I'd like to see something where the characters don't have genre blindness and know what the cliches are. They don't have to be the cast of Genshiken - but they should have read a few books where the central characters get transported to a magical world or seen some magical girl shows as kids.
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(from earlier in the thread, CD's name thing)
Quote:Um. It's a little belated, but... Commenting as a native Chinese speaker? Well. Mandarin, Teochew, and Hokkien Chinese, with a smattering of Cantonese... An Liu's cool-sounding, kicks ass. The other two options were...a little strange, to Chinese sensibilities. Still okay, tho, on reflection... But...the full name? Lujiaolong An Liu? It's...odd. If you take it as a title, rather than a name...a full-blown formal thing, it works. For a name, tho, it's a bit of a mouthful. Family names are always, without fail, just one word, one syllable. It's NOT like Japanese. Of course, since we're talking dragons here, the normal rules wouldn't apply. However, I'd imagine, if he (and the rest of his clan) wanted to pass among humans, they'd go simply by 'Long' (Dragon). "Long An Liu" wouldn't raise many eyebrows in Chinese-speaking society. Well, the actual characters used would, if written out...but then, there's always writing or pronouncing the name in a different fashion for alias purposes. -- Acyl (chinese language rambling provided on request) -- Acyl Quote:Thank you, you're too kind. Quote:Well, yeah, it wouldn't have a happy ending. OTOH, it wouldn't exactly have an unhappy ending. It'd just have an ending. It's supposed to be Dark Fantasy, most of the way through, with a few bits of morbid humor here and there ... and, umm, you definitely wouldn't like ep19 where Rival Necromancer Girl raises what was left of the Party after ep3 and sends them to lead _her_ undead horde against Scribe-guy's, then ... There'd be a definite military tint to the whole thing, with huge epic battles between mostly the demons and the undead led by Scribe-guy, with a side orded of misc skirmishes and maybe a short filler mini-arc where Scribe guy sees the benifits of having a companion who can come back after getting turned to dust ... Lots of vaguely and not so vaguely disturbing powers displayed by both Scribe-guy and his cohorts (your basic undead/necro magic and skill set from various miniature battle games, magic, and rpgs) and the demons (mostly mind-bending, general psionics, and some elemental stuff as well as being majorly weird and alien at times). Y'know, Nate, I think I'm beginning to feel how you must have felt when you were coming up with Hell!Sakura. This is fun^^ -Griever When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force. When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm 
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... wait, this delayed Incarna? CURSES! Hoist on my own petard! ;?) Quote:Lujiaolong was supposed to be a title, actually, because it's his dragon clan. A seperate subfamily name would probably be a good idea, all told, which would adhere to the standard rules... "Long An Liu, of Lujiaolong", perhaps? Quote:Well, a deep (bottle) tan and bleach blode hair is apparently in for the fashionable crowd in japan - that's the basic ko-gal look, backed up by specialist knowledge in fashion and dating. Tsuchi I could see getting an honest deep tan as a two pronged thing - partly to mock those who get their tan form a bottle, and partly to make some small concession to looking like the currently-in model of what's attractive, so when she's standing in front of her mirror late at night she can assure herself that yeah, she's teh smexxy. Thoguh not in those words, most likely. I can do the black hair, but still think she should get, say, violet highlights instead of plain white? And obviously the described outfit isn't schoolwear. Quote:... Are you sure you haven't been looking into my brain? Because Keiu has been peeking out of the reference stacks in my mind with her shoulder-length bright green hair, eeping and pulling back since I fist noticed her role in the cast. And yes, she's a Plumed dragon, with intermediate healing and attack, and strong utility and defense spells, two of her favorites being "catalogue and search" (for use in book shops or libraries) and "notice-me-not." As for her size, Plumed dragons are the smallest, right? So having her human suit be particularly small also makes sense. Red hairband, round glasses, brown eyes with just a hint of purple, anime-small bust - meaning she looks like a real teenager in that department - wears subdued, somewhat shapeless clothes when not in uniform. Can kick anyone's ass at any arcade or console video game you'd care to name, but no one really notices her hanging out there, any more than they do in school. This will be a matter of some consternation when Tsuchi finally discovers who "KK" is, whose top score on the Virtua Fighter 6 machine keeps increasing just as she gets close to surpassing it herself. - CD What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse? SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see? CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others. -- "Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows Quote:Okay, yeah, that'll work. Except, if they're inland the way