You Don't Own Me

Okay, so I am sooooo Tragically Bored. And I mean Tragically. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have 4 classes back to back. However this week, my Forensics class was cancelled because the professor is out of town. And normally that wouldn't be a problem for me, but that is not my last class! So, I have to hang out in the school Laibrary with NOTHING to do for 2 straight hours before my Criminology class. I don't have anything to study. I can't work on my english paper because it's all on my computer at home..... So I'm just going to fascinate you all, with another truely fascinating and totally interesting recap of my dreams, because I am so bored. Hahahaha. Enjoy!

Alrite, so I had this dream a while ago, actually long before I had those other two dreams I posted about, and this particular dream was entirely in 3rd person...which is strange, I guess. And it was very reminiscent of Silent Hill....

Anyway, the dream starts out with this little girl, who looks a much cuter version of the girl who played Alessa/Sharon in the Silent Hill movie, and she's running around in this huge feild. Then her mom starts calling her, so she turns around and runs back to the house. And their house is very bland. You know, not much color. Kinda small. Etc. Etc. And the mom and Alessa sit down and start eating dinner. Then all of a sudden, one of the plates goes flying off the table and smashes into a million peices and the doors and windows start rattling and stuff. Alessa is screaming.

So, after a minute or so of listening to Alessa's brain peircing screaming, the mom gets up, totally calm and picks up the phone to call an exorcist. Because apprently their house is haunted. Hahahaha. Anyway, the exorcist arrives at the house, literally 30 seconds later, and he looks like Dresdan from the Dresdan files. Which is strange, cause not only does it actually make sense that Dresdan would be an exorcist, I haven't watched that show in months. Hahaha. So Dresdan comes in and he starts doing his thing. You know, he's got some weird looking magical tuning fork or whatever it was, and he starts walking around looking for spirits. Then all of a sudden he stops and says he's found something. -gasp-

The very next second, the mom, who was standing with Dresdan, gets thrown across the room and this huge, almost transparent, ghost looking goo monster appears and attacks Dresdan. And Dresdan is no match for this things goo powers?! So he gets trapped in the corner, while this thing just beats on him. And Alessa is standing in the corner, holding two cats and looking horrified. Then Dresdan starts screaming at her, I need the artifact! I need the artifact! Whatever that means...

Anyway, Alessa runs up the stairs, grabbing a third random cat along the way, locks the cats in the bathroom and then runs into her mother's room and grabs her cellphone.... Apprently Alessa didn't understand what he meant by "Artifact" either. So she comes down stairs and throws her mom's cellphone at the monster and, of course, nothing happened. He merely continued to slowly kill Dresden.

Then, all of a sudden, Alessa gets stabbed in the shoulder by a demon/witch that looks suspciously like a cross between Zoicite and The Battle Royale Girl.... And Alessa screams and grabs, like a frying pan or something off of the dining room table and wacks Zoi Royale upside the head with it. Then she runs, past the goo monster, into the living room. And Zoi Royale, stumbles when she gets hit, then smirks and teleports in between Alessa and the front door, then Zoi Royale stabs Alessa in the chest. Then?! She uses her super mind powers to pull down this huge book shelf on top of Alessa, and it crushes her legs and Alessa dies?!

And that wasn't even the end?! Then Zoi Royale reaches down and rips out Alessa's heart, and she's holding it in her hand, and there blood everywhere. Then Alessa gets up, huge gaping hole in her chest, stab wounds, covered in blood, and the most insane twisted smile plays across her super pale face. And Zoi Royale starts making this speech, you know the kind that Rod Sterling makes at the end of an episode of The Twilight Zone. I don't remember the words exactly, but it was something about how she wanted that image of her ripping Alessa's heart out to be the last thing every child sees or remembers before they go to sleep and that she was coming for you. It was slightly disturbing... Then, Alessa and Zoi Royale come flying straight at me, like a bat outta hell or one of those effects that's suppose to make you jump at a 3D movie.

Anyway, Hope you enjoyed that. Hahaha.

