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A fursona, huh?
16 years ago
Now, I pretty much specialise in more human-like characters, but I've been thinking about making a fursona for my new account. Unfortunarely that turned out to be a female character, as I pretty much suck at making guys spontaneously. Anyways, here's the rundown of the girl, which I named Shula, which is a name I've never actually used outside of renaming Jenna from Golden Sun that way:
I've been watching the Discover Channel alot this summer; I've never really watched it before and since it's summer, most channels are airing reruns. I've never seen most of the shows on DC, so this keeps me distracted 'till college kicks back in.
I forgot what show it was, but there was this volcano, I forget its name (NOTE: My short-term memory SUCKS). The lava from is was slowly flowing towards a village and eventually burned all of it down. Now, this one wise old woman commented something that sounded like so: "[Volcano name] has been here for much longer than us and will remain here for decades; These are its lands. We're only goig to be staying here temporarily anyways."
The above statements sparked the idea for Shula. She'd act like some sort of "Spirit of the Volcano," communicating with the mountain and acting upon its will. However, after looking back on that idea, it makes Shula's character much too physically attached to the volcano, unable to move away from it much, and also makes her a pretty agressive character when she leaves the mountain's side, so the idea was revised.
The revision made Shula the shamaness for a small village at the foot of the volcano. The village would view the volcano as its deity, givign it offerings and cheering it on as its lava flows down to burn opposing villages down, ones who don't believe in the volcano and/or see it as a threat. Shula herself would keep her mental link with the mountain, but at a much less direct level.
However, this setting also made Shula much too attached to the mountain to my tastes, so I introduced another stage in her biography that would also decide her species. The selection beforehand was between Fox, Wolf, Tiger and Racoon, my personal favourites.
The volcano would eventually erupt once more, but this time with the lava heading towards its followers' village. The village people (no pun intended) remain confident in their deity (which is really just a force of nature without any real conscience), believing that the lava flow will divert from their settlement and go burn whatever it was meant to burn; they thought that their village just happened to be in the way. Of course, the lava does not divert and the followers' village burns down, along with many of the believers, including Shula.
However, Shula is a special case in that she was entirely coated in the mountain's lava. The powers she thought were her communicating with the mountain turn out to only be alertness to it, in addition to a certain immunity to burn as well as limited immortality. All of the girl's fur is burned off, but none of her flesh is and the shamaness remains encased in the obsidian that forms from the lava for an unknown period of time. Instead of dying of thirst and hunger, Shula's body puts her into a comatic state to protect her from the unbearable pain it caused her for centuries to come. This prolongues time span made it clear to me that Sabertooth Tiger was the best pick of a species for the shamaness.
Eventually, geologists (I think that's how it's said) collecting rock samples from the now-extinct volcano uncover the tigress. In her state, she still has a pulse, though very weak, so she is brought back by the scientists and eventually nursed back to consciousness by being fed through IV. Unfortunately for her, being encased in the rock for so long has had the same effect on her was wearing a full-bosy cast for a year, leaving her to have to relearn how to eat, walk and speak all over again. At the same time, all manner of muscle or fat on the tigress has been totally elliinated.
Of course, as much as I like the idea of a weak character, having one this weak is absurd, so I speed her recovery up to the point where she can eat and walk perfectly fine on her own, but her English isn't quite perfect. This inperfection makes the tigress a little embarassed, which causes her to not speak if given the option, which in turn doesn't help her learning of English, of course.
As for her actual appearance, Shula's fur (which has grown back nicely by now, of course) is of a nice lightish brown, contrasting nicely with her bright green eyes. Natural markings on her fur are still being worked on though. As for other kinds of markings, she has quite a few on her which give off light at all times unless her vital signs drop dramatically.
These markings' color is:
1. Black when the girl's mood is neutral (just relaxing, sleeping or whatnot) (Black markings still glow)
2. Charcoal grey when Shula is sad or sick (Sick overrides any other emotion)
3. Bright white when surprised (of course this is just a spike, the markings don't stay white for more than 2 seconds)
4. Red when she feels enamored or aroused
5. Orange when she gets mad (any form of frustration can trigger the orange)
6. Yellow when she's having fun or is just generally very excited
The colors should be treated as a bar like so:
2-1-4-5-6
Where, for example, Yellow can't arise from Black without going through Red and Orange first. White can manifest itself from any color straight to white and back, unless the surprise changes her mood.
Also noteworthy is that the glow somewhat flickers when she's worried or nervous (Such as when watching a horror movie).
