Hi all, a good Sunday afternoon! It's warm, sunny and the sounds of sweet summer are filtering through to my apartment. I so love watching the sunrises and sunsets at this time of year....they always remind me of impressionist paintings. So lovely...I even find myself getting up a little extra early....and 7 am is early for me...*laughs*, just to watch the cool morning sun.
So, I did this little bit of short fiction writing for something I saw on another blog,
Imagine, Create, Write! , which I love to visit and read. I always leave feeling so inspired. She was holding a "Create a female superhero" flash fiction writing contest....which was such a great idea. Comics could use more strong female superheros. I didn't get my entry done on time as is was on one of the hottest days and I just could not stand my apartment, which reached over 100 degrees, so, I avoided my laptop like the plague. I still wanted to post it and share it with all of you, though.
I used a mechanical pencil and three different sizes of burnishing tools to buff and smooth the pencil lines and to add some small details I used a white ink pen. I didn't have quite enough time to finish the back ground, as I thought I could still make the deadline at 3 minuets left. (Nope...got too involved with the background. Heehee) So, the background is digital. I used some stock images, from where I can no longer remember where I got from, but it suited her nicely and finished it up in CorelDRAW. This, in all, took me about a week to do. Which is rather quick for me.
Name of Female Superhero: Dark Star
Name of Human Alter Ego: Amnesia December
Superhero Appearance: Same as Human appearance.
Human Alter Ego Appearance: A young woman of 18 who stands at six feet tall. Her hair is long and shiny black with a slight wave to it ans she wears half of it up in two small buns with short kiddie bangs. Her eyes are white with little pink flecks in them that turn blood red when angry. Her skin is has pale and white as bleached bone and an icy skin temperature.
Costume: Black lace corset, black pants and a long black hooded cape. She also has a set of black crow wings.
Personality: Aloof, strong, sarcastic, yet is soft and kind deep in her heart, honest, intelligent
A Brief description of how the super heroine gets her powers: She's a dampyre or half vampire. She has no memory of where she has come from, who she really is or who or even how she came to be cursed as a halfling. She does suspect that she has always been this way, however. She simply awoke one evening on the floor of an abandoned hospital floor, the entire town where she lived, all mysteriously murdered.
Powers: Can throw her blood into multiple flying razor blades. Can fly with crow wings from her back, which disappear when not in use. She is also telekinetic and can move things or break things simply by glaring at them. She can summon fire with a snap of her fingers and direct it at her attackers. She uses a long silver sword that she acquired from a sword master in Wales. She can also sing a siren's song to hypnotize those around her.
Anything Else Important: She fights all sorts of underworld creatures to find a cure of the illness before it consumes her, body and soul. Leaving her a full vampire. She has a haunted past and a very haunted presence. To solve the mysteries of her past and find those who broke her, she will have to search far and wide before looking to the clues of things beyond her own grave.
Moonlit Sonata
Moon. Bright, beautiful, pale, red moon. Moon...floating
softly, serenely through the dark starless sky.
Enchanting moon. Making
everything drunk with rapture as her ice chilled, luminous fingers of bare
light caresses every inch of the dark earth within her grasp. Even me, as I alight upon the highest tower
possible, in this country that is awash with endless neon orange artificial
lights, spilling out, and stretching eternally away below my feet into the
pitted black of the distant night. Just
the wind, the glorious, fat golden moon and me.
Cherry blossoms, with their blushing faces, whirl exquisitely past me, away
to their dusty death in the cool spring air.
Just the wind, the moon, the blood-drunk cherry blossoms and me. Ah! How
sweet is the smell of fresh, new spring!
I stand, gazing dreamily up in reverence at this
glowing, pocked marked rock that has served as my false sun for the last few
hundred years. Its soft light shines
down upon me, illuminating those odd, night eyes, causing them to glow
unnaturally green like a cat. The moon is as bone white and dead as I, although,
it is not a monstrous, dark thing as I. If anyone dares but wonder the kind of
creature that I subsist as, I am a Dampyre; or a half vampire. How I came to be this way, I do not know. Some of my kind, who are proud to be what they are, prefer the
term Lilin, Dark Prince Charming or Strix over using the term “Dampyre”. The sound is far less vulgar, and threatening,
making it a great deal more elegant, as well as exquisitely beautiful. Nothing scares off a potential prey more than
saying that you are “Dracula” when they ask what you are, before you kill them. Akin to most of my kind, my looks are
charmingly deceptive. A cunning, vicious wolf wrapped in a fine human
skin. Most human beings construct us to
be genuinely ugly, repulsive, senseless devouring fiends. Salivating, drooling and stupid just waiting
to eviscerate the next human to cross our path, also, for some odd reasoning,
extremely hairy. I myself, hate overly hairy things, I find body hair
particularly repulsive. Hence, my deep
hate for the Werewolves, which have far too much for my liking. This human folklore about us I find extremely
funny, as do most of us. For if, we actually looked like some horrid, inhuman
demon, how would we lure the leery into our pretty web? No one human would dare trust us, let alone
come even a foot near us. Who would trust a monster that truly appeared to be
one? Armed and dangerous, but only to those weak enough to trust our carefully
lying eyes.
The moonlight tracing and retracing the cut of my
figure, fresh evening air caresses my skin, sending my carefully coiffed, long
black hair dancing madly around me. The
sudden gust caught and blew free some of the coal black feathers on my exposed,
lone wing, on my right side. I lost the
other in a violent battle many years ago...but that...is an entirely different
story. I watch as they drift slowly down
into the blinking lights below.
Wondering if they sent a signal to the other Lilin’s, that a foreign night walker
had entered their territory. All the
little feathers I shed are singing, as are all the other night things. I can hear them, singing to the moon of all
shapely newness.
I pause
atop Tokyo Tower in Japan; my ardent search has shepherded me here. I stand,
unkempt waiting for some strange reaction. To what, I do not even know myself. Gifted with wings, albeit only one, in
addition to being able to travel at an inhuman speed, I arrived here in only a
day from my home in Wales. Ah!
Japan! A city of buzzing neon lights,
noise, contradictions and offerings of every pleasurable temptations and
delights ever imagined; all under the rising crimson sun. All exists here. From the most sadistic, Hellenistic acts, to
the annoyingly fluffy, cute and pure.
Here on this tiny spit of land, is where tradition and the freaky,
anime-fuelled pop-culture collided seamlessly together. The smell
of the mortal beings rises up to me like vapours, making me dizzy, hungry and
angry. Angry knowing that I came here
not to taste, or hunt, however to end my pursuit. I have travelled this far, to
this place to find my death or the cure of the illness that eats at me. My
beautiful, final death. There comes a
time in every Lilin’s life, where they become life weary. The constant night, in and out of boredom, the
loneliness that wells up and crushes what little is left of the soul, tired of
the hell we achieve by our own brutal acts upon ourselves and the human lives
we touch. Weeping as the past falls away
without footprints to follow back upon and our future always the same as the
century before, immortal life soon feels like a cancer, eating away what little
human remains in us; until life is like a hollow ledge with a little tepid pool
left there by the sea, dying inward from the edge. When we reach that point, we long for death to
take us away upon its dusty wings, and feel the thrill of something different
happening to our bodies.
Oh wow! That took a lot of writing....but very good practice. I haven't created a female superhero in a long time. It was fun! And I hope fun to read, albeit, a little macabre. I don't normally go for vampires as they are everywhere these days, but I couldn't resist just this once.
Thank you for reading my lovely bloggie friends! Wishing you a happy creative week! Cheers!