Jaise?! ....Who the hell is Jaise?

Alrite, so who wants to hear about another one of my super baizarre dreams!?!!....Of course you do?! Haahahaha. I had this dream about a month ago and a half ago, and for some ungodly reason, it's still there and I remember it. So I figure, why not post about it? Blaise is in it. And the fans love Blaise...... Actually, who cares what the fans love? -huggles Blaise plushy- I love Blaise?! Hhahahahhaha.

Um, so I'm going to use the name Jaise, because in this particular dream the "lead male" character is in a constant state of flux between my character, Blaise and Jacob, the hott werewolf from Twilight....Which is weird.

So, the dream starts out with me walking home alone. Just walking. Then Jaise runs up behind me and starts walking with me. And we started talking about something, I don't remember what though, and then all of a sudden he's like , Hey! Let's go to that new store downtown?! And I'm like whatever. So we go to this random store.

And the store itself was freakin weird. Know why? Know why? BECAUSE IT WAS A SHAPESHIFTING STORE?!?!?!?! When me and Jaise walked in, it was a clothing store, then it became a cave, then a pet store, then a jewelry store, then a clothing store again?! It was weird...

Anyway, Jaise and I go inside and I start looking at the clothes on the racks and I'm not paying any attention to him. Then the next thing I know, Jaise is dragging some random dude, who looked like Twitty and apprently goes to school with us, over to meet me. It seems in a span of 30 seconds Jaise managed to get Twitty to agree to come home with us.... even though, I've never talked to him before in my life. And I kinda smile that super akward smile and say Hi. Then as soon as Twitty is out of ear shot, I start whispering to Jaise. And I'm like "Why the hell did you invite him over?!" Then there's a pause.... "Ohmigod! You're not gonna-" And then Jaise nods. Apprently, Jaise is a werewolf.... and he plans to eat Twitty.

I hate werewolves..... I HATE THEM!?!!?!?!

But that is beside the point... My suspcion confirmed, I then begin to freak out and beg Jaise not to eat Twitty, who mind you, I barely know. But Jaise will have none of that, He's gonna eat Twitty no matter what I say. And he disappears. Then the store turns into a cave and I run around in circles forEVER looking for him. But I NEVER find him so I eventually give up, and take it upon myself to just gaurd Twitty.

So Twitty and I, go from the cave to the pet store, where we get side tracked by cuteness, then to the jewelry store. But why the jewelry store? Because in the display case I can see Alchemy Circle necklaces just like the ones that I collect/wear constantly and I begin to wonder if they have any specifically designed to repell werewolves. So, I drag Twitty over there and I'm looking at necklace after necklace and I can't find any that'll work.

Finally Twitty gets bored and says he's gonna wait outside for me. Then Jaise, who has apprently been standing next to me, the whole time (THE WHOLE TIME?!), says "Oh come on Kitty. You don't honestly expect those silly sliver charms to stop me, do you?" And I turn around and get really pissed and start yelling at him about how he can't eat Twitty. But that doesn't work. So then I switch gears instantly. And I give him a big hug and I tell him, if he eats Twitty, that I'm going to break up with him. End of Story.

However, that doesn't work either. Jaise calls my bluff and says that I would never break up with him because I looooove him. And he says it in such an arrogant/self assured way. So, even though I apprently love him, I kick him. A good solid roundhouse kick to the left hip. And guess what happens?! Guess! I DARE YOU?!....WRONG! You know what happened? His torso fell off?! It fell off! Plop!

And what's weirder, I was not at all phased by it. I just kinda stood there and watched while his torso got up and put itself back in place. And then we left the store. The End. I have no idea, whether Twitty died or not. If I had to guess though, I would say that he did. I mean Jaise was really hell bent on eating him. Hahahaha.

Anyway, that's my dream! I have one other one that I vividly remember even thought it was awhile ago and maybe if your lucky, I'll get bored enough to post it! Hhahaha.

Tweeting Birds?

