Some updates.

Well, I've just started uploading the storyline to the doujinshi (fan manga) I'm creating. For those that haven't read about it in the previous posts, it's a Rainbow Brite doujinshi. RB is an old eighties kids cartoon that I and a whole lot of other lucky people got to grow up with. The doujinshi is -not- written or drawn in the same style of the original series. I've created an anime-style version of just about everything in the series. The story I'm writing also is not for kids. Rather, I've catered it to those of us who grew up with it. What little kid these days knows about Rainbow Brite, anyway? Probably only those messed up little kids that go in Hot Topic... The storyline is set I guess a few years ahead of where the series trailed off. I won't say too much about it, other than it should be epic. I'll post the art there as I finish it. It'll be full colour. The storyline will be updated, hopefully, once a day. I've got a good two week lead with what I have, so I should be able to keep up with it. Anyway, without further ado, here's the link. Enjoy! http://rainbowbritedoujinshi.blogspot.com

Jason

I just recently rediscovered something interesting. When I was younger, I did dinner theaters with a small, local group. The very first one I got involved with was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. One of the actors, who played the Elvis-inspired Pharoah, was a man named Jason Wilson. He had an amazing voice - although for the play he had to sing much deeper than he was used to. I later found out he was the lead singer of a band called Emerald Tiers, a not-so-well known local band. Turns out that not very long after that, I created one Jason Kolareny, Rhia's elder cousin, the charismatic Captain of the Obsidian Seas. I'm not all that sure if I created my Jason specifically in honour of Jason Wilson, but now that I look back, I'm positive that I based much of Jason's attitude, and especially his passion for music, on the Jason I knew as the Pharoah. I thought I would give him some props, even if he never sees this site, or never reads the Kolareny Chronicles. Thanks, Jason, for inspiring me.
Here I'll list the lyrics for the few songs of his I have. Maybe some day I'll be able to find the rest of his music.

Romantic
Starlight day, a lunar mood
Gray shines through an empty room
Illuminates a memory of things to be
Crystal wind through a stained glass garden
Shatters the echoes of words yet spoken
Please hear the beauty that I see
Pride blinds you from me

Watching silently
Put my words through the filter
Sift through my mind

I feel the colors fade
A prism haze casts on your name
I try to focus thoughts of you
Rose-colored world to me
Turns emerald green with envy
It blurs the path I follow
That leads me from you

There was an angel I saw her smile, Smile to me
Slipping away, watching time

Watching silently
Asking more than just a memory

See my heart, and see me, too bright to see
Hear my heart and hear me, find the key
Touch my heart and find my mind

Stageshy, whisper the first scene
Poetic but lacking esteem
Act two, the curtain rises
The lines that I've memorized
Get lost in his shadow
That hides me from you

My Foundation
I've closed my mind, framed my senses, judgemental eyes see for me now
A life spent chiches so tense, a life that wants to tear me down
I buckled under stale tensions, the sounds of gray and beige
I turned away from lost ambition and your stagnated gaze
Can you only whisper, can you only speak their mind
I never heard from your soul, you were cold and sterilized

I want to see your eyes again

I watched the concrete weather slowly
Saw time wash away my dream
Now I've rebuilt my foundation
I'll stand proud when you see

When you see my eyes again

Down go your walls I see, Down goes your pride

I walked away from you this time, a selfish need that I contrived
Now I only hear you whisper, now I only need my mind

Now I've rebuilt my foundation
I'll stand proud when you see my eyes again

Want to know you see me now, want to know you hear me now
Want to know you see me now, want to know you hear me

Want to know you see me now, a brighter life I'm living now
Want to know you feel me now, feel me brighter
Want to know you see me now, a stronger life I'm living now
Want to know you hear me now, hear me stronger
I want to see your eyes again, do you know me
When you see my eyes again, will you know me
Cracked open days when you were crowned
King of just memory now and I stand proud

Down go your walls I see, Down goes your pride

I've closed my eyes, framed my senses,
Judgemental eyes see for me now
Now I've rebuilt my foundation
Stronger now you can't tear me down