I've been thinking (my mental image of their fictional hometown of Toraguchi is in Nagano Prefecture, which is about as far inland as you can -get- in Japan... Toraguchi itself may or may not be a thinly-disguised version of the -city- Nagano, which apparently has a very famous shrine...), then where's she going to get a natural suntan? It's not like she can just sun herself on the beach... Quote:I'd been thinking more like bright aquamarine, but yeah, parrot-green works, too. ^_^ Anyway, here's a thought - rather than having her be your standard book/library mouse, howsabout making her an artist? I can just see her running through the halls at the end of the day, sketchbook clutched against her chest, then turning the corner and bouncing right off Kennan with a yelp (He's a -fanged- dragon, remember - easily the largest of the four breeds, so even if he's not that atheletic, he's still -big-, like six feet or so. Which'd make him the second or third largest member of the cast, since both of our half-dragons are from the smaller, lighter clans.) Quote:The hairband I'm kind of 'eh' about - you mean one of those scrunchy things, right? - since I'd been thinking of her just leaving it loose and occaisionally brushing the bangs out of her eyes, and I'd suggest keeping the glasses fairly small, a la, say, Kabuto, rather than Umino Gurio. The videogame bit sounds fun, though, especially if it's the one thing that she just will -not- back down about - thereby letting us have these comic-relief game-wars going on in the background of Ken and Miyou's various touching moments. And, a couple of thoughts on Tsuchi, since we're there anyway - First, that's almost certainly not her real name, although I doubt that even -she- thinks of herself as anything else. Second, despite my earlier plotting, I think that we should have her as -already- showing the super-skillz - incredible strength, roof-hopping, flaring ki aura, etc., but not really have anyone remark on it. Like, 'Oh, yeah. That's just Tsuchi. She's like that. Don't worry about it!' Third, lets say that she already -has- a steady boyfriend... who will not ever, despite numerous mentions and the fact that all the other characters know him, actually appear on screen. (One of the reasons for this is that he and Tsuchi, ah, already know each other much better than her parents would prefer. Another is that I think it'd make a neat running gag.) Fourth, despite the fact that she's a -lot- sharper than she admits and a genuine badass in her own right, she's the show's comic relief. Finally, fun bonus things I've come up with - (I'm seeing the music to this as being by KOTOKO - something about flying at night as a metaphor for being in love in an uncertain future) Open with a close shot of Miyou's face as she opens her eyes, with the saturation and shading and such fiddled to -really- emphasize their color, then zoom back out to show her standing in front of a featureless black background with her shadow cast around her feet in white. Then a sort of sketchy impression of Tatsu-Kennan's face forms behind her and opens its eyes to look over her shoulders before we cut to title. (nifty anime-esque title and flashy graphic go here) Cut to Miyou in her dainty underthings (PG rating preserved through the use of careful camera angles) as she pulls on one of those stereotypical Kabuki bodygloves. Blink to a shot of Miyou sitting alone at the shrine and peoplewatching with a slight smile. On-screen text credit to Miyou's VA. Cut back to Miyou prepping for battle, this time as she's checking then strapping on a set of throwing knife forearm sheaths. Blink to Miyou and Tsuchi sitting in a booth at a Kissaten, both in casual clothes, with Tsuchi waving her arms in a very dramatic manner and Miyou laughing in a quiet 'I'd-be-howling-if-I-weren't-too-polite-to-be-that-loud' way. Text credit to Tsuchi's VA. Cut to Miyou going over a belt full of smallish bomb/grenade looking things then buckling it on. Blink to Sensei dangling Gaku by the scruff of his neck. Both of them are -soaking- wet, and Gaku is holding a water balloon. Text credit to their VAs. Cut to Miyou loading a smallish pistol - an SIG P228, specifically - and tucking it into a holster at the small of her back. Blink to Keiu doing a sketchy portrayal of her dragon form perched on a playground swingset. She seems to be sitting in the school library. Text credit to Keiu's VA. Cut to Miyou sliding a leather jacket on over her arsenal. Blink to Kennan looking down at where he and Miyou are holding hands and both blushing slightly. Text credit to Kennan's VA. Cut to Miyou gathering her hair and tying it up in a high ponytail. Blink to a panning shot of Our Heroes' high-school classmates. Text credit to director, creator, character designer. Cut to Miyou hooking a Japanese-style sword-cane to a particular loop on her belt. Blink to another panning shot of an array of the Four Directions, in human form. Text credit to animation house and soundtrack artists. Cut to Miyou, fully equipped, taking a sprinter's starting position in a field at what is either dawn or dusk. She explodes into motion and takes a running swan dive off the same field that nearly killed Kennan in the first episode. Rapid series of ~1 second flashing shots of milestones in her and Kennan's relationship - The Cliff Scene, their