AealZX: Emiris Stormhael
Before I get into all the other Guardian Angel characters of mine I'll have to do Emiris first. 8'D Because he was the first one and everyone else was pretty much developed around him.
Not like people will complain about learning stuff about Emi anyway |D
First of all let me just say that I should probably give my sister some credit for me even going anywhere with Emiris |D As people know he was for the DA RP group Souls of Chaos and while I'm not saying anything about Emiris' design not being my own, my sister was the nudge that got me into that group in the first place.
See I was already RPing with my babe Awa abotu stuff from my first ever DA RP group (Telian Chronicles) and I wasn't really looking into joining another group since I was shy and quite content to just RP with Awa. But then my sister was all "I wanna join SoC 8D" which is really weird because she doesn't usually do the whole online RP group thing much anymore (ever since the dark days of RPing on Gaia online) so I was like "Sweet. 8D I get to RP with my sis again and we can be stupid together."
Okay so I get interested in SoC, and my sis went Ares so I did too, which made my life easier because I'm a terrible decision maker. But I had the problem where I'm really bad at making anti heros, evil people, general assholes etc. I really like the angelic, holy, pretty healy stuff, so if it weren't for my sister I probably would have gone Caelius if I'd joined at all. Which meant that I took a character that could have fit in Caelius, made them from Earthra to get neutrality, and gave them a backstory to shove them over into Ares so I could be with my sister.
Yay, here's Emi and his lovely first ever drawing of him that was done Nov 2, 2011 ~ (I had actually started dating my sketches at this time. 8'D, but this is the color version of the doodle)
Lovely first photo isn't it. 8'D Wasn't even fully shaded |D Now lessee, guess I'll start with his name.
1. The name
Really simple for this one, I just used a name that popped into my head, and it doesn't mean anything. |D The last name is a jumble of 'Hailstorm', with 'heal' smashed into it because yey I like clerics, and switched letters to make it still sound ish like 'hail'
2. Guardian Angels
Where the heck did I get the idea for the Guardian Angel race? Well... from the idea of a guardian angel. |D I love angels, and I loved the idea of each person having their own special guardian angel that watched over them and only them. (I heard that somewhere, didn't make it up.) So I decided to throw that into a race. Plus part of the motivation was that my friend Solie and I had made a bunch of character sets where her character was a protector type and mine was always the one being protected so me being a derp child was all "I wanna be the protector this time! 8D" Granted this was before Solie and I had decided to do a character set for SoC. |D I originally thought I was going to be tag teaming with my sister.
But yeah, tangent aside, Guardian Angels came about as a race that was built around the idea of each person having an angel who's role in life was to protect just one person and make sure they stay well and happy.
3. Red wings
If you're hoping for something profound you came to the wrong place, I just wanted red wings. 8 |
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Okay, joking that's only part of the reason for the red wings. XD Yes I was on a kick at the time about angels with red wings, but I also made them red because it tied into the idea of a symbol for a figurative blood pact. Guardians' wings are blood red to symbolize the bond to their charge through blood.
4. Fallen Guardian / the marks
Okay, the Fallen Guardian Angel status came from the simple cliche that an Angel that goes from Heaven (Caelius) to Hell (Ares) is called Fallen. And usually that's a big taboo no-no don't do it shun the foul creature. So that all came into play. And because it wasn't fully Emiris' choice to go to Hell (Ares) the marks were slapped on him and were made to resemble chains to symbolize him being bound unwillingly to his fate as an Arean Guardian.
As you can see the first rendition of is marks was pretty pathetic |D
There's another chunk of information about the marks in this tumblr post over here.
5. The hair, horns, and eyes
Really funny thing, 8'D those who are familiar with Guardians know that they're originally completely white aside from their wings, and when they bond to someone they adopt DNA from their charge's blood and get different attributes from that DNA. So the Guardian's bonded appearance is supposed to be based off of their charge.
...For Emi it was backwards |D Kel's design was actually partially based off of the elements that Emiris had. Because I really wanted double horns and yellow orange eyes and red hair. |D I was on a red hair kick too, and I dunno whenever I thought of him I just got the double horns image in my head.
6. The cloaking
His first full image that was for the app was this pair, but only the cloaked version was ever used.
The cloaking is pretty straight forward. It's a symbol of being ashamed for their appearance, and naturally since he had marks all over him showing that he was a Fallen Guardian, and he didn't even know who he was bonded to, Emi was pretty ashamed to go walking around showing the marks and other attributes off. Plus he also didn't want to get caught and forced to go back home before he'd found the one Evah found important enough to bond him to.
That second image was his original outfit that he was going to get after the cloak was taken off, but it never got used because I didn't like my art back then by the time it happened. |D Which was lame because it went though a bazillion color combos |D
Even though it's old that cloak is still one of my favorite clothing designs 8'D At least for the patterns on the fabric.
Extra:
When I was thinking about his backstory and the whole part about Evah getting killed and saving Kel and Emi and blah blah I found the song Hurricane by 30 Seconds to Mars and listening to that the pieces of that backstory just clicked into place and were so vivid as I listened to that song on repeat while typing that part up. To this day I still get chills from that song and can't think of anything else but that part of Emiris' life while listening. |D
