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So far, I just have Iphi here, and uh, her canon's kind of depressing (what else can you expect from a Greek tragedy, amirite?) but it's also kind of amazing.

I kind of want to ramble a little bit about Age of Bronze, which is a comic drawn and written by a dude named Eric Shanower, who is basically the George R. R. Martin of the indie comic world, because he takes 5ever to finish stuff. But when he does? It's good.

Age of Bronze is literally a comic about the Trojan War, from the beginning (what with the whole "golden apple" fiasco) to the end...which Shanower hasn't gotten to yet, because he's taking his good old time.

I love it primarily because it's so exhaustive--he's clearly done a ton of research, and he dresses everyone in historically accurate clothing (no togas! yay!), and he gives the women a voice and personalities and that's super great too.

I'd say it should come with a bunch of trigger/content warnings, because hey, this is Greek mythology. But it's still just...guys, it's super duper good. It's how I learned about Iphi's story. So...yeah.

/end tiny nerdy soapbox

This sounds like so much fun. Oh man. I don't even...I wouldn't even know where to start with Jim here.

Is there anything anyone wants to know about? Before I just link my entire tumblr because I have a very sad obsession with this reboot world.

Seriously so thrilled about this idea

Do you draw your Iphi from this comic book's retelling or from the traditional tragedy itself?

Or is it a mix of everything you could find on her?

HIYA. 'tis I, Kinto.

I play this gal, Dia'ndria Starfall (

pathfromdarknesstogrey/

pathfromdarknesstogray)

She's (VERY) loosely based on the Sith Inquisitor from Star Wars: The Old Republic, which is basically Bioware Does Star Wars as an MMO for some reason.

I say 'loosely' because I only used the barest skeleton of the storyline to build on top of it. A former slave who was effectively raised by pirates until she was a teenager and displayed her Force powers in killing their captain, she was sold to the Empire and subsequently trained in the ways of the Sith.

She was eventually betrayed by her Master (for fear of her becoming too powerful and independant) in being sent on increasingly dangerous missions until she finally failed one--only she did what he didn't expect: She failed, but survived, and figured out what he was doing and swore revenge.

The Nexus pretty much picks up about two years into exile, where she's been learning things on her own, and has since gone very gray instead of Dark like she was.

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On the other end of the spectrum is Fortyskey (

dembonyhips), another MMO character in the form of one from WoW. A Forsaken Undead Warlock who's self serving, angry at the world, and uses her felfire largely to never be weak or anyone's weapon ever again.

She's used to be fairly pro-Sylvanas, but since the Lich King's died and Sylvanas has lost direction, Forty's since gone more neutral.

She cusses. A lot. The f-word is a common one among anything she says and does. It's her primary form of social defense to act like an asshole to most everyone she deals with or meets. The orcs tend to find her hilarious, since she's this skinny spitfire full of angry and bitterness.

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I'm planning to bring my Draenei Death Knight (

servesthelightindarkness) as well, at Harrow-mun's urging.

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Also feel free to ask questions! I barely need any excuse to ramble about any particular subject about my characters.

Edited (Added a couple things, including the spacegoat dk's journal.) 2016-03-22 06:44 (UTC)

OH MAN A CANON RAMBLING POST YEAH let's do this

What is The Confessions of Dorian Gray, you ask? Why, it's a series of radioplays! A series of radioplays about a man telling stories of his adventures, mistakes, and messed up supernatural encounters to his own captive soul-inhabited portrait in his attic. But you don't have to take my word for it, because the man is more than happy to explain, himself.

So, my muse's canon. I think one of the cooler things about The Confessions of Dorian Gray is how the radioplay's universe encompasses so many different canons, fictional universes, and time periods. If you, like me, prefer that your box of chocolates never yield the same flavor twice, there's a lot to sink your teeth into. On top of all the hedonistic bad life decision making and bow chika wow you might expect from stories about Dorian Gray, there are a lot of unique settings and situations that the writers play with.

So, get this: You've got stories set in more places and times than can be counted on two sets of fingers and toes, spanning from 1862 London to the late 2600s in god-only-knows-where, Space. Dorian ties into the Doctor Who universe, Sherlock Holmes' stories, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and countless other sources of classical Gothic horror, real life cultural figures, and mythology. If you like your stories creepy, darkly funny, queer as a Liberace concert in San Francisco, and (oftentimes) tragic, it's a wonderfully entertaining and fast-paced series.

In lieu of links to videos and trailers, I'll share a few neat teaser-ey sound clips (incredibly gratefully) nabbed from another player's collection:

1. "The guests who simply vanish... It's those creatures that take them, isn't it?" (Small cw for violent action/strangling.)
2. You can't pull anything on Sherlock Holmes.
3. Literal Oscar Wilde cameo.
4. Fun and happy times. (Minor cw for descriptions of violence)
5. Plenty of sharp female characters who can give as good as they get.
6. Can a person change their nature? What does it mean to be either good or evil? Do such things exist?

