#selka

"Comming home"

Part 1 - Part 2

A sci-fi fantasy adventure

Synopsis:

One thousand children prophesied to save a galaxy embroiled in war are taken from Earth at the turn of the 21st century. The children are scattered throughout Alliance worlds to hide them from the terrifying, unseen antagonistic force that would destroy them, the Keth.

This story follows the frightening and fantastical adventures of two of those children - Will and Terra - who are genetically altered to possess a strange power for a plan to end the war.

Yune Darrak - a lone devil-may-care salvager, and Selka Kelnaris - a disillusioned, empathic, Ai Hiri bounty hunter - accidentally rescue them from a Regent secret lab while on a bounty hunt. They travel to a remote agrarian planet where Yune will hand the kids over to Selka once he gets her ship back from the planet's leader, so he can get his life back. A simple plan spirals into a deep, confusing mess involving a mysterious blue light, a political coup, and more questions about the kids and Yune himself as all four are inadvertently caught up together in the middle of a battle they never wanted to fight.

Will and Terra want to know who they are and where they belong. Yune wants to get his life back of salvaging spaceship wrecks and living alone. Selka wants to protect Will and Terra and find meaning to her life.

The story isn't so much about the war as it's focused on the lives of this little disaster space found family, their struggles, their small moments, and their growth aboard a jalopy homeship. The war is something that's happening around them.

The four portrait combo are the MCs I created in Artbreeder. Each photo is where I stopped and said "That's it. That's them." - Yune, Selka, Terra, and Will.

(I am very, very proud of this story, and in love with it and the characters. It's close to my heart, and contains my heart and soul. I wrote a story that I would enjoy reading or watching.)

That is the cockpit of my beloved home ship, the Horizon.

I spent way too long making that cockpit out of free commons stock items that were morphed and recolored beyond recognition. Way too much work, but well worth the hours to see my baby for real. Those cupholders retract into the control console, btw. :)

The space background is also a royalty free image. All of the images used at the headers of each chapter are either mine, or royalty free stock images.

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I wonder if we’ll get more of these kinds of episodes? When all the Aichi’s meet I’ll freaking die of laughter.

Ha! Even his past self doesn’t like him😂. He thinks he’s scary.

Poor If Ibuki

Finished the next of the three. Btw, I also changed the design of the cards a little. I didn’t like the colors of the first borders, it didn’t really feel like what I had in mind.

The Empress:

Meanings: Nurturing, beauty, but also insecurity and smothering

I chose Rinko for that, since she seems the most motherly to me. Also because I could make a pair with the Emperor.

The Emperor:

Meaninggs: Authority, control, but also domineering and stubborn.

I have to admit, I don’t know a lot about Kayaba, so it wasn’t easy to really give him a card^^° But I hope I made the right choice here.

The Hierophant:

Meaning: Tradition, education, but also rebellion or ignorance.