first date, Ningen-Kennan putting himself defiantly between her (while she's obviously injured and in no shape to fight) and a demon, Valentine's Day, White Day, him giving her the jacket we saw her put on earlier, etc. - then back to her falling for an instant before Tatsu-Kennan swoops out of nowhere to come up under her and pull up and away. She leans down and hugs him, then grins and sets herself like a jockey as he banks away from the camera to soar and spiral up and away into the darkening sky. Ep 1 - Introduce the characters, Miyou saves Kennan from a nasty fall Ep 2 - Ken and Miyou's first date, Miyou gets a mysterious message Ep 3 - More slice of life, Miyou acts strangely, Ken twigs and, since he's worried, tries to follow her Ep 4 - Ken grumbles after being given the slip and goes to think things over at his favorite quiet spot - the small shrine on top of the rocky escarpment overlooking the smallish city where this all takes place. Then he's attacked by a monster ranting about making him a sacrifice and before he has a chance to chomp its ass, he's saved by a mysterious kunoichi with very familiar eyes. Ep 5 - Ken confronts Miyou about her saving him, she denies everything, he doesn't buy it and starts ranting, and then she shuts him up with a kiss. Since this is a.) their first kiss, and b.) about an eight on a scale ranging from 1 - "preschoolers on a playground" to 10 - "what clothing isn't ripped has hands inside it", she then has a chance to escape while he's trying to reboot his brain. Cut to Jaan talking to An Liu, saying that he wants to do some more investigating before he tries to take this target again. Liu says no, do it right away. One of Jaan's lieutenants volunteers. Commercial break. Start back, we see Miyou going over some files on her laptop before she blinks, then curses at it. She pulls out her phone, tells Ken to meet her at the shrine, since it's private and that way she can explain everything. He comes, and we get treated to his thoughts and introspections for a bit (with a dash of 'wow - that was some kiss'), and then he hears a noise behind him, turns, and catches a spell in the face. Cut back to Miyou, as she finds one of the minor demons that have been assigned as perimeter guards - she thinks a bit, realizes Ken would have been -right there- and is probably in trouble, and goes into ass-kicking mode. She reaches the shrine, finds Ken tied up and Lieutenant incanting over his spreadeagled form, then wades through the last of the faceless minions just to get clobbered by Mr. L, who probably isn't near as skilled/powerful, but who also hasn't just fought his way through a small army. Ripping noise from Ken's direction, *chomp,* cut to credits. Ja, -n =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." Quote:Heh, what it really reminds me of is the Malazan series by Steve Erikson. Where the Evil Empire that wants to Conquer The World(TM) happens to be the good guys, inasmuch as there are good guys. Roman-style army, tribal auxiliaries, mage cadre, allies in the form of summoned demons, immortal dust zombies, and the requisite chitinous-armored-soldiers that fly on giant insects. They're the good guys because the bad guys are really truly atrociously evil, and well... "Oh, no doubt the Malazans have thought up countless justifications for their wars of expansion. It's well known that Seven Cities was a rat's nest of feuds and civil wars, leaving most of the population suffering and miserable and starving under the heels of fat warlords and corrupt priest-kings. And that, with the Malazan conquest, the thugs ended up spiked to the city walls or on the run. And the wilder tribes no longer sweep down out of the hills to deliver mayhem on their more civilized kin. And the tyranny of the priesthoods was shattered, putting an end to human sacrifice and extortion. And of course the merchants have never been richer, or safer on the roads. So, all in all, this land is ripe for rebellion." Quote:Never read those. Will have to see about acquiring them. Scribe-guy doesn't go and carve out an empire for himself because he doesn't need to. His efforts, at the beginning, are mostly towards making up for the colossal cock-up that was the waking of the sword in using it to bitchslap the Outsiders. _Then_ he starts to realize what sort of power the damned thing really has. You could say he's the very model of the cliche necromantic general. The sort of troops he's got don't really require any support structure, for the most part. Hell, his so called 'army' travels as a group of the generals and a handful of summoned muscle. A bit of it is just re-raised at the next conveniant graveyard/burial mound - just enough to bite into the Enemy forces. Then the casualties on both sides are animated again. Repeat ad nauseum. Of course, the Enemy wises up and forces a battle on rocky terrain, where there's nothing to raise for a few miles, and we have a traditional two army drag-on-brawl ... I'm getting ahead of myself again. And what the hell is it about chitinous armored soldiers? I mean, I got caught by that cliche too ... does that sort of armor just give the wearer a karmic 'evil by default' tag taped to his forehead or something? Looks like it from here, anyway. Btw. people, I'm really liking the picture you guys are painting. Especially the bits about dragons. Hoping