As the clips (hopefully) attest, a lot of the fun of Dorian is in the sharply-written scripts and lively characters the writers come up with to throw into crazy immortal adventures. A lot of the stories are also genuinely unnerving, if you appreciate a little horror in your earphonebudthings from time to time.

On the enabling end, if I could tempt anyone to play a manipulative vampire with a preoccupation with death and decay and a tragically (adorably) dorky love affair with cellphones, Back to the Future, and ruining unsuspecting humans in shoot-em-up video games, I ...wouldn't be mad? /hides

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As promised, I'm gonna make this as embarrassing as possible for myself and everyone who has ever taken Naugus seriously.

Ixis Naugus is from the Sonic the Hedgehog comics as published by Archie Comics. His first appearance in that media was in Issue #53, published on Sept. 1997, drawn by Sam Maxwell and written by Karl Bollers. Here's the page containing his very first appearance and introduction:

Following this is some other notable depictions during this time in the 90's with just a hair of context beyond "this was the 90s, so." I'm going out of my way to find the worst/best stuff here.

This is a select panel from the same issue as his introduction that I just wanna point out for fun. He had his tail in the very beginning, but somewhere during the upcoming arc illustrated by Steve Butler, it vanished! Never to return until the recent reboot:

After his intro, he wouldn't show up again until Super Sonic Special #4, projecting fake versions of the good guys and soon possessing the king to do another attempt at at the crown. He never makes a proper appearance given that he's spending all his time in other peoples' bodies, except for this panel (once again drawn by Maxwell and written by Bollers):

Here's Naugus as a storm or "cloud-being", as he puts it. Also, canon demonstrating there are science ways to track him. Issue #61, written by Bollers, drawn by Steve Butler:

Cover to Issue #64, art by Patrick Spaziante.

Owned by a snowball. Issue #64, Bollers and Butler.

Check out that fucking title. Issue #65, Bollers and Butler.

I only now noticed he only had three fingers in the days of yore. Also, ugly face, big disgrace. Cover to Issue #66, art by Spaziante.

Naugus gets super weird-looking when he's souped by by a hojillion power rings. Issue #66, Bollers and Butler.

EYE LASERS!!! Issue #66, Bollers and Butler.

I'm gonna wrap up these pages with an infamous appearance of his. This was in the last issue of the Sonic Super Special, #15, that was headlined by a another showdown of Sonic Vs. Naugus. It was written by Ken Penders, a now-infamous figure in the comic's run, as well as 'breakdowns' being done by him. The art credit went towards someone called Many Hands, who had never appeared before and never would again. This story was SO bad that it was completely rewritten and redrawn for a Free Comic Book Day in 2011. It did not get a reprint in later trade paperbacks.

Also, my own sister got her fanart published in the back of this issue! They whited out a big section of it because ???. They also mailed us this issue for free thanks to her contribution, which is great because that meant we didn't have to pay for this hot mess.

Here's a page you can colour. Just stare at this face for the next hour and colour it, you animal.

(And here's the fanart submission, for fun. We still talk about the mysterious white-out going on here.)

Oh, you thought I was done? Naw, son, naw. Now we gotta talk about the cartoon. Because that's where Naugus actually originated from. He sadly/thankfully only got one proper appearance and one cameo. I'm gonna present without further comment that episode, "The Void", first aired in Oct. 1994.

The cameo happened on the very last episode. This is the end of that ep, "Doomsday Project", originally aired Dec. 1994. There failed to be a third season and one of the show's creators eventually disclosed that the eyes at the end are meant to be Naugus', who was going to play a big part in the coming story.

AND NOW YOU KNOW.

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brb coloring that page :D

Ooh, that's a good question! I'd say a bit of everything, plus I have a few headcanons about her (which are obviously Very important, lol). I do like how the comic highlights her story, instead of putting it as a footnote.

YES TELL US EVERYTHING

I WILL HANG IT UP IN MY ROOM TO WATCH OVER ME BENEVOLENTLY EVERY NIGHT

THAT IS A GREAT IDEA

It's incredibly impressive how, even with all his adventures, and a giant pincer, he manages to keep his beard so long.

Also, wow did the tv Naugus have a different voice to the one I'd thought he has.

If you want to know more about Persona 3, my suggested jumping on point is My Life Is A Goddamn Mess. Equal parts Let's Play (watch/read other people play games so you don't have to!) and fanfic, it's a good intro to the game story line. At least for the main game. Because Persona 3 was given no less than three releases. (Persona 3, original print, Persona 3 FES which is arguably the definitive version, and Persona 3 Portable which is an awesome purchase if you happen to still have a PSP; it has a female main character route!)

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Yeah, you think someone would be tripping over that thing constantly. But he's had it since he was "born" so maybe he's just used to it. Maybe he braids it when he's on the go. Maybe it's Maybelline.

Also YEAH CHECK OUT THAT ASTHMA. WHY HE BREATHING LIKE THAT. SOMEONE HELP HIM.

Also, Tim Curry does the voice of Sally's dad, King Acorn. So that happened.

