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Description Pyrite has been my oldest, most creation. I hammered down her hair design in '99, worked out the design of her basic self abd by 2001 had a constant, stable person. Her temperment and personality were first roughed in '99 as well, throwing in a horribly Mary Sue background, and by 2002 I had dropped most of her story, trashed the incredibly long and confusing fic that centered around her, and had simply a character. In 2003 I toyed with the idea of removing her from the Sailor Moon timeline (she was, after all, my first Sailor Moon fancharacter and by god, she was not a senshi) and a few designs of her outside have stuck around.

Mostly, though, I like her as she was. Of course, since I trashed her entire history that I had done and left only a few bits the same (things worked out between ~EditorDee and myself, such as her relationship with out slew of Generals for the Dark Kingdom) she's mainly just my favourite design.

Pyrite is approximately upper twenties - 24-28 or so. Red eyes, black hair with red highlights, and pale skin. Her real name, outside of the moniker she has as her title inside of the Dark Kingdom, is something I trashed. So no, Dee, it's not "Tranq" anymore. Or "Lilly" either.

All Generals are aligned with an element, as odd as the connections come off. Kunzite is earth, Zoisite is water, Jedite is air, and Nephrite is spirit/space. Purely out of coincidence, before I ever figured all of that nifty stuff out, I put Pyrite as fire. She looks really cool with flames, trust me.

Now, no yelling that this is fanart....as stated above, Pyrite was done as a fancharacter but *ages* ago I simply removed that element from her active history. She's a version of myself at the moment, one of the first representations of who I was that I ever tossed around the net.

Pyrite (this design, at least, and not the thousands of others out there) © =Jateshi 1999-present
Artwork/pose © =Jateshi 2005
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Comments: 46

BrettSmith1106 [2013-02-01 20:18:13 +0000 UTC]

The art reminds of the anime the Slayers

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DracheaRannak [2006-10-23 01:10:08 +0000 UTC]

Incredible! I love her hair, the colors and the lighting effect you used on it
But what I liked the most was the red trace around her

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Jateshi In reply to DracheaRannak [2006-10-31 03:43:24 +0000 UTC]

I had to give Pyrite a good background, and I will admit to working harder on her picture than a lot of other ones from the time, just because of who (to me) she is. I can't say enough how wonderufl it is that you like her!

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DracheaRannak In reply to Jateshi [2006-11-02 14:49:50 +0000 UTC]

She certainly is incredible!

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LovelyRita515 [2005-08-21 03:35:44 +0000 UTC]

wow. I love the shading- very dramatic! :fav:

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Jateshi In reply to LovelyRita515 [2005-08-22 16:22:20 +0000 UTC]

:3 Thank you so much! I tend to go for the drama, don't I?

Jate: I draw drama shading

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SkeletalWings [2005-08-14 02:45:36 +0000 UTC]

@_@ aaaaaaaaahh! Oh mah gosh... this is by far my favorite piece from you gallery.

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Jateshi In reply to SkeletalWings [2005-08-14 03:19:26 +0000 UTC]

#^^# I really like her too - I think I'm going to make at least a few prints of her for Otakon, since she's getting recieved so well.

*snugs* :3 Love the Pyrite, she won't kill you then!

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MxfitForge [2005-08-14 02:06:27 +0000 UTC]

Very cool - I love her design, the dark but bold colors, and the feel to this pic as a whole.

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Jateshi In reply to MxfitForge [2005-08-14 02:44:46 +0000 UTC]

<3 Thanks so much, Mel! I have to admit that she's simply one of my all-time favourite creations, her original Mary-Sueness and all. I'm a sucker for her, and other than my drawing style and a few details on her uniform top, she hasn't changed since I first made her.

<< Bold, dark crimsons and all.

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Tangia-Kira [2005-08-13 19:52:50 +0000 UTC]

I love the character design. It's obvious that a lot of thought went into her. ^^ Great story about why she was designed, too. I did fan characters for Sailor Moon but, they were all unorigional sailor scouts. *laughs* I was so young... Beatiful, even if she looks like she's ready to kill someone.