Markings include:
-Reverse (up-side-down) Sergeant markings on her shoulders&arms (using the Sergeant icon from Halo 2: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/h.....2emblem-02.jpg )
-Messenger symbol around her navel (see here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2552318/ )
Her physique is still under devellopment; I'll most likely make a new Journal post about her once she's done.
I've been watching the Discover Channel alot this summer; I've never really watched it before and since it's summer, most channels are airing reruns. I've never seen most of the shows on DC, so this keeps me distracted 'till college kicks back in.
I forgot what show it was, but there was this volcano, I forget its name (NOTE: My short-term memory SUCKS). The lava from is was slowly flowing towards a village and eventually burned all of it down. Now, this one wise old woman commented something that sounded like so: "[Volcano name] has been here for much longer than us and will remain here for decades; These are its lands. We're only goig to be staying here temporarily anyways."
The above statements sparked the idea for Shula. She'd act like some sort of "Spirit of the Volcano," communicating with the mountain and acting upon its will. However, after looking back on that idea, it makes Shula's character much too physically attached to the volcano, unable to move away from it much, and also makes her a pretty agressive character when she leaves the mountain's side, so the idea was revised.
The revision made Shula the shamaness for a small village at the foot of the volcano. The village would view the volcano as its deity, givign it offerings and cheering it on as its lava flows down to burn opposing villages down, ones who don't believe in the volcano and/or see it as a threat. Shula herself would keep her mental link with the mountain, but at a much less direct level.
However, this setting also made Shula much too attached to the mountain to my tastes, so I introduced another stage in her biography that would also decide her species. The selection beforehand was between Fox, Wolf, Tiger and Racoon, my personal favourites.
The volcano would eventually erupt once more, but this time with the lava heading towards its followers' village. The village people (no pun intended) remain confident in their deity (which is really just a force of nature without any real conscience), believing that the lava flow will divert from their settlement and go burn whatever it was meant to burn; they thought that their village just happened to be in the way. Of course, the lava does not divert and the followers' village burns down, along with many of the believers, including Shula.
However, Shula is a special case in that she was entirely coated in the mountain's lava. The powers she thought were her communicating with the mountain turn out to only be alertness to it, in addition to a certain immunity to burn as well as limited immortality. All of the girl's fur is burned off, but none of her flesh is and the shamaness remains encased in the obsidian that forms from the lava for an unknown period of time. Instead of dying of thirst and hunger, Shula's body puts her into a comatic state to protect her from the unbearable pain it caused her for centuries to come. This prolongues time span made it clear to me that Sabertooth Tiger was the best pick of a species for the shamaness.
Eventually, geologists (I think that's how it's said) collecting rock samples from the now-extinct volcano uncover the tigress. In her state, she still has a pulse, though very weak, so she is brought back by the scientists and eventually nursed back to consciousness by being fed through IV. Unfortunately for her, being encased in the rock for so long has had the same effect on her was wearing a full-bosy cast for a year, leaving her to have to relearn how to eat, walk and speak all over again. At the same time, all manner of muscle or fat on the tigress has been totally elliinated.
Of course, as much as I like the idea of a weak character, having one this weak is absurd, so I speed her recovery up to the point where she can eat and walk perfectly fine on her own, but her English isn't quite perfect. This inperfection makes the tigress a little embarassed, which causes her to not speak if given the option, which in turn doesn't help her learning of English, of course.
As for her actual appearance, Shula's fur (which has grown back nicely by now, of course) is of a nice lightish brown, contrasting nicely with her bright green eyes. Natural markings on her fur are still being worked on though. As for other kinds of markings, she has quite a few on her which give off light at all times unless her vital signs drop dramatically.
These markings' color is:
1. Black when the girl's mood is neutral (just relaxing, sleeping or whatnot) (Black markings still glow)
2. Charcoal grey when Shula is sad or sick (Sick overrides any other emotion)
3. Bright white when surprised (of course this is just a spike, the markings don't stay white for more than 2 seconds)
4. Red when she feels enamored or aroused
5. Orange when she gets mad (any form of frustration can trigger the orange)
6. Yellow when she's having fun or is just generally very excited
The colors should be treated as a bar like so:
2-1-4-5-6
Where, for example, Yellow can't arise from Black without going through Red and Orange first. White can manifest itself from any color straight to white and back, unless the surprise changes her mood.
Also noteworthy is that the glow somewhat flickers when she's worried or nervous (Such as when watching a horror movie).
Markings include:
-Reverse (up-side-down) Sergeant markings on her shoulders&arms (using the Sergeant icon from Halo 2: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/h.....2emblem-02.jpg )
-Messenger symbol around her navel (see here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2552318/ )
Her physique is still under devellopment; I'll most likely make a new Journal post about her once she's done.
