#dancing-hands

Mother's day isn't for another few weeks.

-Dancing-Hands's mother was, in her younger years, an imperial guard as they were investigating the Kami rifts during the Era of Enlightenment with the Jukai's help. After the creation of the Merge gates, she married a kitsune of the Jukai she had worked with, who later became Dancing-Hands' father. She was the one to initially introduce Dancing-Hands to origami, but their relationship didn't fare too well along the years. His parents had very little authority on Dancing-Hands come his forties, and she regrets what happened to him. They've met again since and she knows he's alive, but it's been tough to rebuild things.

-Arnoss didn't have a singular "mother", that's not how the Family's typically raises children, he was under the care of all the adult Beldruns. As far as biological parents, he's never met his mother (at least he doesn't think so), his egg was bought from another family that couldn't support any more Ghavaleks. This is also not uncommon in the Family between caravans that trust each other.

-Nyrhen's mother was incredibly proud of her boy, even if he didn't do anything particularly glamorous or important. He was always Perfect to her eyes. Also she was a Lorwyn elf, so, y'know, the baggage that comes with that. Weapon-carver, some of which were deemed worthy of being used by Perfects.

-Farell's mom is Lady Leana Javori, born Bassola. She's cunning, positive, and confident. She's well-versed in politics and etiquette. She uses them as she needs to, but isn't fond of what comes with it, so she sometimes ignores convention when she thinks they're wrong.

Her birth name is an old, powerful and respected one on Fiora, and she very much married under her station when she did a newly ennobled merchant and had to give up her name for his when she did. She further mudded her name by carrying to term a bastard child from a shapeshifter who tricked her, and giving him her birth name. Despite the events of that night, she loves Farell just as much as she does her human children. She encouraged Farell into finding his own way, to be proud and keep his head high. The aristocracy may see him as lesser, but it's their loss if they underestimate her eldest son.

-Vaalin's mother was killed during the current phyrexian invasion, so he's still processing that, especially considering he had to keep working after learning of her death, alone in his head for long periods of time. She was a Vodalian merfolk from the Volshe caste, a mathematician, who had briefly studied at Tolaria (of the Depths). She joined a diplomatic mission to the surface world and met Vaalin's father, a human, there. She laid Vaalin's egg not too long after coming back from that year-long expedition. Knowing the xenophobic caste system underlying Vodalian society would be very harsh on a half-human, she sought refuge for her and her child in Tolaria's waters, where minds were more progressive.

Alright, let’s say a few words on the core cast.

Anedia would likely take traits after her spellbugs upon compleation. Sleep doesn't transfer well through a species that doesn't do that, but I would imagine she'd be a spy or informant of some sort, skittering at speeds on walls and ceilings, maybe even equipped with wings if needed.

Arnoss would be a tank of some sort, or a living armor. Simple, assigned to more important phyrexians so that they can wear him or keep him near them from protection when they don’t want to bother with getting their limbs dirty. Bigger than he currently is, scales replaced by metal, and mostly hollow.

Dancing-Hands would have an engine installed to harness the power of his telekinesis inside him to generate a lot of energy and fuel his body and all the weapons and shields that would be integrated into it. He would be a weapon, sent alone to a settlement or a battlefield when whoever controls him wants it razed or depopulated.

Dolores wouldn’t change that much compared to the others. She’d be an ambitious phyrexians and try to climb the ranks wherever she’d be. Her augmentations would mostly be integrating her tools and improving her body’s performances overall, but Azras like her were already engineered to be efficient soldiers.

Farell wouldn’t be changed at all. Compleated, them? Noooo. They don’t look like it. Although they’re a shapeshifter... But they’re one of the good ones, they’d tell us, right? Unless...

Compleated Icalia is the one I have alternate for her. She’d have accentuated bird of prey features, but would still be about balance... And it tipping one way or another. She’d lead a Phyrexian Arena, handling judments by oil and by weapon as well as providing spectacle and entertainment to those that earn it.

