#shalien

[darksideoftheshadows]

@steadfastsolomon

It remembered a sterile white environment. Guided by hands that were sometimes gentle, and sometimes rough, but always careful. It remembered pain when it failed, but reward when it succeeded. It remembered routine. It remembered safety and it remembered home.

But this was not home. This was not sterile white and it was not safety and there were no hands guiding it and there was no pain or reward.

It was just it. And it didn’t like that. It didn’t like the broken glass of its pod, or the unfamiliar sounds and smells. And it didn’t like that no one was answering its cries.

In the lab when it cried someone was always there to show it what to do.

But here- was someone here. There were many someones here.

Its head, blank of features, snapped towards the sound. It listened, and realized that yes, those many someones and those many someones were coming closer.

Its head snapped around, scanning the environment before it tumbled forward and morphed, body changing in shape and color and texture until it looked like something that was unassuming.

It was something hard and cold and greyish and it was in a pile with a bunch of other hard and greyish things.

“Are you telling me it’s already gone?”

“Yes sir. There doesn’t seem to be any form of life around.”

“It landed less than a few minutes ago! How could it already of disappeared!”

“If it took off running as soon as it could, sir, then it’s possible it could have gone a long distance. We don’t know what was supposed to be in this thing.”

“Well scan the area again! And get me anything you can from that pod to tell me what we might be dealing with here!”

“Yes sir General Steel!”

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not exactly a malicious devil on his shoulder, but Fheonore would still like Shalien to get off

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Shalien is the best hybrid, I love this body so muuuuch *-*

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We went to a lovely garden today~

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Shalien and Glaciole off on some kind of adventure

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Glaciole just wants to be left alone, but Shalien hasn’t had anybody to talk to for centuries

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I found the body (Doll Chateau A-03) I wanted for this head (SWITCH Holy Seolrock) secondhand, so “no waiting” won out over “responsible budgeting” once again... but just look at this noodle boy, I am in love with him. 

It was a risk choosing the hybrid with no research whatsoever, but the proportions work for the skinny inhuman look, and by some miracle the several-years-old white tones match almost perfectly.

I’m floored that he can stand on his own, and honestly I’m just filled with glee over his posing in general.  He’s so delicate and alien, ahhh :3  I don’t suede or wire dolls or use stands, so this is great.

also please forgive the dark and messy desk situation

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If you don't mind me asking, what are Shalien and Glaciole's characters supposed to be? They're really cool :)

I don’t mind at all!  Please feel free to ask me character-related questions; like most of us around here, I love talking about them *^^*

Shalien and Glaciole are a little complicated, so I hope this isn’t way more information than you were looking for.  Basically, in the fantasy world I set characters in, races fall out like this:

~in the beginning~ you had the ones in black, three magical races and boring, non-magical humans.  Furies died out, Fates sequestered themselves, and the Fey essentially diffused out; they are pure magic and the essence of change, and had no particular interest in maintaining any sort of sameness.  So they fell in love with mortals, and landscapes, and let other people define them, and became other things - elemental spirits, etc etc.  Humans in any of the ~current day~ settings I use can use magic due to some amount of fey heritage in their genealogy.  The Fey spread magic out into the world, and disappeared.

All except Shalien!  He’s the last Fey, through more inattention than anything else; he simply never got attached to anything enough to let it change him.  A few hundred years before the present day of my Tolley et al doll group, he got involved with Queen Josephine and her civil war, and, long story short, her mages locked him in a lighthouse out of fear of his power falling into other hands.  Stuck there until Remington and company follow the rumors to find him, all he had to do for centuries was watch people (he liked Florian’s adventures).

So, once he’s out, he’s more than a little unbalanced and his attention span definitely hasn’t improved.  All the humans he knew are dead (although a few of them are ghosts he can still talk to) and he’s the last one of his kind to keep the integrity of what they once were.  He’s not fond of what most of the others became, but Glaciole changed less than the others, so Shalien will make do.

Glaciole was Fey until a few centuries earlier than Queen Josephine, but on the other side of the world.  He froze to death in the service of a different aspiring queen, Ceonsae, and became a sort of elemental spirit, although one with much more sense of self than most.

They’re both mostly world-building side characters, but I’ve found those are a fun sort to have as dolls, because I don’t have to worry too much about what is or isn’t canon for them.