Alright. So the thought just occured to me, that although I have posted about the Hirivo in the past, I never actually took the time to break down the colors and explain what they each meant and how to read them and all that Jazz. So, I'm going to do that now.....

The Hirivo are messenger birds and they are used to summon the memembers of The Imperial Court. The leaders of every country have them. Anyway, the Hirivo are about the size of a dove. And each bird usually has two or three colors on it.

Here's a horribly editted picture of bird wings for reference purposes,


And their coloring is as follows,
Blue = The Body of the Bird and the top part of the wing, indicates which country is calling the meeting.
Pink = The mid sized feathers which take up the majority of the wing, indicates why said meeting is being called.
Green = The longest feathers and/or the tips of the wings designates the meeting place.

And a list of each country and it's assigned color,
Zarius = Blue
Rayet = Green
Ursionya = Yellow
Myritrius = Grey
Harcos = White
Tethys = Black

And I can't find my list of reasons for the court to meet and their respective colors, but this is what I remember off the top of my head...

War = Red
Leadership Change = Purple

Don't worry though, If I can't find that list I'll just come up with a new list and colors and all that Jazz. Hahahaha.

Eternal Struggle

Kay, so if you are in anyway shape or form interested/knowledgeable about Karate or Asian Culture and Religion then you have probably heard of the Eternal Struggle.



The Eternal Struggle is generally pictured as a White Tiger fighting a Chinese style Dragon. Usually in the presence of a Yin Yang. Although there are a couple different ways to view these symbols, I prefer to stick with the traditional Martial Arts explanation. The Dragon stands for Wisdom and Peace. And the Tiger stands for Strength and Power. Which, then becomes known as "Peace over Power" or "Mind over Matter" or better yet "The Eternal Struggle."

Now, to the point. I love Martial Arts and have made it a pretty major part of my book as far as symbolism and deeper meaning go.... So, as anyone who actually pays attention to what I write here knows, when I created Blaise, I created him to be the living embodiment of Bushido. Which is why he's so perfect. Anyway, I had been pondering the idea of having the RoQuero wearing War Paint to the final fight scene in Book One. And I started thinking that Tiger Stripes would be perfect for Blaise. Then like yesterday it hit me. At the end of Book One, Blaise's DNA gets tainted by Eclipse's toxic Dragon Blood. Dragon Blood.... Tiger Striped War Paint..... Blaise is the embodiment of Bushido..... TIGER AND DRAGON=BUSHIDO?! -gasp- BLAISE REALLY DOES EQUAL BUSHIDO?!

And the funniest part was that I didn't even realize I did that, until like two weeks later. Totally unplanned. Hahaha. Subliminal Messaging?! Anyway, I just thought that that was cool and oddly coincidental. So, if you would like to learn a little bit more about The Eternal Struggle I'd be happy to enlighten you.

Um, I haven't decided if I'll actually make The RoQuero wear War Paint or not yet. Because, you know, I only have Blaise's figured out and Vlad doesn't like putting on make up of any kind, I'm not particularly good at color schemes either. And of course, my rotten friends are incapable of giving me an opinion.... But I'll get it sorted out eventually.

-latent hostility- I'm also hoping that this post will make some people realize that they have no idea what they are talking about and that they should either shut up, or get their facts straight.... You know who you are.

If You Don't Like it, You Can Lock Me Up?!

Lita Kaye! You have been charged with Mass Original Character cruelty, How do you plead?
Guilty?!
"You can take my head and cut it off,

But you ain't gonna change my mind!"

Okay, so by request, I have drawn up some larger scale, slightly less awful sketches of my totally epic custom castle. It takes some influence from 16th century designs, but is mostly made to facilitate all the madness of my plot line, so I, basically have no idea whether it architectually sound or not. And I am a super crappy artist. But whatever. Enjoy.

