Location: The Cottage, Borderlands
-Borderlands Cottage-
*It’s nighttime, lightning and thunder crashing down.*
KY: *sleeps in his room, on a little makeshift hammock — a restless sleep, dreaming…*
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Location: The Cottage, Borderlands
-Borderlands Cottage-
*It’s nighttime, lightning and thunder crashing down.*
KY: *sleeps in his room, on a little makeshift hammock — a restless sleep, dreaming…*
New, 100% Syn-written chapter! Enjoy!
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KluYa… take the ends of the hammock, then hang them between two trees…
or a wall…
or you know those spikes on Zeb’s armor?
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The hammock is hanging up — it’s my fault if it doesn’t look like it. (I tried :< )
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I know… I realized it a few seconds ago… sorry… (It seemed like a KluYa thing to do…)
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Actually, I don’t think that it is the drawing of the hammock that is wrong, I think it is the panneling in the grain of the wood. It looks fairly large, so it looks like a close up of the floor, which messes up the perspective of the floor vs hammock.
It isn’t that bad actually, as I believe it is a straight down view, which might look odd in real life anyways.
The lighting in this pannel is awesome though.
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Yeah, you’re right about the floor. I just really wanted to do a top-down because I thought drawing a full-body of sleeping Aiden would be fun. ^_^
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Looking at pictures of hammocks online, I find that it is extremely difficult to find a view that looks straight down at a hammock. All of the pictures that I could find have at least a slight angle in the picture, which gives perspective to the height of the hammock. Even in pictures with angles hammocks look like they are lying on the ground. The only thing that blocks it in this picture is that the support of the hammock goes underneath the hammock, and the tree. As such, I wouldn’t worry too much about the hammock. ^.^
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The window shadow doesn’t help show height since it’s equal to the floor too =p, but other than that it works pretty well
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More than the perspective, it was the shadows that messed me up. There’s like no distortion between the window shadow on Aiden and the window shadow on the floor, which implies that they are pretty much the same distance from the window- which they would not be unless the hammock was lying on the floor.
Like Kimi said, though, don’t worry too much about it. Having full-body sleeping Aiden is worth any little technical mistakes. ^_^
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I think how the hammock looks on the bottom end near his feet is also a part of the problem. It looks a bit too slack, and the ropes below the bar looks like they’re going down, not up. But I didn’t instantly think he looked like he was lieing on the floor.
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Are we going to be seeng his nightmares of his past next?
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I don’t know that they’ll be nightmares, but yes. We’re going to see a “Backflash” (Flashback). ^_~
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Heheh, it would be ‘backflash’ for Aiden, wouldn’t it (since he’s always mixing up his phrases).
Awesomeness lightning! I cannot wait for the rest of the chapter- yay for backstory!
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Oh my goodness he is so CUTE!!
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Just a note – this is probably the first in a number of back-flash (flash-back) chapters detailing the past of characters — just to give you a feel where characters came from… and hopefully flesh out some of the reasons behind their behavior. I don’t think it will only be BS characters… I certainly hope (and discussed) with Wren that it would be DS characters as well in similar situations. ; > Besides, my writing gets too boring and longwinded… I’m no fun!
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awww, don’t sell yourself short Syn. I mean, your chapter started off with a crack of lightening. That is the start of epicness right there.
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You’re always too hard on yourself, Syn. We all want to read your writing! Or, well, at least I want to…
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I second that. I’m pretty certain this will be an awesome chapter!
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thirded! i saw that this was a syn chapter and squeed….which isn’t the best thing to do sitting in class but…
I agree with Illiana! KluYa’s so CUTE~ i love that you did a full-body image of sleeping Aiden, so adorable~
and while we’re on the topic: backflashes? lightening? irony? anyone?
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Fourth!…ed…
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Boring and long winded, Syn?
Have you read my writing? Try reading it once, I dare you. Then you’ll see what ‘boring and long winded’ REALLY is.
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Yes well… my profession seems to value long-winded and boring. And lots and lots of head scratching… X< And don't say that about your writing! I enjoy all the backgrounding and thought you put into your world!
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I like stories with details. Normally those details aren’t descriptive details but plot and story line details. It makes the story a whole lot more interesting. It tends to give you a better perspective on how things got to the way they are, rather than a ‘take for granted’ view.
I think most of the general sciences (various forms of chemistry, physics, biology, etc.) tend to prefer detailed oriented long winded writings. There are some more applied areas like some of ecology that tend to be short and more to the point than other areas (like physics). Of course without the long windedness of these sciences, you wouldn’t have really expensive blunt tools that can be used to knock people out or kill them (aka textbooks). It is even worse when they start using acronyms that you don’t know in place of words that you would like to know.
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Why, thank you.
My writing seems to be tailored to a certain kind of person; the kind who has the patience to read long epic fantasies with lots of details about (see Kimi’s comment).
I recently figured out that I need to change the word ‘doublets’ to ‘tunics’ in Gaelach Brethie. I can’t wait to be able to post more in that fiction this week – I have 27k plus words and only four chapters (plus prolouge).
