AealZX: Falin Ceras
Okay now that it’s officially out what Falin is I can finally do this without worrying about spoilers.
Falin was originally created a while before TE, but for a pretty big different setting.
He was always an Angel, and always worked at a healers place, finding people who healed others to be precious and having a complex about being a protector of them blah blah. He was a drama queen that was hella fussy about his looks. It took me forever to draw him the first time.
1. His Name
His name is a pun |D I’m sorry, but it is. “Fallen Angel” -> “Falin”. Derp. I’m lame. Then Ceras just popped up. And that name was always an alias. It was only after I converted him to TE that I actually looked up if that name meant anything and what I found was adorable and completely unintended. “Falin”, in that spelling, means “to forgive” in Albanian, and “fortune” in Azerbaijani (according to google translate). Which made me squee like an idiot because Harlow blames himself for Falin dying before so it was like Falin subconsciously picked that name because he forgives Harlow for everything that Harlow thinks he did. And then “cera” is “cherry” in... French I think it was. A French name, not word. So I just put an S on it and made it “cherries”, and made that name come from his foster parents.
His Angel name has always been Iamaleik, which came into my mind when I was on the train ride home from school. I have to admit it came to my mind, spelling and sound, and I had to think about it for awhile and kept asking “Really? Reaaally?” because it doesn’t sound like it’s spelled. 8′D The K is silent and there’s an invisible soft H at the beginning. So it’s “hee-aam-ah-ley”. Yeah, it’s weird. |D Don’t tell him that, he likes that name and gets offended easily when people make fun of it. Part of the reason is because Angel names are special. He doesn’t use that name, or tell it to people often, because he doesn’t want people to make fun of it or twist it into an insult. Harlow was the one to give Falin that name after finding him again, following a hella dead tradition that Servants would get a new name from other Servants once they became a Servant. It doesn’t always happen anymore, but Harlow still did it so that Falin would have a name that someone gave him instead of one that he picked for himself.
2.His Appearance
The first thing I knew about Falin’s appearance was his eyes, specifically the marks around his eyes. They were always a mark of being an Angel, and that carried over to the Servant race that was based off of what Falin and Harlow originally were. But I didn’t want people to be forced to have those marks if they ever wanted to make an Aitheras Angel, so I made them optional.
This was the first picture I drew of Falin, back before TE, and it was a pain because past Falin was a diva and had to have everything looking perfect.
And then I wanted to do a blushy picture and he ended up being my victim so this was the second picture:
The ‘visage’ thing was always there too, with the same quirk that it showed evil people what they most feared, so this is the first draft of his Angel form:
...It doesn’t look like that anymore |D. Still white and gold, but different clothes and halo design. The halo is still not patterned around the entire ring though ‘cause he’s still a baby.
All of those were drawn before TE, and then this was the first full view that was for TE:
That was done Jun 2014, and I haven’t gotten his update completely drawn yet, but he got a new haircut:
That’s his current look (As of May 2015)
3. Personality
His original personality was just a little drama king ish. One of those very minor ladies man but too focused on something else to actually pay attention to romantic interests. That was in part because he knew he would out live pretty much anyone that was interested in him.
Then I threw in the fact that he died before and was resurrected as an Aitheras Angel with no memories and that aloofness was completely switched out into uncertainty and feeling disconnected from everything. He’s still quiet, and has a protective nature towards healers and other people who are gentle and caring, but he’s waaay less dramatic about it. And then he got a girlfriend thrown at him and I found out he’s also a ridiculously shy dork. So he pretty much went from being a cold quiet person to a soft fluffball quiet person. I like the present him much better |D
4. His Phobia
For the record I did not go an snoop through phobias and pick one and go “I’m gonna give a character that phobia. 8D” As I was RPing him with Nagini (his girlfriend) Falin kept almost passing out anytime they kissed. First we just thought it was because he was shy, but I was curious as to what exactly could cause that. Found out that fainting could be caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure, which could be caused by panic attacks, which can happen because of extreme phobias. And because he kept fainting because of physical romance things I wondered if there was some sort of phobia about that and found out about genophobia.
And that’s how I found out a name for why Falin is unable to do anything passed cuddling when it comes to physical romance without freaking out 8′D
5. His Past Buddies
Most of Falin’s past as Haylen just popped into my head more as images that I had to figure out explanations for. The biggest, most clear one was the place that he lived at with 4 other people. This little herbalist looking house in the middle of a clearing in a forest that was one of those otherworldly fairy looking greenery places. The other was the image that was one of Falin’s only residual memories: a group of people having fun at an inn table of sorts. A tall black haired girl, Harlow, a cheeky spiky haired blonde, a guy that always smelled like honey suckle, and another girl.
From those bits of information came Serena, a Raven Elf, which is a sub race I created to explain her black hair and blue eyes. Toki, the cheeky blonde youngin troublemaker of the group that always needed a babysitter. June, a male dryad who became their herbal healer of the group. And then Hayleigh, June’s half dryad neice.
Toki was the first to die, ‘cause he’s a reckless idiot and Harlow couldn’t get there in time to save him. Then Juna died, then Hayleigh, then Serena and Haylen/Falin was last.
6. Extras
i. Harlow gave him those swords, he had them custom made.
ii. He wears partial armor like that because a full suit is too awkward and annoying to deal with, but having none isn’t safe.
iii. His favorite meat is pheasant, and his favorite dessert is caramel mousse
iv. His Aura was made to have that unattainable perfection attribute back before TE because it was supposed to be something that made him feel more disconnected from everything. It just carried over from that, I’m not sure what the significance of it is now, but I couldn’t get rid of it.