to see more of this thing as it forms. What'd the ending be like, I wonder? -Griever 'inside every living person, there's a dead person just waiting to get out' -mangled quote from a Discworld novel When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force. When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm Quote:No, I mean one of those solid plastic bars like what Anri or Bulma wear - she still gets a bit of bang fall, but it holds most of her hair back to fall over her shoulders. Barrette, maybe? For glasses, I meant large-but-not-thick, like the ones used by the cast (the ENTIRE female cast) of G-On Riders, where you mainly only see the frame, unless a shot calls for light reflecting off the lens for drama. Little round ones.... she can kick that much ass, but doesn't have the attitude to want to, generally. ... and who's the second half-dragon, anyway? That cop guy? e should be gemstone, in order to show off the four clans since we've got 'em, so being an adult would make up for Stones being slightly larger, and half-dragon even more so. "My god! How can a guy that big MOVE like that!?" 'Course, he's tall-big, not bulky-big. Location: The shrine was a cultural field trip, don't forget, which the class took a tour bus to get to. It could easily be an hour or two ride from wherever they are normally. Episodes: Looks good! ep6, Kennan and Miyo explain themselves to each other, interrupted by Tsuchi who wants to hang out with them, and who they're trying to keep things a secret from as well, but don't want to alienate her. Play it for laughs, but get it over with by the first commercial break. Today's monsters are all low-powered summon monsters who jump out and are quickly dispatched, while the lietenant guy watches to see their reactions and abities. A couple of times, Tsuchi is there and just misses what happens, then wonders at the sudden wreckage, and how these freak accidents just keep happening. Eventually, she has to go meet her BF for the evening, and leaves. Shortly thereafter, Lieutenant guy attacks. One or the other of them wonder in the closing monologue how long they can keep it from Tsuchi before either slipping up and dragging her in, or damaging their freindship. Probably Kennan. ep7: The beach episode! We learn that Tsuchi's BF is a lifeguard, but he's on duty now so we don't see him, just her waving to one of those tower-chairs with an umbrella on it in the distance. She also tries to talk Miyou into working on an all over tan "like mine!" but camera angles and the sudden decision to go for lunch prevent losing the show's PG rating. Introduction of Keiu, sketching a rocky headland on one end of the beach with colored pencils. More playing around, but eventually we get to Miyou returning home, and jounin-guy already waiting there, to chew her out for wasting time when the demonic hordes are on the move. He presents her with Lietenant-guy's severed head, which sublimates into dust and then foul-smelling smoke once released from te preservative jutsu on the bag it was in. He tells her he'll be keeping a closer eye on her as well. 8: meh? Probably something with Keiu. Possibly the end of the weak general, so 'something with keiu' translates to 'meeting Maeve.' 9: Tsuchi, meet the demon. Demon, Tsuchi's fist. And foot. And elbow. And Burn Down Kick. And Shinkasen Slam. And a little of this, and some of those, too. And... hey, it's Kennan and Miyou, here to put you out of your misery! Wave bye-bye, demon-san. - CD What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse? SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see? CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others. -- "Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows Quote:Subvert the trope! Or use little schoolmarm bifocals, whatever. I just think that the big, round, Fuu-of-the-Magic-Knights look has been overdone. And the hair thing sounds good, then - it's like how Sakura uses her forehead protector, stet? Ep. 7... Beach? Not hot springs? 'Cause besides being inland, Nagano's got plenty of the latter. (Miyou: How -do- you stay so tan, then, anyway? Tsuchi: *blushes -hard-*) Ep. 8 - Well, besides his budding sideline in supernatural investigations, Kennan is a member of the school yearbook club. Since he's now met Keiu as more than just another inconveniently short person to trip over, he knows that she's probably the best artist in town - and he gets the idea of getting her to do illustrations and graphical design for the upcoming yearbook. Which means he's getting to be friends with her... and leaves -Miyou- in a tizzy trying to decide whether she's genuinely getting wierd vibes of this girl or is just jealous. The other option would be that Miyou transferred at the beginning of the -winter- semester, so that in-series time is coming up on February... which, as you know, means Valentine's day. Chocolate! Shopping! Jealousy! And Jaan van der Boer telling An Liu to go fuck himself, because -he- ain't gonna risk any more of his troops over some damn overblown lizard's vainglory. Maeve -despises- her troops, since they're, well, -evil-. Baensidhe, Redcaps, The Wild Hunt, etc. She's quite, quite happy to send them to their dooms. This does, of course, beg the question of what -she's- doing working for this crowd, for which I hope you have at least a few