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Published: 2013-01-03 10:30:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 1952; Favourites: 53; Downloads: 61
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Description "Drifting among the stars... loneliness knew my name. Drifting among the stars... I could still feel the cold, even though I knew that my body, my temple, breathed life no more. The thought tortured me, reminding me who I was and who I could never be among mortals I once knew faces to... my family, my kin. They... I never wanted to leave them. I... I wanted to travel across the stars and find a new life for my people... and my future with them. I did not want to die; I did not want to give up and find my way to the afterlife, to say goodbye. I refused to go, even if it meant waging a aeon-long battle with madness while I wept in a tomb of my own making, drifting among the stars... lost. Forgotten. I never felt so alone."
-- Nimaera


(Lore to come, soon! Just writing it as you're probably reading this...)

This is what I'll call a prelude to Nim's existence in an otherwise barely developed story I do not intend to write for this year, (since I plan on focusing on something else), but even so I wanted to draw something for her that dwells on her past, capturing the time when her soul was trapped inside a Nelri ship she considered her tomb, drifting alone in space for aeons and... want to see more for her?

Artwork, Nimaera, Etc - © Kristopher P. Love
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Comments: 9

wraith11 [2013-01-20 08:42:59 +0000 UTC]

Seriously, you draw some of the best space pics going.

Love the vastness of this picture, and of course the restricted colour pallet is just so effective.

Sorry, I'm going to have to say this... for some reason the muted colours are making me thing "space Instagram".

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Aikurisu In reply to wraith11 [2013-02-09 14:26:16 +0000 UTC]

Space Instagram? I'll admit I've never heard that term before.

Glad ya like how this turned out, Wes! I'll admit part of me still isn't too sure on the end result here, but eh.

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wraith11 In reply to Aikurisu [2013-02-21 11:35:32 +0000 UTC]

Instagram's an iPhone app which puts various filters over your photos to make them look vintage... the way the colours came out in this kind of reminded me of some of those effects. :sweat:

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tigerfeiry [2013-01-04 03:13:11 +0000 UTC]

Awe, no story for her this year? Sadface. But I'll still be here watching diligently next year!

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Aikurisu In reply to tigerfeiry [2013-01-04 05:19:30 +0000 UTC]

Well... problem is I'm not sure I could write the story for this one, even if I wanted to. I don't have much experience describing things in a futuristic setting, so chances are writing for this might bomb unless I tackle it in my lore writing kind of way. That's why I'd rather focus on a fantasy setting for my monthly story chapters instead.

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tigerfeiry In reply to Aikurisu [2013-01-04 15:22:48 +0000 UTC]

Sounds like a reasonable action to take. I like any stories you write so

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Aikurisu In reply to tigerfeiry [2013-01-05 06:04:33 +0000 UTC]

This year will definitely focus on more story writing, so that's good news!

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Jin-Ghi-Lives [2013-01-03 11:08:40 +0000 UTC]

Astounding piece of work.

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Aikurisu In reply to Jin-Ghi-Lives [2013-01-04 05:12:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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