Bouncing Ideas

[heroes never die]

I just thought maybe it'd be fun to have a little thread just to post ideas, get feedback and just talk about characters and plot and whatever you want.  

[heroes never die]

I've been sort of thinking up a zombie killer; I'm thinking a girl, born in the south, but that's really all I got. For now I'm trying to decide between Tennessee or Kentucky and if I should make her black or white. All I know for sure is that she likes machine guns, shotguns and cigars.  

[necrophagette]

Fffffffffffffff, I'm brain dead. Coming up with Cadell and his history was hard enough, and then I just got made fun of by Kevin a bunch for saying that soldiers were masculine. >.>  

[necrophagette]

I just need a place to brain storm and put info that I can check back on...

Okay, now I'm working on the Gang member for the RP. Kat and I decided we'd be the two tamer girls together... We're both Nymphs, basically, but I'm the undead Slavic version, or a Wila. I've been sort of debating between that and a Rusalka... and I might end up just sort of combining the two. I mean because why not? They're both the undead souls of unpure women after all. smile

Now I just have to NOT name her Lybutishka again...


You know, really, I could do a vodník and just have him be like Dyre... only evil... And Russian instead of Scandinavian... But because Nacken are way hotter than vodyanoy, he could still be from the Baltics, end up in some Slavic place or other and just CALL himself a vodyanoy...



The Scandinavian näcken, nøkken, strömkarlen, Grim or Fosse-Grim was a male water spirit who played enchanted songs on the violin, luring women and children to drown in lakes or streams.

It is difficult to describe the actual appearance of the nix, as one of his central attributes was thought to be shape shifting. Perhaps he did not have any true shape. He could show himself as a man playing the violin in brooks and waterfalls (though often imagined as fair and naked today, in actual folklore he was more frequently wearing more or less elegant clothing) but also could appear to be treasure or various floating objects or as an animal — most commonly in the form of a "brook horse". The modern Scandinavian names are derived from an Old Norse nykr, meaning "river horse." Thus, likely the brook horse preceded the personification of the nix as the "man in the rapids".

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Nixes are water spirits who try to lure people into the water. The males can assume many different shapes, including that of a human, fish, and snake. When they are in human forms, they can be recognized by the wet hem of their clothes. The Nixes are considered as malignant in some quarters, but as harmless and friendly in others.

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The vodyanoy can assume many different forms that enable him to deceive and trap his victims. He would appear in the shape of a handsome young man or a well-known person from the village. He is also said to hide during the day as a trout or an old salmon.

# The vodyanoy is essentially an evil and vindictive spirit whose passtime is to drown people. Anyone bathing after sunset, on a holy day, or without having first made the sign of the cross risks being sucked into the water by the vodyanoy.
# In Russia, he would drag down people to his underwater dwelling to serve him as slaves whereas in Czech tales drowned victims die and vodník stores their souls in porcelain cups which they consider valuable.  

[necrophagette]

In Croatian, "mora" refers to a "nightmare". Mora or Mara is one of the spirits from ancient Slav mythology. Mara was a dark spirit that takes a form of a beautiful woman and then visits men in their dreams, torturing them with desire, and dragging life out of them. Other Slavic names were nocnica, night woman, or ejjeljaro, night-goer.

In Germany they were known as mara, mahr, mare, in Romania they were known as Moroi. In Slavic countries the terms included mora, zmoras, morava and moroi; in France, such a witch was the cauchemar. Hungarian folklorist Éva Pócs traces the core term back to the Greek root moros, death.

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A strzyga (Polish pronunciation: [ˈstʂɨɡa]) is a kind of vampire in Slavic (and especially Polish) folklore. While still alive, the strzyga has two hearts and two souls, as well as two sets of teeth (one of which grows in normally). When such a person dies, only one soul gets passed on, and the other soul causes the deceased strzyga to come alive and prey upon other living beings.

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In Romanian mythology, strigoi (same form singular or plural) are the troubled souls of the dead rising from the grave. Though some strigoi can be living people with certain magical properties, the strigoi vii. Some of the properties of the strigoi include: the ability to transform into an animal, invisibility, and the propensity to drain the vitality of victims via blood loss.

A strigoaică (singular feminine form) is a witch. Strigoi are also known as "moroi". They are close relatives of the werewolves known as "pricolici" or "vârcolaci", the latter also meaning "goblin" at times.

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Nav, Navi, Navki, Navky, Novjaci, Nejky : Slavic malevolent spirits of the dead said to be the souls of people who died prematurely and tragically, including those of children who died at birth or of pregnant women who died violent deaths. Nav is also the Slavic name for the Underworld. It equates to the Norse's Niflheim or Nidhog, the Greek's Tartaros, and so on.

