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[annarti]

Meme stealing cos I can~

Name a character that you know I write/draw or have written/drawn, and I'll tell you:

o What initially prompted me to write/draw them.
o One of their best traits.
o One of their worst traits.
o How easy/difficult I find it to write/draw the character.
o The moment where I feel that I truly captured the character.
o My plans to write/draw the character in the near future.

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[drazzi.livejournal.com]

Kurae~~ <3

Yamin <3

Yan :o

Kurae

[annarti.livejournal.com]

o What initially prompted me to write/draw them.
I needed more Own riders than the main two plus Melraan. Obviously, Kurae ended up being one of them. He came from the song Queer by Garbage, but I think he's developed a bit since then.

o One of their best traits.
COOKING. As well you know.

o One of their worst traits.
Kurae~ is not a people person. Particularly people he doesn't know. Really he only mixes well with the other swordies in the Own, but outside that little group? You'll be lucky to get a word out of him.

o How easy/difficult I find it to write/draw the character.
If it's from his point of view, easy. From someone else's? Not~ so much. The quiet ones are always harder to show in writing, just cos the loud ones (and there are a LOT of them in the Own) like to take the main stage. The quiet ones just do their job quietly in the background. Still, he occasionally gets to say his piece. Drawing? I don't really draw him all that much =/ He's a tricky bugger, tho, just cos he's supposed to be ugly and he often comes out looking... not so ugly.

o The moment where I feel that I truly captured the character.
Oh god, um... Probably that one (http://community.livejournal.com/yrae/127614.html). He hasn't appeared for a sustained period in SH to pick something from there, so minific it is! Stoic chef but nevertheless patient with his fellow swordies. And clearly they're not afraid to ask him for help, either X3

o My plans to write/draw the character in the near future.
No specific plans, just whenever he rocks up. I'd dearly like to have a conversation in SH between 'min/'may and each of the Own riders... problem being they don't talk, and neither does Kurae. My GOD wouldn't that be scintillating?

Yamin

[annarti.livejournal.com]

o What initially prompted me to write/draw them.
Wouldn't have a clue. She just appeared, looking over Ni-Yana (which didn't have a name at the time) as her twin sister led the entire Raykinian army out to war. Completely random idea that came from nowhere, inasmuch as I can tell.

o One of their best traits.
Her patience, without doubt. She's the kind of person people feel guilty about angering <3

o One of their worst traits.
SHYYYYYYY but it's totally not her fault. She's totally comfortable in the healing house, but take her outside and she's always looking over her shoulder, hiding her face in her hood, keeping to the shadows, that kind of thing.

o How easy/difficult I find it to write/draw the character.
...It depends. She's never as easy to write as Nimay. Sometimes she can be a dear little thing to write, but her chapters are always the ones that have a big ol' writer's block in the middle. And yet she's fun to write! So I dunno.
She's easy as to draw, probably the one I feel most comfortable with, along with Nimay. I do love drawing the 'min~

o The moment where I feel that I truly captured the character.
....I don't know how many THOUSANDS of words I've written that girl XD; Probably somewhere in SH. I did really like her first not-conversation with Ramnaré, where she got to the end of it and, instead of feeling like her private conversations with Mama weren't special anymore if every desert person could do it, she just felt happy that she'd found someone like Mama. That's definitely 'min, she prefers to see the happy side of things =3

o My plans to write/draw the character in the near future.
Obviously in Silent Harmony. She'll be in the next chapter. No minifics planned, but I haven't really been doing them at all in the last year or so, only to get a handle on characters I don't really know.
Drawing~ I need to do Exactly Different version whatever. Nothing else planned, but with summer on the way we'll see what happens =3

Yan

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o What initially prompted me to write/draw them.
He appeared in my head before the twins, but with no story or anything to go with him. Well, he had one, he just wouldn't tell me what it was. Then found out he was the undead tyrant from 4000 years ago in Raykin, and off he went to rape and pillage the whole of history. Good on 'im.

o One of their best traits.
He... loves his family?

o One of their worst traits.
EVERYTHING ELSE. The absolute worst has to be his manipulation. He's so good at it that I don't know if he uses magic in manipulating others or not. He just has this way of making you feel sorry for him, even when you know full well who he is and what he's done. He does it to me, too ><

o How easy/difficult I find it to write/draw the character.
Freaking IMPOSSIBLE. He's one of the most picky in terms of nagging me if I get him wrong, but he'll only do so after a page of conversation, at which point he'll tell me he wouldn't say that or that or that or that and that I should just start over. So I look back over said page and, yaknow what? He's right. I always make him say too much, and he just doesn't DO that. Yan is an absolute BASTARD to write.
Drawing he's not too bad, strangely enough. I think the nose and the 'tache combine to make him easily distinguishable no matter how much I screw up the rest.

o The moment where I feel that I truly captured the character.
First meeting with the twins in the current draft, mostly for this bit:

The dead man shook his head again, then smiled, but not patronisingly. ‘You’re a smart girl. If you’ve not figured it out on your own by your hrai-dani, I’ll tell you then.’ He reached out for her right wrist, the one now bound in the yrae bangle, but Yamin backed away and hid her hands behind her back.

«Don’t touch me,» she warned. «You’re dead.»

He paused and looked at his outstretched hand, turning it in the air before resting it on his knee, his head still bowed as he looked at it. ‘I know,’ he murmured, almost to himself.

ASJLGALSDKGHSK DON'T MAKE ME FEEL SORRY FOR YOU, YOU BASTARD.

o My plans to write/draw the character in the near future.
IN THE NEXT CHAPTER OMG.