Oh! And note that I will have to scale down the pictures a bit, but if you click on them, they should get bigger. <3

Okay, so this first picture is basically just an over view of the general area. The Zarius Castle of Doom is placed on an angle, at the top of a hill, on the edge of a cliff. There is a small courtyard infront of the castle, surrounded by the inner wall, a huge moat, a draw bridge and an outer wall. Beyond that we have a bunch of vague villages and farm land. Surrounding the main road just beyond the castle entrance is where the main market place and most of the shops are located. And if you follow the main road all the way down to the left there, you will eventually reach the yet to be named port city/fishing village. (It's about a days walk from the castle.) Anyway, beyond the vague towns and farmland, there is a moderately sized clearing and then the deep dense forest. I haven't named that yet either, so for the moment it is "The RoQuero'Kubeh's Forest."

Kay. This is just a closer view of the walls that surround the castle. I know it's not particularly interesting, but I drew another picture of it anyway. Note the Training Field on the right side there. That is where Emma first learns how to use her super cool Vaikas powers and what not.

Kay, so this is basically the castle's blue print. In the left wing, we have the family's bedrooms, Aiden's study, the library and the guest rooms, etc, etc. And in the right wing, we have Eclipse's room, the Armory, the Kitchen, etc, etc. And in the middle we have the entrance hall, which is connected by hallways to both the left and right wings and leads directly into the dining hall/throne room. Beyond that we have the terrace and the garden. And beyond that, a low wall separating the castle ground from the edge of a cliff?!

Note that there are three towers, and that they are all drawn grossly out of proportion and aren't round. But they should be.... So just keep that in mind. Round, and bigger....

And that the two towers in front there, were built more for defense then anything else and have a billion little arrow slits to accommodate archers. Where as the third tower was not. I'm also considering putting a big catapualt or something to that effect on the roofs of these two towers. Cause I think it would be rather epic.

Also, beyond the low wall that separates the castle grounds from the edge of the cliff there is a ridiculously long set of stairs, hidden for the most part by the jagged rocks of the cliff face (Not unlike the Stairs of Bared Dor, in Lord of The Rings 3....) that serves as an escape/evacuation route. Which leads down to the King's pirate dock/port, and houses a fleet of ships, that serve as the Royal Navy.

And these last two pictures, I drew just to show how the third tower is connected to the rest of the building, 'cause I didn't want anyone to think I just stuck another random tower onto the back of the building. Um, the third tower is the tallest and the widest. It has a flat top. And at the very top, on the roof of this tower is where the Hirivo are kept. And if you don't remember what they are, then shame on you.

Also note, that the switch back stairs in the top picture are hidden behind the castle's outer wall, in a small hallway in between the throne room and outer wall of the castle.

Okay. So I guess that's all I have to say about my fabulous castle. Hope you enjoyed it...and a billion points to anyone who can point out, WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP ON THE INTERWEBS, which parts of the castle and surrounding areas where influenced by 16th century architecture. I dare you!

Bazinga.

Down in DragonTown

Soooo, I was contemplating the ending to my book the other day.... you know the war and all that madness, and I realized that I absolutely hate everything about the way I described the final battle between Kerian and Aiden?! HATE IT?! Ohhhh, so much hatred....

So now I'm trying to come up with some new and hopefully epic alternatives. At this point I haven't given it too much thought, but I've already got some rough ideas. Would you like to hear them?.... O rly? You don't....? TOO BAD?! I'm gonna tell you anyway?!

Alrite, so in my previous explainations of this fight scene, I had Hiroshi using blood alchemy left, right and sideways but I didn't utilize Aiden's wings at all?! Which is a shame, because they are so very, very pretty and impressive. So in this version of the fight, I would like to have Aiden flying around like a bat out of hell. Hahahaha.

However?! This brings up another issue, Aiden's weapon. A sword is not very useful when you are hovering 500 feet above the enemy, now is it? No. It's not. So, I was pondering pherhaps making him an archer as well. But I'm really not too sure about that. I mean would that be super lame or what?

