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Published: 2014-09-07 04:16:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 277; Favourites: 10; Downloads: 0
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Latest and most up to date Lucian Crow design. Side poses are so damned hard!!! Don't worry though, he's leaning on an invisible tree or something. Mimicked Eron's design a little since they're identical twins.
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I was going through my mountain of deviations in my inbox, and noticed you posted something new yourself!
Its nice to see this guy again. I like the pose and details, and I agree side poses are hard. For some reason I've been having a lot of trouble with legs lately (unless the subject is sitting down).
I like his boots to!
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Lol, and you have quite a mountain I'll need to sort through! I like your Five Nights at Freddy's "troll" icon btw, lol...
Yeah, I figured what better way to get my motivation up than to draw different characters for a change? And he definitely needed an update. This time Lucian is a medic/pugilist. So yeeeeahhh....I have an "editor" that hears my ideas and makes suggestions on how I can make them better. The exorcist thing would have been adding too many story elements in my ideas. Plus I think its quite refreshing to have a main character that doesn't like fighting. It'll be weird to see how it pans out though....
Lol, I looooove the shape!! But the stripiness I'm still not sure of. But thank you!!
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Thanks haha
Hmm, a pugilist who doesn't like to fight? Is it a self defense thing? I like the idea of a medic that can punch someone's lights out lol. I have the same editor thing, but its about as lazy as I am haha.
I actually like the stripiness. It could be a handful of cool colors, like the boots black and the stripes blue.
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Yeah, self defense and fighting for others when they need it. He became a pugilist to protect himself and his brother from bullying when they were kids. It's because he is cursed with his phoenix blood just like Eron, only his is energy transfer. His blood automatically causes energy that either pulsates throughout or drains the surrounding area. Sometimes his very life cannot be sustained without energy drain from other living beings. Therefore he is seen as life and death for many people. This caused him to harbor feelings of guilt, so if anything, he tries to avoid causing additional pain and lives his life trying to heal, not hurt.
OH NO!!! Not a lazy editor!! Hopefully they're always around to help you with ideas?
I kinda like that!! But I'm going to avoid too much black if possible. Eron's garb is pretty much all black....but then again if they are twins maybe I could do something interesting....like, here's what the color black looks when evil, and here's what it looks like when it is not.
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Huh, very interesting fact about the character. Random question sprung to mind - does this often wake him up and he has to find a source to drain life from? Is he sort of a "civilzied vampire" in that he often drains from animals instead of people?
Yeeeeah, when I force them to 
It could be an interesting way to make the appearance different aside from the usual hair/eye color change. Dah, its so hard to remember everything with the long breaks and story/name changes haha. You should have like a journal post somewhere that has the up to date info (on the characters, at least). Listing their former names would help as well.
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It really depends on his state of health. If he's suffering from a terrible wound or illness, then automatically things around him begin to die. You'd see the trees losing their leaves and people suddenly passing out. If he's normal and healthy, the energy drain is mild and can only be felt when around him for prolonged periods of time. I haven't decided on whether he actually makes efforts to drain energy but I think that'd be cool, almost as if its an urge he can't control.
But in the first part of the story, Eron shoots him to death. Even in death the blood continues to work. So all the energy in the area would be drained until he is revived. He's.....sort of like a stabilizer. Reverse entropy if you will. But he is a system that prioritizes itself. If he is damaged, the system can and will bring about the worst destruction until he is healed. But when he has an excess of energy, the system automatically pulsates it through the area. Like an interstellar black hole and a star.
That was like me and drawing Eron for a while. But ever since I forced myself to think of my less favorite characters, the story got a lot more exciting to draw for and write. My "editor" said it'd be good to take a step back from Eron and focus on other things, lol....as hard as it was...
I don't blame you. I'm pretty horrible, lol.
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Ah, I neglected to note the energy actually pulsating; I thought he had to do it himself.
This right here is what I missed. Your description of how his blood works is just so damn cool. I love the idea (props also for using a cosmic analogy
Yeah, I can see how that made it more fun to work on. Although, I HAVE created a bunch of new characters, they're all...high school peopel lol. While it’s fun having a full school of unique characters, I miss my epic character roots. I have been having a problem drawing Hector lately, though =/ ever since I updated the Isslar faces to not be flat anymore, I'm not sure how to get his mask right.
Doesn't your sis know beforehand though? I imagine she gets the latest scoops on your writing kinda like between my brother and I. But I can still see why she'd get frustrated haha.
