#kirien

Guy I'm so funny right you can laugh now

Ok I’m done I swear.

send me a character/pairing and a prompt, and I'll write a three-ish sentence fic!

Kindrie has never been pleasantly drunk before--in fact, he's not sure he's ever allowed himself to be drunk before, and it's taking a certain conscious effort to restrain his body's immediate instinct to purge a poison on contact. But Kirien is sitting on a couch with her boots and socks stripped off and her shirt unlaced at her throat, and she's grinning at him with an easy kind of amusement that he likes, a bit of a wine flush on her cheeks and her eyes bright, and he finds himself smiling back and letting her tuck her feet under his crossed legs.

"Okay, another one," she announces, gesturing to him with one of her elegant hands, a black ink blotch on the meat of her thumb. "Would you rather fight one rathorn sized jewel-jaw, or fifty jewel-jaw sized rathorns, or your cousin?"

A laugh bubbles up from Kindrie's throat, but Kirien has a certain inexorable-ness to her, sometimes, and this, her declaration that they were getting drunk to celebrate surviving the latest disaster, has carried him along like a warm, syrup-thick river current, so he plays along. "Which cousin?"

"Oh, Jame, of course."

Kindrie nods solemnly and pretends to be contemplative, and then says, "The rathorns."

"You're a madman," Kirien declares immediately.

"They're sentient!" Kindrie protests. "Jewel-jaws just--chitter, I don't like them."

Kirien laughs uproariously at that. "And your cousin? Where does she fall on the sentience scale?"

The Gelt-ji (literally “Weapon of Souls” in the Kirien language) is a two-handed glaive-like energy weapon that is useful both in close combat and at long distance. It, and certain variations, make up the bulk of the Kirien’s offensive weaponry.

The two main handheld varieties are Sumun and Dumun, meaning “Single and Double”, the meanings behind which speak for themselves. The Sumun is more standard, especially among inexperienced wielders or those who struggle with multitasking. However, those who do effectively wield a Dumun find that it is most useful in fending off large groups of surrounding enemies.

The outside ends of the operational end of a Gelt-ji are two asymmetrically-sized blades which serve more for slashing than for piercing. The inside contains the three nodes and two soul crystals which serve as the firing mechanism as shown in the above animation.

When in use, Gelt-ji are powered continually by “Soul Crystals”, a natuarlly-occurring Euconian stone with the ability to trap ambient energy or, if large enough, entire spirits. In this case, these Soul Crystals are specifically powering the Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary nodes at the operational end(s) of the device. While active, the Primary and Secondary nodes build energy in the space between them. New wielders of the Gelt-ji are warned to not touch this area, as this can deliver a nasty shock.

At the phase shown, the nodes have produced a complete energy sphere, ready to be fired. The nodes now use the energy from the Soul Crystals to lock the energy sphere in place in order to prevent it from detaching prematurely from the device. This is the “resting” phase for most active Gelt-ji.

When a Gelt-ji is being fired, the Tertiary node pulls energy from both Soul Crystals, which fires a pulse of kinetic energy into the sphere. The amount of kinetic energy applied is, in most Gelt-ji models, dependent on the user, and can determine the power and speed of a given blast. The more kinetic energy applied, the more power and speed the blast will have--but it will also have much more recoil.

Once enough kinetic energy is applied from the Tertiary node, the energy sphere will be forcefully ejected from the end of the device. The accuracy of such a shot is entirely dependent on how its wielder handles the recoil.

Ok. So. If any of you were to dig deep enough into my blog, you might notice a picture of a couple of cat people named the “Kirien”. There’s always been a story behind them, but I haven’t bothered to say anything about them on here until now.

Since the Kirien have changed a bit since then, here’s an updated graphic instead of the older drawing from a while ago.

Simply put, the Kirien are a race of giant felines that originate from a world called “Eucon”, which is a massive Earth-like planet (placed tentatively in the Andromeda galaxy). Like humans, Kirien possess hands, higher thought, and the ability to walk upright. Most other qualities, however, are completely feline.

One such factor is their strictly carnivorous diet, giving them an acute distaste for sweet, bitter, and sour flavors. As a result, any and all crops grown are put towards feeding livestock and laying traps for wild game.

The coloration of any given Kirien is comparable to that of any feline found on Earth. For example, one such individual could resemble a tiger, leopard, panther, or a calico house cat.

anyway, now i've scribbled away my frustration over not being able to play my kiribaby and missing him terribly, i'll make coffee and write fantazuma. i drew him happy nnrhgh because he's probably not right now (sometimes at least. i'm pretty sure most of the time kirien's too caught up weaving time threads and leaping about the universe....)