#remix project

Also, you will note that there are blanks by Chandra, Nissa, Jace, and gideon’s names. That is because of what I came to call the ‘stage three’ characters. In consideration of my remix project, there are 3 stages: Stage 1: Canon/no changes (basically, anything I draw at stage one is pure fan arts) Stage 2: The remixes that I’ve been drawing. Basically the redesign project where I think about the characters as they are after the Origins Soft reboot. If you have been hearing me rant about Jace’s belts, that is what it’s about. Stage 3: “Original” fantasy story using my redesign elements and running with them into a different, single world narrative.

Those five boxes are ideas and the start of boiling things down to the parts and stuffs I can use for the Stage three. Each character will be in their own part of the world which will be inspired by Stage 1′s ‘home’ worlds. Right now, those blanks are spaces for the names of the characters that are inspired by the gatewatch.

Feel free to ask any questions or offer any suggestion toward them and their homes. Versions I”m going to use In WUBRG:

“Gideon”: Tough old soldier, only has one hand (a reference to one of the meanings of the name that we found during the stream). No invulnerability but is super tough and has earned being known as a bit of a legend in his homeland. The homeland will be a theocratic military state. How far I go with that, I am uncertain so far.  “Jace”: A master of illusions and manipulation, is very rogue like and a bit of a huckster. Lives in a great hub city very similar to ravnica in form. “Liliana”: Because of her not going to be receiving the same level of redesign, this stage is going to swap her out for one of my own characters by the name of ‘Prisma’. Still, the land she lives in is going to be based on Innistrad. Small towns, superstition, ruins, and ancient keeps, one of which Prisma calls home. This area of the world will not be all that far from the hub city.

“Chandra”: One of the two leads of this endeavor, and the one that gets the most changes in the ‘stage 2′ point of this process. What you see in my previous remix posts is mostly what you are going to get style wise. Change of the color pallete at least though to be less ‘chandra’ and more whoever this new character emerging from all this will be. Both her parents are alive. Her mother will be a sort of ‘inventor mage/star gazer’. Planing to have something about the study of the stars being it’s own school of magic. She builds her obvervitory on a hill over a source of thermal energy to power her home and machines. ‘Chandra’s’ father will be one to take further advantage of that wealth of power by being a baker/cook. A humble job, true, but one that will fill him with joy as he helps feed those in the community. The land she hails from will be more Kaladesh in spirit then in form. Less loops, though I do plan on keeping that flavor of India.. which is going to be tricky. I want to keep that flavor, but without dipping into appropriation. So any help I can get will be most appreciated.

“Nissa”: The other of the main pair, but sadly the less fleshed out. What I am certain of is that she will be from an ancient land that has an old something sealed away (good, evil or other is uncertain at the moment). She will be wise but as introverted as Nissa, and just as strong phsycally. One of the differences is that she won’t commune with the land nearly as much as just being respectful of it. she will be able to shape plants and stone (even metal to some extent) and will be able to shape her walking staff into a bow. While she will carry a small quiver of arrows, most times she will just reach down and fashion an arrow straight out of the earth. I am also debating on her race. I have decided that making her an elf is a bit too on the nose and might lead me to just flat out keeping both characters too close to the origin that i started with. Currently I’m waffling between Orc, Mermaid (like Caldur from Young Justice or Kiora), or Selkie. Open to other suggestions. In fact that is the whole point of this post. Right now, this is the bulk of what I have thought of so far. Any help with names, or general plot/character ideas I’m open to. I will likely not use all, but even the ones I do not use will help guide me to the ones I do.