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To Zanarkand - Electronic Remix
Wyatt's Torch - Immediate Music
Burn It Down - Linkin Park
Zanarkand was a vicious, mischievous, vengeful and murderous dragon back in his old days of glory. Never had he found someone who could stand against his powers among those of his own age, and often he ended up fighting against those who wanted to prove themselves better. Often he killed his enemies out of sheer anger.
Quiet, overall a secluded guy. He doesn't like fighting, nor does he want to be involved into conflicts when his presence is unneeded. Soft spoken, he keeps to himself for the most part.
He doesn't like violence anymore, and strives to bring peace to those around him.
To his friends, he becomes more open and warm, much less introverted and sometimes even comes to confessing his fears to those really close to him.
Still, he kept a little spark of anger and urge to kill when his family or friends are endangered.
As a Sacred Eastern Dragon, Zan was born with powers that go far beyond the imagination of a simple mortal. One of those powers was, for example, the ability to bring back to life those who had died. Another one of his powers was being able to turn water into blood, something that he was used to do when he had killed one of his nemesis.
After years of mischief and three or four deaths caused by him, the Council of the Sacred Dragons finally took the decision. They deprived him of almost all of his powers, degrading him from Sacred to Common dragon. The only few abilities that he was left were his shapeshifting ability, but with the limit of shifting only into a half-human creature, and his flying ability, but this one was strictly limited too: only when he did a good deed he would be granted a hour of free flight, before being chained to the ground again.
Banished from his homeland and the dimension where the Sacred Ones lived, he had nothing more than roam into the realm of the living, to settle somewhere and either plot his revenge or find a way to live a fairly 'normal' life.
In one of his travels, he heard about a couple about to go to a certain “Glory City”, and while eavesdropping them he found out that this city was the place where whoever had a dream should have gone. He hid in the luggage of a tourist (as a small dragon) and flew to Glory City, fleeing as soon as he arrived.
Unlike he imagined, the city wasn't as special as people spoke, it was just a normal city divided, unlike the others, into sectors. Even angrier, but hopeless, he decided to stick there for a little while and try to find a way to get by.
In the sector named “Middle” by the citizens, he involuntarily lured with his tail a little girl into the street where he was hiding.
Weirdly enough, the little girl, named April, managed to soothe his soul a bit and he felt comfortable enough to follow her in her home.
April, with her brother agreement, forced Zan to stay at their place until he found an apartment of his own. Zanarkand was, still, a pretty sharp tongued and mischievous dragon by that time, but the months she spent with April shaped him into a better dragon, and person. And thus Zan's search for a job started.
In his second month in Glory City, when he was already starting to change for the better, he met April's little friend and a few of Joey's friends: Mac, Riley, Ares and Adrian.
During this month also, for the very first time he did a good deed, by helping a homeless man in the Labyrinth.
[...Spoils his story like hell...]
He has swore to always help those in need the day he had his own life saved.
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Humanoid reference with a shit ton of more backstory and useless informations about Zan.
He really grew on me ;; so much that I have his whole backstory planned and written fffffuuuuuu.
Oh well :I can't always make stories out of everything or can I?
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Zanarkand, Glory City and art © *NeonMars / Martina Gugnoni (aka Martina Cresta)
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Comments: 29
Giiana [2012-12-06 15:19:26 +0000 UTC]
I started reading this and I realized that ZAN REMINDS ME A LOT TO CANAVAN! (one of my characters ) O___O
ODSFDSÑUIGDSFIS *starts to fangirl out
I have to upload his reference, they don't look like so much, but their past is kind of...similar.
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pandalecko In reply to Giiana [2012-12-06 21:06:35 +0000 UTC]
POST THAT GUY, CANAVAN, I WANT TO SEE HIM NOW SKJHSDJSDf.
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Giiana In reply to pandalecko [2012-12-06 23:32:05 +0000 UTC]
I have some pictures of him. OLD PICTURES. DON'T GO TO LOOK AT EM. ARE OLD. YOU WILL SEE WHEN I HAVE UPLOADED THE REF XDD
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DimlorMeister [2012-06-07 23:19:08 +0000 UTC]
LET'S BAN "NOPE" SIGNS :C.
Other than that, nice color palette and shirt <3.
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jeany545 [2012-06-05 19:18:24 +0000 UTC]
One thing that I'm seeing now (Blame my paw thing), on his humanoid form, his left foot, the foot shape is of a triangle. But one of the toes is far to the side, and on the other side, the other 3 toes are in another shape, so it would look like a primate foot owo
And I think I've seen you do this on other drawings, so I thought I should have written something about it. But my memory is really crappy today, so I don't know |D
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Kidd-The-Flounder [2012-06-02 01:52:46 +0000 UTC]
Dr. Manhattan reference. Someone make one. Quickly.
