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Description Sorry for the small picture size. ;;

It was a (old.. and recently refurbished) sketch so I colored it likewise. However, along the way, I felt like adding all sorts of effects so now she's in the middle of spell-casting a powerful spell, a spell only known to her as she wrote it herself. Originally, she was laying down (or floating.. but changed it through the editing) on some.. pavement and planned to have effects that didn't involve casting.

This is Arla, one of the characters from my original story called Time_Less. Unlike the main cast(s) from several stories, she's a background character (for the time being) whose story and efforts led to create their world that it is today.

If I remember her story correctly..
Arla was entrusted with the [1st will] of Mother Nature and Father Time. As a seemingly meager and insignificant being at the time, she was unsure of her fate, but with her beloved- Flasia, they were able to complete the journey and pave a new era. In legends, she's known to have began her journey with clean, white locks and ended with several locks stained in crimson. Supposedly, that represented the sins of [man] and her "sacrifice" bore that. Additionally, her robes are often adorned with white, red, and the occasional gold (only through well-adorned representations of her- any existing verified recordings/scriptures noted little of her appearance bearing gold ornaments). Due to her efforts to prepare and activate the [1st will] accordingly, her accomplishments allowed the world to be able to birth a system where subsequent malignant, unnatural disasters that could potentially ruin the world could be prevented.

Presently, the world's facing several major crises enough to force the [6th will] and [7th will] will to take place at the same time at the cost of creating several irregularities in the process.


That's all for the back story~
While it's a sketch.. it's still pretty radiant ahaha.
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Comments: 59

kariavalon In reply to ??? [2011-01-17 20:15:53 +0000 UTC]

Haha I sometimes have trouble figuring out the words I want to say too. xD
But thank you very much for commenting!

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Tobios-Art In reply to kariavalon [2011-01-17 20:24:57 +0000 UTC]

realy ou i was thinking im the only one
no problem

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Celestialess [2011-01-14 19:02:33 +0000 UTC]

Omg wow O_O <33333

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kariavalon In reply to Celestialess [2011-01-17 20:15:27 +0000 UTC]

Thank you~ C:

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CCChocolat [2010-09-07 01:06:18 +0000 UTC]

Oh, wow! Beautiful coloring! I love it!

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kariavalon In reply to CCChocolat [2010-09-07 04:18:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you~!

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CCChocolat In reply to kariavalon [2010-09-10 04:03:20 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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leeviii [2010-09-05 07:59:54 +0000 UTC]

brilliant colours ;u;

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kariavalon In reply to leeviii [2010-09-06 17:52:46 +0000 UTC]

Thank you~! >w<

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jeccae [2010-09-05 05:12:34 +0000 UTC]

so colorful and yet so sad...
TT^TT <(SO BEAUTIFUL! )

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kariavalon In reply to jeccae [2010-09-06 17:53:07 +0000 UTC]

Uwaa thank you very much~!

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jeccae In reply to kariavalon [2010-09-06 18:00:53 +0000 UTC]

ur welcome!

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Fiveonthe [2010-09-05 02:07:49 +0000 UTC]

Colours are wonderful ^^

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kariavalon In reply to Fiveonthe [2010-09-06 17:52:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you~

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Hakkou [2010-07-14 18:33:05 +0000 UTC]

AHA Off of my lazy butt time.

Dx I love all the detail you put into this oooone. Araaaaa

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kariavalon In reply to Hakkou [2010-07-15 02:41:32 +0000 UTC]

I still like this one myself. xD
I guess it was a good thing that I left the sketch to rot for 2-3 years before I came back and fixed it up again ahaha.

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Hakkou In reply to kariavalon [2010-07-15 04:47:04 +0000 UTC]

It's like... freaking epic and colorful...

If I draw our .hack peeps would you color them? D=

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kariavalon In reply to Hakkou [2010-07-15 05:14:11 +0000 UTC]

Sure oAo~~!! I would like to do that!

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Hakkou In reply to kariavalon [2010-07-16 22:13:37 +0000 UTC]

KEWL. I must start on it. Any requests? o=

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kariavalon In reply to Hakkou [2010-07-17 08:08:34 +0000 UTC]

Ah.. I don't have a request in mind except for the inclusion of my character somewhere, even if it's tiny (just so I can spam the orange and green hahaa ;; ).

Otherwise, help yourself with whatever you're in the mood to draw. xD

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WingedDream [2010-04-29 04:11:55 +0000 UTC]

incredible colors your artwork has grown a lot from the FDD days lol. Beauuuuuuuutiful!!!!!!!

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kariavalon In reply to WingedDream [2010-05-03 02:42:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

Wow, you still remember the time when I was active in FDD? That's quite a long time~! *and apparently does not remember very many people from it* owo

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WingedDream In reply to kariavalon [2010-05-03 03:01:08 +0000 UTC]

LOL yea I still remember!!!! XD it feels like it has been forever though

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LadyMasterRyuEiri [2010-03-01 08:32:52 +0000 UTC]

Cool!

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Gosen406 [2010-02-24 23:09:34 +0000 UTC]

OwO Epic picture is epic! Amazing work! Its so full of color and awesomeness XD I love it!

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kariavalon In reply to Gosen406 [2010-02-25 01:42:46 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Haha, sometimes the colors gives out a bit of magic to make the piece come alive. <3

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Gosen406 In reply to kariavalon [2010-02-25 01:45:15 +0000 UTC]

X3 No prob! Yeah ^^

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xCalee [2010-02-23 20:15:05 +0000 UTC]

I love the colorrs <3

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kariavalon In reply to xCalee [2010-02-25 01:42:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you~ <3

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wk-omittchi [2010-02-21 00:16:29 +0000 UTC]

beatifull! great effects!

