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Published: 2011-08-05 09:16:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 1790; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 15
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Description I'm slowly, painfully teaching myself how to color in Photoshop. This was good practice right here. Good, painful practice.

Anyways, these are more original characters, and they are related to the previous characters. Coli (the bird-human thing) met Dachshund and Alex in the woods at some point, thought they were hilarious, and brought them home to Tasha. Tasha is not pleased about occasionally having up to 3 annoying little boys in her house, especially when one is the size of a bull, but she sometimes finds them entertaining.

Tasha (actual name Tsuifen or 翠芬) was born in the Sichuan Province of China, near Tibet, but her parents moved to America when she was a young girl. She identifies as Tibetan, but curls her hair, dyes it red, and dresses like a gypsy. Her ethnicity ends up kind of lost under the beauty products. She also practices witchcraft, though she doesn't make a living off of it and has other jobs. Her main form of magic is a rather weak symbol based type that encourages her terrifying need to paint on every available surface and generally make everything "pretty." The entire house looks like a 4-grade craft project exploded in it, except for Coli's room because he fights her off with tooth and claw. She also does potions, but is pretty shit at it. She wants to strangle Coli sometimes, but she still loves him because he is her little fluffy shnookums. HER ICKLE FLOOFY SHNOOKUMS. She is about 26.

Colibrí is Tasha's accidental creation. He is a descendent one of the Aztec warriors who rose as hummingbirds after death on the battlefield (tl;dr ) but got turned back to human when Tasha mixed up the hummingbird feed with a potion that returns the cursed to original form. The bloodline was a little diluted. It was so diluted he was also kind of dying, because crossing a one gram bird with a human doesn't work out so well. Tasha, after hysterically freaking out over the genetic monstrosity collapsed under her hummingbird feeder, painted some symbols on him to stabilize his form and keep him from dying. Later he got his sweet metal cuffs. The cuffs also allow him to fly, as he would otherwise be to heavy and physically unable to beat his wings fast enough. He makes good use of this by spending most of his days on the internet and watching every terrible anime you ever loved as a preteen. He is also about 1 and half years old.

Some notes, like you're still reading this massive wall of text: Tasha is not the witch who cursed Dachshund. The potion that made Coli was intended for werewolves and animal morphs, and would probably kill him instead of turning him to normal. She's been working on a solution that could fix Coli and him, but her symbols aren't powerful enough and as mentioned before she is really quite bad at potions.

Yup.

I should probably just make a freaking comic book already, but I want to draw comics for Sanfranstuck and Cele Trei Creaturi to and it's impossible for me to focus on something for more than two seconds. :C

Edit: Oh gosh, forgot the Stock credits! Fireworks: [link] Shirt pattern: [link]
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Comments: 8

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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semuke [2011-08-05 18:10:23 +0000 UTC]

Do eet

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shellix [2011-08-05 11:53:56 +0000 UTC]

wow amazing characters

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