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Hmm, but a better idea would be that the phoenixes are a parasitic intergalactic species, born randomly from supernovas. Their primary goal is using the energy of life as a food source (since there's nothing like it), so when one is a baby, it uses its power to help cultivate life for a planet, in the form of its core. Then one day, when the life forms are enlightened enough, or when there is an over abundance, they emerge from the planet and destroy the planet and all its life on it, reaping all of the energy. Adult phoenix may then go out and find non-phoenix life on non-infested planets and destroy them too partly for power and partly for jealousy. They want to prove to themselves and other species that they are the top of the food chain in the universe, and destroy anything that could someday be a threat to them. Then when its time to nest, they pick a suitable area and infest/create infested planets and the cycle continues.
I'll maybe make Discord an exception. He was also an adult phoenix who went out and destroyed life on other planets, feasting on their energy. But when he created the solar system, he fell in love with the life on earth. But there were some points that, in his rage, he'd cause mass extinctions on earth. Like with humanity and the way he nearly destroyed them all.
His love for life on earth, which for phoenix-kind means "food", and the extinctions on earth he caused, made his phoenix son within earth feel threatened. After all, Discord not only was stealing his food but as well was betraying the phoenix mindset by loving life. Plus, having hybrid children was enough of a sin....
So yeah, maybe I'll take this route instead
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Yeah, this is a neat idea as well. Terrifying as all hell on top of that lol. Off topic, but I just realized the focus on the phoenixes - could the interest be related to your love for birds?
I like these details better as well. It could explain the extinction of things like dinosaurs. Aren't most phoenixes betraying the mindset of loving life though by destroying entire planets for food?
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LOL!!! I'm so numb to terrifying things...I forget that I can never show any of my ideas to small children! And, oh yes it is, lol. I loooove birds. If I make more stories I'll always try and incorporate them somehow....
Thank you! I think I'm going this route too. And, about the phoenixes betraying the mindset.....only Discord has loved life so far. Pretty much the rest of phoenix kind destroys planets upon their birth and repeats this cycle, without any regard for life at all. Very few, like Miyako and Discord, have learned to cheat the system by killing more life to extend their own lives. And the more times they do this, the more powerful and intelligent they become. Discord was the worst offender of this and he was so intelligent. He saw how beautiful Earth was and began to love life. Now all the other phoenixes look down on him because he started loving what is known as food to them, lol.
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Its probably because human women are so hawt, that's why he fell in love with earth and then mated with one
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LOLOL!!! Discord was kinda clueless with emotions and feelings. He would be all confused and not understand why his heart beated so fast. Then when his girl came onto him he could be putting his hands up in front, like, do whatever you want, I don't even know what's going on....lol
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Lol...even a powerful being like Discord can't resist the touch of a woman!
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Prepare for a tldr, lol...
The energy pulsating is still something I'm not sure about but it's the best I have so far
Yeah? Thank you! I can't help myself when it comes to powers in the blood. 
So the plan is, everything in the universe is, and is controlled by the life and death of phoenixes. Every planet is a baby phoenix (the core of it, at least. The planet itself is the shell). Every star is a freshly mature phoenix. Since baby phoenix eggs are typically planets, they are then, obviously, born from the destruction of said planets, but they can also be born randomly in the remains of a supernova. It all depends on the needs of the universe and how fast a "quota" needs to be met. Although this may change. But anyway!
Some stars go supernova, and when they do, think of it as a phoenix finally reaching the end of its life, burning to death, then spreading its ash for more babies to be born or for it to reincarnate. When a phoenix in my story goes supernova, it becomes a higher power phoenix, which is then capable of creating its own solar systems or possibly even galaxies with the leftover ash (pretty much a nesting ground). Discord is one of these higher power phoenixes. He went on to create the solar system, his own "nest". So all the planet cores are his children, lol.
The problem, and the reason why he's called Discord, is not only because of the powers he possesses, but also because of a sin he committed against the laws of the universe.
He fell in love with Earth. He protected Earth more and in turn, it was among the most beautiful of planets, proudly hosting life.
Just to mention, since the baby phoenix in earth (let's just call it the earth phoenix) is responsible for providing most of the energy for earth, all life is affiliated, or "related" to the earth phoenix.
Anyways, Discord fell so much in love with his masterpiece, and humanity, he couldn't help but take a human form and join them. But his biggest sin of all was having children with a human (Lucian and Eron). His dalliance, and his violence to humanity later on, caused the earth phoenix to feel hurt at his own dad's betrayal. Betrayal not only to him, but to the natural order of the universe. Therefore, the earth phoenix created anti bodies. Basically he affected certain humans in such a way that caused them to have extraordinary abilities. Although they retain a human nature, they involuntarily sense dangers such as Discord and anyone affiliated with him, and immediately drop what they're doing and kill the danger. Even if they're not aware of it. It's almost as if they get possessed sometimes.
