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| Saffron the Hedgehog; Since I haven't put up a profile here =P | |
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| Lord Bowie | Sep 26 2009, 01:37 AM Post #31 |
What is the difference between a duck?
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This is So Good =/= 2 words Math fail. xD Glad you like him.. I really need to try and do more to update this thread with interesting and relevant stuff. D: |
Saff Profile // Kam Profile // Sadistic Profile Stop by my art thread ----------------------------------------------- SUPER DA PAGE WARNING: Above Post May Contain Sarcastic/Harsh/Stupid/Offensive/Idiotic/Blasphemous Content. Deal With It. ______________ What's the difference between a champion and a challenger.. a challenger is trying to become, a champion became. | |
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| Blaze's Flame | Sep 28 2009, 08:32 PM Post #32 |
Death Egg Act 1
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He seems like a very good character! Great job on it! ^^ 5/5 |
   
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| Lord Bowie | Dec 19 2010, 11:45 PM Post #33 |
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What is the difference between a duck?
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I updated a little bit of the information on Saff and made a minor tweak to the track listings, will probably tweak more stuff in the near future but I'll make all of my modifications in small little bits, music and information wise, since there really isn't much to him I've decided to alter or go into deeper detail with. P.S. If anyone wants, they can ask me any question about Saff that the bio doesn't answer for them and I will give them an answer, I encourage this as it will help enrich the well of useful information available to read on him here, since I realize that he's fairly shallow in many aspects. |
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Saff Profile // Kam Profile // Sadistic Profile Stop by my art thread ----------------------------------------------- SUPER DA PAGE WARNING: Above Post May Contain Sarcastic/Harsh/Stupid/Offensive/Idiotic/Blasphemous Content. Deal With It. ______________ What's the difference between a champion and a challenger.. a challenger is trying to become, a champion became. | |
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| Lord Eileanach | Dec 25 2010, 11:58 AM Post #34 |
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Wowser Bowie Saffron is a rather awesome character. I love his move names.  Shame he doesn't call them out that'd be most impressive.Your originality content is off the charts! |
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| pobyboy | Dec 25 2010, 02:16 PM Post #35 |
Character Select
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>He has a typically calm personality, not exactly happy but not to the point where he would get the "emo" label. depressed or unhappy is not emo. i know you're saying he isn't emo, but that information is really not needed because anyone with an IQ of 7 or more should know emo =/= unhappy. >Usually serious and well thinking but has a tendency to be a hothead in some situations. in some situations everyone has a tendency to be a hothead. if he has a temper then it should be noted that way. >And lastly fighting can bring out more of his character as it tends to bring out at least some dark/mild cockiness. i don't want to fight him, then. >One end result of a series of tests run by a secretive cult Naturally born sorry, i'm confused on what this means. is the name of the cult "naturally", "naturally born", or what? the sentence structure makes it a tad confusing. >negatively it changed the color of his natural skin tone and all of the tribal markings on his head and quills remain permanent as well as a change in his eye color that's not really a negative. a negative would have been like giving him a disease or something. >The tests left him with impaired vision during the day, leaving him as mostly a nocturnal dweller. while this is a legitimate downside, it sounds like an excuse to make him nocturnal, to me. whether it is or isn't is not the issue here. >He's primarily a brawler that's fine, i know plenty of people like that, but none of them can really be described as "calm" most of the time. people that like to fight are usually cocky and boisterous. they are not necessarily stupid, though, so there's nothing wrong with those personality traits. >However if the person is someone he hates/dislikes or someone he deems to be a sizable threat he can flare a temper and go in with a hot headed brawling ego and thus his mind should become clouded by his anger the one thing i never understood about people that create brawling characters is use of "energy" in an RPG-ish sense; real life isn't an RPG, and the character would benefit from more skilled roleplay if that mechanic didn't exist [even if you don't roleplay with this character]. even in media that uses this "energy" element to it, like dragon ball, it isn't a static number and they rarely talk about what percentage of power they're at. it's like everyone on the planet took freeza's "i'm at 100%" quotation and mutilated the hell out of it. appearance wise he looks pretty appealing though, it may be because i really like that combination of colours on a design, and he's drawn in a sonic-enough style so that isn't really a problem. his name almost got me there, since people associate saffron with yellow, and i laughed upon realisation that the name was more fitting than i first assumed. it... is rather feminine, though, being the name of a flower, and since he doesn't look all that masculine to begin with... i almost thought he was a girl when i first saw him. just a little something you should keep note of. the biggest problem is that it's a hedgehog. easy to design, yes, appealing to the eye, often, but that just kills the originality. |
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| Lord Bowie | Dec 25 2010, 03:08 PM Post #36 |
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What is the difference between a duck?