And another thing?! In the original sketch of this fight scene, I had Kerian using his powers to pull bones of the long since deceased out of the ground then use them as projectiles in an attempt to kill Hiroshi. Which in my mind looks very cool. But now, I'm starting to think that maybe I shouldn't do that. I mean, cause I can't tell if it's to much like an anime or something.... Anyway, so I was thinking as a replacement for the shattered bone fragment projectiles, that I should have Kerian use his powers to break one the other or both of Aiden's wings. Which would be tragic and Daddy would fall out of the sky like a freaking rock, but I'm sure he could handle it. He's a tough guy. <3

Also, in case you have forgotten, the handle of Kerian's sword is made out of bone, so the possiblity of a flying ghost sword attacking people all on it's own is there. Oh! And I have invented an excellent manuver, that is totally practical, (I tested it on Aaron) which Aiden could use to chop off Kerian's head. Should I decide to behead him. And it looks really cool.

Walrus Sound?

Kay, so last night I had the most bizarre dream. I was on a boat with Blaise and Vlad and Atreyu, and we were sailing along, and then all of a sudden Vlad and I fall off the side of the boat. Blaise then turns the boat around to come back and save us, but there a freaking huge shark in the water?!?! So, clearly the best course of action is for Blaise to grab his surf board and jump in after us. While Atreyu, who has apparently never driven the boat before, attempts not to crash into a big rock.

Anyway, Vlad hits the water and takes off like a freaking shot, swimming like an unbelievably fast dolphin. Because apparently sharks are afraid of anything that even remotely moves like a dolphin in my dreams. While I...drowned. Cause apparently I forgot how to swim. But Blaise rescues me just in the nick of time and pulls me up onto his surf board. Then the shark, which was chasing Atreyu and the boat for some reason, turns around and starts chasing us?! And I'm freaking out, but Blaise is completely calm because his surf board has an out board motor on it..... Because that is totally possible.

Anyway, the shark starts chasing us towards shore and eventually winds up gaining on us...Um, and we are about 2 yards from the shore when, the tip of Blaise's surf board digs into the sand and we wipe out. Blaise and I go flying, and so does the shark, which was apparently close enough for the back of the board to hit him in the face when it flipped up, which catapults him onto the sand as well. Which is again, totally possible.

And that's when I disappear. And Blaise apparently passed out. Then when he wakes up, he sees the shark lying on the sand and he can't find me, so he flips the hell out and starts screaming and throwing rocks at this shark, which is for all intensive purposes, dead. And this goes on for like, no lie, twenty minutes?!

And then Vlad runs over and tells Blaise that I lived, but for some reason I am completely absent from the rest of the dream. As is Atreyu, but they don't even explain what happened to him, or to our boat.

Then, Blaise and Vlad start walking along the beach and come across a random basketball court on the beach. And Vlad starts watching the game and Blaise is glaring at a random dorsal fin that may or may not belong to another giant shark, that's floating around in the water, just beyond the beach. Then all of a sudden, the ball goes flying out into the water and someone starts running after it and Blaise jumps up to stop him. Then one thing leads to another and I don't particularly remember why, but Blaise winds up fighting the entire basketball team by himself. Taking care to beat the hell out out of this one guy, I have never seen before, specifically.

And then?! My cat wakes me up... But it's 5:30 in the freaking morning?! On a sunday?! So I push him off the bed and go back to sleep.

And I find myself on that same beach. Vlad is sitting on the sand near the edge of the water and Blaise is standing next to him with a pair of binoculars. And there are a million billion, little glowing blue electrode things floating all down the beach in the shallow water. And I remember thinking that it looks like a glow in the dark fish net... Anyway, there are also electrodes attached to Vlad's temples. And before I can figure out what there for, Blaise sees a shark and yells now and Vlad uses his mind to electrocute the hell out of it. Cause he's psychic now.... And a random crowd of spectators is like YAY! IT WORKS?!

Then the ocean is suddenly filled with a bazillion of these weird looking white creatures, that looks like a cross between, jelly fish and squid and sea turtles and sea horses. Just really ugly buggers. Blaise starts screaming and Vlad starts electrocuting them and it's not working.... and then?! My cat wakes me up again..... He very well knows I can't feed him until 9. Yet less then a half an hour later he has woken me up again. So I push him off the bed and go back to sleep again.

