I took this from someone who took it from someone else and so forth.

Write out the names of your characters and explain:
1.) How you thought of their name.
2.) What made you create the character in the first place.
3.) How the character has changed over time (If they have changed).
4.) Any random fun fact about that character

In order of appearance



Crystal the Cat
1. Well, Sonic had his name becuase he ran fast and I couldn't think of what to name the original Crystal who had no sort of powers or abilities so I just named her after something girly....a gemstone.
2. I made Original Crystal, who was a hedgehog, as sort of an anti-love interest for Sonic. She sort of liked him but didn't know how to react to her feelings so she'd just pick on him and try to make his life miserable.
3. I decided to change original Crystal into a cat after Sonic 2 debuted with Tails as a fox. I scrapped all hedgehog characters to make other species. When I changed her from a hedgehog to a cat, she was the guardian of the chaos emeralds, but I had to change that for obvious reasons. Now she's a cat with elemental powers. I blame Sailor Moon entirely for that last one XD.
4. Crystal seems all sweet and innocent, but she's got this pervy side to her. She's big on lacey underwear... >.>


Ruby Ringtail
1. Sticking with the girly gemstone concept as before, since at this point my characters didn't have any powers or dominant physical abilities, I decided to call this little girl I made Ruby.
2. She was the little sister of another character I made called Ricochet (I spelled it wrong, I know) who was big on making rockets or other contraptions (that always exploded). She was made just to get kidnapped in this one story I was writing but I never got past the brainstorm stage. I scrapped both characters in order to further Crystal's story.
3. The biggest changes Ruby made were personality wise. She used to be this brash, street smart kid who picked fights (I see a pattern). I toned her down a lot, plus the character that was her older brother I changed to her cousin and he doesn't have a big a role as before. And Ruby hates him.
4. I can't think of anything I haven't mentioned at some point... I dunno, Ruby looks more like her dad than her mom? How about that? XD


Sapphire Flutterby
1. Still kept the gem thing, though Sapphire did have magic in her original conception. I didn't want to call her Sapphire the Butterfly, and I had heard once that butterflies were once called flutterbys....so I went with that.
2. Sapphire was made on a whim after watching Thumbelina. I saw a character of a butterfly that looked like the Sonic style a little so I randomly started fleshing one out. She was supposed to be Knuckles' mentor and teach him the ways of being a Guardian (and he frequently ignored), until I started reading the Archie series a little later. At that point, Knuckles had met Archimedes and he seemed to fill that roll so I scrapped that story idea but I still liked the bookwormy butterfly.
3. The only thing I changed about Sapphire from her original form, except her wing design and clothing, was her job as Knuckles' mentor. Other than that she's just been the same old Sapphire. XD
4. Sapphire's on and off again middle name is James. I keep debating whether to keep it or not.


Emerald the Iguana
1. Still naming girls after gemstones. At this point it was just out of habit although I felt weird about calling her Emerald, with the Chaos Emeralds and all. But I couldn't imagine calling her anything else so I left it.
2. This was after Chaotix had come out and I got the 32x for Christmas. My favorite character in it was originally Espio and I wanted to make a lizard character. Her personality just fell into place.
3. Emerald changed a lot physically. She used to wear a dress, then a shirt (like current Jade's) then something else, and I would switch from her having horns to not having them... it took a while to decide on something I liked. I still don't like current Emerald's boots but eh.
4. Emerald is half chameleon, but has no chameleon traits except the horns. And she's totally pissed about it.


Jade the Cat
1. When I made Jade the whole Jewel Carriers thing sprang up, so her name was chosen so she'd fit into the group. Hers was really the only one that wasn't random.
2. At this point I fished out old characters and created this girl team since the Sonic games still lacked any interesting female characters (and Sally really didn't do it for me). Jade was created to round out the group. They needed a leader, a strong person who looked out for them. I used Original hedgehog Crystal's personality and made an older sister for Crystal the Cat who would take the girls under her wing.
3. Jade hasn't changed too much since her original conception. I'm still debating whether to put pants on her or not but really she's been the same.
4. I never intended for Jade to have a love interest. Her pairing with Shadow came after I played Sonic Adventure 2 and started thinking they had a lot of similar character traits and maybe they'd somehow like each other. I still haven't figured out how they would meet or why Shadow would pay any attention to her >.> But if he had been a girl, Jade would have had to have a personality makeover. XD

I secretly fear one day Sonic Team will make a group of characters around Blaze that all have their own elemental powers. And at that point I would scrap my characters. Want to know why? I started making fan characters to add something to the series that I thought it needed or would be more interesting if it had. As soon as something came along that was anything like my idea, I got rid of it, because what's the point after that right?

And what was my point in saying any of that? XD

Ok I'm late in my greeting but my real life Christmas plans got a little screwy >.>

But here's wishing everyone a happy holiday. Best wishes for the year to come!

