about most everything and hardly ever loses his temper. Cadby on the other hand is a little ball of bottled up anger that he is always ready to release at everyone. He's constantly grumpy or unhappy most of the time
Family/relationships: Percy and Cadby are brothers, and they both have just one mama - because Percy's dad died when Percy was still just a baby. Cadby is also adopted, and was so while he was still an egg so he's never known his birth parents.
Occupation/hobbies: Occupationally they are both fish creatures - whom live under the Sea XD Uhm, hobbies for Percy would be trying to hang out with his friends which is hard because then Cadby feels left out since his friends don't like him much. (So he ends up spending most of his time sort of babysitting Cadby). And Cadby when he's alone likes practicing and figuring out his strange water bending powers.
Goals/aspirations: Percy doesn't really have anything like that, he lives day-by-day. Although would probably like to have his own family someday? (Very mature aspirations haha) Cadby's biggest goal is to make some friends - which is hard because of his temper/powers and he usually gets treated as a monster or just someone no one wants to hang around with
Brief story description: The closest thing to a story I have for them - is the dream they were inspired from. In which they were mermaid type people whom never knew there was a land above the sea. Percy discovers it one day and falls for a human girl. But then more people find out and they become spotlight celebrity type star things with everyone ever wanting their photos and for them to be on their tv shows. Cadby's had a bad feeling about it since day one of the discovery. He's kind of a special type of fishy guy though (He's got like, water bending power type deals for some reason eheh) and one day he had a nightmare about Percy being in danger and getting killed by some scary human person. He begs Percy not to go up to the surface that day fearing his nightmare will come true, and Percy lies to him to get him off his back about it - and of course goes right back up to the surface. And long story short - dream comes true and it's a lot of drama XD

I don't know if I will ever work with the story more, it's kind of... special and mostly just bromance drama that I love because it-came-directly-from-my-subconcious-of-interests-eeheh

Anyways - enough about those guys for now then XD Feel free to ask any questions for them over in the Char Q&A board though. They're fairly new characters, so it'd be nice to be able to develop them s'mores.

Haha nice! I added them to the Q&A list. C:

....Yeah I rarely have good refs of my characters either; I had to make a whole new one for Drystan and Ratsel xD;;; (And I used the derpy norolots picture because that was the only colour picture I had of Zashret and Tenziel... I think Phantom/Shru and Luthe/Maut were the only pairs I have an existing good pic of.)

(aah whoops I guess I have one dating game character I haven't intro'd yet, too....)

Okay I scribbled up a ref of Nic!


name: Nicolas d'Montmorency (also goes by Nic)
story title: nope
personality: Grumpy asshole who hates everything. Does what he wants because he doesn't care what people think of him. He dislikes dealing with people in general, but particularly if they want something from him.
family/relationships: No family; he's immortal in a weird semi-undead way and everyone he cared about died a long time ago.
occupation/hobbies: He's an alchemist! His hobbies are working on sciency shenanigans all alone, smoking, and forgetting to eat. (He is incredibly unhealthy, but it doesn't really matter because he can't die of malnourishment/starvation. xD;;; )
goals/aspirations: He's trying to find a way to return to his home world. Not so much because he really wants to go back, but because he needed to give himself something to do to keep himself from going (completely) mad.
brief story description: Ummm I don't know what part to talk about. There's sort of two main story arcs about him not counting his origin story; one in which Phantom gets stranded in his world as well (Phantom helps him work out a formula to open the gate again, but it only works if one stays behind to anchor it-- Nic insists that Phantom take the chance while he stays behind, because Phantom still has people who care about them while for Nic it's about the journey, not the destination) and the other is about a mercenary called Odin who is blackmailed into finding Nic and he gets dragged off to meet Odin's 'Master' (but all does not go as planned).

annnnd that's pretty much it!!

He really is a grumpy dead guy like Nic XD

Nic and Nic - a bromance match made in heaven. It was meant to be. They'd enjoy each others company simply complaining about how dead they are, all day, everyday.

name: Jack and Ryuu

story title: Breathless

personality:
Jack: She is all fire and brimstone. She picks a fight at the drop of a hat, and is constantly charging into everything without looking. She is actually fairly intelligent but lacks a sense of caution/common sense. Most people in the story view her as male because she appears and behaves as if she is male but she is female.. She is very loyal to her clan and pretty much does not care about people outside it unless they seem useful.

Ryuu: Ryuu is very calm and steady. He is intelligent and always does things after a lot of thought and consideration. He is a good person, and will sacrifice things for the greater good. He is the type that takes care of other people. He is also very loyal to the clan but has a strong sense of what is good and evil and often feels conflicted because of this. He doesn't mind fighting and also has a bit of a dark side.

family/relationships:
Jack: Father, Mother, Uncle, her cousin Albert, Grandparents on her Mother's side.

Ryuu: Father, Step Mother, Mother, Grandparents on both sides.

occupation/hobbies:
Jack: Occupation would be clan member I guess. Kind of like a minor unofficial leader. On this world the population is pretty low and the government pretty much consists of warring clans and she is the child of one of the leaders of those clans. XD Hobby would be fighting.

Ryuu: Also a clan member. He has just returned from studying off-planet so he doesn't really have a place yet. He is very skilled at creating illusions. His hobby would be reading books.

goals/aspirations:
Jack: Be designated as the next clan leader. Beat Ryuu to a pulp (his father is the second in command so she sees him as a rival).

Ryuu: It's a secret.

brief story description:
There is a planet that people colonized and then after they landed there it changed and the air became unbreathable. It's full of monsters and is pretty much a terrible place to live, and they have to wear masks or regulators on their arms just to survive outside. The planet is full of illegal activities that could get them in huge trouble with the interplanetary government that controls all the planets with humans on them.

The story starts with Jack involved with some clan wars stuff while trying to stay out of the eyes of the off-planet government. There is some other stuff going on off planet that could affect them in a really negative or positive way depending on how it gets resolved. And of course the planet itself is full of secrets. It's pretty complicated, sorry haha.

Ooooh, yes! Great to see you posting here, Mashi! :DD
(And complicated stories are perfectly fine! A lot of mine are; I just strip out a lot when writing up that last section. xD;; )

I'm a bit confused about your use of 'genderbent' though... that usually refers to a redesign of an existing character as the opposite gender. (I assume you mean your character is a cis female who is mistaken for male due to her mannerisms and style of dress? Unless I'm reading this completely wrong...)

Errr I just used it because if you were reading manga the genre would be "gender bender" and I tried to figure out how to apply the term to a person, sorry if I misused the term. She appears and behaves as if she is male but is female. She doesn't really think about if she identifies as one gender or the other, she doesn't really care about gender. I tend to have a lot of characters like that, they feel comfortable. IE on gaia when I had a male avatar I dressed it as a female and when I had a female avatar I dressed it as a male... Not sure why gender bending is attractive to me. XD You understood what I meant. I'll change it since it's confusing though.