ideas... maybe she's second generation, an earth-born-and-raised girl who inherited her position from her parents. Quote:Well, yeah, it could, but I really like the idea of this smallish city nestled in the valley between these spectacular forested mountains - the kind of rough, mostly empty country most people don't think you can find in Japan anymore - with this towering white stone escarpment looming over it and a picturesque old shrine at the very top... I'd say that I'm thinking of something a lot like Seneca Rocks, but you'd have no idea what I was talking about. Anyway, what I had been thinking was that that shrine was the ancient prison of a powerful tiger rakshasa, the same demon that our four generals are working to free. Whiskers, in turn, is a senior lieutenant of Ravana, the evil god who can only be killed by a human. The ultimate climax of the series, of course, would be that Hobbes -does- get free, and promptly whips up a summoning/manifestation ceremony to bring Ravana himself to the party... which leads to a sequence of massive fights as Mr. Kitty and the surviving generals draw Our Heroes off into these little pocket dimensions so's to keep them from interfering with Ravana while he's still relatively weak from his rebirth. Except, much as their boss did, so many eons ago, they forget that humans aren't always so insignificant as they look. Maeve vs. An Liu. Keiu vs. Britva. Kennan vs. Bake-tora. Tsuchi and Miyou vs. Ravana. Ding ding. Ja, -n =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." Quote:OK, you sold me on the little zakennayo-glasses, and yeah, pretty much exactly like Sakura's hitae-ate in function. Quote:Well, it's just I hate the beach, so I was overcompensating a bit. Keiu doing the view of the shrine on the far end of the valley from the hot springs area works, too. Quote:Who, no doubbt, told her about all the glorious things that would happen with the world under Lord Ravana's control, without really mentioning quite how messy and distateful getting rid of the current occupants is, until they dissappeared after one too many defeats. Given the nature of her underlings and co-workers, she's not all that sure about the likelihood of the promised golden age of prosperity and happiness, either, when most of them seem to be perfectly happy running wild to spread slaughter and mayhem, and almost as glad to do it to each other. Series finale - sounds like a plan, there. Though, with only one Dark General dealt with and synopses already up to ep9, it might have to go over the 13 episodes I was originally shooting for. That's okay, though - just slide 9 back to slot 7, and maybe put another ep between it and 6 so the hot springs are at ep 8 or 9, then ep 17 or 18 can be a beach episode at the start of summer break, so the schoolkids elements can be left out to deal with closing up the plot with a two-parter for eps. 24-25, and an epilogue in ep26, where things do NOT go back to the normal routine now that the world's been saved, instead they find a new equilibrium. Possibly even set several years later, so it can be a K/M wedding episode... complete with an attack by a rival ninja clan, which irritates the dragons in attendance - many, many dragons in attendance - almost as much as Miyou's half of the party. - CD What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse? SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see? CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others. -- "Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows Quote:Uh huh, and in the meantime, she's concealing her doubts from the others by playing at being, well, a self-absorbed, irresponsible little airhead, which everybody but Jaan is buying completely. Mr. Tengu, BTW, is, IMHO, probably the most dangerous of the Four Directions - he's smart without An Liu's crippling arrogance, he's quite adequately dangerous himself, when properly motivated, and most importantly, he's the only one who's got a real -army- rather than a horde of disposable minions. Fortunately for our good guys, he's really already -got- everything he wants, which means that his support for the armageddon operations is only a little less pro forma than Maeve's. Quote:Oh yes, definitely. I've been seeing a 26 episode series form the get go, BTW. And, here's a few useful stats and comparisons, based on the design sketches I've been doing. Height - Keiu: 5' 3" Tsuchi: 5' 4" Miyou: 5' 6" Maeve (human): 5' 7" Kennan: 6' Maeve (demon): 6' 2" An Liu: 6' 7" Lt. Fujita: 6' 8" Tatsu-Fujita (at shoulder): 5' 3" Tatsu-Keiu (ditto): 5' 7" Tatsu-Kennan (ditto): 10' 4" Length - Tatsu-Keiu: 27' Cessna 172: 27' 3" Adult Plumed (average): 30' Tatsu-Fujita: 34' Tatsu-Kennan: 45' Adult Stone (average): 50' Adult Fang (average): 50' Long An Liu: 57' F-15 Eagle: 63' 9" Adult Antler (average): 70' Wingspan: Cessna 172: 36' 1" Tatsu-Keiu: 39' Adult Plumed (average): 42' F-15 Eagle: 42' 9" Tatsu-Fujita: 43' Adult Stone (average): 65' Tatsu-Kennan: 90' Adult Fanged (average): 100' Yes, Kennan is very impressive. Especially when he's grinning at you. Oh, and am I right in assuming that our teenaged characters are in their second year of high school, ie, about 16-17 years old? Ja, -n =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious."
Useful data, N, and I'd like to see your images when they're presentable.