Back to the comic!
I can’t wait to see what happens in KluYa’s flashback chapter… It exites me so, the past of our mysterious Lunar.
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I concur! I managed to successfully threaten my teacher once when she considered giving us all an essay.
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muahahahaha
Thanks for the new evil idea Weomur. Though biology teachers are a bit harder to threaten with things like that. College teachers are normally smart and have a page limit to papers. It would be better to use as an in-class long-winded detail oriented presentation.
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Evil is mah speshialitee. >:D
Long-winded is always good. It’s gotten to the point where my classmates groan whenever I raise my hand.
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I don’t know if this is evil but sometime I start talking and I get excited about a story and I get gradually louder and ramble until someone tells me to-
SHUT UP!!
meep…
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Sometimes they deserve it in classes, especially in high school. I had a senior English class where some of the students didn’t know what “therefore” meant. >.< Needless to say, I laughed malevolently when we had "hence" as a vocab word.
I don't know about you Luneth, but I find rambling fun. It is especially fun to lead people around in conversation circles without them knowing.
People tend to not like me in classes as I am nitpicky about details. People think of it as a "know-it-all" behavior, but it is actually that if someone starts teaching the wrong information, or different information than what I already know it confuses me which also drives me crazy (or crazier). Confusion=headache=annoying I would much rather understand everything clearly and right away than sit somewhere in confusion.
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Hah… Just last year in Advanced Comp Lv. II (I hate English teachers, fyi. They think they know writing and they simply don’t) we had further and farther as vocab words, and I was surprised how many people didn’t know the difference…
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Hahahahaha!
Y’all remind me of the time during my physical science class last semester that I had to present about solar energy. I had this teacher who was so incompetent that I am certain that I knew more before I attended her class. The woman could not teach. So I found out that our writing assignment was also a speech, so I scrounged up all the information I could from memory as she had taken away my paper, and I wrote a detailed twenty minute presentation with a posterboard style display during class while everyone else was presenting in only fifteen minutes. I was going to be SURE that the class was going to learn SOMETHING that day.
Evil teacher still failed me on it as she didn’t like that my Posterboard was actually stapled together folders.
I suspect that she didn’t like that I was more knowledgable about her subject than her and a better teacher, and that I refused to kiss her butt because I think she is an idiot.
She needs to meet Zeromus in a dark alley some where…
or better, Kip-style mindsuckage.
Sorry to rant, but be careful because the lousy teachers don’t like it when their students show them up with nice long presentations.
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I think you need a mind to be mind-sucked…
I’ve had teachers that encouraged conformism. I’m not sure if it was an accident or not. I ended up in a school of clones.
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Hmpf. Yeah, I know that feeling. Now that I’m older and in more advanced classes, most of my teachers are pretty reasonable, but when I was younger… meep. O_O
Of course, there were several amusing times… like when I was reading a book under my desk and the teacher called me on it, so I proceeded to engage her in a ten-minute debate about the benefits of associative memory and how reading while learning may actually increase ability, as it encourages the student to review more often later. I still got in trouble. -_-
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I was always reading during class. I got yelled at so much. I don’t think it was intentional, but I’d start reading and then everyone would move on. I think I did it to escape reality, or maybe it was from reading withdraw (I seriously think they hated reading). There was almost no time for reading at school and they apparently thought “Homework” was mainly for keeping students busy for the ENTIRE DAY AFTER SCHOOL!! *pant pant*
sorry, I rant sometimes.
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I was in a school that encouraged heterogenius communities (aka bore excel students to death). They were so obsessed with it that they would freak out if they thought that too many excel students were in one team (we did teaming, like Hogwarts, except no magic). I ended up in a really bad 2nd year Spanish class where it was basically a 1st year Spanish class, and I read for my english class in that class. The teacher could ask me a question and I would know the answer, and anything new I would write down in my notes, there just normally wasn’t anything new. Of course, those classes were better than the ones where teachers basically used excel students as an ed-tech to help teach lower end students in class. >.< Of course, most of the lower end students didn't do their homework (like reading two pages of hamlet for the next class (in 2 days)) and the teachers end up giving up (we ended up watching the movie rather than finishing the book).
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I know this is old and no one is likely to respond, but your talking about reading in class got me riled up.
I’ve had teachers yell at me so many times for that same thing. That, or writing in class. They don’t seem to understand the meaning of multitasking.
I’ve only ever had one teacher whose class I did not do anything extra in, and that is because he took time to explain to me that he was distracted by my doing so, not that anyone else was, or he thought I wasn’t paying attention. I loved that teacher.
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Yeah, I’ve had good teachers… I think, yeah. I did.
and I guess it would annoy some people if they were talking and in the corner was “that student” reading some fantasy book.
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Hmm…flashbacks in the middle of a storm? Somehow, I doubt we’re going to be seeing HAPPY memories.
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This will not be good…
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I keep looking at the title and thinking it says “Backlash”.
…I wonder if the similarity is intentional?
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