And this time, I'm on a submarine with Blaise and Vlad who are apparently scientists now. And there is a bunch of big chalk boards all around the room and scraps of paper everywhere?! And Blaise and Vlad have decided that their previous method of killing the evil sea creatures is harmful to the environment, so they have to find a different way to kill them. But Vlad's brain electricity is the only thing that works?! So Blaise starts explaining his plan to make a big glass tube and trap the evil sea creature in there and then electrocute them. Which, is a pretty awful plan. Hahaha. Then a random guy runs into the room and says that the "something, something, something," Sisters (I can't remember what their names were...) are planning a trip to Atlantis and Blaise and Vlad have to convince them otherwise or they shall all die?!

So the scene changes to like some kind of super fancy cruise liner and there are three Indian Princess' sitting on the deck of the boat. One is wearing pink and one is wearing blue and one is wearing green, and one of them looks a bit like LaLita Gupa, from the Big Bang Theory. And Blaise is standing on the dock, trying to convince them not to go to Atlantis because it is not safe and the world will surely end if they were to die?! And he makes a quite dramatic speech. And Vlad is no where to be found. Anyway, with this speech Blaise is able to convince the Blue and Green Princess' right away, to get off the boat. So he helps them down and they run across the dock to shore. But the Pink Princess, who I got the feeling was the oldest, is very defiant and refuses to listen to Blaise. So the Green Princess, which I assume was the youngest, comes back to yell at her not to be dense, and what does she do? She jumps in the freaking water?!?!!

Then the next thing you know, a giant freaking squid comes out of no where, grabs the Pink Princess, destroys the boat and the dock which flings Blaise and The Green Princess into the water. IT'S CHAOS?!?!?! But Blaise is a super duper action hero and manages to save both the princess', and almost drowns in the process. So the three of them, wash up on shore. Then the Pink Princess gives him a kiss on the cheek and apologizes for being an idiot. THEN THE SQUID SOMEHOW MIRACULOUSLY REAPPEARS AND DRAGS BLAISE BACK INTO THE WATER?!?!?!?!

AND THEN.....My stupid phone started ringing, cause my stupid boyfriend was texting me, so I have no idea whether Blaise lived through this or not..... I'm pretty sure he did. I mean, the only time I've ever killed Blaise is when I was writing a tragic love story. And I don't do that very often. Anway, That was a totally irrelevant post, hope you enjoyed it.... and TEN THOUSAND POINTS to anyone who could follow this rant. GOOD DAY?!

Give the Radio Back to the Maniac

Kay, so as anyone who has actually read my last couple of posts knows, the other day I decided that Tereasa needed to be reworked.

So, in case you forgot what she looks like, here's a picture of my original Tereasa,


I always liked her character design, but I recently began to think she was just to plain. So, I tried a bunch of diffrent looks for her, and after much thought and a whole lot of harassing people for their opinions, I think I finally picked a good new look for her. Transforming plain Tereasa into...

The Gorgeus Amazon Princess Andromina?! I haven't decided for sure what I am going to change her name to, because I can't get a single one of my rotten friends to give me a fricking opinion, so for right now I'm just going to go with Andromina.

Anyway, her eyes are the same as they have always been, Magenta Pink! And her hair is still black, I just changed the style. -smile- I think the curls suit her better anyway. I also changed her make up and her skin color to pale purple. Which, at first, I thought was gonna look really stupid. But now, I'm glad I tried it. 'Cause I love it.

So.... That's my Amazon Princess from Rayet. Fear her, Love her, etc etc. Hahahaha.

I got a lot of water in my brain?!

Kay?! So Here's a picture of Blaise,

And now that we've got that out of the way,

WHO IS READY FOR YET ANOTHER FABULOUS POST ABOUT MY BELOVED ROQUERO'KUBEH?!?!?!