Quote:... for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Quote:That's a rodger! - CD concise for once... it must be an omen Edit: We need a title for this, you know... Affairs of Dragons? (as in, "do not meddle in") - that would be something like "Tatsu no _____" with several possibilites for the blank: gyoumu - (n) business; affairs; duties; work isshinjou - (adj-no,n) personal (affairs) jibutsu - (n) things; affairs naiji - (n) personal affairs; internal affairs zokuji - (n) worldly affairs; daily routine kanchi - (n,vs) concern; business - I like the sound of this best kanshin - (n) concern; interest I'm really not coming up with anything but variations on that and "don't poke sleeping dragons."What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse? SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see? CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others. -- "Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows Quote:Kanshin. Tatsu no Kanshin. It's apropos, and it just -sounds- like it should be the title of an anime. ... The muse, she is happy. ====================================== "Yo, Tsuchi! You here?" Bosu-sensei yelled from in front of the chattering crowd of Toraguchi Senior High School class 2-C. "Haaaiiiiii!" Kouga Kagami, known to friend and enemy alike as 'the Sledgehammer,' hopped onto a convenient boulder - one of many scattered around the base of the towering pillar of exposed rock that rose so spectacularly from the hills just south of the valley that cradled her hometown - and waved energetically. 2-C's homeroom teacher - a tall, perpetually disheveled man who smoked like a stove and rode the largest motorcycle she'd ever seen - acknowledged her with a nod and checked her name off of his list. Then she plopped down crosslegged and scowled at the backs of the crowd of other students. "Jeez," she sniffed, "Why'd we have'ta go to (tiger prison temple) anyway? It's not like anybody in this town ain't been there a million times already." Her best friend, who was leaning against another rock nearby, chuckled. "Because this way, the school board doesn't have to spring for train fare." "Hell with that! I'd buy my own ticket if it'd get me outta climbing those damn stairs." "Garyuuno Kennan!" came the next name on the list, and he lurched to his feet and waved calmly. "Hai!" Unlike Tsuchi - who, if she had been Canadian, might have been nicknamed after a wolverine for her combination of compact body and vicious temper - Kennan was quite tall, lacking only one centimeter more to be the tallest person in their school - faculty included - and so could easily make eye contact over the heads of the rest of his class. ====================================== ...and there my inspiration fails. Drogn - descriptions, Gaku revealing himself, meeting Miyou? Ja, -n =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious."
I can dig Tatsu no Kanshin.
Quote:I think the only ones left are Kennan, in dark pants and light button-down shirt, and a winter-weight uniform jacket over that but no hat or gloves. His hair is light brown like a moderately dark sandy beach, very spiky but not over long - I'm trying to think of a comparison and failing, here. Yondaime Hokage isn't too far off, but it's a little too full and the spikes too short. Shayla Shayla's spikes are a third or a half too long, and too wide at the base, Gaara of the Sand might do it if his hair was six or seven inches long instead of two. Eyes also brown, somewhat darker than his hair, and very slightly vertically slit - not enough to notice without looking for it. Ah, I got it! He looks like the energetic guy from Excel Saga! Only taller and more easygoing, not to mention far more intelligent. Gaku just looks like his sister at six and without a tan, in the original vision her parents somehow arranged for hm to be officially there, here he's probably skived off and rode a bicycle out this way looking to avoid truancy officers, then decided to torment his sister since she saw him there anyway. Bosu-sensei... yeah, right, like he'd have a problem with a kid skipping now and then. "Cri...pes, kid, whaddaya pulling crap like this for? You wanna end up riding herd on a pack of monkeys like me? Bah... Tsuchi! Your brother, your problem. Keep 'im outta trouble or get rid of 'im, just keep the kid outta my hair," the teacher ordered. "Goddamn, I need a smoke," he grumbled to himself, then shouted to the chattering students, "Alrght you monkeys, be at the top of the steps in half an hour and don't wander off, or you'll have a detention stripping and waxing classroom floors!" Miyou - I'd figured she only transferred in the day before, so her self-intro classroom scene could easily be done as a flashback when her name is called, with Tsuchi doing something attention-grabbing to get Kennan to snap out of his dazed stare and the popular girls snickering at her, then cut directly to them accosting her as she catches them up on the stairs. Oh, and for the epilogue/wedding - I see Keiu and Meave as both being very obviously preggers, and when anyone asks them who the father is they just blush, share a secretive look, then giggle and shake their heads. (Motherhood... it's truly magical, ne?) Tsuchi is on the prowl having finally broken up with her long-time BF when he went to study abroad - except for when she's not crying copiously at how romantic it all is, or kicking rival ninja ass. Kennan gets a sharp whap and is warned sternly that he'd better not even THINK about tearing out of that tux to transform, so his and Miyou's appearance on the field is delayed while he ducks into a side room and carefully strips down. Sometime after the ceremony is finished and everyone is partying, Gaku is seen pulling a similarly aged girl's bright turquoise hair and running away as she chases him, red-faced, then suddenly turns into a downy, cute Plume dragonet about the size of Bosu-sensei's motorcycle, snagging him in a tackle, peering at him, then blushing and giving him a big sloppy tongue-slurp before running away herself, leaving the disgusted seven ("I'm almost eight!") year old furiously rubbing his face and yelling about girl-cooties. And, just at the end, Jaan snorts to himself from a handy shadow, shakes his head, and vanishes into a mystic portal, returning to ruling his own realm. - CD What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse? SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see? CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others. -- "Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows Quote:Er... Actually, that's the only character on that list that I can't recognize. Quote:Of course not! Especially since that's 'Bosu' as in 'bosuzoku'. ^_^ *sketches for a bit* Argh. Anatomy of mythical beasts, okay. People's -faces-, not so much. Is it terribly wierd of me that I'm picturing Miyou as looking a bit like equal parts Peorth and Kaoru Kamiya? Except for her hair, which is... Okay - she's got bangs, fairly conventional, floof a little over the forehead - and all the rest of it's pulled back behind her ears to the base of the skull, where it's held by a particularly pretty example of those spring-and-latch hairpiece things, except for her... forelocks, is that the term? the bits growing from in front of the ears... which trail free, a la Ryoko. The ponytail is for when she's planning to kick ass. Anyway, the visual bits of my imagination are insisting, as they usually do, on character design courtesy of Kosuke Fujishima... Ja, -n =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." 
