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Darmael β Marzyc, Ragdoll Demon
Published: 2008-08-12 20:57:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 2680; Favourites: 77; Downloads: 89
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Either it is from a child's nightmare or a teen goth's favorite plush toy, not really sure yet. I had originally set out to make him a disturbing looking as I could yet still with a child's toy feel to it but he is just so darn cute he looks more like something from a Lolita Goth's book shelf.MarzyΔ is a rag doll with a rigid internal wire frame. His wings are polymer clay and wire armature. He was all hand sewn with a heavy cotton cloth and he has pushpins to accent his heart and facial features. I made his "feathers" to resemble bone and I was particularly happy with how they look.
He is freestanding at 9 inches tall and his wingspan is a little over 13 inches.
For now I'm leaving him as is but I might grunge him up to make him look more evil if someone doesn't claim him as is.
About 26 hours of work, learned a lot.
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Wow! The wings are so beautiful, and the doll is so cute, and over all, it's creepy. I LOVE it.
I wish I had a doll like this. I'd take it with me, everywhere. haha
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hello 
*whispersss from =AvalonCommunity
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aww, it looks so cute...in a creepy way O.o love those wings ^^
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OH my gosh! He really IS cute... in a vaguely disturbing kind of way! It's the heart that tips the balances, I think!
Excellent!!
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very well done !! I think u merged the the ideas of what u wanted to say wonderfully!!
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Wow,awesome job! I wish I had a doll like that... ^^ (...I suck at crafting, drat!)
And - can I ask you, why did you call him "MarzyΔ"? Is he dreaming of something...?
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Marzyc use to have a more negative meaning to it than just "to dream" More along the lines of nightmare.
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More negative...? Haven't heard of it... can you explain more? (uh, sorry if I'm being annoying ^^'
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In old Scandinavian languages(or polish I think not sure) marzyc (to dream) had a more negative meaning to it. Back then if you said marzyc, you took it as meaning a bad dream where as now a days you take it to mean a good dream. Mara(a wraith like creature which caused bad dreams) gets its name from marzyc. Mara later gets turned to Mare when it is borrowed by other languages and eventually becomes nightmare.
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Oh, and it doesn't have bad meaning of course 
And it sounds kind of funny to name some thing with a verb, even if it's in other language
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You're completely WRONG. Word 'marzyΔ' is definitely a polish (not Scandinavian, in any case!) word and its meaning's the same like english 'dream'...
I don't know if word 'mara' comes from 'marzyΔ'... It could be a nightmare, it could me some kind of ghosts, but in polish folklor it's mostly the thing that comes in the night, sits in your chest that you can't breathe...
And why I know this? Because I'm Pole
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You're completely right on this, but I wasn't using it for it's present day meaning. I was using it for it's old meaning and connotations from a very long time ago. Keep in mind that many languages have a shared history and have evolved over time. That's how English speakers ended having nightmare evolve from the Old English word mare that itself came from the word mære or mara which had it's own roots in proto-Germanic, Old Norse, and Anglo-saxon and meant incubus or hag. My confusion over if it was Scandinavian or Polish is because Mara are a shared folklore throughout many cultures in Europe. It's just one big circle of word exchanges between different cultures.
It also gets funky when going from one language to another because of the difference in how a concept is expressed as a verb in one language but is expressed as a noun/verb in another.
Plus when read by an English speaker it's hard to determine if Marzyc is a noun or verb since they've never encountered it before. I could have went with Mara since it makes more since to someone who knows the word but to an English speakers ear MarzyΔ sounds better.
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Hmmm... But I think that 'marzyΔ' didn't have negative meaning at all, that's the case... But I'm not so sure, I have to check it.
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Wow... Thank you! I see now. I got to study own culture more...
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This is AMAZING.
And uber rad
I commend you on your fine work!
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how cute!!! I am just in love with those wings!!! They are incredible! How did you get them to stay - I don't even think I could do it with wire. They just look so delicate.
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I love it!! I like the wings especially. looks very 'skeletal'
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Brilliant work with this one! I'm amazed that the wings are standing, I tend to have balance issues when I make them that large... and especially since they're attached to the doll portion. Great work.
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They were a major headache to make work. Learned a lot of lessons with it though. The only reason it worked out is because of how thin the feathers are. That and I used clothes line wire to do the internal structure, I have blisters from bending the stuff!
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i really like the simplistic creepyness of him. He isnt overly done but just right , if that makes any sense.
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