GrayHuntress

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  1. Hehe, I will prefer volunteer artists, but if the drawing pool is a bit small then I will personally go out and knock on several DA doors to see if they're willing to possibly, but not guaranteed, to do a piece, .

    So far for artists:

    John_Printemps
    Doug Shuler (wondered if he could volunteer, I said yes)
    Lousy_Day (he seemed interested, but I need to PM confirm)
    The_Foo (seemed interested in the forum, but don't have confirm, hehe)
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    Do you lick the elderly often?

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    Gah! Get that image out of my head!
  3. Gah! Why wasn't I sitting?! That's beautiful!
  4. Oh! Here's an example

    ex. [url=http://the-shades-of-gray.deviantart.com/] Gray Huntress (I don't want to complete the link, but be sure to add /url in brackets after the name)
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    Cool idea!

    Can I volunteer on the artist side?

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    Heh, you certainly can! Every artist is welcome to volunteer
  6. So, what is the Double Random Art Tossup (the D.R.A.T.)?

    It is your chance to have a custom-made commission featuring your character without lifting a finger or paying a dime.

    1) Basically, all you have to do is provide your name and references for the character you want to have rendered in a duo piece with Gray Huntress or Jackalynn (you decide who'd you would prefer in your post). Easy as that.

    2) The next step would be to wait until 5-10-09, because that's the deadline.

    3) The Double Random comes from the mystery artist...I don't even know who it is because I'm leaving it to the great talented men and women in these forums to volunteer to do the commission. Don't worry, I'm paying you for the duo commission at your standard price.

    4) 5-10-09: I will randomly draw among the entries for both the character and the artist. I'll bring the news to the forums, then its all business from there.

    Hehe, the more the merrier!

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    To aid in the decision process, I'll post brief bios for both Gray and Jackalynn; for samples of these two femme fatales just click the linky in my siggy:

    Gray Huntress
    Age: 34
    Archetype: Archery/Devices/Force Mastery Blaster

    Personality: Gray sometimes seems cocky, blunt, and volumes could be read behind her words that often carry double meanings. She approaches battle like a wolf playing with it's prey; she is confident victory is already assured. The Huntress often goes ahead full force and demeans her peers when they hold back. She is a vigilante, not a hero or villain, so she chooses the side that suits her 'better' judgement.

    Bio: Gray Huntress, or Apollonia "Polina" Fanakov, was born in Grozny, Chechnya to a former Honduran bounty hunter, Mist Arrow, and a father she never met, Dr. Ivan Fanakov, a famous missing Russian geneticist. Polina’s mother tried to raise her as best as she could, but the latter part of Mist Arrow’s life and Gray’s entire childhood focused on finding her missing father.

    Her mother began training her to follow in her footsteps as soon as she could draw a bow and tried to instill a sense of duty to the man she never knew. The world knew Fanakov as a brilliant scientist that was pushing the bounds of the human genome, and that he mysteriously vanished from the world without a trace in 1975. Nine months after his disappearance, Mist Arrow launched her unfinished crusade to find the man she loved; a man who also saved her from the clutches of the Council. This crusade led to Paragon City.

    As Gray grew into her teenage years, she thought this was a fool’s quest and had frequent disagreements with her mother. Their key conflict was their different approaches to pursuing the Council. Mist Arrow believed that the men should be arrested, interrogated, and sent to Zig for their crimes; Gray Huntress believed that lethal force was necessary to deal with them and was just punishment enough. If they lived to see another day, then they could still potentially escape and put a bullet in your back later; a problem easily solved early. But this created an irreparable rift between mother and daughter, and, in rebellion, Gray left her mother to her doomed crusade for her homeland, Russia.

    In 1993, she was one of the founding members of the Valiant Defenders of the Motherland, the first independent Russian Hero Organization. She was a huge hit among the Russian youth, but broke many young conservative men’s hearts when she was one of the few heroes to openly come out as bisexual. Gray was the only natural human on the team and yet she was also the most wild, performing daring, near-suicidal stunts with remarkable success without recognition of her mortality. She basked in the fame and controversy surrounding her, but harsh reality struck her hard during the first Rikti War. While she admirably did her part in the war, back in Paragon City Mist Arrow met her untimely demise. She was on the team of heroes responsible for taking down the Rikti Mothership which crashed in the zone now known as the Rikti War Zone. Live footage was taken of her final moments as she hung on for dear life atop the plummeting ship, apparently caught under some debris. News of her mother’s death immediately prompted Gray to leave the Valiant Defenders and return to Paragon.

    She avoids the spotlight in Paragon City and hasn’t officially been on the news for some time, since she doesn’t want to bring too much attention to her questionable methods; something frowned upon by most heroes. Even though she doesn’t believe her father is even alive, she continues her mother’s search to honor her life. Polina isn’t afraid to jump into the area where justice is gray, and perhaps she’ll be able to uncover the fate of Dr. Fanakov, letting her mother’s spirit rest.
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    Jackalynn
    Age: 34

    Archetype: Gravity Control/Energy Assault Dominator; that’s the closest archetype that could fit into Jackalynn’s concept as a telekinetic. All her abilities are through the use of invisible force; her will is exhibited through the reactions to her powers rather than the actions.

