A few days ago, I posted on my alt The Leopardess that I was coming out with a project for December. (I play Ravana 729, Akkad Akaya, The Golden Serpent, The Leopardess and m1thr0s) This project has now been released here, in character:
Looking for this teen girl magazine
New Link: https://ningishzidda.deviantart.com/art/Athra-Girl-Magazine-732041883
I have not done anything Eve related for a very long time. Previously I had painted some silly posters for an Amarr Faction Warfare event we called âOperation Pool Partyâ with a cross-corporation coalition of mercs and loyalists being represented in the posters (https://ningishzidda.deviantart.com/gallery/) In character, these are produced by m1thr0s, the alias of one of my characters who is the owner of a visual design studio run entirely by spoiled rotten artist slaves all hepped up on goofballs and other fun Serpentis drugs, among other businesses.
A huge amount of the credit for the accuracy of this magazine goes to Samira Kernher. She is and always has been a treasure for the roleplaying community, in particular for those of us wishing to play an Amarr character. I wanted to make this OOC thread to talk about how the magazine was made, and why I did things a certain way.
I have owed my characters a detailed biography for quite some time. Ravana 729 and Akkad Akaya are actually my late husbandâs characters, who passed away on December 26th 2016. While I like the history he built for them very much, (so much that I decided shortly after to build my character into his story as well) they have a more difficult background than The Golden Serpent, so, I wanted to start on her. I didnât want to make a regular biography or profile. These always strike me as lacking the ability to achieve immersion. Chronicle style stories are better, but, then I had a thought, what if I connected her to a medium that made sense in her world, that fit her age group and special social problems?
Thatâs how I came up with such an odd idea, a teen girl magazine, to really convey just where she was coming from and the world she grew up in. We all have thoughts about what our character thinks and does in their spare time that never spills out onto the IGS. Iâm sure weâd all like to get to know our favorite characters a little better sometimes. Itâs difficult to do this within the context of IGS and character bios are really flat. I think the medium of an in-game biography done by a reporter or columnist, or an in-game advice column, as Aldrith Shutaqâs player suggested, is a really good idea. The IGS tends to be very polarized and scrappy - leaving little room for neutral character development, and the IGS in game tends to be the same.
Iâd like to do more of these, although, this project took me a week to finish. Since Iâve gone through the rigors of it once, I suspect it may be easier to do again, so I would consider doing another one, and maybe now that people can see what it would look like, I might enlist some help. I would really like the help of other people to do some of the writing, which is possibly the most grueling part beneath the full page size paintings themselves.
Iâd like to note a few things about the magazine that are not obvious.
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Much of this was hand painted, every snowflake and splotch on the first three pages was done by hand.
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Samira noted that my use of âISKâ was wrong - baseliners use a local currency, which doesnât have a name in lore, so we decided to name them Amarr Crowns or Imperial Crowns. I used âACâ since IC could be confused with something else.
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Amarrian is not an actual word. Itâs always Amarr. I had to edit almost every page! And my twitter account is âAmarrianSerpentâ ugh. I hope I can change itâŚ
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âRadical Gheinokâ is a reference to Vaporwave and was made with some Vaporwave clipart (https://www.deviantart.com/art/Vaporwave-Png-s-Gifs-Stock-Pack-553847379) and my own public domain stockart.
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The Flipbook program I am using, Flip Builder, is free but it leaves a watermark. I am literally a starving artist so I am not going to listen to any complaints about it.
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The girl at the bottom of the page on page 11 is me.
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âTemplariiâ by Anoyia, 6, is an actual drawing sent to U.S. Marines overseas by a 6 year old. And itâs hilarious. And dark.
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The Ad for PIE on the last page is a spoof of a classic U.S. Army poster. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3c/3e/27/3c3e277dd475ec1faeab1d01c561e223.jpg
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Goldenâs age in the interview should raise some eyebrows. There is definitely something unethical and illegal going on there, even if we donât have much of anything to go on about the Empire laws. This is meant to illustrate both the free leash with which Khanid rules his kingdom as well as something not quite right going on with the Akaya family. At the very least, she skipped a high level degree and years of training to get fast tracked into capsuleer status.
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Itâs okay for your character to find the magazine offensive, and to say so. Iâve been roleplaying a long time and Iâm fairly unbuffeted by IC drama. In fact, I find it amusing and deliberately instigate it. https://forums-archive.eveonline.com/topic/440337/ Some problems might include that the prices are (theoretically) very high. this is a magazine for very wealthy girls living on the backs of slaves. It calls the Gallente âprimitiveâ and some Amarrians might find Akkad himself offensive - he is dangerously liberal with his slaves and has made more than his share of enemies within Khanid, turning in separatists like McCarthy indicted Commies, and so on. So feel free to say something nasty if your character feels like it with these sorts of things.
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Diana Kim wins best comment "Speaking about the trends for Amarr teen girlsâŚ
⌠which guns do they prefer currently?"
- Izi