Ivegard does not feature flesh nor metal and burns any oil that’d touch her. She cannot be compleated.

Lhur would be compleated towards something not so important for him right now, but would be much more valuable for Phyrexia, and that’s amplifying ideas and desires. As powerful and efficient as Phyrexia is, they tend to have an issue innovating and testing new concepts, which he’d help bring up. In New Phyrexia, he’d probably be plated in the Orthodoxy’s porcelain.

Nyrhen’s magic allows him to resist compleation and possibly even cure phyresis, and his beliefs are completely incompatible with voluntary compleation, he’d not be the same character at all if he was compleated. However, if it somehow happened, he’d be very oriented towards survival of the fittest. Survive until the day of your compleation and you may have earned it. And survive his hand as well.

Starting the year, I think I'm giving new cards and some associated   summaries for the few of my fanwalkers that I got art for, the next in alphabetical order is Dancing-Hands! His art was commissioned a bit  ago to the skilled (and currently on hiatus) @helnushavoc.

Dancing-Hands is a Kitsune from Kamigawa. Aligned Blue-White, he sees himself as more of a creative and student of the world than a fighter, but after staying for a few long years within the Ojutai, he learned to cultivate and hone both body and mind.

Even before that, he was a bit of a prodigy from very young, clever, fast-learner, and with a magic allowing him to manipulate objects close to him many saw as a blessing from the kami. He gained his second tail much earlier than most, and it stoked his arrogance.

He pushed his innate magic, learning to manipulate not only objects but also magic with it, and tried to temper with the fabric separating Kamigawa's realms. That attracted one of its guardian, who quickly immobilized him and placed a lock on his mind before fixing his mess. Before they were finished however, Dancing-Hands had sparked and left the plane, never to be properly interrogated and with incomplete memories.

He landed on Tarkir, among the Ojutai, thinking he accidentally had reshaped Kamigawa's reality into it. He stayed there for a few years, integrating into the Ojutai and working on being more humble and appreciative. His next planeswalk was another reflex to save his life during an unfortunate encounter with an Atarka dragon. After that, he encountered another planeswalker through whom he learned a bit more about what he was.

Since then, he planeswalks regularly to see new plane, and has encountered a few other planeswalkers. He fought in the WAR with a couple unlikely allies (including Arnoss), also met another person’s fanwalker, Epnu Nef and spent a lot of time with her and her family, helping to rebuild Amonkhet and help them figure out how families can work. He's been learning as well, learning to be more decisive and that a bit of arrogance isn't that bad when it's deserved and proportionate. Which has lead to some tension with his monastery's skywise.

As far as abilities go, Dancing-Hands has the aforementioned innate magic of telekinesis. It is very powerful, but has very short range, basically ineffective at more than one or two arms length of him. He generally uses that as a way to fold paper and create intricate origami, that he animates of can give the objects they represent's properties via Kanji magic that he learned.

He was also trained with the Ojutai in some forms of martial arts, although the magical parts of those tends to get muddled with his own magic and be less effective against living beings. The fact he's a Kitsune probably compensates because they're very strong, endurant and fast as a baseline.

Dancing-Hands is not the best cook in the Multiverse, but he's better at it than his partners, who never had to even consider cooking for themselves until recently... Which makes his cooking more popular with their children than their moms, though they learned a few things.

He's fond on mixing tastes, sweet and savory or salty are where he often goes. Mixing fruits and meats is the usual way to get that kind of results, though vegetables have a lot of uses. And of course spices can only add to one's cooking, though he tends to use a less heavy hand there when he has others to think about.

Dancing-Hands folds alongside the fourth spacial dimension into the Blind Eternities. Parts of him seem like they twist or disappear alongside straight lines, until he completely disappeared. Other way around on the destination plane.

I expect tumblr to not keep the image in a readable quality, but the last few years’ worth of cards I made for my fanwalkers. Some are good designs, some are bad, some are too complex, some are repetitive. One double-faced old one got cut for space.