Okay, so as you may or may not know, for the past, ah....3 weeks or so, I have been obsessively editing and going over and reworking every single scene that has to do with either the party or Eclipse's promotion. Which is exhausting mind you. Especially because all of my editors seem to have fallen off the face of the earth. -twitch-

..... Anyway, I was working on the scene where Emma gets introduced to Blaise for the first time, and all of a sudden a thought struck me?! Blaise, the leader of the infamous RoQuero'Kubeh, bows to Emma like any other normal person would. WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?! The RoQuero don't do anything else like normal people, so why on Earth would they bow like normal people?!

So?! I have come up with a super sneaky alternative! When members of the The RoQuero'Kubeh bow, I am going to have them brush their hair to one side. You know pull it away from their neck and throw it over the shoulder so it's out of the way and the neck is completely exposed. And I am doing this for two reasons! One, because the neck can pretty much be considered the universal weak spot. And two, Bushido. (Ten Million points to anyone who saw that coming.) After all, the basic principals of Bushido are, Honor, Respect and Sincerity. And what better way to Honor and Respect someone then by exposing your weak spot, RIGHT?! Anyway, combined with using their creed as a greeting when speaking to friends and allies, I think we have a very nice little display of the principals of Bushido and of trust and friendship. Which is very important, because as anyone whose EVER watched Sailor Moon knows, the two most important things in life are LOVE and FRIENDSHIP?! Hahahaha.

Also, I finally came up with a name for Blaise's Mentor/The Previous Leader of the RoQuero, I'm going to call him, Lucian. Because I think it's pretty and Blaise's epically awesome "Big Brother" needs an equally epic name. He also needs an ability, but I haven't quite gotten there yet, I mean he's not exactly important to the main story....still I'm getting there.

'Ello Sue! I've got legs.

Alrite?! So, Pet Names?! Pet Names?! Pet Names?! Pet Names?! Everyone uses them to refer to people they care about. Take me, for example, my boyfriend has at least 20 pet names. And I have at least one for each of my friends. Which is why, lame as it is, I have devoted the entirety of the last 3 days to coming up with pet names that would be appropriate for my characters?! And this is what I have come up with.....


Ka'tiri- Ka'tiri is a Native American term, (It's Algonquian. You'll have to forgive me though, I forget exactly which tribe it's from.) which means "Husband." And I have decided that I am going to have Aiden use it as a pet name for Hiroshi.

Setsurin- Setsurin is also a Native American term. (Also Algonquian in origin.) Which basically means "Soul Mate." And I am going to have this one be Hiroshi's cutesy nickname for Aiden.

Shirogane- Shirogane means "Silver" in Japanese. (Note, That this is silver the metal, not silver the color...) So, I think I will have Hiroshi's mother, Shori and possibly his half brother, Kenji, use it as a nickname for Hiroshi, because his hair is Silver, (Silver?! Not grey...) and I think it's cute. So deal with it?!

Also note, that with the exception of Shirogane, I did tweak the spelling of all of these words. So don't read them and go "WHAT THE HELL?! That's not a Native American term?!" and start yelling at me, because it is a Native American term, it just doesn't look that way. Hahahaha.

Um, I haven't come up with anything for Angel and Krystal, or Emma and Eclipse or Tereasa and Sabastian yet.... Because Aiden and Hiroshi, were my main focus. BUT I AM GETTING THERE?! I might even revert back to using Finnish. Hahaha. It would be a hell of a lot easier then trying to track down crediable sources for random Native American translations.

.....Zingleburt Fishtybuns?

Ometi Tsu'ey Enawey Re'tikai

-feeling dramatic- After an unbelievable amount of PAIN STAKING deliberation I have FINALLY come up with a suitable untranslated creed for my RoQuero and I absolutely love it.