Do you think we could hoax enough fen with this once it's finished? We just gotta get some good artwork out there....
Hmmm. At least one size comparo and four, five "DVD covers..." ''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.'' -- James Nicoll Quote:Oooh. I -like- that thought. Unfortunately, my graphics-fu is nonexistant. Anyway, here are some outfit ideas for Miyou, even though I can't really come up with anything for the others: 1. Sneakers, close fitted jeans, and a black t-shirt reading, in English, "This Kiss Goes to Eleven" 2. Looser jeans, grey herringbone sweater about five sizes too large - ie, it swallows her completely, sleeves hang beyond her fingertips, etc. 3. Blue slacks, Hard Rock Nagano t-shirt, white and blue windbreaker. 4. Miniskirt (black), button-down dress shirt (dark grey), low heels. 5. Black jeans, sneakers, Ninja-Burger t-shirt. (for later in the season) 6. Same black jeans, this time with a heavy leather motorcycle jacket open over a black t-shirt with a gaudy silkscreened dragon on it. ...somehow, it seems amusingly appropriate that Miyou'd be the one who favors the wise-ass t-shirts. Keiu's not confident enough, and it wouldn't be as funny from the other two, since they've got personality types that you'd -expect- that from. My story behind that jacket is that Miyou's birthday is somewhere in March, and that she's originally from somewhere in southern Japan, like, oh, Miyazaki or Nagasaki - somewhere on Kyushu, anyway - and so didn't own any winter-grade coats... Which condition Kennan, being on the outs with her at that critical moment, decided to remedy as a peace offering. Ja, -n =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." Quote:This guy, only with 2-3 more spikes. And taller. And not an idiot. And not so buff as in this picture, which is most likely Iwata's Happy Dream World. (That's his name! Iwata! Ropponmatsu II calls him "Wata-P".) Sexy Magical Girl Aiis probably the most direct inspiration for Miyou's dark hair/red eyes combination, but hers is shortish and, well, it's an h-anime, while Miyou is no one's rapebait, and knows six ways to kill anyone who tried without using her hands. Obviously, this is not a worksafe link, though the image itself would be, and is only provided for historical reasons since I like the new design evolving for Miyou much better than anything to do with this mediocre hentacle. As for art... if it's a 26-ep series, then it needs six or seven DVD covers. Not that I'm asking, or volunteering, but that's how they they split this stuff up these days. Tees - she needs one with a small, plain font reading, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore," also. - CD What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse? SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see? CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others. -- "Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows Quote:Eh? What about Kurenai? Quote:Hmm. Maybe, for the epilog, she could have one that reads 'Wears Ketchup'. h_h Other slogans: "Now you see me..." "I'll Move Your Body (with discretion and reasonable rates - coffins not included)" A silkscreened picture of a knife with the legend "#" engraved on its blade. "Shinobi do it Longer" Maybe a Megatokyo homage - "I.A.C. - I Am Cute" "Everything Goes Better With Ninja" ...Heheheh. Ja, -n =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." Quote:I never remember Kurenai. It's got to be some kind of stealth genjutsu, I tell you. Besides, I saw (and discarded) SMGA much more recently than she's gotten any air time outside the Naruto title sequence. I think "Needs no ketchup" would be better, though. For the outfit she quick-changes into to avoid getting gore on her wedding gown. For megatokyo refernces, I think "Ph33r teh Cute 1" would be at least as good. - CD What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse? SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see? CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others. -- "Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows Quote:Sadly, there are people who wouldn't really get the ketchup reference, which is a pity ... ... unless we include the 'do not meddle in the affairs of dragons ...' quote eariler. Not neccessarily meaning that it's gotta be used by someone. Kennan having a poster with a stylized western dragon and that quote on it hanging somewhere in his room would be cool - especially if we see it in the first episode, say, as the first thing he sees when he wakes up, and write it off as something entirely unrelated to the plot. I mean, I don't expect the intro would have Tatsu-Kennan or Kunoichi-Miyou in it at first (say, until after the fifth episode - before that the intro can be mostly recap scenes with fitting bgm). Query - what's the lifespan of a dragon in that particular world? If it's anything like what's usually the case, then there's some problems on the horizon for Our Heroes. I'm assuming it's not, or they find some way around it? -Griever ... still having fun with concepts for the unliving ... Quiz question of the day: how many practical and most likely disturbing uses of necromantic powers can Griever come up with in two days' time? Answer: You really don't want to know. When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force. When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm
Dragon lifespan is at least ten times human, but there are binding rituals to that drastically slow a human partner's aging for a minor loss in the dragon's years - a factor of about 800% gain and 5% loss. Most theories about the differential have something to do with the differential in mass between huamn and (natural form) dragons, but this doesn't account for the fact that all the dragon clans seeing about the same result, despite their widely different sizes. Half dragons get about the same 8x human span. In all three cases, however, the periods of adulthood, middle age, and vigorous old age are the ones extended, rater than the extreme youthful and elderly ends of the scale, and there are alchemical methods (one noteable one involves powdered yellow diamonds and electrical current) for extending any living being's lifespan indefinitely.
