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I noticed that some of you probably have no interest whatsoever in this blog and may have followed it thinking that this was my Senior Project blog. It is not. If you did this, please follow 親のブログ and, if you so wish, stop following this blog.

Sincerely,
Zach W

A Description of Crow (for Emmy)

Essilfye ("Crow Child", referred to as "Crow" usually) was a tall man with long arms and legs and fingers and toes. At twenty-one years of age, he had traveled the lands with no specific purpose, but keeping alert to clues as to his origin. He was an Elf, as far as anyone could tell, but he did not look quite right. His ears were longer, less ear-shaped and they stuck out the sides of his head. Like elves, he could wiggle them around, forwards and backwards and up and down, often used to help express his emotions. Also like elves, his thin limbs and lankiness belied his immense strength. He had middle-length white hair and gray eyes.
Crow almost always dressed strangely for the fashions of the time. Most often, he wore either Gi, some sort of suit or a foppish, red and white suit with a flamboyant hat and a white feather (based off of Red Mages from Final Fantasy). His skin below his neck was always covered by wrappings to hide it from sunlight. His skin was covered in black markings, an intricate pattern like an impression of disjointed flames pulled apart. These markings brought him intense and burning pain as well as nausea and migraines when exposed to the sun. He had been found and adopted by the Elvish royal family (they ruled only a small part of the land though), but his true race was something similar to what we would think of as vampires.
However these "Vampires" (called "Ellegor", meaning "Imperfect") are more associated with spiders than bats. His canine teeth were slightly longer and pointier, but this was mostly unnoticable. In combat he used his bare hands, alchemy (similar to psynergy from Golden Sun) and- when necessary - a glaive (he most fits the "eastern monk" class).
He was layed-back, but determined and could be provoked into a fight if annoyed. He was very protective of Lenore, his love interest and eventual wife. Lenore was a blind elf who suffered from a form of Dwarfism that left her short and mostly small. She was found in a snowstorm with no memory of her past. She had hair like the night sky, skin as pale as the stars and eyes like the moon through the clouds.
But I digress, he was determined, intellegent and a bit hot-headed. He had a Familiar named Romulus who was a young Ice Summon-Spirit in the form of a gray-wolf.

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Written for Emmy as a description for a drawing. I am interested to see her interpretation of his physical aspects as well as his character that shows through in art. I don't expect her to draw Lenore or Romulus or anything like that, I gave those simply as character elaboration (thus the skimpy descriptions)
This will give me a chance to see how well I convey my thoughts after they get filtered into text and then again into someone else's thoughts.

Curly Brace

I officially have a NetBook! I cute little black Dell whom I've lovingly named Curly Brace after the character from Doukutsu Monogatari (Cave Story), a game which I've decided to name all my computers after.

I'm currently running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope: Netbook Remix and once you switch it over to classic layout, it works fantastically. I no longer need my old laptop as now I can just jack in my 300gb external and access my old files from there. All I need now is to get a Wallpaper Terminal running and I'll be set!

Hoorah!

I got Kopete (my IM client) to connect to Yahoo again! After much searching and editing I came across a site which gave me an alternate server, and it worked! (Tried several other alternative servers, but only this one worked)

Thought up something to say about Essilfye, but too lazy to post now.

To Remember:
Dou emill, Essilfye.

School

School has started once again and now I have two free periods at the end of the day. I would like to write during this time, but I have no laptop to write with.

Senior Project has caused me to get yet another blog. It can be found through my Profile Page.

A Date!

Just got back from seeing Miyazaki's "Ponyo" with Ame. It was wonderful! Miyazaki always portrays children so well. There's a strange, fluid style of animation in all of his movies that gives a sense of energy and joy.

I ordered a Pocket Watch, it should be here in a few days. It's mechanical and very neat looking, I hope it works well! (and that I can work it right)

Name to remember for Winter:
Angelinasta bel Asenath

The State of the Union 002

Sun is shinin' in the sky
There ain't a cloud in sight
It's stopped rainin' ev'rybody's in a play
And don't you know
It's a beautiful new day hey,hey

The State of the Union 001

Things are going well, I think. I found out that I'm a much more critical writer when I forget my medicine for a few days. But at the same time I dislike everything I write and so nothing gets done. I'm rewriting what I had of Winter Chapter 1.

Haven't been sleeping well lately.

I Remembered What I Was Going to Write About

I remembered today that I was going to write about why, in all the things I've written, I've never written a female Hero. It's not that I feel that they do not make good main characters or that I feel they lack certain qualities needed to make them interesting. If anything it is quite the opposite. While I (usually) don't write in the first person, even from a third person view the main character is very much the focal point of the story. I am much more comfortable writing males than females because I suppose I understand them better. In truth, I'm rather uncomfortable around men, but the characters that I write are not other people, they are a piece of me set in a situation that I control. Writing a girl seems something a level above me.

When mapping out The Seven (the seven personifications of myself found in Uruz' story) I considered making one of them female... but I decided against it because making a single character so special as to be the only one of the inner group of characters of a different sex seems rather dumb to me. When mapping out the Angels (done long before I mapped The Seven) I was confronted with a dilemma. I always imagine Angels as female (they're prettier that way), but I made them male (making them all female would require a lot of female-writing and possible accusations of sexism- they are the villains after all) But while reading through Genesis on a mission trip, I decided to make Uruz a half angel. I turned one of the angels female (Rebecca) but then I had one female out of six males. So I made another another (Sarai, formerly Selah).
Here's a quick list of The Seven and of the Angels:

The Seven: (each is a personification of myself)
Uruz - The Hero, he serves as the link between the Angels and Man, a General Personification.
Crow - The Alchemist, falls into the Eastern Monk class, Personification of Confidence.
Arthur - The Monk, a devout member of the Church, Personification of Faith.
Dante - The Thief, carefree but strong, Personification of Freedom.
Alin - The Psychokinetic, wrought with phobias and disorders (connected to his powers), Personification of Anxiety.
Icarus - The Automaton, despite being clockwork he is the most caring and gentle, Personification of Kindness.
Oz - The Wizard, a somewhat cold and very arrogant genius, Personification of Intellect.

The Angels: (no specific meanings)
Isaac - The First Angel, he acts as the leader, though his laziness belies his immense power.
Sarai - The Second Angel, a Companion to Isaac, she is hateful and scheming.
Balthazar - The Third Angel, an outcast, he was tricked into giving his weapon to Uruz' grandfather.
Melchior - The Fourth Angel, the spy, he does Isaac's bidding by gathering information.
Rebecca - The Fifth Angel, the traitor, imprisoned by the others for marrying a Human.
Jacob - The Sixth Angel, the trickster, unsought by the others, he spends his time causing madness and chaos in the world.
Casper - The Seventh Angel, second only to Isaac in strength, he is submissive and abused by the others.

Post Scriptum: I also give my characters Romantic Interests, which would be very awkward to write for a girl.