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@poby 1- Typically people associate a character that is written as "chronically depressed" as "emo" is that a proper correlation.. no, but I felt the need to clarify. 2- Temper is a good word for it, but I wanted to describe, in as simple a way as possible, that he isn't always one or the other and is fairly easy to fluster given the situation, I find that much better than certain characters which are always angry or always calm, I don't find either extreme very realistic as a constant. 3- The sentence should be re-worded, though it should be noted that I typically write everything when I'm tired, don't ask me why but I do most of my art and writing in the early AM, it's just too hard to concentrate in the day most of the time, but I suppose I still lose accuracy by being tired. That having been said, the clarification would be that he is naturally born, while his current state is the result of lab testing, the fact that he exists isn't a result. Only the fact that he exists in his current capacity. 4- Those are mostly physical negatives.. I try to set the sort of world I picture him in as slightly different from the general world, a little darker, but I guess more "natural" in some sense if you could call it that.. the change of color and the markings would be seen as out of place and it would make it hard for one to fit in with the general population, the word "freak" could be applied I suppose, but not on a Hulk sort of level... I suppose you could call it a social disadvantage. 5- There are two reasons that I chose to make him nocturnal, one would be that he was stuck in a prison-style underground laboratory for said cult for most of his life up to this point along with other "lab rats" he didn't get much sunlight and the cells in question were not lit, therefore he grew up having to adapt to a low-light setting. The final step in the tests and trials run by the cult resulted in an amplification of attributes while also filling subjects with the unstable energy... however the formula was far from perfect.. so his negative attribute of not being able to adjust to daylight was actually amplified.. I'm not saying he can't see during the day, but it's so bright that most everything would come out as a blur, and he would have to identify others by voice for the most part. 6- I think the way I think of a Brawler is slightly different than most... I consider a hand to hand fighter without any real form of honed skill (martial arts training e.t.c.) to be a Brawler.. he's not a swordman, nor a gunner.. he relies mostly on a short ranged arsenal of attacks be them energy (he doesn't have any sort of ultimate Kamehameha bs.. the energy isn't strong enough to be effective at range unless it is highly concentrated, which takes a large toll on him, so mostly the power serves as a melee supplement) or straight punches and kicks. It's all unrefined instincts, natural ability, unnatural ability, and physical contact... I don't see a Brawler as.. a drunken Irish Boxer per say.. 7- It does, and he makes mistakes, big ones, especially when dealing with his old tormentors. Truth be told, up till now the true hate list of his is a very exclusive one, he hasn't been around long enough to hate much more than the ones who imprisoned him and those around him and either left them for dead or turned them into weapons. I know I went into brief detail about the whole "energy is unstable and while he has it, he can't really use it all up" thing, but what I did was temper it, so it's not like he can just constantly keep someone at bay with the power, he would literally die or pass out if he just burned huge chunks of it up, which is why that main "spirit gun inspired" attack is a real last resort, especially when it is used in a particularly draining manner. That unrefined power is what keeps him alive, so while he can use it as a weapon for his advantage, it also handicaps him, he has to walk a fine line with it or risk being gassed and beaten in a short while. I'm actually glad someone came forward with a little critique, it's good to be able to clarify things... and nah I haven't roleplayed with him or any of my characters in a decent while, doesn't mean I won't again in the future, but I typically don't get involved with RPs if I don't think I'll be able to keep up and follow through along with everyone else. I also don't think that the species of a character should bring down its overall creative rating.. I've seen people call certain characters Tenreks but the only difference is what they call the character, the image created is no different than what a hedgehog would be. I agree that the Hedgehog fan character community is quite populated, but I believe that with the right direction, anyone can make a character of any species and mold it into something really good. Just takes time and dedication to actually mold said characters as successfully as possible. P.S. Never been too into making something look overly brutish and masculine, not to say I'm trying to create a sissy either, but what I've noticed is that in popular media, the more of a brute you are, the more easily you get tossed aside... whether it be Tom Cruise beating up some muscular version of Billy Bean Boxer or in almost any anime where the big muscular guy gets beat up by that mysterious.. anti-tank of a figure. It's something that I'm well aware of and am fine with, though I agree that the main picture looks a little more feminine than some of the other pictures that have been made by me or others of him, but the general design is the same and the artist who did the above picture, Chibi-Metal, was one of my original inspirations as an artist in this specific genre, so I'm particularly fond of it. =P |
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