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  1. "Eggman? No, sir. I'm just a mercenary working here. See this flag? I was just walking around here looking for a client when I came across Mr. Omega." replied Arek.


  2. "Annihilate them?", thought Arek. He was quite unsure what to do next, but something made him feel this could go downhill. "S-shouldn't we jump the gun just yet? No pun intented, but I think we should... uh, check out if it's really an enemy?" spoke Arek nervously.

     

    "HEY! WHO'S THERE?!" Yelled Arek to whoever's aiming his fire at the robot.


  3. (Ooc: My apologies, English isn't my native language, I wasn't sure what catapult was. Even worst when there's an explosive involved, so I was sure it's something really dangerous.)


  4. "What are you taking about?!", said Arek. He may be not that smart, but at least his grandpa had taught him a few things: you do not run away from the mess you're getting into. That cannon, whoever it aimed at, got both him and Omega in a danger. Arek refused to let anybody hurt for his stead! "I'm not leaving you!"


  5. Seera Bransford was inside the Gaia Temple, looking for a Choas Emerald to complete her request, but then she had to face with a serious problem: the dark blue robot in front of her, the infamous and demonic Neo Metal Sonic. She had been knocked down to her knee, having little stemina left to fight as she was seeing the robot approaching the elemerald sitting on the alter.

     

    "Darn you... you think you're such a hot stuff?" The robot ignored her. It was too fixated on the gem. "Don't ignore a lady when she talks to you!" Seera threw her punch at the air. Suddenly, the claw attached to her right hand launched itself pass Neo Metal Sonic and snatched the emerald before it did.

     

    "My claw isn't broken yet," yelled Seera, "that means this fight isn't over!" she swung the claw and the emerald around the place, but instead of reeling the item into her, she tossed it across the room at the opposite direction of the robot.

     

    "Fetch boy!", and the robot did. It flied pass the injured mobian and went straight for the stone, but suddenly a barrack of energy blasts appeared behind it and directly hit his back. It was Seera who launched the fireball. Using the last of her energy, she prayed that her atttacks would at least disable her enemy.

     

    ...But the monster wasn't hurt. It shook off Seera's energy blasts without a problem. In its hand now was holding the Chaos Emerald.

     

    "Tch, I mis...calculated..." Game, set, and match. Seera has lost completely, and she realized it. She collapsed to the ground and lost her conciousness. As the robot got a hold of what it seek, and the target was no longer able to fight for real, Neo Metal Sonic left quietly.


  6. "G.U.N.? You mean that famous spy and military base? Cool!"  He has heard many tales about G.U.N, the top secret organization which is formed to combat against the worst's greatest threat, Dr. Eggman himself. Many elite warriors have been trained there. Maybe this would his chance to move on for something even bigger for himself.

     

    "I'm Arek, Arek Powalan!" He quickly introduced himself. " I may look like a kid, but I'm actually..." At that very moment, he noticed something moving far away.

     

    "Oh no! Look out behind you!" He warned the robot as he pointed to the place he believed he saw the catapult aiming at Omega.


  7. Chubby Nicole :). That bit made my day.

     

    Regarding her design, I like her post genesis design better than her old clothes. They look mush more comfortable and cool. Still, my favorite outfit for her is the one with the casual clothes and a hat (back when she disguised into Mina's concert).

     

    Still doing my homework and didn't get to read the lastest Spark of Life 4/4 yet. Maybe later.


  8. "Ahh! Don't shoot! I just a dog!" Arek jumped out of a bush in a panic, realizing that staying still could spell trouble. Standing in front of him now was the huge robot. He knew just from a glance that the machine was a very strong machine, but what is it doing here?

     

    "Uh... umm... Hiya?" He's still nervous and a bit afraid. "How can I help you?"


  9. "Yike! Is he looking at me?", thought Arek. He did not attept to move, though. "Gotta stay clam in this situation." He stayed still, trying to blend in with the environment as much as possible.


  10. In the town of Furville, a puppy is walking along the street. He seems to be no more than 12 years old, but people around the town have acknowledged he's over 19 years old and already has a job as a mercenary. As he walks, he's carrying a big, very noticable white flag.

     

    *Team Blue Stars: We do anything, ask us, we do*

     

    "This has to be the worst slogan ever", mumbled Arek Powalan as he walked passed by some girls who were giggling at him. He had been walking around the town for about an hour when he noticed a giant robot waking around. It has the flaming red tarso and black patterns on his shoulder, with a big red *omega* symbol. He has never seen a robot like this before. "Is it an enemy? It doesn't seem to notice me.", he thought. He hid behind the nearby bush and obversed the robot with sheer curiosity.