EDIT: Also, just cuz: I usually picture Naugus' voice in the comic (and Nexus) canon sounding like more like this clip from an unrelated game. Might as well throw that out too since this is share and care time!

Edited 2016-03-22 21:54 (UTC)

This sounds so cool and unique. I've never heard of Greek myths done comic book style. I really want to read this. :0

Please do so I can have someone to talk about it with me! I literally know one other person who's read it, lol.

You people might have heard of this guy and his fandom.

I tend to play my Han Solo based upon the Legends books, aka, the outdated canon. This is my dumping ground for my canon musings

nonexistent_places. As I read and re-read the books, I tend to outline them chapter by chapter.

~~My course load has been pretty brutal, though, so that's been moving along kind of slowly.~~

Since I tend to play him most in his twenties, the books most directly responsible for how I write him are "The Paradise Snare", "The Hutt Gambit" and "Rebel Dawn."

I'm always up for answering any questions y'all might have, tho. I hope to play here more after this flood of schoolwork is behind me. As far as enabling, I keep hoping someone I'll find someone who wants to play one of his beloved ladies - Leia Organa or much more obscurely Bria Tharen.

Also thanks for letting me crash the movie night. It was really fun. I never did the in-character stream before. Would do that again for sure.

I'll def hunt down a torrent when I get home. :D Esoteric media discussions are easily one of the best kinds of media discussions.

Aw yeah. 8)

It was super fun having you at the movie night! I will open your beers anytime. :]

Is this content based on the EU stuff? Disney officially put the kibosh on it, didn't they? Which is a shame, but I also get it; it's a lot of content to follow up on and a franchise reboot this big might as well start fresh.

Either way, if that's the case, then our characters are also 'our stories got rebooted and now we just play the versions that once were' pals. Up high. ( ._.)/

Maybelline indeed! ... Or it's magic and he uses it like his tail. X]

I don't know! D: He never stops gasping!

Wow, well. You find famous actors in such odd places.

Yes, much more like I imagined it. Deep, booming, occasionally hammy... (Pun not intended)

I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED/NEEDED AN OFFICIAL BEER OPENER. Life goal accomplishment achieved.

Yeah, Disney, when they bought Lucasfilm, abandoned the old EU pretty quickly. They have rebranded it "Star Wars: Legends" which, I suppose, makes sense for them to do. I don't really like the approach for Han in episode 7 (or Luke for that matter), but on the other hand, Harrison Ford hasn't been that good in a movie since 1992 so that's something. Plus, the new characters are pretty good.

I end up playing whatever version makes sense for people and since a lot of people love the movies, that's what I roll with, but it's not my favorite version of him by a long shot. And to be fair, when he's at trilogy age, he's about the same in both canons.

^<_<

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I only have ~~nerdvahkiin~~ Vanyel here. His canon is Skyrim, aka That One RPG That Ate My Life.

It being an RPG, the actual player character is a blank slate - so literally the only part of his backstory I didn't make up wholecloth is the part where he's the Dragonborn, destined slayer of Alduin, so on and so forth. (Well, that and his name, which I stole from a Mercedes Lackey character.) There's a fair amount in his profile, for those interested, but the cliff-notes version is: Lawful-ish Good mage, Ethical Slut raised by priestesses of the canonical sex goddess, became a hero without ever setting out to do so.

Some of what I came up with is based on the lore (or what I could piece together, given that information on 'modern' Tamriel is pretty sparse), or headcanons that seemed logical given what information I did have (like taking one look at the Stormcloaks and going 'lolnope'). Other things (like his tragic love for Erandur and Serana and disrespect/suspicion of Delphine) are admittedly based on my own feelings for the various NPCs/bits of the setting. And I am always, always down for discussing lore/setting/headcanon details.

I'm also currently working on what promises to be a fairly long write-up of his 'path' through the game, at least during the quests that give you options (such as whether to return a 'lucky charm' that got stolen from a shopkeep, whether to join the local guild of assassins or destroy them, etc).

Bonus fun fact: I don't know who they got to voice the actual Shout-y bits, or whether they got different ones for different races... but in my head, he sounds like J. Michael Tatum.

As far as Skyrim itself... there are many, many LPs and general discussions of it on YouTube, so you can dip your toes in without having to acquire a copy and or a PC/Xbox/PS3 to play it on. I recommend Swinton's Let's Plays; he has multiple, with different characters, and he tends to roleplay his way through them, so his commentary is almost entirely IC. I also really like Phobic Tribe's 'Skyrim Mythbusters' videos.

And as far as enabling goes... my kingdom for an Erandur, a Serana, or a Lydia. My soul for all of them. *hides face*

Edited 2016-03-22 22:28 (UTC)

OK WOW. I knew that voice sounded familiar, but I didn't realize it was Tim Curry until you just said so. Mind = blown. :o

HAHA that icon's face. Pretty much mine the first time I rewatched this ep in recent years. "...That's not Tim Curry." Checks IMDB. "Okay, so maybe it is."

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