Don't Shatter Me
A darkened room
The curtains' moonlit shadows on the wall
Hazy images of you here with me
I step into the night and see all hope fade from the midnight sky
Spirits cross wet pavement and slide from my life

See hearts bending in the wind
Emotions cracking under foot
You fall from my life

You're walking on thin ice, Don't shatter me
Walking on thin ice, Don't shatter me
Cold words in the night
Walking on thin ice, DOn't shatter me
You're walking on thin ice, Don't shatter me
The fire in my heart won't die
My dreams keep the flames alive
My dreams alone

A tired heart
He hides himself away in his own world
A finger traces melting patters on the pane
Snow covered wishes
He's learning to accept what he can't change
His frozen fate, His solitude, his life

Shy
He was a shy boy...

New face here this morning
New name I don't need
Introduction to our room, so friendly
A class and him alone

They brought in a shy boy, a lonely boy

Now he is the odd one
Now he is the strange one

Always the quiet one, the silent one

So what's it matter if he's suffering
It's all the fun for me

He was shy, He was a child
He was a lost and lonely child
We watched him cry
We laughed at all the tears he cried
Innocence lost from innocent games
And pain won our game
He was a child
Come and take his hand

Last word at the brick wall
Translates to the black wall
Erase away the outline
Still he felt the pain

Absent from still life, he moved the days
And he was aware
Never changing

He was a shy boy, a lonely boy
Sat through all the lessons
Sat through all the pain

Memory now
No bitterness now
Stil the quiet one

Now it matters 'cause I'm suffering
It's not that fun to me

A Stroke Away
A static line across my screen
An unclear vision of what I've seen

Grind towards equality
Wheels grind out new humanity
Our thoughts they won't be saved
Rust in the memory
Watch the world fall into obscurity
Blind to my needs
A stroke away from clarity
Watch science define love through intensity

Cry out in anger and cry out in fear
A victual angel, I see the world clear
I fear no system and I fear no god
I am the messiah of an electronic world

Try to dementionalize my dreams
Circuit out my thoughts in mid-stream
Religion, technology
We'll create new divinity
I once heard my voice clear
Rewrite history
Stifle all my creativity
Blind to you and me
A stroke away from destiny
Watch science define us through intensity

I need to know my thoughts are saved
I need to know my voice is clear
Expression all seem too vacant
Impressions of a mortal fear

For A Lifetime
I spy through glassed over eyes
Silhouettes on the horizon
Can you see how the clouds hmove for me
Engage in constant motion

The moment still holds me...Moments shared
The moment still holds me..And you left me blind
The moment still holds me...Moments shared
You were there
If for a day, If for a lifetime

How bright the future looks ahead
Still try to change the past instead

If for one day in my life
You were mine

We stumbled over former lives
And fell upon the careless lies
That cushioned me from the truth
You couldn't tell the world I solved you, solved the mystery
You couldn't find the missing pieces
Complete the puzzle of me

Re-Invention
Souls stem from re-invention
A new idea of what is human
Blind to the sea
Hear waves break over shores
Despite mediocrity

Still the world it turns round and round
Only, only
I see the world turn round and round
Only for now

I see the world turn round and round
Only for us and only for now
I'll re-invent my soul to see
What I'll know and who I'll be

All My Kingdom
A prince of sorrow and a monarch of pain
I lost a tear in the pouring rain
A castle fade, fade with the sun
Fade like the light in her eyes that didn't shine on me
For me

Let go the heart that still chans me
A scar that's run too far
All my kingdom to be in her arms
I'd give my crown to be cherished in her heart

Once a royal desire
Save the petals falling from my dying flower
I've let go emotion that stifles me
A heart that now is free

All my kingdom to be in her arms
I'd give my crown to be sacred in her heart
I've saved the stars around me
The jewels that are my light, are my life

Well, that's all I've got. Some beautiful music. I've got an idea to allude to these lyrics a lot whenever Jason is in the picture. Maybe the book I write about Jason will be titled Emerald Tiers. We'll see, I suppose.

