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[egypturnash]

Spiral-face girl.


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"Ritual of Silence".

The bg was yellow for a while, and sometimes her dress was off-white. But it just didn't work that way.

Addendum: Seems I'm unconsciously ripping off the Batman Beyond villain "Spellbinder" here - image. Something like that was certainly in the back of my head, along with swirly hypno-effects, when I drew this. Credit where credit is due! Thanks to dv_girl for the name and the image link.

Comments

[milkpanzer.livejournal.com]

(7)-

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

You know, when I first saw the sketch, I couldn't quite make out what was in that word balloon. And I thought to myself, "OK, I'm only going to be creeped out by her if that's really supposed to be a 7 in there." @__@

And yet, somehow, I want her to make me have unnatural relations with her. No corporeal bodies need be involved.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Creeped out by the character in the drawing, or by the artist responsible for it?

hypnotic unmoving spirals swirl somehow some static motion that commands and grows

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

*stares, slack-jawed*
"Yes. All right. Whichever. I know you must be correct." @.@

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

there are things that one should do
and things that one should not do

they are one and the same
they are one

what you must(not) do

(you must not fear)

touch me. there.

[ovon.livejournal.com]

sete cinco seis

CONET <3 OVON

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Beginning of today's information.

One three nine zero four
Seven two two eight six
Five three eight six nine
Four zero zero seven five
Six zero six two one
Eight seven two three three
One zero nine two four
Zero nine zero six five
Six four three nine four
Three six four one four

End.
End.

Re: CONET <3 OVON

[ovon.livejournal.com]

*click* Received.

Actually, I was thinking of "Numbers" by Smoke City (the last track in the Upbottom mix)...

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

You know, I still don't read that as 7. It just looks too close to real Kanji to be 7. *shrug*

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Given that the only Japanese influences in my art are second- or third-hand at best, any similarity between my scribbly handwriting and Japanese letterforms is pure coincidence. That's a seven; for years I've been in the habit of putting a cross-bar on that digit.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I wonder
if she
belongs
on Puzzlebox
?

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

I thought this as soon as I'd seen her, of course, and would've mentioned it except for two reasons:

1) I figured people were getting sick of me jumping up and shouting "That should be a Puzzlebox character!" at random comic books, neon signs, sculptures, trees, boxes of laundry soap...
2) I'd be obliged (compelled?) to mention I'd like to see more hypnodommes on PBX, but I was afraid that would sound a little cliche for a spiral-faced woman without more development -- and at the time, somehow, my mind was a blank. O:)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Some things don't need more development beforehand. If I bounced miss Ritual of Silence off of personages like the Hydra Network, Untitled, Roque, Besax, and Rezeya, who knows what'd emerge as her motives? Malignant, mysterious, or even just nice? Something probably would, and she'd end up involved in some long, weird plot, more than likely.

Hell, maybe she's just a hypno-domme poseur. She's got the look down, she's got the moves, but when spirals start turning and lights start flashing and wills start bending, she gets all nervous and runs off...

Someday I must put you in the same place as a couple of my filled-up sketchbooks and see how frequently you say "This should be a Puzzlebox character!" when looking through them. Maybe just give you a pad of Post-its and see how festooned the books end up being. *giggle*

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

It would be neat to see somebody with the requisite set of powers -- or the potential to develop them, or the appearance of them -- but not the factory-issue personality to go with them, nor the actual ability to put 'em into use...

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Kalinda used to regularly have people reacting to her by going "Oh no! A snake! Please don't hypnotize me and work your evil whims on me, I'm so helpless!", and the thing is, she really had no interest in it. The one time I did a real mind-fuck scene with her, she ended up just as hypnotized and lost as the other person. She has the capacity to bend the OOCly-willing to her will, but would rather not, for the most part.

Built as a hypno-weapon, wrong personality core?

Powers-not-used is a pretty common theme around Puzzlebox...

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

So then, what would be the deal with the seven? :)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I think it's a come-on.

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

Ooh, talk primes to me, baby...

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

127

      2^6972593-1

4349

(wicked giggle) 10 (and an unmoving moving swirl flash twist suggests that 10 is, indeed, prime...)

[sans-souci.livejournal.com]

gh... it's her... again!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

come... to... me...

[sans-souci.livejournal.com]

s-she will swallow me again!!!

(the yellow background makes her creepier! If she had said '9' I would've really had nightmares. Nine is a number that scares me...)

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Number 9... number 9... number 9...

[ovon.livejournal.com]

Woo. I think I like the all-yellow version even better. Implied volumes and all that --

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

*nod* So do I, but it loses the shoulder, and that's an important part of the drawing, somehow. I should futz around with it a little more and maybe replace it; I was in the sleepy "Oh, call it done" state when I decided to post it.

[adequatemagic.livejournal.com]

even better. The blurring of foregroundbackground makes it that much more of what it is.

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Coooool!

Do the boobtastic dragon now! Kitty wants milk :)

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

Another nifty poster. And I agree with the person above, both in liking the all yellow version better and for the same reason. This reminds me of someone, a character in a comic somewhere, but I can't place the drawing. Very cool image, though!

-T'

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Um.. Did you ever see the Batman Beyond villain character, 'Spellbinder'?

http://www.kidzworld.com/img/upload/article/a665i1_spell-WA.jpg

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I think I did. I knew the idea of "spiral face" was from somewhere else as I was drawing it. Ah well.

The spiral even turns the same way! Hee. I'm so much less original than I look.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Heehee. I only knew this because I'm a naughty fangirl and find him to be one of the most erotic (and creepy) of the batman villians. ^_^ But now I can be a fangirl of your character since women rev my motor more than men. *^_^*

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

Now we know DV's big secret. She's into mind control! Yum!

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

*Jedi mind trick* No I am not. */jedi mind trick*

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

yes

you

are

[draca-serpens.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Awesome. Do I sense a new user icon? };}

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

you see nothing special

it is a completely normal icon

you have not fallen into a trance

everything is perfectly fine

i am not implanting any commands into your mind whatsoever

you will not remember any of this

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Erm. *^_^* (squirms in seat) Naughtynaughtynaughty!

As suggested on the wiki....

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like to claim her as a Puzzlebox character. (Assuming someone hasn't beaten me to the punch, that is.)

Re: As suggested on the wiki....

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Okay! Have fun, and be sure to try and hypnotize some of my characters now and then!

Feel free to grab the swirly-face icon for her LJ, if she ends up with one.

Re: As suggested on the wiki....

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

Okay! Have fun, and be sure to try and hypnotize some of my characters now and then!

Mine, too! Admittedly, in many cases that's redundant. :)