    Personality: Codename – Jackalynn is everything Gray Huntress could have been if her ‘mother,’ Mist Arrow and Dr. Fanakov hadn’t kidnapped her from the Council test laboratories in Sicily in 1975. She is arrogant, manipulative, power-hungry, and super-powered. Though she shares Gray’s lethality, Jackalynn lacks her better sister’s control over who deserves to die and who just dies.

    Background: Jackalynn is the primary specimen and leader of the Council’s Project: Legion; a project that spawned literally hundreds of clones based off of Mist Arrow’s DNA. Gray Huntress is still labeled by the Council as the Perfect Specimen, because they altered her genetic code to be perfectly human in every way, shape, and form and thus the best platform for them to create a customized super-hero from scratch. The Huntress was abducted from the Project before any experiments could be performed, so Jackalynn was the next best subject.

    While Gray theoretically could have held virtually unlimited power, the scientists had to choose carefully on what to do with Jackalynn; their final decision was to alter her psyche to allow her to perform advanced feats of telekinesis, because technically, with enough finesse, Jackalynn could do almost anything she could focus her mind on.

    She was raised from childhood along with four other ‘sister’ clones to lead the Legion: Pyrefox, a highly temperamental and ambitious pyrokinetic; Dhole Pack, a docile, but insane, telepath and controller; Hounder, a formidable blade-wielder gifted with foresight; and Spirit Coyote, physically comatose, but her psionic ability of astral projection allows her to interact with the physical realm without the fear of death. Meanwhile, the Legion were hundreds of lesser clones that were labeled as Thralls. They are capable of independent thought and action just as any person, but the five leaders all share the ability to wrest control over their actions from them at a moment’s notice to serve as footsoldiers for their own goals. Each leader has been trained to be capable of controlling the whole Legion with minor concentration, minus control over the other four and Gray naturally.

    Project: Legion was officially activated two years ago when an insider tip from the Council led Gray Huntress to their base of operations. Overcome with the horror of realizing her own identity was a lie, Gray was nearly defeated by Jackalynn in combat; fortunately the rest of her team arrived to save her. Today, the Legion functions as an independent shadow organization within the Council known only to the Center and his inner circle. Jackalynn has the liberty to lead her team to whatever ends she deems necessary, or desirable; though she still performs delicate operations for her superiors when they require her services.

    She loves power and exhibits her own as much for show as for purpose; she would be more likely to tear a ten-ton gargoyle off a building to use as a weapon, when telekinetically manipulating a crowbar would be just as effective. And Jackalynn seeks possible ways to magnify her abilities even more at whatever cost, as long as it’s not too personal.
  7. Oooooooo, very very nice; comparatively speaking when comparing exceptional quality with price, Totmo is one of the best deals around!

    *jumps up and down in commission line with excitement*
  8. Hehe, thanks! And thanks to Mr. Fouts, he finished the second piece for me today. Here she is:

    Gray Huntress
  9. Aw, crap! I lost the needle under your skin...
  10. LOL at Kheldarn because...*sob* ULLI!!! Sorry I can't finish my lol...
  11. [ QUOTE ]
    When you consider your life pretty much over at age 50.

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    You know what... I really honestly do, but that's just me. Gratz to everyone who finally reached level 51 irl!


    When you spend a couple thousand or so dollars on a giant quartz rock and tell your friends its an Ouro crystal.
  12. Hmm, I suppose I could spread the vote-love to someone else because his victory seems assured, but wait, then that's one vote he won't have. So I'll follow through with Lousy_Day, not only is the piece absolutely beautiful and unique, you can see the double meanings behind the construction of the piece (transparency vs. opacity, yin vs. yang, blue vs. red, etc.). Not only does the medium raise the bar, but so does the interpretation.

    Juggertha and Tacky Tricky do indeed place close in my opinion. Nonetheless, great job everyone
  13. Certainly a popular choice for any art collector, I was one of the first in line when he opened for commissions. He just finished this beautiful render of Jackalynn for me today And I have one more from him in the works
  14. LOL @ Shinobi because his new nickname is Shinzy
  15. When you expect to get stopped for loading times whenever you leave a suburb into another.
  16. When you declare an impromptu costume contest in front of City Hall
  17. When you expect to see half a dozen people getting mugged, threatened, or bullied by villains on every street when you're downtown.
  18. LOL at Angry for living in the 'happiest place on Earth'
  19. LOL @ NAK because I can see what he's wearing
  20. o.O Off-topic question....when will the Paradigm meter fill up? The anticipation is killing me
  21. Wow, really nice. After seeing this and FireBrandi's, I'm tempted to send in a commission reservation myself.