Alternate forms: Faraony, Majky, Mavje, Mavky, and Vodianiani.

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Siriny: Demi-animals and nature spirits, they assume the form of 'fish women' or mermaids. In name and character they seem related with the Greek Sirens.  

[necrophagette]

Lovtsevich = Hunter
Zabolotskoi = By The Swamp
Bolotnikov = Swamp Dweller
Bolotov = Of The Swamp
Treskin = Cod

Koniuskii = Equine
Bystraia Rybka = Quick Fish
Shchuka/Shchuchka = Pike
Pisk-Piscor-Piskun = Fish
Ryba/Rybka = Fish
Ptachek = Birdy
Kakmuzh = Like a Man
Britva = Razor  

[kakunikat]

i love what i have come up with for aiden so far.
quiet and well mannered with a seriouse temper when pushed. looks like a kid but is inhumanly strong!
im gunna have so much fun doing this with you carn! i cant wait to hear about everything alse you have come up with!  

[necrophagette]

I think I changed my mind and I'm thinking of doing a boy...

I just CANNOT find a picture I like...!!!  

[Lord Von Wolfe]

lol than should i do a girl  

[kakunikat]

I posted one in chat I think you might like... not that I know the character... just from the other pieces you had up there.  

[necrophagette]

Thanks, but I finally found one...


Edit:
Ugh, now I'm having trouble with my header!! It works in the forums, but not in the guilds??

☁
✧-.------------- ۶ -------------.-✧
Shchuka Bolotnikov
------Щука Болотников------
✩------------☂------------✩

IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS
but the closest I can get is this:

☁
۶
Shchuka Bolotnikov
Щука Болотников
☂

that's fine, I guess, but I spent a lot of time on the other one and it's very annoying that it won't work in the guilds!!

 

[necrophagette]

Sharlotka (Apple Charlotte)
Churek (flat Armenian bread with sesame seeds)
Medianyky (Honey Cookies)
Kompot (drink - dried or fresh fruit boiled with sugar)
Kisiel (sweetened juice, thickened with arrowroot)
Kolachki (sweet nut roll)
Borscht (Ukrainian beat soup)
Pörkölt (Hungarian meat stew)
Kalduny (tuffed dumplings made of unleavened dough)
Kvass (non-alcoholic, fermented drink from rye bread)
Shchav (sorrel leaf soup)
Kielbasa (sausage)
Bublik (similar to bagels)
Gogli (breakfast cream made egg yolks and sugar)
Kotleta po-kievski (Chicken Kiev)
Bigos (cabbage and meat stew)
Kapusta (cabbage stew)  

[Vengeful Elegance]

Is Mira a good name for a dragon?  

[Vengeful Elegance]

I'm having trouble with some details. I know Sky and Krysten are going to break up but I can't decide how much....involvement Krysten and Ezra should have with each other before she leaves Sky.

Krysten has been slowly realizing that she isn't in love with Sky anymore. They have been together for almost 3 years. She doesn't want to just randomly dump him because she would feel terrible about it. Also she doesn't want it to seem like she left him for Ezra.


I sort of have an idea. What do you guys think. Please be honest even if you think your opinion is mean.


Krysten and Sky get into a fight because Sky is....frustrated. (I don't want to put too much detail....PG-13.) He ends grabbing her arm when she is trying to walk away and slamming her into a wall so he can yell at her. She breaks up with him because of this.

Now Ezra (and, all of Krysten's male cousins) would want to beat the crap out of Sky for this, so she keeps the details to herself. She does still care about him.

After a few weeks Sky begs for forgiveness and swears it won't happen again. She takes him back because she wants to believe him. He had never laid a hand on her in anger before.

Almost immediately Sky accuses Krysten of cheating. She isn't cheating, but she wants to, and Sky knows it. He interrogates her until she gets angry enough to admit that she kissed Ezra while they were broken up. (She leaves out the fact that it was more than once.)Sky considers this cheating.

The argument gets even more heated. She decides that she has had enough and tells him that it's over, for good. He doesn't want to hear it and, again, slams her into a wall. This time she tries to fight back and pushes him. He grabs her wrists and holds them against the wall, screaming at her. When she tries to call for help he smacks her and covers her mouth. This goes on for quite a while.

sooo.....she leaves him for good, and when she is no longer traumatized ends up with Ezra.  

[heroes never die]

bumping this so some of the info I need is easier to find XD