It's kind of funny.

For the longest time that I have RPed, I love OCs more than I do FCs. I played many numerous FCs like Will (Illusion of Gaia), Mega Man, Dr. Wily, and Enker (Megaman/Rockman), Kamek(Mario), Ernst(Ys), and Frio Svene(Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 2+3. BOTH INCARNATIONS!). I found myself loving OCs more. I can do FCs, but I don't enjoy them as much.

However, I am those that do not like jacking pictures of other people's character and call it my own. Sure, they make good basis, but... I like having pictures of my own characters. I used to do that, jacking pictures. But.. meh. It feels nice when I say, 'THIS IS MY CHARACTER!'

Anyway, my characters that I developed overall as followed.

I have a lot more. Oh god, do I have a lot more characters, but... those are my top ones.

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Reize Seatlan
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He has been my main character in the sense of an RPG Hero. Kid-Hero, actually. He had been influenced by Will from Illusion of Gaia and Adol Christin from Ys. I like Reize because he is the representation of what I enjoy of an RPG hero. A goofy, amusing kid with a heart of gold. Sadly he gets lost -very- easily, which results in some hilarious antics.

It took me the longest time for me to find artwork for him. Before I had income of commissions, I jacked a screenshot of Theo from Neophyte: Journey Begins. Then Jakuu helped me redefine his image. I am grateful for that. It gave me a nice bit of identity for Reize.

It was hard finding a place that would work out for him where I RPed him. My own world didn't go so well, the whole way Final Fantasy works now almost disgusts me to the point where I want nothing to do with it. I miss the way it was, from 4 and the medieval like. Then, Anima: Beyond Fantasy came to me.

Reize is a unique case. I am not sure why, but I had him dual wield boomerangs in melee combat. And he used his magic in the form of tarots. But I found a way to work that magic in, thanks to Anima and musings from my DM friend. Now? The place is perfect for him. I've... pretty much artworked his story out. He is probably my #1 character for fantasy stuff.

Young: [link] (Combined effort of Zue for color and Jakuu for lineart).
Adult: [link] (REALLY appreciate this, Jakuu).

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Wataru Hoshimoto
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God. I think I went two different roads for him. One is when I made him specifically for a D&D game, Reflections of Reality, thanks to a friend giving me the idea. I've been world-building it like crazy as of late. The theme combines Persona 3 and .hack//G.U. to D&D. It's a game that I hope to bring alive one day.

The other one _IS_ based off of Persona. He is more aligned with 3.

One thing that is the same story-wise is that he is probably the most emo, suicidal characters I have made. I have always wanted to play a mute, but I wanted a good reason to play a mute. So, I researched on autism being a case and it made the most sense. It actually made me feel good when folks told me that they liked the way how I handled Wataru's autistic nature.

He wants to have friends, but... he isn't the most friendliest kid. In fact, he strikes at strangers if they try to touch him. Everyone gave up on him except for his brother. In Reflections of Reality, it's complicated on how his brother died, but it ties in to his spirit guide. In Persona 3, a shadow killed his brother with a knife and he fell off of the bridge after using his Persona, Gawain, to kill the shadow. Either way, his brother died saving Wataru and this left the boy with guilt and obsession.

His will to live literally depends on friends his own age and more. He can never feel comfortable with adults, unless he finds them interesting. It is hard to detect his feelings because he has a mask of an Emotionless Girl--err Boy.(TVTrope).

His weapon? A crowbar.

Persona-wise, Wataru has Agravain as his Persona. If you don't know who Agravain is, he is one of the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legends.

Reflections of Reality-wise? Wataru has a spirit guide named Feo. When they soulmerge, Wataru fights as a warrior-monk style Cleric.

Reflections of Reality: [link] (gooo nekorulz)
Persona: [link] (Aditya, you've done a great job with this. ;_


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LOWELL LOGRUDE
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Okay, it's been a while that I made adult characters. Lowell is like a huge revamp of a character named Travis Ragestorm. He was inspired by Jade Curtiss of Tales of the Abyss and Magus from Chrono Trigger. I hated the name, but the story and everything for him was there. I based him off of my RP with someone back in the 1990s. The player died in a car crash, if I recall. It sucked. But... when I thought about Travis, I wanted to make a story based off of my memories.

