Quarantined Characters (Part Two)

                                              

             This is the second in the series of Quarantined Characters, if you wanted to read the first installment go here. 


Greetings Adventurers!

 This is the second installment of Quarantined Characters, I'm hoping to hear from you (the readers) what short stories you would like to see about these characters while they quarantined. Because one aspect of this series is going to be short stories about the characters in quarantine.

So, let's stay home, wash our hands and see what the characters are doing:

                                         
                                                                               Oak 

              Oak is used to being away from civilization with her fellow hunters, and the goddess                                Artemis herself.  So she would be distanced enough and secluded from humans.                               
                 Suppose something happens and the hunters have to take refuge in a cave, because
                a wild beast (or a natural disaster) drove them there and they need to regroup and make a                    new plan. In that case, Oak would continue her lessons from Artemis on weaponry,                              wildlife, and other things, while she and the other hunters were trapped.
                     Artemis would also help her carve arrows from the
                    supplies they had around and help her prepare mentally for the next hunt.


                                                            Riona "Fire" & Celtiere 

                The fairies are used to being away from the human world for a while,
               so they would usually be very good at keeping social distance from humans.

 However, keeping a distance from other fay is unusal. They are comfortable with their own kind, so when the need to social distance happened the fay were not at first willing to stay away from each other.

            For Riona and Celtiere social distancing isn't a problem. They would exchange stories around the magical fire. Riona would share her stories of battles she fought and Celtiere would tell stories he made up on the spot. He might also make some up about his parents, who he never knew.

                                                 
               

                                                                   Crystal 

                 Crystal is a Neriad, and is a huntress of Artemis. While they are sheltering in the cave,
                she would help heal other hunters who may have been injured in battle.
                 She would continue her studies with Artemis in nature healing.
           She would learn how to use herbs and other natural things she could find around the cave they are hiding in.

              Crystal would also help Oak create more arrows and sharpen swords, 

               so they are prepared for the next hunt.



                                                   Detective Inspector Time 

Time would be bored out of his mind, with no new cases to solve with everyone stuck inside. 

He would be having trouble figuring out what to do, and everything in his life would feel like it was out of place. He would try and fail to write something he liked, even though he isn't much of a writer. Instead, he would end up using the torn pieces of paper to make paper balls and throw them against the wall or throw his daggers out of boredom. He would miss the exciting part of being a detective. He would be reminded by Annabelle or Marigold, both of which would probably would have found a creative way to be a detective during this time, that he should probably use the resources he has to be a detective. 

So with the resources he has he would... 

1. Write letters to people asking if any suspicious activity has happened. 

2. Make a dart board out of unused love letters (this isn't really part of solving cases, but it is at least worth mentioning). 

3. Imagine chasing down a criminal, and do target practice. (He will assure you that it will indeed be useful in the future). 

4. If any suspicious activity has happened at all, he will investigate from the comforts of home, and continue to interrogate people through letters. 

                                                                        Juniper 

             Juniper has a hawk, whom she befriended, who helps her during the hunt.
                  She has found a way for there be communication with the other
                 dryads by having her hawk send messages back and forth. She wants to make sure the                        threat which they are dealing with is either gone or that they are able to hunt it down and  kill it, if it is a monster.
       
                  While in communication with the other dryads, she would talk to some of her friends
                  who love talking to her about how things  have been going with her.  And she would tell                   them that she has  continued her lessons with the goddess, Artemis, during this time. And                       that she is learning to be one with nature, instead of thinking she is above it
                  like mankind wants her to think.



                                                                   Iris 
       

Supposing Iris wasn't able to leave the temple because something was going on, 

she would still continue her trainings with the other priestesses. 

If the threat required them to battle something, they would be among the first defenders  

to fight, after all they had years of training to act as defenders for mortals in physical form from the goddess. The priestesses are not only people who people turn to for religious reasons, but also 

for reasons of protection, because they had been the shield maidens of the goddess and helped defend the gods in one of their past incarnations. 

Assuming Iris didn't need to be called to battle, she would be in prayer in the temple. 

 She would ask the goddess for strength and protection. She would also practice meditation, hoping to get a message from the gods and goddesses through it.  

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Who would you rather be quarantined with? And whose quarantine would you like to see me  write a short story about? 

-Quinley
           

Independence Day Drawings

Happy 4th of July (Or Independence Day) to everyone in America!

To celebrate, here are some drawings I drew. I decided to draw some of the historical figures from the American Revolutionary War. Considering that I only had paintings and engravings to work with, this was somewhat difficult. (But, I will be including links to the references that I used for the portraits)

This is actually the second drawing I drew, but I like the way it turned out.  I think I succeeded in making his facial expression somewhat serious. (The reference I used to draw it was this portrait of George Washington .) 

I decided that I would draw Deborah Sampson when she is in disguise. I used the same reference here as I did for the one at the very bottom of the drawings. 