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PatiLee [2012-06-01 16:40:59 +0000 UTC]
I see... Purple!
I wonder... How he managed to put his pants on...
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pandalecko In reply to PatiLee [2012-06-01 16:59:51 +0000 UTC]
I need to draw him backwards so that I can show xD
Though his jeans are pretty low and his tail starts rather high on his rear. It's... difficult to explain oh god. Drawing it would be easier xD
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Mirminay [2012-06-01 16:37:37 +0000 UTC]
He's such a cutie, even when he did bad stuff earlier, he still is a good boy. Also his hair in human form üfüelefr.
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pandalecko In reply to Mirminay [2012-06-01 16:38:18 +0000 UTC]
He wasn't such a cutie when he was a bastard, trust me xD
His hair his hair his hair skhskjd.
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Mirminay In reply to pandalecko [2012-06-01 16:57:50 +0000 UTC]
Oh yes, I can believe that. o3o
hair hair hair hair hair /touch
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V0LTAGES [2012-06-01 16:16:37 +0000 UTC]
a question: if he, for example, did a good deed, and he won't fly, and after a week, he's done another good deed, can he fly for 2 hours or just one? o3o like the first one 'expired'?
Also, he's amazing. Is he tall or not? o3o
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pandalecko In reply to V0LTAGES [2012-06-01 16:24:25 +0000 UTC]
The first one expires, he can't add hours just by not flying right after he has done a good deed, unfortunately.
Thanks ;v; He'd be 6'0'' as a humanoid, 6'3'' as a dragon.
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xJoeTheNinja [2012-06-01 16:13:35 +0000 UTC]
I demand that censor be removed. 8|
he looks pretty nifty.
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jeany545 [2012-06-01 16:11:13 +0000 UTC]
Extremely detailed, I like it
Also, I've been thinking of doing what you did, make a world where all my characters are staying... I would mix it with my Novel world, since it needs some caring after the novel... destruction...
Also, I find it really interesting the good deed thing... bubbles and ability to fly, like if it pays off, nice owo
And I didn't read it all, but I see the story is very large, is he on a story you're developing?
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pandalecko In reply to jeany545 [2012-06-01 16:18:03 +0000 UTC]
I'm going to update most of my Glory City characters in the next weeks/months, so that the whole city and characters blend well together.
And well, at first it started as a way to keep my characters organized, but now it's more of a story of its own ._. I mean, the City is the shell that makes all of the stories and lives of many of my characters intertwine at some point.
As he was degraded from Sacred to common, he was also cursed by the council when they deprived him of his powers. The only way he has to get a little bit of power back is by doing a good deed, and the only thing he can get back is his ability to fly, but then again, only for one hour.
Uhh... I even had to cut many parts from the original script |D or else it would have been large as hell.
But yes, Glory City is growing as a story of its own more or less. It's in the development stage, but for now my priorities go to other things.
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jeany545 In reply to pandalecko [2012-06-03 22:25:12 +0000 UTC]
I only have 2 parts into a story city, one is a band I'm making into the city, which could end up being something completely different AND the other are the characters themselves visiting after my novel time... I think it was something else, I forgot, gotta write those down
And cool story, sis there, I guess they took his powers away cuz' he was evil before owo
Shit, it must be really long |D I really gotta write my novel down, or just get the city ahead, you give me inspiration for that
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Flips-a-PuddleSplash [2012-06-01 16:06:16 +0000 UTC]
Omg. He so cute. I really like his background story to him (It's not shitty! D: ), it seems like you put a lot of time and effort into it~ Which I love seeing. And if he was in his dragon form, I wouldn't be afraid, I would be petting him xDD
And I really love those feathers >w>
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pandalecko In reply to Flips-a-PuddleSplash [2012-06-01 16:08:31 +0000 UTC]
Most of my character background stories are clichè or sad as hell XD
But thanks <3 I really did put lots of effort in the character.
LOL you can touch the feathers |D
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Flips-a-PuddleSplash In reply to pandalecko [2012-06-01 16:11:07 +0000 UTC]
You always do That's one of why I always read these, it always has a good read in it. And you aren't afraid to make it sad as hell
Like some writers <_> Including my- wait never mind. An-nd I can?! *Pets the purdy feathers* owo Soft...~ xD
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pandalecko In reply to Aurora-Silver [2012-06-01 16:07:44 +0000 UTC]
I wanted to write something else but the chibi wasn't large enough to write it ;AAAA;
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