An · Erraich

I want to start out by saying that Sess/Kag offends everything in me that is good and true. Not only are you assraping the Inuyasha/Kagome relationship, which is a beautiful example of pure and true love, and acceptance in it's most basic form, of loving someone because you love them, not because the world will think it's ok, or because it's easy, but because you were meant for each other...

It also assrapes the Sesshoumaru/Rin relationship, which is a beautiful example of growth, of understanding, of unadulterated and unabashed adoration, of learning to accept that things aren't always the way you thought they were, and that sometimes fate knows what's best for you.

Yuck. Ick. Ptooey. I know tarkheki feels me here. Right?

Have my ecology final tomorrow morning. I have studied quite the bit, and once again, feel fairly ready...of course, that didn't help me much the last two times, so we'll just have to see what happens. Maybe Tellkamp will take pity on us for the final. At least it's not cumulative. ::shudders::

In other news...

For a long time, I've had an original story in my head, which I've wanted very much to write, but have felt that I owed it to the characters and the readers to finish things like Heir To My World and Falling Into Grace first. Still, it's never left my head.

Maybe some of you know the hippogryph myth. Gryphon and Horse are supposed to be mortal enemies, yet the Hippogryph comes from the union of these two. This has always intrigued me for several reasons, many of which you can all probably guess. One: The half-breed effect. Like Dante and D and Inuyasha and Soren before him, the Hippogryph is trapped between two worlds. Two: Forbidden and possibly tragic love against all odds. Duh.

Of course, these are generally animals, which was something I had worried about for sometime. How to make it not weird! Ta dah! Leave it to Arwen to save me. I decided, and asked permission, to model them after her characters, Tempest and Tsunami, whom are Pegusus and Unicorn, respectively, but whom have generally human features. See Here for Tempest and Here for Tsunami. Please take note that both characters are quite nekkid, in an artistic and tasteful way, and don't click if you don't wanna see the parts. You can always just go to http://www.arwenart.com or http://arwen-herself.deviantart.com and browse the galleries, although you're not likely to see anything that's as "descriptive" as the character pages...

Anyway! I want to model them off that...I hope to someday do a two story series, one about the Gryphon and Mare, the other about their son, the Hippogryph. Before that day, though I'll need to pin Arwen down somehow and see if she has any advice about how to do the beaks on the gryphs...that's the only part that's bothering me. Full on beak, like Brooklyn from "Gargoyles"? (Well, he is my favourite character!) Or more like a "nose beak" like the Rito race from The Lengend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. (Well...Zelda does rock hard!) Something else entirely? Hmmm....
I'm also wondering about putting bird claws for the gryphs' hands. I think it may be necessary. And very possibly quite badass. XD

Anyway, I am thinking on this just now because, in my search for a name for my Suikoden V hero, I ended up on a welsh baby names website ( I found out that 'Howell' means "alert one". Psh. Howl's parents wish. XD) Anyway, I stumbled across this name: Gryphin. Now, I think this would be an awesome name for the Hippogryph. Sure, it seems obvious at first, but the thing is, that though there is also a welsh name, "Gryphon", which means the mythological beast, that spelling, Gryphin, means instead, "strong in faith." This strikes me for two reasons: one, the sound of the name is a reminder of who he is and where he comes from, rather like how Inu no Taisho named his son "Inuyasha" which of course means "Dog Demon". But at the same time, I like the "faith" meaning. It seems like sort of a prayer from his parents that he will be well, and that the world will change and accept him. I've been enamoured with it ever since. ^^

Finally, I got ADVENT CHILDREN TODAY!! Sephrioth is a GOD. And I would want to have Vincent's babies, but I guess that's probably a sore subject with him. Still, I settle for humping his leg. ^^ Vincent=SO PRETTY. And, I have a heterosexual girlcrush on Tifa. Whee.

I especially love when Sephiroth gets his wing, and is all, "I won't ever be just a memory" and then wraps himself up in it and disappears. And Crispin Freeman!Rude and Quinton Flynn!Reno were totally the New Dynamic Duo. Waaaaaiiiii.