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  11. "Perhaps this is a bad idea.", thought Ellen Ellen. At the glance, a shrinking lone dog like her had absolutely no business in the dangerous and sacred place such as Gaia Temple. She was not a fighter, someone who wouldn't even hurt a fly, yet she's now covered in bruises from a fight. All she knew is healing people and making them smile, but right now, she wasn't even sure if she can calm herself down. In her hand was a Chaos Emerald, the key to her mission to save her best friend's life, something she had snatched a moment ago from her persurer.

     

    Several stepping sound passed by her, they were made by the demonic metalic slave, that Neo Metal Sonic! The elite soldier of Eggman that is known to rival even Sonic the Hedgehog, the greatest hero of Mobius! Ellen was hiding inside a chest, holding a Chaos Emerald in her pocket as tight as she can. "The emerald will save her, I can't afford to lose it," but on the other hand, she was so scared out off her wit she wanted to cry. All she could do is praying the monster not to find her, pray that it would go away, pray that someone will come to rescue her.

     

    The sound of footsteps suddenly stopped. They were so close to her! Ellen knew that the monster can use its scanner to find the emerald. Before she knew it, she felt the surge of heat engulfing her as the box was being burned down by Neo Metal Sonic. Ellen was forced to jump out in a panic.

     

    "I-I would rather die than letting you get this stone!", yelled Ellen as she casted another firework on the enemy's face. But this time it didn't work. The beast threw a punch at her tummy, knocking her down in one hit.

     

    "The stone... I can't..." Ellen did everything she could, she was on the ground. The emerald was thrown away several meters across her body. Seeing the girl is completely out of a fight, Neo-Metal-Sonic grabbed the stone and left without saying a word.

     

    "I'm... sorry... Seera..." Ellen muttered her best friend's word as she lost her consciousness.


  12. The greatest quality of Big in Archie comic is his simplicity. Unlike his total goofy counterpart in the games, Big works really well as a good natured guy, as opposed to those corruptable citizen of New Metropolis (Seeing them cheering for a serial killer-wizard to be a king and to drive away to sore city-protectinng AI is grating on my nerve.) The guy answers Sally that Nicole is a good person and that's all he cares, unknowingly ease her worry and bring a smile to this reader's face.

     

    I recently read "Pirate Plunder Panic". Blaze and Marine are really cool. Looks like a lot of things post genesis wave are really enjoyable.


  13. There are not many turn-based strategy games that capture my interest. Fire Emblem series is one of my favorite. The gameplay is very defined and it has very interesting setting. I love the characters' fashions, very inspiring for drawing.

     

    My favorite games are Seisen no Keifu and Sword of Seal. Seisen no Keifu is rather open-ended and very challenging when it comes to map designs and character departments. Sword of Seal, meanwhile, has interesting character types. Roy and his possible love interests are very likable.


  14. This is a good character. I like his vampire-like backstory and power, His conflict with Vesper is also interesting in that, while Twillight is minding his own business, he isn't immune to the greater evil bounded by jealousy and selfishness. Twilight's brooding and conflicting personality has a lot of potential to develop, especially if his love interest Lilac - a key person toward Twilight's mental stability - is properly handled. It would be great if there are more infomation about her in the future.

     

    The problem with the character and setting, in my opinion, however, is easily darkness induced. From the very start, the Shadows seem not a happy race. Twillight is constantly stalked by evil while he rejects any opportunity to have companions. His character's theme is that the world is ambiguous, and any interaction he makes to other people is irrelevent. ธherefore, it's hard to say there is a conflict between good/bad, but rather the actual theme is about a man's struggle to survive a harsh world.

     

    From this, it can be said that your ending remark "Perhaps life isn't as black and white as he thought" is ironic. Up until Twillight meets Lilac, there has not been any light in Twillight's heart. If there's anything Twilight learns from from his new experience, it's "Perhaps life isn't as empty and pointless". if such message is the core theme to his development, you can expands his character in many perspectives: fighting Vester, protecting the girl, gaining more friends and emotions, etc. This would make the character more realistic and likable.

     

     

    Though Twilight is immortal, his one glaring weakness is his heart ("core"). If his heart is destroyed, he is completely wiped out from existance. He cannot reform his heart. Once it is gone, he is dead. Better yet, it's as if he never even existed in the first place

     

    I have a feeling that being erased from existance is a bit overkill, especially if the story's about gaining experiences and ebracing humanistic qualities. There's a risk if he character is killed, everything about him will be loss, and the whole story will be pointless. As a fan character that isn't supposed to die very soon, this bit is also quite irrelevent to the character.