Lucian and Eron are major threats because of this: Phoenixes basically have the power to transfer and control energies, and/or materials necessary for sustaining the universe and life as we know it. And, Lucian and Eron are half blood phoenixes....meaning they each have half of a phoenix's full power. Even at half they could completely dominate whatever they feel like. Pretty much the path Eron took, but because of the presence of anti bodies, Eron was only able to dominate between 60-80% of the Earth, with his massive clone army.
Eron's half is responsible for converting his blood into materials, but he has almost no control over it. Once awakened (I guess, i dunno....once he was almost done with puberty? lol), his phoenix blood immediately went to work. The richness of material/minerals/metals within the blood becomes mass. But, since he's still half human, he's severely affected by it. If he couldn't clone, he'd die immediately from cancer and tumors. The blood is semi-sentient. The conversion process, or in this case, Eron's cloning, leaves him extremely vulnerable. It will often attack on its own if its exposed to air, and its kinda like how jellyfish stingers work, where once contact is made, the nematocysts immediately unleash their stinging threads.
Lucian's half, so far, lol.....is responsible for receiving and providing energy. He as well has little control over it, and it it will only totally affect him and everyone else if he or the environment is damaged. Same thing with him, puberty finished and his blood goes to work. However, he doesn't notice it.....everyone else does. Everyone always either becomes totally depressed or totally happy around him...or in the case of extremes, dead or alive. The way his powers works, is that his phoenix blood has a certain amount of gravity. He is constantly absorbing energy because of this gravity, but at the same time, if the amount of energy "outweighs" the gravity, it is released, like an explosion. If Lucian is suddenly killed, the energy he had behaves as an extreme implosion or explosion, and the actual effect really depends on the way he died or how much energy he had at the time. If he were suddenly killed, at first, the effect is like an explosion, where his energy suddenly leaves to the environment. But his physical body affects the process. So, once the energy leaves, his blood then begins to try and get it back. It will absorb a ton of energy, and if too much, will spit it back out into the environment. This weird undulation will continue until Lucian's blood/body is stable. Besides all of this, there are times where he temporarily contains massive energy, somewhat like critical mass. When he gets more control of himself, he is able to store energy and use it to blind people and give him the strength he needs to fight tough enemies. This idea is still a new work in progress.
So......yeah, lol.
I really can see that you have a passion for creating high schoolers! I think perhaps your dual focus on high school characters and epic characters will help give you ideas for each. For example, maybe drawing more schoolgoers will help you focus on the anatomy, and emotions, but drawing your epic characters will help you focus on design, and unique ideas for powers and such. You really don't need to guilt trip yourself since you have a good thing going on, the way I see it!
My sister sometimes knows, but she's sometimes very busy, and I don't always hear back from her when it comes to ideas and such, so I'll make a journal in the future, that way she can read it on her own time.
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Nice backstory of your universe, it sounds like some sort of traditional tale that people would believe back in ancient times. Really cool! So, some of this may be out of order lol but here it goes.
You mention he is called Discord because of the sins he committed, but by who? The people of the planet? Other Phoenixes? I'm interested to know, but at the same time like the mysteriousness of it.
Do the people of the planet know about the whole phoenix thing? About their planet being an egg? It would be interesting how they would even find that out, and would surely cause nutjob doomsday people to go on about their planet "hatching" at any moment lol.
The earth phoenix is saddened by the betrayal of Discord. So while in the egg, the phoenix is a sentient being? The antibody bit was really interesting as well. It could make for some creepy moments in the story.
With all this Phoenix stuff now, is it still called White Crow? (I'm hoping I am really remembering the title correctly lol)
Lucian reaching critical mass immediately made me think of him being able to release energy in blasts for attacking, can he do that?
Sorry for all the questions
I could see them helping each other out. I don't draw armored guys nearly as much, but I can definitely draw them a lot better now lol. I just can't help but to feel guilty for not doing stories, as it is ultimately what I want to do. I actually burned myself out from drawing this weekend...that never happened before! My brother wanted to keep going and I wanted to play videogames...we switched roles. It was really odd lol. I just can't bring myself to do the extra work of writing and doing panel work lately.
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Thank you! I liked the old folklore feeling...but I'm going to take a different route since I don't want phoenixes to be too omnipotent. I'll keep most of the ideas though, but them being all the stars and planets seems too OP!
Discord is named this by phoenixes, originally, but all the anti-bodies called him this name too since they're affiliated with the earth phoenix. The earth phoenix can't tell them things directly but can make its antibodies feel or act a certain way. So eventually the name gets passed down to humanity. Fitting too, considering he made enemies on both sides...