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Jateshi In reply to Tangia-Kira [2005-08-13 23:02:24 +0000 UTC]

Pyrite is perhaps one of my most favourite characters and her story was twisted, intricate, and convoluted. It was horribly written and had more plot holes than a HANA romance (that reference doesn't make sense to anyone but me and a few others but it's about all I can think of on such short notice!) but the charatcer of 'Pyrite' remained an enigma which I have loved beyond belief. All of the best elements of my other villans, those before Pyrite (which no one can get the stories of except Dee because I am NOT telling!) and after her, are just continuations of what I worked out when I made her.

I made senshi (oh come on, everyone does!) and oddly enough Pyrite in one game I played her at used a trick to pretend to henshin into a senshi *snorts* but she had self-respect and wore pants. But I preferred making villans a lot more than I liked making senshi, or I would twist it and make senshi villans sorta like the basic concept of the Animamates except not controlled by anyone and evil by choice or real design.

...I *like* villans!

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Caity-Mayhem [2005-08-13 14:54:48 +0000 UTC]

Gorgeous! Definitly wouldn't want to meet her in a dark alley ..>_>.. <_<..
Her hair is AMAZING!

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Jateshi In reply to Caity-Mayhem [2005-08-13 22:58:21 +0000 UTC]

*purrs* Oh, Pyrite wasn't (and isn't - ack, I want to draw more of her! *bats away the bunnies*) someone you wanted to meet in an alley. Vindictive, vengeful - all those bad, bad things which villans were. And she's smart, too, which made her a good villan.

^^ Thank you!

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Libra-In-Red [2005-08-13 14:41:10 +0000 UTC]

Very nice. I am muey impressed!

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Jateshi In reply to Libra-In-Red [2005-08-13 22:57:14 +0000 UTC]

^^ Thanks a lot Libra! She came out nicely in colour, and I'm glad to have coloured one of my *own* older linearts. *snickers*

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Unisamas-Art [2005-08-13 07:43:00 +0000 UTC]

I remember her!!! *has a seizure and falls over*

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Jateshi In reply to Unisamas-Art [2005-08-13 22:55:42 +0000 UTC]

ACK! Holy Merlin, you HAVE known me long enough to remember Pyrite! *looks around for her flashy-pen thing from MIB to remove those memories*

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Unisamas-Art In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-14 04:38:16 +0000 UTC]

about 2001-ish right??? (maybe 2000... I don't fully remember )I know it was through the crystalstars >.>
isn't she also the black hair beauty sleeping on the mug you designed for me?
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Jateshi In reply to Unisamas-Art [2005-08-14 04:44:19 +0000 UTC]

Ah! Yeah, that's her! All chibi and cute and sleeping. <3 She looks adorable there, doesn't she?

o0 Hrm... *thinks* I can't remember....I think 2000 actually, since we met shortly after I drew my first fanarts for Fyre and those were early '99 and I think that's when my membership with EzBoard started, which is where we met.

*setting the knobs on the flashy thing*

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Unisamas-Art In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-14 04:59:46 +0000 UTC]

mwahaha, I just got your mug out of storage the other week (I put it there so none of my untrusting roomates would steal/break it)
wait.. the original board wasn't ezboard was it??? It was some MB before ezboard wasn't it??? and cha, your probably right since I joined the crystalstars right after we got internet (which was in 2000) and I was all oogly and "ooo la la" about yours and arties art.
>.>
<.<
[link]
*runs from the flashy thing*

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Jateshi In reply to Unisamas-Art [2005-08-14 05:03:21 +0000 UTC]

No, it wasn't on EzBoard originally but that's where I finally got the courage up to join it. ^^' I can't remember where it was originally...

I'm still oogly about any of Artie's art, she's so amazing!

GAH! *hides from the website* I need to remember my old password and delete that horrible page!

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Unisamas-Art In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-14 05:11:41 +0000 UTC]

nuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love looking at your art, even the goldie oldies. makes me happy that I knew you "back in the day"

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Jateshi In reply to Unisamas-Art [2005-08-14 05:23:41 +0000 UTC]

XD Someday I'm going to take that stupid site down. I can add a "my old art" gallery to my current domain if it'd satisfy you, but those images are embarassing!

