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Bluewyrm [2011-09-11 01:02:07 +0000 UTC]
How is it that everything you do is so cool?
I was watching for Sanfranstuck and I find these and... one more reason to keep watching!
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cheerio38010 [2011-08-10 13:57:45 +0000 UTC]
I'm really liking these characters! YOU HAVE ALL THE ORIGINALITY THAT I LACKKKK
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the-zilla [2011-08-08 11:10:01 +0000 UTC]
okay
The dots on Tasha's arm, how do they work? Are they like paint-pots? Paint-pots of magic? Or do they "activate" when she's painting a corresponding symbol? I don't know if I'm intrigued or icked out by the idea of "drawing" something from your body (in two senses of the word, heh).
And in the last scene, did Coli break the light by flying and Tasha's replacing it? The story didn't come together for a while, but then everything clicked (broken glass on floor, "blink" of light, standing on the stool) and I giggled.
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Jaylina In reply to the-zilla [2011-08-09 04:09:24 +0000 UTC]
Excuse me while I get overexcited like yappy dog over the fact someone asked me a question about symbols.
The palette on her arm is a tattoo made with special ink (Special = Magical. ) and the symbols I wrote to the left of her arm up there correspond to the base color of each of the pigments. They also happen to be pictographs , so the symbol for red means fire, orange is an orange fruit, yellow is gold, green is a plant, blue is turquoise, purple is a plum leaf, brown is a "piece of earth" (dirt,) white is cream, and black is darkness. They can also be blended together to make more complex symbols and different spells; like the pictograph of the sun she's painting on Coli's ceiling.
Sorry the last comic is a bit hard to read, I was running out of space.
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the-zilla In reply to Jaylina [2011-08-09 08:55:08 +0000 UTC]
Thanks for explaining! Everything sounds super cool; I love it when people put real thought and research into creating characters! Throwing this out here, but sun would be gold + fire?
wait wait hold the eff up that pictographs book is in Mandarin. AW YEAH I can read this*!
* SOME. GAHHH I HAVEN'T TOUCHED MANDARIN IN SO LONG
Oops that all makes sense given that she's from Tibet. But I guess I dropped that train of thought between her gypsy-dress and her Aztec-hummingbird-human familiar, haha.
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Jaylina In reply to the-zilla [2011-08-19 07:04:42 +0000 UTC]
Yup, gold + fire.
You can read Mandarin? Lucky... some of the English translations in there are pretty sketchy. ;_;
And yeah, I have a terrible habit of reading about all these different cultures and mashing them together into some sort of thick, confusing concoction. I also do this with animal species.
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