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kariavalon In reply to wk-omittchi [2010-02-21 03:52:13 +0000 UTC]

Thank you~! >w<

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winghay [2010-02-20 21:06:53 +0000 UTC]

lol jeez this really popped out for a sketch lol. nicely done kari ^3^V

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kariavalon In reply to winghay [2010-02-21 03:53:15 +0000 UTC]

It did surprisingly! It wasn't popping out very well until I started doodling the magic-words-effects all over her outfit haha. 8D

Thank you~!

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Beastiewolf [2010-02-20 08:05:29 +0000 UTC]

Wow. o.o
This is very different from what we see of you! It's got your patented colorific-ness, but it's also got a very stylized look to it- sort of graffiti like.
Wonderful use of color, though. It does look very spell-bounding. ^^
One thing though: Her legs look a little awkward. o.o Maybe it's because (like you said) she was originally laying down/floating, but they look a little uncomfortable.

Overall, lovely piece. :3

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kariavalon In reply to Beastiewolf [2010-02-20 08:38:01 +0000 UTC]

Indeed, her legs does look awkward from that position and does look a bit uncomfortable if she was to remain stationary like that for a period of time. xD The original pose wasn't very cooperative so I ended up copping out with this instead.

The other bits of unrevealed backstory could explain why she's in a position such as that, probably (from thereon, I'm going to make up a reason why xD). Due to her decision to fulfill her role, she more or less got stuck in a temporal stasis as her role acts as an opener than to close the case. Uhh.. in other words, she's kind of bound and her situation after the legend because the system more or less just bandages the whole disaster than to wholly remedy it. For now, the lower half of her body's still in that stasis but as she's awake (or something.. I don't know yet), the temporal stasis is slowly melting and could therefore slowly recover her functioning.

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Beastiewolf In reply to kariavalon [2010-02-20 08:50:04 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it'd make since if you explained it like that. XD
If this was a flow of movement, though, I guess I can see her legs getting into that position at some point.

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kariavalon In reply to Beastiewolf [2010-02-20 09:08:34 +0000 UTC]

Either way, it's still doesn't change uncomfortable and that she's stuck like that for a long while. xD;

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Beastiewolf In reply to kariavalon [2010-02-20 10:33:45 +0000 UTC]

That's true. XD

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Beastiewolf In reply to Beastiewolf [2010-02-20 08:50:23 +0000 UTC]

I meant sense- FFFF.

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Metalraptor [2010-02-20 03:57:49 +0000 UTC]

Looks great! ^_^

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kariavalon In reply to Metalraptor [2010-02-20 04:42:39 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Raakone [2010-02-19 14:05:23 +0000 UTC]

Beyond amazing!

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kariavalon In reply to Raakone [2010-02-19 19:48:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Inarispellborn [2010-02-19 13:30:04 +0000 UTC]

Lovely hair and pose... All those 6th and 7th will and so on reminds me of budhism, with all the many incarnations of Budha.

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kariavalon In reply to Inarispellborn [2010-02-19 17:29:22 +0000 UTC]

Oh my, that's a interesting observation! I had never thought about beliefs like Buddhism while developing and designing that system. owo

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Inarispellborn In reply to kariavalon [2010-02-19 18:24:16 +0000 UTC]

Oh, well... there aren't many ways of explaining the creation of a world without sounding silly. You would end up getting close to one religion or another...

Either way, it sounds cool, do you know how your story will be pictured? comics, animation, romance...

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kariavalon In reply to Inarispellborn [2010-02-19 19:48:24 +0000 UTC]

That's a reasonable and believable explanation. Incidentally, many story-based belief systems tend to have some sort of influence from a existing one whether it's intended or not.

Embarrassingly, I originally pictured Time_Less as a series of RPG games or had a progression like one. xD However, other mediums aren't out of the picture since it's more than likely to occur more than a RPG altogether. I'm not sure how long I can commit to a comic of the story though.. but that's interesting to endeavor and could easily cover some of the shorter, character-centric scenarios and backstories. Animation's also rather unlikely because I have little patience in that medium. Romance? There's certainly some romantic nuances in the story.. but not all of the characters are driven by that, but that doesn't disqualify the potential of it occurring to unlikely characters.

For now, because of the story's in development (it's more solid than previously at least), I think illustrations and some literature blurbs will tell some of the story for the time being. =]

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Inarispellborn In reply to kariavalon [2010-02-20 00:53:42 +0000 UTC]

I know what yaa mean, I guess I had many stories for multiple medias that I simply couldn't afford to continue. Right now, my main work is the Aria rpg book, aka FeyWars, but every now and them I work on parallel stuffs too.

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kariavalon In reply to Inarispellborn [2010-02-21 04:01:37 +0000 UTC]

I'm trying to juggle my stories around and other activities (such as CE).. but I've been making little progress for each due to that haha.

I look forward to more concept work and art from your main project and other projects~ =]

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Inarispellborn In reply to kariavalon [2010-02-21 04:11:13 +0000 UTC]

I've got a bunch of class reference material to post... but I'm not in the mood to photoshop them xD

I'm also looking forward for your art concerning both your scenario and CE! I wanna see your outfit meme too!

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