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So you know the Angels Zodiac universe I've been trying to make resemble ~~something other than Sailor Moon~~ high fantasy for the last five, maybe six years? I FIGURED IT OUT.

( This is long and contains, of course, mad spoilers. Sarah-chan, READ THIS PLX. AND RESPOND, PRETTY PLX. )

Frack, it's another war story. Anyway.

Sarah-chan, I want your input on this. It's mostly your universe, and, well, a collaboration might be fun.

Current Mood: creative

You and you. Post here by Sunday or you forfeit your turns.

In the grand tradition of Songs I Want To Animate, songs for other folks.

Genia [Courtnie] Ocean Gypsy, Night Blackmore

Tried to take it all away, learn her freedom just inside a day,
and find her soul to find there fears are laid.
Tried to make her love their own.
They took her love, they left her there, they gave her nothing back that she would want to own.
She knows she's alone and she is free...

Partly the title, partly the last line I have quoted. Perhaps a bit angsty for Genia?

Chiyo [Sarah] Knight Moves, Suzanne Vega

Watch while the queen, in one false move, turns herself into a pawn.
Sleepy and shaken and watching while the blurry night turns into a very clear dawn

One false move and a secret prophecy.
Well, if you hold it against her, first hold it up and see that it's one side stone, one side fire, standing alone among all men's desire.
They want to know

Do you love any, do you love none,
Do you love many, can you love one,
Do you love me?

I... don't know why. It just always has. 'Specially that first bit reminds me of when I first met Chiyo. She was, then, a princess (Queen?). Not so much anymore. I still wonder what losing her kingdom has done to her.

Roxanne [Courtnie] Roxie, Chicago Soundtrack

The name on everybody's lips is gonna be Roxie.
The lady raking in the chips is gonna be Roxie.
I'm gonna be a celebrity.
That means somebody everyone knows.
They gonna recognize my eyes, my hair, my teeth, my boobs, my nose.

Yeah, *that* was obvious.

Garrick and Arianna [Courtnie] Garden of Everything, Maaya Sakamoto and Steve Conte

Here we'll see
Love's lost tree
Made out of miracles

Emotions, crystal leaves
To cover me
And you in eternity

Each atom sing to us
Through the blood
"Love is a miracle"

...BECAUSE IT IS THEIR SONG, okay?

Kid [Sarah] and Sango [Duh] Dizzy, Goo Goo Dolls

You're cynical and beautiful; you always make a scene.
You're monochrome delirious; you're nothing that you seem.
I'm drowning in your vanity; your laugh is your disease.
...
I wanna kick at the machine that made you piss away your dreams, and tear down your defenses 'till there's nothing there but me.
You're angry when you're beautiful; your love is such a tease...

From Sango to Kid. You two have ISSUES, but you don't need me to tell you that, do you?

I'll probably upload a zip of these later, 'cept for 'Garden of Everything', which Tanken could get to my by YouSendIt but which I don't have on this computer... hint, hint.

Taking a page from Sarah's book, here's the New Year metapost.

This year, I plan to:

1) Finish off the really depressing arc that is Rela's backstory.
2) Get Hosi and company organized. Are they still questing? Will Hosi ever have her revenge? Will Mahabra transcend stupidity and come out the other side a genius? Stay tuned!
3) Write more pr0n. Actually, that's not so much a plan as an inevitability.

Taking, well, another thing from Sarah: give me a challenge. Request a story about any character, or any situation. I'll do my best to make it work.

For my characters. Just follow the links. For reference, I'm an ISTP. [ETA: you can find the test here.]

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I recommend this if you've not got a handle on your characters; it's useful for getting in their heads.

More songs that cause me to want to learn Flash, for about five minutes, give or take. Then I come to my senses, but they still apply.

Kaos:
Strange Wings, Savatage

She is a native of the stormy skies, yeah
...
She throws her head back
And rides into the night
She flies strange wings

This was one I decided on long, long before Kaos got her makeover into a character who actually has personality. Nonetheless, I think it fits her. Even if it does drive Tanken batty.

Lioran:
Something to Be, Rob Thomas

Dress down now I look a little too
Boy next door
Maybe I should try to find a downtown whore
That'll make me look hardcore
I need you to tell me what to stand for

Lioran is a little uncertain, and a little out of place, and above all a normal kid who, y'know, grew wings. So, even more confused than a normal teenager, then. But he's a guy. He's not gonna let a little thing like being confused make him look weak.

Kiros:
Tree City Anthem, Denizen Kane

We're just tree city legends that got lost in time
I pray to see heaven every time that I rhyme
And if I die before I defeat the fake and wicked...
You know pain ain't nothing but change and I've got to change, Lord, before I get changed
Lord I've got to change, Lord I've got to change, the only thing I'm scared of is staying the same

The artist refuses to share lyrics for this and it's REALLY HARD to understand. But the overall sentiment - defiant, protective - is perfect for Kiros; also, this is exactly what I think he sounds like.