Take a kid who was raised by a military father. A general, if you will. Grew up looking up to his father and a stranger who saved his life, who was a hero. Grew fond of the hero's daughter, crushing on her. Father finds out about the crush and tells his daughter. The two are together. Unfortunately, General tests out his weapon on a village that said girl was in, turned everyone into stone. Not only that, when the hero came to challenge the boy's father, he had to watch the hero get killed like a dog rather than die with honor. He lost every respect towards his father.

He took in a girl, who was his age. She tried to steal from one of the soldiers and they were ready to kill her. But he took her in, but letting her know that she belongs to him and only to him. It was not all bad, considering that she was the person who he trusted the most. She became his lieutenant.

Every year, he would always visit the village that was turned to stone, promising to free the girl.

He serves as an antagonist. He is not evil, but just someone who is doing what he feels is right for his empire or country. His methods, however, are pragmatic. He was stoic and by regulations. Even when he wanted revenge against his father, he masked it under regulations so that he could legally destroy his father.

Sadly, he dies in the hands of his father when he finally attempts to have his father detained for war crimes, which is the same time that the girl was brought back and found him.

Anyway, as I mentioned, he is like Magus of being a mage + figther with a scythe. The Jade influence comes in with the military aspects as well as manifesting the scythe out of nowhere.

...I debated the scythe being a monster sealed within.

Lowell: [link] (honestly, I forgot who the hell did it because he never finished the sketch.)
Lowell's Death: [link] (gooo mazjojo)


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ROLF WEISS
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Few times I played adults. A huge hothead. Potemkin from Guilty Gear was part of my inspiration as well as Kishime Kouma.

He is an undead hunter who has a demon living in him. Not demon blood, but a literal demon inhabiting a scar in his hands. He lost his eye to a vampire lord after all of the villagers were murdered in front of him. ...And it was all for befriending his daughter.

The gauntlets are inhibitors, keeping his dark power in check, or else it'll corrupt or kill him. If those gauntlets are removed, then the demon takes over.

Typically your Guilty Gearish fighting character.

Chracter Sheet: [link] (Jakuu is awesome)
His village, a deadland: [link] (Katsh did a good job with this).





And well, my lament.

Getting characters drawn come with a price. And of course, I have always been willing to pay the price. However, I've always grown annoyed/jealous over not being able to get gift-arts at times. Granted, don't know many folks well enough to do so and the world is a big place. Buuuuut, it's just one of those irrational fits. Though, I guess it's due to the fact that part of me gets tired of paying for the stuff at times, considering how much I -DO- buy. @_@

I think, overall, I may have spent up to $1000 on commissions, if not more. Sometimes, I get tired of spending money to see ideas out. Sure, I could take up trying to draw. I've grown tired of trying with that. It isn't my interest. But, that's the cost of not being able to draw, yet want nice artwork of your characters.

Life of a commissioner is fun, isn't it? Kind of funny. Just a bitter rant that I want to get out of my chest. It makes me feel better.

But, I do recognize those that have given me gift-arts or at least helped me on getting jumpstarted. It makes me feel loved in a way, which is pretty awesome.

sirkrozz - I appreciate the sketch you did of Wataru. It helped me jump start on what I wanted to do with him. Even if I had to change a few things during the course of RP to establish him. @_@

Jakuu - Oh god. Oh /GOD/ did I appreciate the adult Reize fanart. You are who I definitely consider the my official Reize artist.

OptimusPraino - Admittedly, I had to catch one of your offers, but it was really nice that you did that and I am glad I jumped in on the opportunity, the artwork of adult Reize was wonderful.

naefaelia - I always had great pleasure in RPing with you. I know your times had been.. not too active and I kinda grew tired of FFMUX, but it was a pleasure having you(and I swear one of your characters would had made a wonderful love interest for Reize).

Rukunetsu - You know, I was trying to commission you for the Jiro Kasagi picture, but... you did it for free as a request. I thought that was awesome and it made me appreciate what you did. In fact, you were the first person that I could call giving me a gift art. Thanks!


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Updates that I am waiting on from artists.

Meru-chan (Hired: Oct 22, 2009/ Last Update: Oct 30, 2009)
0-Duredhel-0 (Last Update: Oct 14, 2009)
neko-rulz (Hired: August 19th, 2009 /Update: October 17, 2009)
mazjojo: (Hired: August 25, 2009)


(Man, hired like... 2-3 artists and they finished the stuff faster.)