April and the 8 facts post

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Ok time for another journal update. It's been a long time and a lot has happened. First of all I'm sorry to just disappear without warning. That's not like me and something would have to happen that was very drastic for me to do that. Well it did. You guys know I had surgery at the start of the year.  It's taken me months to recover and then around the time I posted the gift art for AudeS I had a relapse and had to go to the ER again.  Another crazy thing that happened was that over the last months I have been in the process of some legal issues.  Those have finally come to a close and I came out on top.  And I have also been in the process of selling my second house over the last several months.  All these things over lapped into a majorly stressful time in my life. To the point I was still making business calls and deals from the hospital bed. :roll:  I did sell my house. First time selling a house and I'm quite pleased about that.  Health wise I think I am ok now.  I would love to say I am fully recovered but I am not sure.  I do feel loads better and don't see going back except for normal check ups.  And now I am dealing with something big in my life. It's potentially good. My closest friends know about this and I'll talk about it if things turn out well.  So that may keep me away again. I just don't know yet. So many unknown factors right now. But for now yes I am posting again as much as I can because I'm not sure what kind of time I have. I have been having loads of fun as I have so many great ideas. I'm quite proud of the difficulties I have faced and how well I handled the situation.  I faced death and came out well for it.

So today is April 1st and my friends have flooded my inbox with ugly pears.  I find it amusing that we all hate it but still did it anyway because of the stupid badge. When I saw all the pears I thought something stupid was going on and I would not participate no matter what. Then I found out it was a new badge. Oh darn it!  Hehe.  Well I guess I did then after all and got the badge for all my accounts.  I remember when that pear came out in 2006 though I did not know it had origins here on DA. I was here on DA back then but well you know I don't pay attention to trends or fads.  I read the description on the original art and found it funny that it eats birds and concluded that perhaps that is why we all fell for it despite our strong wills. We all are birds, have birds or have bird like characters.  For me it's Scary Fear as my ravenoid, and a few budgies and a bird character I have never drawn in color. Speaking of Scary Fear let me lay this to rest once and for all. You've seen the changes to him I have made. He's been changing ever since I created him. His character sheet has been updated and revised at least 7 times and will continue to change. As Fear Itself he needed to be more frightening in appearance. So now he has black skin, a raven like nose and more hairs that show how he is linked to Life and Death as a force of nature. The stories based on Charlie will be only on my other account so there should be no confusion between that story line where he is a limited being to one man's mind and Scary Fear who is true Fear and terror for all life on this account. I have stuff in the works for both. I love my original version better of course as so much power and so many stories can be unleashed.  And there is also a third storyline that is a subsection of Thagirion Realm but also a cross over with Gamma-Wing's stories.  The Triangulum Resistance is a collab of a fictional RPG video game.  It's sci fi based and features her Korsho and Paul and my George Smith and Scary Fear as the main characters of that story.  Yes lots in the works for that story too.  All three stories are very long, deep and complex so for those of you that are new read the back stories or you will be lost.

Ok so Gamma asked me to list 8 facts about Gord.  I need to develop him. He's an interesting villain after all. Let's see if I can think of eight things for him.

1. Full name is Gordon Craven.  But everyone calls him Gord. You'd never know his first name is Gordon.  He even prefers to be called by the familiar version as just Gord. His last name means Coward and from birth he has been tied to Fear. I still need to come up with a middle name for him.

2. Gord was originally going to be a scarecrow. I first created Gord as a fan character for the sequel to FBTF and as a new deadly enemy for Scary Fear.  At the time I thought it would be great to have Fear fight a scarecrow.  And then I came across one fatal flaw. Scarecrows are super weak to fire. When Anger showed up it would be over way too fast.  So that was annoying and I had to scrap the scarecrow idea.  I never even got to drawing a design. But perhaps I can use the concept somewhere else in the future.

3. Gord is now a real human as he is now also part of Thagirion Realm. His origin is that he is someone that has lived in fear all his life.  He does have his phobias of fear of heights and fear of birds but they do not factor in much in this version as Scary Fear already has wings from his very origin and he has not been directly involved in Gord's life. He's just an influence as he affects all living beings.

4.  Gord is ENFJ.  He's an idealist and from the way he's suffered through his early life he thinks that the world would be a better place without fear. He thinks Fear is a bad thing only. A thing that frightens and needlessly terrorizes. A thing that is irrational and makes people do irrational things. He is only half right. He takes to heart Gandhi's quote "Fear is the real enemy. Some people think it is hate. It is not. It is Fear."  

5. Gord is ugly. He's fat, disproportionate, has freckles and pock marks and has horrible crooked flat teeth.  He was picked on as a kid because of this which didn't help his fear issues any.  And as an adult people feared him based on his looks alone. It was very difficult for Gord to make friends. Plus he developed a bad attitude that made things even worse.  This is very difficult for an extrovert and Gord does want to be popular and be loved. He wants hundreds of friends but his behavior puts people off.

6.  Gord became a physiologist and became interested in studying how fear affects people.  He hopes to find the cure for fear and through this win scientific prizes and become a world renowned hero.  Perhaps he can bring about world peace through all this. Yes, like I said he's crazy idealistic. And dangerous because he began to experiment on humans in secret, hurting and even killing some of his subjects all in the name of the cause. It's for the greater good.

7. Gord's experiments might end up catching the attention of some of the most powerful forces in nature.

8. I can't think of something for this point. I guess 7 is all there is for now without major spoilers. Gord is one of my newest characters and still in development.  So I have to think about him still.

Ok now I want to share some photos of what has been going on.

Dolphin and Anhinga by Sorath-Rising Samsung Galaxy S3 home screen by Sorath-Rising Sure sign of spring by Sorath-Rising

I love this photo Chris took of a cormorant and a dolphin right here in the Tampa Bay area.   My new tablet that I hope will replace my laptop when I travel. Will make things MUCH lighter for me and less to carry. Two baby Sandhill cranes.  Spring is finally here and I am seeing signs of spring like this.

Sandhills feeding by Sorath-Rising Bullet At Vet by Sorath-Rising Aprilfool2017-1 by Sorath-Rising

Baby crane and parent.  Bullet got her portrait done while waiting at the vet.  And my crummy entry for the Pear Badge. I think it's funny enough to share despite it being bad.

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Congrats on selling your house and I hope that you feel better soon and that your recovery goes well, Des.
*sends you a healing hug and prayers*