In every book I've read, the Patriot uniform she is wearing, is shown as mainly blue, along with different colors, sometimes red, sometimes brown. This is of course referring to the uniform color, not the first Continental Army's clothes, where everyone just wore their normal clothes.

I used this reference to draw Phillis Wheatley,

I like how this turned out.  Even though she didn't fight in the war, I felt it was necessary to include her in this post.

This drawing isn't a drawing of any particular historical figure. It's a drawing of a modern girl wearing a Fourth of July themed outfit. I rather liked how it turned out, especially drawing the sparkler. 

This is the first drawing I drew of Deborah Sampson. This is The engraving that I used as a reference for my drawing. This isn't my favorite since I prefer the second drawing (above), since I think it turned out better. Plus I like that in the second she is in uniform as opposed to wearing women's clothes. 

But if you don't celebrate Fourth of July (because you live in Ireland, or China, or somewhere else),
here are some drawings that are unrelated to Fourth of July:

This is a drawing of my character, Riona "Fire." She can shape-shift back and forth between a phoenix and a human. I like how this drawing turned out, and I like her facial expression. 

I like the way this drawing turned out. 

This is a drawing of an elf character who I haven't fully figured out yet, 

but I like how it turned out because I tried to make it look as if she was lying down on the grass. 

This character doesn't have a name yet, but she is a sorceress. 

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Which drawing is your favorite? And do you have a favorite historical figure? 

-Quinley

Introducing Some Characters: Fathers

Hello everyone and happy Father's Day,
It seems like in most fantasy stories both parents are either dead or are just never mentioned.
So, I thought for Father's Day I would make a post containing fathers of fictional characters, not necessarily the fathers of characters from my most recent projects, but father characters I came up for my other characters:


                                            Sycamore

He is the father of Elm, and is a dryad who possesses nature magic. 

Wherever he walks plants grow, and birds and other animals come out of hiding. 

He is a very calm person, and doesn't really fight, unless he has to. 

And when he does fight, he ties his enemies up in vines or has animals tackle them. 

Ferdinand

He is the father of Arnia.

He is a sorcerer who keeps the blue jewel safe. He was given this duty a long time ago 

and has persisted in it since.  Over the years people have tried to steal it, 

so they can figure out how to use the jewel's abilities. Only one knows how to use it 

but the one hasn't come yet...or so he thinks.  

Ardan

He is the father of Riona. 

He trains and breeds phoenixes for a living in the green hills of Ireland. 

His daughter went on a quest years ago, but hasn't returned. 

He isn't sure if something happened on the quest that caused her not to be able to return 

or whether she is still on the quest. 

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Which character is your favorite? 

-Quinley 

May drawings

Hi everyone, 

It's hard to believe it's May already.

I thought today would be a good day to do a drawing post, 

here they are: 

Drawing of Riona "Fire," it was really fun to do the shading in this drawing. 

A native American girl, I like the way she turned out. 

A drawing of Annabelle,  I was actually inspired by a scene from one of my books when I was drawing this. 

This was meant to be a drawing of Hermione from Harry Potter, 

but unfortunately it did not end up looking like her. 

A drawing of Elm, I like how it turned out. 

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Which drawing is your favorite? 

Love, 

-Quinley 

P.S. I will be responding to the other comments from my previous posts, though it may take me a little longer to respond to them. 

When did we get a fox? (a short story)

Hi....
So, today I'm going to share a short story I wrote...which involves half elves, phoenixes, and talking foxes...
 For those who haven't heard of Celtiere you can read about him (Here, here, here, and here)
anyway...on with the story:

Celtiere opened his eyes. What had happened? Where was he? He looked over at his cross-bow, for some reason something was different about it, he didn’t know what? 

It looked slightly different…he tried to reach out to pick it up. When he tried, he saw a…paw!! Celtiere jumped back, a paw? Was that his hand? He couldn’t help but wonder, if something magical had gone wrong that turned him into…something with a paw, or rather paws. He looked over at the cross-bow again, and wondered if it was a good idea to pick it up since there was already an arrow in it that could go off. If he picked it up in the wrong way, and if he didn’t have hands, he probably couldn’t pick it up in the right way… 

“Greetings!” came a voice. Celtiere turned around to see a fox standing right next to him. “Who are you? and What brings you here?” 

Celtiere looked at the fox. Was the fox talking? And he could understand it…alright there must have been something that went wrong, because he couldn’t hear foxes talk yesterday.. “Umm…I’m Celtiere. And I have no idea what has brought me here…but I need to get back” answered Celtiere, wondering how he learned to talk to a fox. 

“Nice to meet you Celtiere. I’m Hugo,” said the fox. He seemed to be inquisitively gazing at Celtiere as if there was something different about him. “Anyway…It’s nice to meet another fox like me.” he said, gazing at Celtiere. 