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Unisamas-Art In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-14 22:57:02 +0000 UTC]

I would like it lots and tons I still think some of those pics are absolutly gourgous!
specially:
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:3 just to name a few

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Jateshi In reply to Unisamas-Art [2005-08-14 23:33:43 +0000 UTC]

You're prejudiced to the fact that I don't like them and they *are* decent pictures.

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Unisamas-Art In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-14 23:42:08 +0000 UTC]

They *are* decent and lovely pictures and show about how much lovlier you get with every image you draw

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Jateshi In reply to Unisamas-Art [2005-08-14 23:59:33 +0000 UTC]

*blushing* Now you're making me red in the face, and not from being mad! (Though I am that, you know ) I strongly disagree, but I can spot a losing battle when I see one. You can think my old art is good and I can fondly wish it would mysteriously go up in flames.

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Unisamas-Art In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-15 00:17:04 +0000 UTC]

*coughoryoucanjustsendthemtomyhouseforwor shipingpurposescough*
ya know I love you! <3 *covers jat in jelly and herself in Peanut butter and wrestles her on a piece of bread*

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Jateshi In reply to Unisamas-Art [2005-08-15 00:26:57 +0000 UTC]

<< Would you want the originals of the art I did for you?

Because if you would, they could make their way down to you...

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Unisamas-Art In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-15 00:40:59 +0000 UTC]

really really really!!!!??????
*hugs snuggles cuddles* I would love that!! Then I could ship over all the art I've done for ya >.>

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Jateshi In reply to Unisamas-Art [2005-08-15 00:48:22 +0000 UTC]

o0 Sure! If you actually want them, you can have them!

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Unisamas-Art In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-15 01:44:27 +0000 UTC]

wooo!! I get more pretty jat jat art!!!!

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Jateshi In reply to Unisamas-Art [2005-08-15 03:39:12 +0000 UTC]

Yep yep!

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Unisamas-Art In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-15 01:43:54 +0000 UTC]

wooo!! I get more pretty jat jat art!!!!

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Shadowstar [2005-08-13 07:01:31 +0000 UTC]

wow. this is VERY cool.

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Jateshi In reply to Shadowstar [2005-08-13 22:54:59 +0000 UTC]

^^ Thanks so much, Shadowstar!

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Shadowstar In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-14 05:16:06 +0000 UTC]

np!

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songofamazon [2005-08-13 06:22:31 +0000 UTC]

wow. *_* That's just so very surreal and beautiful.

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Jateshi In reply to songofamazon [2005-08-13 22:54:45 +0000 UTC]

#^^# Thank you so much! She came out a lot better in colour than I fear she would, I haven't done a pic of Pyrite from start to finish in years.

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talvitera [2005-08-13 06:02:42 +0000 UTC]

Those red highlights on her clothes are lovely. Pyrite is a good name for a villain- it's fool's gold, isn't it?

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Jateshi In reply to talvitera [2005-08-13 06:07:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot

Yep, Pyrite is Fool's Gold. I rather fancied it as a good villan name for almost that reason alone. The misguided sots who believe the false promises of the overlord o' darkness are fools who refuse to see the truth beyond their warped world. *nods* *will stop from espousing further on the subject*

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talvitera In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-13 07:39:22 +0000 UTC]

And they're actually a lot more worthless than they look? xD Well, the Sailormoon villains were never that effective...or even bright. o_O

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Jateshi In reply to talvitera [2005-08-13 22:52:25 +0000 UTC]

In PGSM, they're actually strikingly intelligent - a wonderful change to have villans who are smart.

*pets PGSM* You redeem your villans Naoko, with that.

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Jabberwocky4343 In reply to Jateshi [2005-08-13 06:43:37 +0000 UTC]

hee.. i have a chimera blacksmith named Pyrite. it's a fun term.

and nice job jate.

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Jateshi In reply to Jabberwocky4343 [2005-08-13 22:47:43 +0000 UTC]

It is a fun name

And thanks so much for the compliment! <3

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