Irvine and Hosi:
Probably Me, Sting
You're not the easiest person I ever got to know
And it's hard for us both to let our feelings show
Some would say I should let you go your way
You'll only make me cry
If there's one guy, just one guy, who'd lay down his life for you and die
It's hard to say it; I hate to say it; but it's probably me

Yeah... bad times. But, well, Hosi's hatred for all other humans and Irvine's pervertedness aside, they're together. What that means is entirely up to them.

Rela:
Banzai, Misa
uno, dos, tres, quatro, go, roku
minna de youki ni kurasou
nanigenai yoru demo tsuki no hikari terashiteru
hoshi no kagayaki to tomo ni yuuutsu na kimochi ni I say good-bye (BANZAI)
[one, two, three, four, five, six
Everyone, let's get along cheerfully
Even on a careless night, the light of the moon shines
With the glow of the stars, I say good-bye to my sad feelings]

...I have no excuse for this. But it has fangirl Spanish in it. So I am giving it to Rela, whose code-switching thought processes are incomprehensible to mere monolinguists.

Kaho:
The Package, A Perfect Circle
Clever got me this far, and tricky got me in
Eyes on what I'm after, don't need another friend
Just give me what I came for and I'm out the door again
Lie to get what I came for
Lie to get just what I need
Lie to get what I crave
Lie and smile to get what's mine

Kaho is... um... scary. And conniving. And very, very smart, which is why she acts slightly stupid. And this is, in fact, the perfect theme song for her... except maybe that it's a little too revealing.

To anyone who used to write the Angels Zodiac and is reading this: Sarah? Maybe Kirei? Anyway. Can I use your characters in my NaNoWriMo and change their backstories utterly? I'm trying to get them to be consistant with generally accepted Zodiac-related personality traits, leading to such things as Kaos being switched over to Aquarius since she's not got a Gemini personality...

Also, Sarah, what in the heck were Cosmos' daughters' names?

Font colours, so you have a reference, and appearances, 'cause no one seems to know what they look like. ^^;; My fault. Also for my own reference, since sometimes I randomly change a character's design or have to look up their eye colour, or something.

( Zero )

( Seijirou )

( Kiros )

( Kaho )

( Rela )

( Schuu )

( Futatsu )

( SingKueh )

( Kaos )

( Lioran )

( Hosi )

( Yohko )

More to come.

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A list of music videos I would make if my characters were actually animated.

Yes, a lot of these did come from the FST I was painstakingly putting together; however, I don't have that all in one place anymore, so please... download and enjoy. It will help you with my interpretations of the characters, anyhow.

Angels and their love interests/best friends:
Angels Would Fall, Melissa Etheridge
I'll come by and see you again,
and I'll have to be a very good friend...
Angels never came down,
there's no one here that they'd want to hang around
but if they knew, if they knew you at all,
then one by one the angels, angels would fall

Zero and Sarah/Keiko, Seijirou and Jes/Natasha, Kiros and Chiyo/Abby, and just generally Angels and everyone. 'Cause the Angels did Fall because of these humans, you know.

Rela and co.:
One-Girl Revolution, Superchic(k)
I'll be everything that I want to be
I am confidence in insecurity
I am a voice yet waiting to be heard
I'll shoot the shot - bang - that you hear round the world
I'm a one girl revolution

Probably young!Rela, back in 'Tatsu and 'Kueh's time. With lots of explosions, and gunshots, and crazed laughter.

Futatsu
Fire in the Sky, Kristof Klover

Prometheus, they say, brought God's fire down to man
And we've caught it, tamed it, trained it since our history began
...
And they said she's just a truck, but she's a truck that's aiming high.
See her big jets burn, see her fire in the sky.
...
We must turn our faces outward, we will do what must be done.
For no cradle lasts forever, every bird must learn to fly ---
And we're going to the stars, see our fire in the sky.

Futatsu is a pilot. He's grounded now. He's determined to make an airship and get the hell off of Earth, and he's just idealistic enough to see this as the grand goal of humanity.

Humanity may not know this, but he's okay with that.

I gave in and got the Plus account. I feel like such an icon whore. But here: icons for all my characters, with descriptions:

	Default Keywords: Zero default Character portrait, drawn by me.			Keywords: Sing Kueh 'Cause he's a Dragon. (Clan, not really).
	Keywords: Kiros Note moon. He and Sei have similar icons.			Keywords: Rela Line is 'buckshot and bullets'. Rela carries a Glock.
	Keywords: Hosi She did graduate the mage academy, so she must've studied like hell. And she likes books better than people.			Keywords: Kaos Angel's wing on a background of the Orion Nebula. Fairly obvious.
	Keywords: Lioran Scythe on a background of the Orion Nebula. Similar to Kaos's.			Keywords: Ryoka 'Cause he's an angry, angry tabby cat.
	Keywords: Schuu Aww, puppy. In the large version of this, you can see that he looks kind of confused.			Keywords: Seijirou Solar flare. Parallels Kiros's.
	Keywords: Violence Knives. Shiny knives.			Keywords: Xeng Kho A white longhair with an imperious expression.
	Keywords: Yohko Nunchaku, Yohko's main weapon.			Keywords: Futatsu 'Tatsu loves planes and flying.