     

    Unless, of course, this is the whole point. maybe your theme is about not forgetting, or taking risk for the greater good. In such case, you need to be sure that, even if Twillight dies and he is erased from existance, what he has done will retained and remain meaningful. Such theme can creates an emotional star-cross lover story or something similar. It's all up to whether you can use his weakness as the plot point or not.

     

    All in all, this a good read. Keep up the good work. Like I said, I'll look forward to read about Lilac if you'll ever post about her.


  15. More PC games sounds fine to me. I don't have a lot of other consoles in my house anyway.

     

    If anything's gonna be affected, it'll probably be whether-or-not SEGA of Japan will give the American developers as much freedom as before Boom was released

     

    If the answer's yes, That's... questionable. I don't think the westerners, who don't know te source material throughly, can make the series go very far, especially when criticism in this franchire is very harsh. People talk all days about how Rise of Lyric was horrible, but nobody talked about Bioware's Sonic Chronicle being a rather good game.

     

    I'd dream of Archie making a Sonic game, though. More Knothole Freedom Fighter's appearances would be cool.


  16. Hotmail: I study in a university, so I need to check for a mail from the school.

    Youtube, I suspect I'm addicted and I tried to stop.

    Google (Search Image): I need more drawing examples, especially sonic-related pictures

    Mobius Encyclopedia: I sometimes want to do a research on the comic's characters.


  17. Name: Arek Powalan
    Age: 19

    Species: Rudian/Dog
    Gender: Male

    Alignment: Natural Good

    Occupation: Quest Hunter

     

    - Other Personal Information -

    Nickname: Kid

    Title: Rookie, Little Tank, Red Cyclone
    Date of Birth: January 1, 1970 (New Century Calender: Post-Super Genesis Wave, Planet Rudia)
    Date of Now: May 12, 1989
    Affiliation:

    1. Quest Hunter's Guild "Team Blue Stars" (member),

    2. Rebelion Force "AEGIS" (member),

     

    Hometown: Minerich, Republic of Nutopia, Eastern Mainland
    Residence: Blue Stars HQ (set on the edge of a small town called Avenburg. It is surrounded by nature)
    Social Class: Immigrant
    Economic Class: Middle

    Favorite Colors: Red, Blue, Yellow, Brown

    Favorite Books:

    1. My Little Human: Teamwork is Magic

    2. Grandpa Travis's Notebook

     

    Favorite Food:
    1. Milk (Flesh, Chocolate, Coffee)
    2. Pasta
     

    Hobbies & Talents:
    1. Trading cards: Likes to play multiple card games. He usually store some decks in his backpack in case of a duel.

    2. Toilet Cleaning: Due to the number of detention he has given from Seera, he claims himself to be a master toilet cleaner, much to his friends' disgust.

    3. Cooking: Has a good senses for taste and ingredients. Everything he can cook, he learnt it from his grandmother.

     

    - Appearance Information -

    Base: Shiba Inu, Doge

    Height: 2'6
    Weight: 29kg
    Skin Color: Yellow & White
    Hair Color: Black
    Eyes Color: Black
    Hair Style: Straight

    Motif: Red & Brown

    Attires:
    1. "Adventurer's Garb"
    Arek's initial attire is consisting of a white shirt under an unbuttoned brownish-red jacket; white shorts; a pair of red shoes; a short sword and a buckler. He also spots a friendship band on his right arm and at times a red baseball cap. When he's training, he's wearing 3-10kg black weighted clothes as well as 1-3kg armbands and boots.

     

    - Personality Information -

    Base: Hotblooded, confident, has strong sense of justice. Seek adventures and excitement in life. Though naive and tend to do and say without thinking

    Toward oneself: Empowered with hope and confident, but only as a facade to hide away his insucurity because, in actual, he lacks a lot of self worth and confident,

    Toward others: Pretend to smile a lot to keep other people's spirit up. Believe to live to protect others, so he can be overprotective and mope around when he fails to do so.

    Catch Phrases:
    1. "Crap."
    2. "I will never give up! I cannot give up!"