- CD What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse? SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see? CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others. -- "Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows Quote:Eh. I've never found the leetspeak that funny, so... *shrug* Quote:Unfortunately, that kind of easter egg is a bit harder to place in a text story, since we'd have to be actually drawing attention to it. But I really like the idea... or maybe he and Tsuchi use it as a running joke, -she- thinks playing off of his name. *shrug* Quote:Tatsu-Kennan and Ningen-Kennan, you will note, are in no way connected by that sequence. You're right about Miyou, though. Hmm... Quote:{edited because I like Drogn's version better} As for how long -she'll- live, well, there are ways to extend lifespans, even without resorting to the nastier options people've come up with over the years - particularly when you can call on the assistance of a powerful mage like Maeve. Among other things, there's always the 'ki mastery extends youth' option, which makes sense when you think about it - all it requires is that you assume that the quick healing and durability that lets, say, Ranma heal a broken limb in days or go through a concrete wall without ill effect extend down to the cellular and genetic level, and you'll see that most of the damage and decay that -is- ageing... ceases to be a concern. So, yeah, he'll live a long time, but no, I don't think it'll matter. Ja, -n =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious."
Maeve's fashion sense...
General-Maeve -- I see her as being either a "Trophy Wife" or "Power Business Suit" type of commander. Y'know, severe but sexy with white tiger or zebra trim. Ally-Maeve -- Here, she's more in touch with who she really is on the inside. She's probably still going to be eye-candy, but on average, she's actually showing less skin. Regardless, she's likely to have expensive designer everything. With a Fujishima design, she's squarely of the Peorth/Urd/Hild type. Personally, if we were casting for live-action, I'd try to find someone of mixed Hindi and Irish ancestry and dye her hair blonde... It is kinda odd that we have a rakshasi in charge of the Unseelie Wyld Hunt, but it's fun! Somehow, I wanna give her a pet rabbit, Harvey. ^_^ ''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.'' -- James Nicoll Quote:*snip* Sounds good, although I imagine that she's got a third look for when she -really- takes the mask off, a la Misato. Also, I've been sort of thinking on how she and Keiu meet in the first place, and I've hit on an idea - being as she's playing a flighty little twit (and thought Keiu was kinda cute when she saw her helping the other teens swat some boggarts), would it not be apropos for M. to try and get a closer vantage point by infiltrating their school? And, to subvert the stereotype, lets have her do it as a new -teacher-, rather than another student. *thinks a moment, then starts to hum Van Halen* Another strand of character thought I've been musing on today is parents - these kids aren't living in a vacuum, remember, and Ken's and Keiu's folks in particular hold the potential to be -real- unbalancing. I figure that, since she's a fully trained and qualified kunoichi, Miyou's basically living on her own, as her clan's, mmm, agent in Toraguchi. Her parents might or might not still be alive, but either way they're probably still on Kyushu - too far away to be a factor. Tsuchi's father, being a rat-bastard, ran off well before she was born - which, since she's older at the start of the series than her mother was then, should probably hint just where on the socio-economic ladder she grew up. (yes, this does mean that Gaku's technically only her half-brother) Her Mom works long hours at a high-stress, low-pay job, and Tsuchi's probably had a fairly serious job of her own for years, to help out. They love each other a lot, but constant fatigue plus a mortal fear that the kid's gonna recreate -her- mistakes makes for a pretty rocky relationship, so Tsuchi spends a lot of time out of the house - a relic of the time she lost her temper at the nagging and came within a split second of breaking Mom's jaw. (This dynamic, BTW, is -not- responsible for the BF - Tsuchi knows damn well what's going through Mom's head - top ten in her year and she can't figure -that- out? Not likely. Tsu's got no particular urge to rebel for the sake of it - it's just that her nerves can't take being worried over like that, and Mom can't -not- worry, so they don't talk much.) Of course, none of this helps with the dragons any, but it's nice to know. Ja, -n (Keiu, BTW, is originally from Hokkaido, which leads to the amusing image of her and Miyou walking down the street side by side, with Miyou bundled up and hugging herself and Keiu happy as a clam in shorts and t-shirt.) =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." |
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