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So that's the first sketch of Ira when I decided he'll be a talking sword and not just a normal sword. It's very simple, just took the sword Mavis already has in her hands when I made her and slapped rune symbols on it.

1.The truth about the dark place this initial OC idea came from

Well back in the day, I found out that that Mavis would need someone with her to guide her during her berzerk trances, but I didn't want a full grown human next to her like Berzerker with Ilya from Fate/Stay Night. I went to watch Shakugan no Shana and then saw Alastor who was talking though an amulet, that's where the idea for the talking sword came in, 'a spirit in a sword that's great!' I thought.

2. His appearance

After a while I started to think about what was 'Ira'. Was he a demon or a spirit in a sword, was he even male or female to be honest since I never locked that down when I first wrote about him back then.

Then this first sketch happened.

Then this sketch lead to another sketch which was a group of entities which could have been called Ira, I was thinking Ira was the embodiment of a few spirits at one point.

Though nahhhh I liked the big man at the back, so I went with him and just messed around a bit. Though one difference was I drew Ira as a rather grumpy serious man back then, but now he's not like that at all, all the grumpyness got moved on to Mavis.

And then I realized, I can't just give him a real breathing living human form after him being a sword, it's too much BS. So I kept his human face for when he was living and thought about another body for him. I remember the word 'Knight' just pop up in my head the first time around, it made sense, I mean a metal sword turning into a metal suit of armor sounds legit. And due to the fact I was watching Fate/Zero back then, Berzerker from there came into mind, his design was just super cool to me, and the pun I can get from it at the time was that Mavis was based off F/SN Berzerker so Ira can be based off F/Z Berzerker LOL.

I got inspiration from him and slapped on Ira's iconic cape, and there I got it, Ira's final design and the one that everybody remembers.

3. His name

Since he was just a sword that lead Mavis' berserk trance back then I gave him a straight forward name. I translated anger/rage into Latin, a very unsubtle nod to going berserk and bingo, Ira came out. It was sometime later though that I actually went to check if it was a legit name, and apparently it was it meant 'Watchful' in Hebrew, so now that's the meaning I go with.

4.His Race

Oh boy...Ira's race, started off as nothing but a human soul in a sword to Contractor, one of the most complicated races I have. A race consisting of different species of people that are linked to the the Contract Records. Since all Contractors are linked to the records they are indirectly linked to each other as well. They get this link after performing a ritual that involves being resurrected shortly after dying. At least that's the short version of it.

I never expected this development, it happened because I decided to give Mavis Mana molding, which obviously Ira knew too, cause we all know he is the one teaching her. That eventually sparked an idea that maybe there was a group of people that knew that skill too, I made a few of them and thought 'You know what, I'll just make an entire race out of them for gosh sake.' B'D And so the entire race, lore and all the bad guys that came with it happened.

Extra:

I never intended for the existence of the Contractor Race to be built off Guilds or Guild Masters, so Ira was never thought to be a guild master in the first place. But as the plot progresses, I thought that it be appropriate for some sort of organization for them to fit into, but why a guild system of all things you ask? Cause I am too much of a fangirl and Fairy Tail is one of my fave manga/anime, and because of that, guilds sounds awsome and more family like to me, which is what I think Contractors are at their core.

|D yeah back then I drew on paper and scanned it to line and color with a mouse cause I have no tablet, whooo dark times. But yep this is the first drawing of Mavis ever, also a little different from the 'first ver' most people know off cause I did change stuff by the time that 'first ver' was done.

1.The truth about the dark place this initial OC idea came from

|D I will not lie, I am a huge anime fan and am very influenced by them even till this day even if it's not that in-your-face anymore.

Back then, I wanted a BA sword wielding girl like Saber from Fate/Stay night, but with Berzerker's class. But I felt a little weird cause Berzerker classes needed someone to lead them, so then I remembered like in Shakugan no Shana they had these cool talking spirit guide objects that followed them around. Just like that, I tossed in a talking sword, Ira, and then reversed the servant master system from the Fate series into Mavis the living being the 'Servant' and Ira tje spirit as the 'Master'. Yush, so now you know where Mavis's initial core idea crawled out from, I have no regrets. |D

2. Her Name

Mavis's name was chosen quite randomly to be honest. I had a book about birds next to me at the time, so I picked the name off one bird and gave it to her. Little that I know her name also meant Purple which is coincidentally the main color I gave her, what were the odds of that happening. XDD

3. Her Race.

Most people now should already know that Mavis is a Contractor and at the same time a Rijibarian. Back then well meh, I didn't plan any of those thought out. She was simply known as Human-Demon Hybrid that technically didn't have any major difference from humans, because why not |D

I will not talk about Contractors here since Ira's entry would have a big chunk about them. Now, her Rijibarian race as a whole did go though quite some development, currently they are a type of 'vegetarian' demon that has their own culture and massive mana storage from eating a lot. They could live way longer than humans if they ate properly. They also cannot eat human flesh cause that makes them go cray cray.

In between this and what generic thing it was back then, they went though a number of rewrites.

|D there was one version back then where true Rijibarians and not hybrids had pointy ears and claws and Mavis didn't get any of that cause she was a hybrid. Of course all that is null now cause technically all Rijibarians are 'hybrids'.

Could be worst though, they could have been full out tiger bear demons in human disguise LOL.

4.Her Hair

Just as a little trivia for you, Mavis wasn't originally supposed to have pink hair and become the BA pink midget everyone knows off. To be honest, I had a very noobish disliking to pink haired characters back in the day. She was supposed to have light blue hair, but a lucky accident with the hue scroller made it pink, it looked decent so I stuck with it.

But just to show you a little taste of what would have happened if I never had that accident LOL

Extra:

Mavis started out as a berzerker character when I had no experience in RPing. But then after a while, she started to lag behind a lot of other people's characters who can use spells and different skills and I noticed that just being a main character that repeatedly mindlessly went 'SMASH,SMASH,SMASH' wasn't as fun to type anymore as typing more complex movement as I learned more about Rping. So I ended up with the random fact that Ira taught Mavis mana molding because he thought she was ready for it. Who knew the implications of me doing that, it started the base for my Contractor plots, all the good accidents happening with Mavis.