Luna.

a. I was originally inspired to draw Luna because I wanted to show her being kind and tender with Alps. At the time, I was not having a very good time with life, and drew a lot of Alps' suffering from being a slave, and wanted to draw a time when he was not a slave. A part of the reason for me even coming up with Alps' deeper back story was because I created Luna, and needed to explain her a little more than, "Oh, that's his mom." I had to explain where she went, and why Alps was an orphan.

b. What is the best trait for Luna? heh.. there are alot of people on Tapestries who would have an opinion about that one! but my opinion? Her determination to make those around her happy, and her determination to be fair and motherly to everyone if she can.

c. Worst trait. This one's easy. Luna has a mental illness.. she was a healer during the worst possible time of war in their world, so she found a great deal of personal value, self worth, in healing the sick and injured. It filled her with euphoria, like a drug. What do you think happened when she was brought back from the shadowfall, 700 years later.. to a world without war and only the occasional accidental injury? Occassionally, if the need to heal gets to great, people who are around Luna at the wrong time tend to have accidents. She heals them of course, but Alps knows she's something of a danger when she gets to a certain level, and will usually try to "find" someone who needs help before she can slip into a night club or a school yard and find an injury herself.

d. Luna's still evolving. i am not realyl happy yet with how i draw her. She looks as young as Alps in the artwork, and while the Letai age well, I wish I could make her look a bit more motherly. I am tempted to expermient with ways of doing this, but when I do, I think it makes her look a lot less attractive, not like the obvious mature beauty that she should be, so for now, I draw her looking bouncy and young. Lunar's hair is fun to draw.

e. This moment is not one that gets shared here really. I roleplay Luna, and the time I feel I captured her best was when she was leading three Culier Shadows away from a town to protect the people there. had she not gotten lucky and been saved by a dragon, she'd have been worse than killed. And she knew it. But that was the level of self sacrifice she's capable of, even as the leader of her people.

f. I do intend to write more about Luna in stories and on here with artwork and such. I will eventually do short comics that feature her, including plans for one that involve her mental issues. She's a fun character and I do intend to write and draw more.

How about Nita

a. Nita's a very interresting characte rto me because she personifies alot of what I see valuable in a lover. She was originally created as an outlet for my unhappiness when my then girlfriend left me, back when I was.. oh.. 20 or so. So about ten or twelve years ago. The stories I wrote, which became highly sexual in nature, ended up being hosted on Sexyfur.com, and so I continued writing them because they were profitable. Nita eventually went on to represent power and class. In the roleplay I do on Taps, which more of the artwork I do here is based on, Nita and Alps are not lovers as they were inthe series on Sexyfur.com. In fact, in the Taps RP, she's never even been alone in the same room with Alps. :3

b. Nita's best quality I think is her level of dedication to her people. She cries for them, she hurts for them, she want sot be there for them. In the RP, she even let a family member remain shadowfallen insteadof asking that they be freed first because it would be selfish due to the other people suffering for so much longer that the Letai could save.

c. Nita's worst trait is her inability to control elemental magic. Only a select few know what that means. You know who you are. ~.^

d. I truely captured Nita when she was first created. She had a bad, bad day, and nidaja gave her a slave to "take care of" and she promptly told him to kill himself. (she immediately regrettedit of course, and saved his life) But that captures her quick anger but passionate sense of caring.

e. Nita will end up in her own short comic, perhaps, or atleast more artwork, especially with a few ideas I have for things she would have done earlier in herlife, before her mother was shadowfallen forcing her to become queen. With a temperment like what she has, you can imagine she got into trouble when she was younger. :3

Will nitas mother be released from shadowfall or is it too late?

she was actually released inthe roleplay. I have not drawn pictures of Arcana Razelle yet though. I may do so. Incidentally, males did not get shadowfallen typically. Nita's father doesn't get to come back. Alps can't help someone who got crushed by a stone tower years earlier.

Arcana is a real nice name, and thank you

Nidajaaaaaa. =D

a. Nidaja was the first cahracter in the Sirius series on Sexyfur.com to be introduced after Alps. The series, again, was started because of a high degree of conflict in my life, and Nidaja reprisented strength, which I needed. Which ALPS needed in that critical part of HIS life. Through the series she remains exactly that. Strong enough to do the things he can't, or to encourage him to be stronger when he needs to be. Nidaja has always represented raw determination and power. While this may sound kinda creepy, she actually reprisents my own mother more than Luna does for Alps.

b. Nidaja's best quality is her courage, of course. To Nidaja, courage is not simply "never backing down from a fight" it's being able to still think and plan and act very clearly and in a planned manner during a very stressful or terrifying situation. On a side note, you can still win a crushing victory against your opponant with soaking wet pants. Courage was never the absense of fear, merely acting in spite of it.

c. Her worst trait. Nidaja is over-protective. Not just of Alps, but of everyone she meets, pretty much. Anyone she cares about becomes one of her "flock" as it were, and a slight against them is ten fold a slight against her, and she can react VERY violently, this being the case. This can make her seem very brooding and dark at times.. unapproachable, and a very good reason why Nita was not at least experienced in relationships before meeting Alps.

d. Nidaja's personality was first captured in the part of the Sirius series where she got her revenge on Neit, the girl thief, for using Alps as a means of trying to steal from the queen. Nidaja redecorated the tavern where she caught the thief in very short order with that girl. It gave a good insight to how passionate she was, and how possesive she was about her friends, setting the stage for her to truely go nuts when she saw first hand what Alps' life was like with his former mistress, Chana Feras.

e. I want to do more work with Nidaja, but I am not sure exactly what medium I will be doing. I know likely more stories, some "before" things that occur in her youth, perhaps. I will also do more art of her, particularly when I feel like drawing a bit of swords and sorcery stuff. Always good for that.

wow, i was going to say Nidaja but u answered that one(maybe Misha and Uri?), btw me and my gf were wondering how do you pronounce Nidaja?

Nidaja is pronounced Nih-dah'-zjah, the emphasis on the middle syllable. Oddly, I have had a number of people approach me about this name stating that they loved it. One friend even stated they want to name their daughter Nidaja.

a. Misha and Uri were actually patterned after the archetypical anime-style duo of tall and quick swordsman and short, strong axe-weilding maniac. Their purpose originally in the story was for a filler story to follow when Alps was not there. That story never really panned out. I never included it.

b. The best trait for Uri is her sense of justice, I think. She won't let anyone do things that are "wrong". Misha is a motherly figure, though she often hides it. Her tendancy to be kind and sweet behind closed doors is my favorite trait for her.

c. The worst trait for Uri is her obsession with her Axe. I never touched on it very much in the stories like I had wanted to since the story was never accepted by Sexyfur when I wrote it, but Uri's axe is cursed, and she's literally in love with it. If someone took it from her, she would kill anyone and everyone who got in her way until she got it back. Bad time. Misha does not have much of abad side, but she's too dependant on Uri emotionally. Uri can act irrationally in ways that are harmful to those around her, and Misha is the only one who can control her sometimes, but does not, for fear of losing even a second of Uri's love. Misha loves Uri more than Uri loves her axe.

d. I never got to publish the story that captured the two characters the best, but when I explained Uri's axe and Misha's unconditional love, I think that is when I best captured the two. I have not drawn either of them really to my satisfaction yet. I may work more on that.

e. I will be drawing them both a bit more, especially along with nita and NIdaja if I do the comic for them, because it was when they were younger they all met, and why they work for the royal family. We will see if I ever have a chance to do that. :3

cool that would be cool to see how all of them met