     

    - Relationship Information -

    Friends: Blue Stars' members, Lennart Bezzan (roommate)
    Martial Status: Single
    Love Interests: Celia Powalan (cousin), Ellen Ellen (colleague), Seera Bransford (boss)
    Rivals: Kain Richtor (Team Galeforce Flash)
    Enemies: Team Forza Aquila, Soutarn Government
    Known Family:
    1. George Harrison (father - deceased)
    2. Martha Harrison (mother - deceased)
    3. Travis Powalan (grandfather - 75 years old)
    4. Holly Powalan (grandmother - 74 years old)
    5. Edward Powalan (uncle - 41 years old)
    6. Celia Powalan (first cousin - 19 years old)

     

    - Battle Information 1 -

    Type: Power
    Elemental: Fire 50%
    Weakness: Ice 150%, Earth 125%

    Battle Stance: Sword & Shield: Tail Guard

    Weapons: 1-Handed Sword

    1. Short Sword
    Arek's first sword which was given by his uncle. It has a suitable length and weight for the boy, but it is proven ineffective in real battle due to the very limited range.

     

    Armor: Regular armor & shield

    .1. Friendship's Band
    Given by Celia as a sign of friendship, the 16 years old Arek grew a huge affection toward his cousin despite the culture's taboo against romances between first cousins. While his romantic approach failed meserbly, he still keep the yellow band on his left arm as a part of any custom he's wearing, as if to show his feeling toward Celia will always remain positve even though he has long moved on from his anguish.

     

    - Battle Information 2 -

    Strengths

    1. Quick Learning: As the old saying states: "The Red One Goes 3 Times Faster". While Arek doesn't have speed, he has an ability to adapt and gets stronger in short times if he has a good teacher.

    2. Guts: Due to his overwhieming willpower, Arek may get up even though he's been beaten down multiple times.

     

    Weaknesses
    1. Sluggish start - Comparing to other quest hunters, he is very weak. He has poor judgement and he isn't durable against danges. He starts getting better and become a jack-of-all-trade after a lot of proper training and better equipments, however.

     

    2. Emotional Breakdown: Though Arek is happy go lucky at most times, if someone insult his intelligence or hurt his friends, he may fall into an uncontrolable frency. The effects range from comical to disasterious as he may attack even his allies if they get in his way.

     

    3. Limited Range - Being shorter than average and using a short sword meaning that he has pathetic attacking range in a combat. While he later develops range skills, other fighters are better at attacking enemies from afar.

     

    Unique Skills
    1. Edward Combo - Deal 5 consecutive combo against one enemy, with the final blow dealt with an attempt to launch it to the air. Other combatants may use an opportunity when the target is stunlock midair to continue the combo.

     

    2. X-Slash: A combination with Seera Bransford. Both dash toward an enemt and deals simuternious damage as the slashes cause an X-shaped cut.

     

    - Background -

    Real name: Henry Harrison, Arek/Henry was born into a domestic familty where the father suffered from a mental illness. Not only the man frequently drink and hunt birds, he frequently abused his wife and being ignorant toward his son. Henry quickly grew hatred toward his father, not because of a personal mistreat  but because that the only person he loved was suffering and crying all the time because of the madman's wrath while he was powerless to do anything. Cooping with the boy being bullied at schools, Henry grew up a lonely kid.

    One day when he was 8, he met a young girl wearing a red hood and played together. The girl listened to his school problem and encouraged the boy to stand up against bullies. Her advice worked, perhaps too well. Henry stood up to his own father that night when the man became insane. He killed Martha and attempted to murders Henry, but the child acted in self-defense and accidentally killed George by turning his own knife against his stomach.

     

    Henry escaped the crime scene, blooded strained and broken. Travis found him in the forest. He then asked his wife, Holly, to perform a magic ritual to seal away Henry's "violent" personality and erase his memory of the incident. Henry's identity was replaced as the young boy "Arek Powalan" started a new life. He forgot everything reagrding the murders and got spared by the law, though he also forgot about the young girl in the red hood.

     

    Arek grew up in a happy hamily, with his grandfather and grandmother teaching him how to behave and respect others, thugh his life was still problematic when it came to schoolings and social interacting. Since 14, he was underdevelopped compared to his classmates and got teased by the schoolmates. His teachers didn't like him and usually punished him and put him into detentions. When he was 16, he fell in love with his own cousin. Not only the romance didn't work out as Celia already had a boyfriend, he was heavily teased and the adults were so disgusted that they marked the boy a delinquent.

    Eventually, he got retired from a high school at age 18, being accused for cheating at an entrace examination. Arek had enough of his hometown. He recalled his grandfather's story as a hero and decided to embark on a personal journey to follow the oldman's footstep and become a "real man". Good natured and optimistic about his new life, he trained himself as an honorable swordsman by strictly following grandfather's ideology and strifes to grow stronger in order to protect women and people he cares of.