Humanity doesn't actually know their planet contains a parasite, but they know about the antibodies. Every time Discord attacked, or when Eron did later on, the antibodies would automatically drop what they were doing and respond. People sorta knew something was going on but weren't sure what. So instead of getting too into it, most would either avoid antibodies (because every time they appeared it meant some danger was around), or believe they were deities sent by God to protect them. LOLOL!!!! OMG I so want to draw that....these psychos on the road saying "THE DAY OF THE HATCHING IS NIGH!!"
The phoenix is sentient, but not interactive, and mostly unaware. It received some of its intelligence from Discord but since it's still developing, it can't do anything on its own. Imagine your own body with its own immune system. When a disease or foreign body enters, you may not really even be aware, yet your immune system immediately responds. Earth and its people are like the immune system, and the real body supplying the earth with energy is the phoenix. The phoenix knows of Discord since Discord is its parent, but can't know everything that happens on its egg, so antibodies, humans with mild phoenix traits/powers, fight for it until its ready to hatch. The only way you can even begin to communicate with the earth phoenix is if you were part phoenix yourself. Otherwise, it doesn't even know you exist, and vice versa.
It is technically but I REEEEEALY wanna change it. My original ideas changed so much that White Crow hardly fits.
I think what matters is, you're definitely having fun drawing all these characters as I can see, so don't feel too guilty. I'm the opposite. I have all these ideas, and write them out, but I don't draw much. I definitely feel guilty but I think I'm having more fun now thinking of the potential.
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Hmm, well I would say it would depend on how you present the phoenixes. Of course they would seem OP if they were that story’s “gods” for example, but gods are supposed to be all powerful and stuff. It does make things seem helpless though when a phoenix could come by any day and destroy the planet lol. I have to say, I very much like the idea of intergalactic phoenixes. Instead of the classic firebird, I am picturing Discord as this black and white flowing being and it’s awesome.
I see, interesting. That picture would be funny though
Nice to see you putting all the knowledge to work! Now if only we could make things like algebra not feel so useless…lol. The cool part about the planet being an egg as well is how in reality we don’t know much about the earth’s core and how everything just so happens to be perfectly balanced. I will definitely keep an eye out on that journal to stay updated on what stays and what goes.
Just find a way to make White Crow work with the new story. It could have a symbolic meaning, or just be the name of the evil/good organization (I don’t know, just spit balling). A shameless plug example is how my brother and I have a story called Duskheart. It’s the name of a pretty glowing flower and it’s symbolic to the love and bond between the two main characters. We got tired of naming stories after the main characters
We kind of did that for a while! The Katie comic was his idea and I helped ink and color it. I also sketched out six pages of a comic (using some of his characters) but we both wrote the script. A lot of it is a matter of motivation, which we both lack atm.
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Just leaving you a quick comment to let you know I am reading this epic comment, just need to ensure time for a proper response
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He is adorable. xD Looking at him, without the name I thought it was Eron for a second, but they are twins after all. Though I should have known, he looks WAY too happy to be Eron. xD
I love how his hair makes it look like he has antenna!
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Thank yee!!!! <3 I kept fangirling as I drew him, especially the eyes
Yeah, as ironic as that is....because Lucian is supposed to be more serious, and Eron more whimsical. But in reality, Lucian is the truly happy one, whereas Eron is in severe depression. So Lucian can naturally smile all the time!
I love that about the hair too! Actually, I had a lot of trouble with it. I argued with myself, wondering if I should make the feathers prop up like Eron's feathers. Then I immediately decided not to.....I like the styles adding to their personality.
Hmmm, maybe whenever Lucian gets mad at something they can actually stick up like antenna.......
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I think you did a good job.
Yeah that is a bit ironic, but when I think of Eron I always imagine an evil smirk or a sinister look where as thinking of Lucian I think of a more earnest look. To be honest I think this is the first time I've seen a drawing of yours were the character actually looks genuinely happy lol.
It's good that you left them down. It will act as a great identifying factor due to their twin-ness lol.
That would be fun xD
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Thank you!!
Lol, that's my fault for drawing Eron all the time!!! And you're right. Eron actually hates himself and wishes he could just die. He's incredibly jealous of Lucian, who was able to get over things as if they were nothing. Lucian doesn't hate himself, and lives for others. He believes in order to properly help others, he must help himself first
Yes!! Plus I added extra markings for Lucian's "scar". Yes.....I reinvented things yet again.....but I won't get into it until everything's figured out.
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He kinda reminds me of a pokemon trainer! X) I like this!
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LOL! I was thinking more college student/hipster/hippie but I can totally see that now!! With the gloves and messenger bag....
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