A new idea.

Okay, so, I'm an idiot, and a possible creative genius at the same time. So it would seem. I began feeling guilty always playing the same character with a friend of mine even though we started new sls every few months, and he was constantly creating new characters. So, I came up with the bright idea for us to start a brand new sl, both of us creating new characters. I chose the future, in a sci-fi world, where Rhia would never be. So, lo and behold, I came up with a new novel idea (no pun intended..unless it's clever, in which case that pun was totally intended). Luckily, it looks like it would be a one book deal, so I'm going to work on it in between blocks with the first Rhia book. I thought I'd post what parts of the synopsis I wrote down today, for your and my benefit.

A young woman, Rita, stows away on a space pirate ship, trying to escape other pirates. She's caught, and put to work rather than thrown off, or worse. When she's caught, she's emaciated, weak, and lacking in any and all self esteem and confidence. The only things seperating her from the rest of the street rats were her clothes, which even though they were dirty and torn, were of expensive weave, as well as a strange, unique ring. It was a simple silver band, but set on its back was a brilliant blue stone, dulled with the dirt and grime of living on the streets. It was of a shade of blue unlike any other known stone, and cut with too much sophistication for it to simply be glass or plastic.
Her first day on the ship was rough. It was the biggest ship she'd ever been on that took off from the surface. It had a relatively large crew, and from whom she'd seen straight off, everyone seemed to hate her. From the two women who caught her, Nana and Geneene, to the Captain, whose name she didn't hear for quite a while. She was still tired, hungry, and weak when they put her to work, which didn't earn her very much respect, despite working through it. By the time they took off, she was weakened to the point of blacking out with the G forces.
On that same first day, Rita met a man, who went by Slip, who seemed to be able to read her like a book. She was placed with him first to learn to tie the various knots used on board. And it is with him that the first hint of this young woman's uniqueness is revealed. He commands her to tie a knot, any knot. She hesitates, and just as she seems to give up, a new light finds her eyes. Her fingers move without her command, and in short time, a rare and complicated knot is formed in her hands. When asked where she learned such a knot, she could only stammer that her father taught her, a declaration not believed for a moment. She was warned then that she could say she didn't want to talk about something, but she was never to lie, lest she have a death wish.
Later on that day, after a much-appreciated dinner, she found herself with time to herself, and took that time to investigate the bridge. While she was there, the Captain had his own first look at Rita's odd qualities. She soaked up the wealth of knowledge available on the bridge, going from station to station as she learned what she could simply by watching. A young, very bright woman, Juni, noticed her curiousity, and fueled it by teaching her whatever she could. It was Juni who was the first to show Rita kindness on the ship, and it was that kindness that restored a little of her confidence and self respect.
That night, Slip took notice of how that trip to the bridge had energized her, and took the liberty of showing her the data store room, giving her the ismple warning to finish her work before she gets lost in reading or selse she'd be restricted from that room. It was a warning well taken, and a room much frequented for the weeks to come.
Rita proved a quick learner, and was very likable, and even Geneene began to find it difficult to hate her. It wasn't until they entered the next planetary system and were required to go through physicals that things changed. It didn't take long until the doctor on board realized that Rita was not wholly human. She wasn't confronted immediately, the doctor approaching the Captain with the news that Rita's brain and heart were almost entirely mechanical, and completly lacked any reproductive organs. She was an android, albeit a very advanced - she breathed, ate, and bled, and even slept. She got thin when she didn't eat enough, and gained muscle after working a while on board. She was unlike any other previously manufactured android. Red lights would obviously go off in the Captain's head. What was such an advanced prototype doing crawling on board his ship?

Well, that's what I'll put up here. I'll leave everything else off for the sake of not revealing spoilers.
Oh, even more bad news, I had a pretty awesome idea for a manga come to me in a dream - no, I'm serious - so I've got yet another project to distract me from the book. Guess we'll see how things progress.