     

    - Story-

    A month after his 19th birthday, Arek travels to the Continent of Eplis, Travis and Holly's homeland. He is then involved in a fight with bandits as he sees a young folower girl being attacked. He is quickly overwheimed and defeated, but his burning instinct wakes him up and beat the bandits down before he falls unconcious aagain. The girl, Ellen Ellen, takes him to guild Blue Stars's base, heal him back to health, and ask her boss, Seera Bransford to let the man join the team in order to compensate the team's lacking of members and to do a research on his inner strength.

     

    During the first two months with the team, Arek becomes desperate with the horrible state that is of Team Blue Stars. It currently ranks second-to-last in the official guild league, and the boy has never got to do a real quest hunter's mission. Complaining with the boss, he is scolded and driven out to the town to do some "mundane" jobs.

     

    At this time, he meets Kain Richtor, Seera's arch-rival, who mocks him for following the weakling such as Seera. As Richtor leaves, Arek finds a scouting request posted by Beowolf. Still annoyed by Ricthor, Arek decides to ignore Seera's order and take the request. Ellen overhears him talking, and insist to accompany him if he won't cancel his job.

    As per job's description, Arek and Ellen. have to scout for illegal loggers and bandits in order to report them to the police. During the session, however, they meet an unconcious woman. At the same time, a demonic mist covers the area and monsters start spawning the forest. Surrounded by the fiends, The team is saved by Seera, but the woman then gives him an angry stare since he's abanddoned her order and dragged her best friend into a danger. Nevertheless, the team escapes the forest with the mysterious girl. The team decides to take care of her as she is discharged from the town's hospital.

    Arek continues another month trying to win Seera's trust and gets himself into guild's active role. He stumbles upon the team's tragic past: the HM-01 incident. Four years ago, The team is nearly massacred in abandit ambush. Three guild members, icluding Seera's boyfriend, were killed in front of her, while Ellen was critically injured. Worst of all, the remaining members were tricked by Ricthor into betraying the team. Saddened by the experience, Seera closed her heart and insisted to protect her friends at all cost. She then relied only on safe and low paying jobs to maintain the household.

     

    Arek sympathises with the boss, but instead of conforming to Seera' rules, he strive to show that she's wrong for her decision. He marathons the "mundane" jobs fo two weeks and racks up 50 points for the team. He also recuits Cocona Bronx, a lynx who used to work with Richtor, and Lennart Bezzan, the speedy "justice thief", into the team. Seera realizes that she has been running from her past mistakes. She stands up and decldes to allow the team to do a grand quest. They succeed with the flying color, and, once and for all, Seera declares the end of her team's darkage.

    A month after, the political disturbance within the Capital City rises, and Seera's father, Doug, has been impriseoned by the governer. Eagered to know what's going on, she embarks alone into the castle's dungeon to save him. Arek, Ellenb, and the mysterious girl "Asna" whom the team saved furing the forest incident, follow her and aid her in the quest.

     

    The team successfully rescue Doug and is guided to the underground hideout belonged to the group of anti-government rebels, where the team are requested into joining the rebel group "AEGIS". Initially, Seera refuses, afraiding that the political conflict would ends up hurting her friends, but she quickly changes her mind when finds out the government funded guild "Forza Aquila" has already racksacked her base in attempt to kidnaps Asna and hurt some of the team's staff.

     

    For the rest of the year, Arek assists the team to battle Forza Aquila's assasins. He has no direct relationship with any event, but he does become an important force that allow the team to gain victories against the enemies. After 5 months, AEGIS defeats all of the corrupted governer's assasins and expose the man's evil deeds to the people. Finally, they defeats him and put him in the jail.

     

    At the end of the year, Blue Stars was awarded with 150 points from assisting the rebelion. The team ranks 5th out of 9. This appears an over achivement on the members' part, and the members all cried in joy as they have truly risen from the ashes. Later on, Arek ends up in a relationship with Ellen. He remarks the day the Blue Stars members having a lovely picnic at the base's backyard, telling jokes and laughing the most memoriable day in his life.

     

    Please give comments and feedbacks as you see fit.


  18. 1. Future GPX Cyber Formula:  A rare car-racing anime that is highly detailed, great actions and character developments

    2. Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!!: Toy racing based on real life hobby that is surprisingly realistic.

    3. JoJo Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Great actions and comedy, also very creative

    4. Nichijou: Comedy gold and lighthearted

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