A fox? That explained the paws, but why a fox? Only yesterday he had been a half elf…and now he was a fox. No, that couldn’t be possible…he had to be dreaming. Yes, it had to be dream. He waited for a sharp pinch from Riona to wake him up…nothing, he waited again, still nothing. Celtiere turned back to Hugo “I’m not a fox,” he said. He didn’t know quite what else to say. 

Hugo looked rather confused. He looked at Celtiere from head to paw. “I’m pretty sure you are a fox” said Hugo. “I don’t know why you're saying you aren’t a fox,” 

“Because I wasn’t. I was a half elf yesterday and I don’t know what happened that caused me to turn into a fox.” said Celtiere, “I’m really truly not a fox.” 

Hugo still seemed slightly confused, “Are you sure you're not imagining those things, about being a half elf?” he said. 

“I’m sure…and this is slightly weird to be able to talk to a fox, but anyway…I need to find my friends they must be out searching for me” he said, then he wondered if he would be able to tell them he was really Celtiere, what if he could only speak fox? What if he didn’t understand them? What if they didn’t understand him?? Well, he needed to find them first before he worried about that. 

“Umm…have you seen a brown haired elf recently, and a red headed girl with freckles?” he asked. Hugo looked rather surprised 

“You're looking for humans—“ he began. 

“Well, they're not technically humans. You see one's an elf, and other one is a phoenix who can turn into a human…but I suppose you could call them humans—“ interrupted Celtiere. 

“Umm…your looking for humans…who like to chase and hunt foxes” said Hugo. “I would not recommend that…” 

“But these humans don’t hunt foxes, so I have no reason to worry” said Celtiere, who didn’t want Hugo start going over the reasons why he shouldn’t go after his friends…

“But “ said Hugo, “Are you mad? We foxes don’t run up to humans or do anything with them.” 

“That’s because I’m not a fox” said Celtiere, who was wondering at the moment if he had gone mad, because he was hearing a fox talk!! “Anyway, I need to go find my friends now!!” before Hugo could reply, Celtiere had ran off through the trees and bushes looking for his friends…Finally, after a long search Celtiere saw his group, they were walking on the narrow path of the woods.

“I wonder where Celtiere could have gone” he heard Riona say… “Well…we can’t go on this quest with out him.” 

Quite right, thought Celtiere. Now all I need to do is get them to notice me…and then I can be a half elf again!  Celtiere wasn’t quite sure whether his plan would work or not, but it was worth a try. He quietly climbed out of the bushes that he was watching the group from, and scampered in front of their path.

“Oh, look a fox!” said Riona, kneeling down to Celtiere’s eye level.

 “I wonder why it ran in front of our path?” said the brown haired elf.

“I’m Celtiere, I got turned into a fox” blurted Celtiere, but to his surprise no one seemed to understand.

“Do you think it’s trying to tell us something?” the elf asked. 

“I don’t know, I don’t speak fox,” said Riona, who happened to know at least three languages which were: Phoenix, Elvish, and English.

“I’m trying to tell you, I’m Celtiere!!” said Celtiere, who was rather annoyed that no one could understand a word he was saying.

“Well…we need to continue searching for Celtiere, who knows were he might be now?” said Riona, standing up and brushing her dress off. 

“I’m right here!” shouted Celtiere, but the group took no notice of him and continued on the path… 

Celtiere sighed and gazed down at the path, would he ever get turned back? 

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Hope you enjoyed the story 

What do you think will happen to Celtiere? Will he stay a fox forever or will he get turned back? 

-Quinley 

P.S I'm doing a "What's happening in this picture" on my doll blog, so feel free to comment with a caption

Some characters

Hello everyone happy easter I hope you are enjoying easter, anyway I have some characters I am currently working on that I am excited to show you!:) 

Riona "Fire"

Shapeshifter/ guardian/ Phoenix 

Riona is the guardian of the main hero Celtiere.

she is a phoenix who can shape-shift into a human , 

Riona tends to be hot-headed most of the time... 

but at times she can be very loyal.  

Healer/ Ranger/ Has a British Accent 

I haven't found a good name for her yet , 

but she is an elf from Britain 

who came to Ireland (where the story takes place). 

she has a British accent and knows how to use herbs and natural magic. 

She also carries around a long-bow.

Celtiere 

Ranger/ Half elf/ has a magic cross-bow

Celtiere is the main character in the story. 

He is a hero in training and has been training since 

he was young. and he yet to go on his first quest. 

He is the son of a lord and lady , and is destined to be the next ruler 

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I am planning on making more characters for this series (which I will write after I finish writing about Tess) Before I start plotting it out I feel like it will need 2 more characters 

Which character is your favorite? and how is CampNanowrimo going for you? Feel from to comment below 

Love, 

Quinley