Taking a trip down memory lane can often be a scary thing. This month, among some family movies, reflection on past events, and reconnecting with old friends, I've been dealing with a lot mentally and emotionally. But part of that has come with the joy of hearing my friends talk about their old characters and the silly things we did as kids online, and that part has been delightful. So I'm gonna spill my guts for a second and share a daughter of mine that's very very precious to me, one you wouldn't know too well unless you met me on DA.
This is Vibrance Echo, audiokinetic dj and elemental hero. By day, she's Vivian Kenson, a fairly average teenager that's passionate about the arts. She lives in Sunburst City with an adoptive father and sister, who love her very much and encourage her pursuit of music and performance. Her friend group has formed a parkour team that puts on some killer shows in the streets. They're a pretty fun group, and they all love different art forms. There's Fiti, a graffiti artist who paints her psychic visions, Mitch the resident tech guru who blends computers and arts, Dixon who's secretly a demon with a very bookish attitude, and many many more.
But everything gets crazy when Vivian meets her partner in heroism, Audius. Audius is an ancient elemental spirit, the spirit of sound, and Vivian rescues them from their place of imprisonment off the coast of Sunburst. In return, she's granted incredible power to manipulate sound waves and vibrations, and the two come together to form Vibrance. That's right, Vibrance and Vivian aren't the same person, Vibrance is essentially a fusion of Vivian and Audius, in a process known as Synchronization.
Together, they fight off a dark force known as Tumult, and his nefarious organization. Tumult aims to break the elemental spirits and use their broken pieces to send nature into chaos. After all, he who controls nature can change the world however they see fit.
So why is looking at the past scary? Well, the time in which I developed Vibrance was also the few years I had a close friend as a co-writer, who ended up as my boyfriend for about nine months. When we split, so did our story, and we never talked about what to do with it, we just kind of stopped being in touch. I was so broken up about it that I couldn't touch anything for Vibe for a long time.
Until recently. I've slowly been working on repairing her and her story. This is a character that was my entire world once, much like Auran is now. Even if she's not my primary focus, I still love her, and I want to see her story through, just slowly and on my own terms. A big thing that's helped me is actually making her and her friends in the Sims. I have an apartment where she, Fiti, and Pyrite (her big sister) live together, and down the hall are Mitch and Dixon. They're a great group to play with, and I love them so much. It's given me a ton of ideas too! Like I didn't know Dixon loved books so much until now, but he's grown to love learning new things and reads often. I'd love to share more of their adventures some day, I just get so hung up on the details and worry that people will put it all under a microscope to judge.
There's so much more to this world than you know. The old elemental masters, the mysterious origins for Pyrite, the mermaids, the idea of two elemental heroes synchronizing together to make a dual elemental, the two time travellers that totally flip how time travel works as a concept? I've had this story in me for years, I want to bring it out to shine someday. So, um, would it be okay if I shared my doodles and thoughts for it now and again? ^^''' I know that's so silly to ask, but I have no one to share it with, I'd really like to share my little worlds with you guys. Even if I'm just screaming into a void, at least I'll have said it out loud, which is more than I can say for the past four years. Thank you for listening and reading through, I hope you liked it!