Ometi Tsu'ey Enawey Re'tikai

It shall be pronounced Ohm-et-tay Two-sue'ey En-ah-wey Ray-'Tick-kai and in case you forgot it is to be the RoQuero'Kubeh's untranslated creed, which in english means "Death before Blindness"

Also, I have decided to make the fact that, the RoQuero'Kubeh and their creed and basically everything they stand for, were based on Bushido, even more blantantly obvious by simply coming out an saying it. So, when Emma is learning about her allies, The RoQuero, I am going to have Blaise mention that they live by the code of Bushido. This of course, will be my own slightly modified version of Bushido, because I don't particularly agree with one or two of traditional Bushido's disicplines/virtues or with the some of the ways that religon and government influenced the devolpment of Bushido.....

Anyway, my justification for these differences between the two, and I'd have to have Hiroshi explain this, would be that the RoQuero'Kubeh's verison of Bushido is diffrent because it was devolped in a diffrent age, under the influences of a diffrent religon with minimal government interference. Of course, this would best go along with/would be easiest to explain, if I decide to go with the "World Splitting Theory". Which I haven't decided if I will use or throw out yet.....depends on how big of a role, I want Aiden and Hiroshi's religon to play in the story.....

BUT THAT IS A SUBJECT FOR ANOTHER POST?! SO GOOD DAY MY LOYAL FOLLOWERS?!..........I SAID GOOD DAY?!

And a Hard Boiled Egg?!

Chhhhaaaaaa?! Okay, so I was just thinking about some of my character's names..... And the truth is I just sort of picked names that I liked, I didn't really put an absurd amount of thought into the choosing of my characters names like my beloved best friend, Celes, does with hers, which I didn't really think was a problem...until now.

Now I realize that this is probably just me over thinking everything, like I have a tendancy to do, but since I have gotten absolutely no response/I can't get in touch with any of my "editors" (a.k.a. The people I bug for their opinions, and then more often or not ignore in the end. Hahaha) I decided to post about this in hopes that SOMEONE will get back to me..... -glares at you-

Anyway, moving on.... The thing that's bothering me the most is the glaring inconsistancy of the character's names. Specifically the names of my main characters. Lets take the Radic family for example.

Family Tree?!
Nicademus and Kai
Kai + Aurora = Kerian, Aiden and Lily
Aiden + Hiroshi = Emma, Angel and Xander
Emma + Eclipse = Serena and Zareck

I recently decided that it is strange, or at least in my mind, that dispite the fact that Hiroshi is Japanese, none of his children or grandchildren have Japanese names. Or even Japanese sounding names. Granted, I orginally did this intentionally as to avoid using to many Japanese names so I wouldn't look like just another stupid fan girl, but now I'm thinking it's a bit off. I mean why the hell would the children of a Zarian and a Japanese guy, have predominately British names?

I'm also debating about changing a few names. Mainly Serena, Xander and Tereasa and possibly even Kiska. And I'm thinking about this for a couple diffrent reasons.
-In the case of Serena and Xander, it's because dispite how I love, love, love those names, I kinda don't feel like they fit...-frown-
-And I really don't think Tereasa's name is exotic enough. I mean, she is the epically gorgeus Princess of an Amazon-esque Kingdom, and I think she deserves to have a equally epic name?!
-And as far as Kiska..... well I don't know if you've noticed, but with the exception of Adrienne and Xanathos, all of my villains names begin with K. Granted, I don't particularly care that all their names begin with the same letter, but at the same time.....I kinda feel like I should change it.....

So...yea. I'm considering Andromina as a name replacement for either Tereasa or Serena. And.... Setsuka, 'cuz I don't care what anyone says, I like that name. I don't think I'd use it as a name replacement for Serena though.... I don't know, Setsuka and Zareck doesn't sound quite right to me. Um, I like the name Na'tiri, which was the name of the Princess in the Avatar movie, I just can't decide if it would be lame for me to use that or not.... Though if I did use it, I think I'd use it for Tereasa. I lyke Ariana, as well. Because it's pretty and I could call her Ari, which I think would make a cute nickname. But other then that I haven't given the new names much thought. I'll keep working on it though.....

Um, as always I'm open to suggestions, and I'll see ya'll later?!