Take care!

Warning, harsh language and ranting to follow. Feel free to hit "back" right about now.


Ever been pissed off to a level you never thought you could get to and have no fuckin' clue how you got there? Yeah ... That's where I'm at right now. At first it was just the typical "downness" I get to at this point of the year, but it just kept eating and eating at me. I just feel like a complete waste of anything. I don't want to talk to anyone, I don't want to do anything. I go to work and I just want to smash the phone whenever it rings and I have to talk to some retarded patient who can't read their bill from their asshole. My coworkers make it more and more evident that they only care about themselves. I have to do all the crap no one else wants to do and I never get a single fucking thank you. EVER. It's so frusterating. But I can't even get into that because then I'd have to explain the whole "medical billing" procedure, and that would just take forever >.>

But besides that crap load, anyone who's watched me for a little while would know I don't look very highly at my own art. Which to me is whatever, everyone should be a little modest anyway. But lately it's like, I can't do anything. I can't concentrate long enough to get anything done artwise and I'm not even inspired. I getting to a point where drawing is old to me. I guess I'm getting to a point where I'm growing out of it. I had a lot of dreams when I was a kid. I wanted to do so much with myself and my art. I just wanted to make characters and stories that kids would keep in their hearts, and when they grew up, they could look back on fondly, the way i do now. But I feel like slowly all that is just going away. I've forgotten everything I ever held fondly, so how can I recreate that warmth? I was always lonely when I was a kid, it's not that I didn't have friends but I didn't really "hang out" or anything because I always had something to do, some chores or my mom just wouldn't let me go out because it was too late, or I'd have to look after my sister or whatever, but I always had those stories and those characters so I could at least escape from everything for a little bit. Like, I wasn't so lonely watching and following these adventures.

But that feeling is gone to me. Nothing's nostalgic anymore. Nowadays everything is about tomorrow, "what's going to be the next big thing"? People don't live in the present enough for there to be anything to look fondly on in the future. It's like they're all just zooming by their lives to get to whatever point they want. Like these stupid little 14 year olds having sex and shit. For real? You can't wait? Is it really that fucking great that you skip everything else wonderful about youth and just get to that? Stupid fucking kids. I swear. And it's these stupid fucking kids that I had hoped to share all my thoughs and fond memories with. Maybe that's why I'm so damn pissed off. Everything seemed so magical back then, and there seems to be no sign of that anywhere I look in life.

Now I look for an escape, not because I'm lonely, but because i'm just so fed up, I'm so disgusted, that I don't even want this world to be real. And nothing I do seems to satisfy that either. All these cartoons suck, anime is getting annoying, video games are bleh, and drawing is getting on my nerves (and people already piss me off so that's that). Nothing brings me that sense of wonder and magic like when I was little. Is that what it means to be an adult? I should just live in a cave somewhere and wait to die. Every dream I ever had just seems to have fallen through every crack possible.

I think sometimes that my dreams died along with my dad. He's really the one who pushed me with that when I was younger, and even right before he passed away. He'd say "oh you could be making so much money!" and I'd just laugh it off. I would never want money to be my driving force to do anything, but I really did want to show people what I thought love was. The love I knew when I was little, with my family all broken as it was. But I don't feel that anymore. Everything is so different now...People don't even talk anymore and everyone is so wrapped up in themselves, "Tweeting" this and facebooking that, and texting instead of talking. Is there anything we're going to look at years from now and think warmly and lovingly on it? Or is everything about the short term goals everyone sets for themselves? It's like everyone is reaching for the future so much I wonder if they'll realize what they're losing to get there. Or when they get there, are they even going to care anymore or will there be some other dumb shit to replace it with and they'll just keep shooting for that. Keep shooting for empty dreams and selfish goals until they die. Is that how all the cool people live? My heart is breaking over this world we live in. What can I do?

But meh I think I'm going to stop now. I should get a Livejournal or something. This shit would never fit on twitter....

I was supposed to put some quizes I was tagged to do in my next journal update but I'll do it next time XD

See ~izzy-the-hedgehog asked me if I didn't think my art was perfect, what did I think perfect was? And I kept thinking and thinking and I got a little list together of some people who consistently boggle my mind with jealousy over their awesomeness xD. This list is by no means complete because I could go on and on but this is just a bit of my standard of awesome. Everything here ranges from stuff I could probably do if I put some effort, to "just keep dreaming, Jen". Some of these people are pros in the field and some just do it for fun. Some draw fan art, some don't. Content doesn't matter to me really, But I admire so many people for what they do. I just wish some of these guys would update more! XD

In alphabetical order because it's easier:


Like I said, there's pleanty more xD

:rolls eyes: YES I understand, NO ONE IS PERFECT. This list is just people who demonstrate my idea of what comes close to it. Geezuz.... shut up, I'm not in the mood to defend my opinion.