Ivara wrote:Love the name you gave him Bonus, Momodica, I think it fits~
Hur, going to keep adding? I admire the persistence, I think you should continue the story, or if you ended it intentionally there then maybe the...um... I don't think there's much there to improve on. Maybe some more art would be best, but it's entirely up to you.
~Name~
His full name is 7-Up, as in the soda. Bubbly and happy, a carbonated drink fit him perfectly! Mountain Dew was actually the name I had in mind originally, but I don't want to copy someone else.ANYWAY: his nickname fits him almost as well, and that's Seven. He has 47 spots, the seven being self explanatory, and when you add the four to the three colors that makes seven as well, and seven is my lucky number so...*takes deep breath* I think Seven works well as a name! He seems to like it too. :3
~Stats~
Seven is a 14-year-old male with white, green and orange markings (birth date June 21, 1997). He is about the size of a great dane and around one hundred pounds. He appears to be in perfect health, although he is slightly underweight for his build. This is not a huge problem, luckily. Orientation gay.
~Likes and Dislikes~
The moment you've all been waiting for!
✔ Soda
Seven adores soda! It IS his namesake after all, and it fits his personality perfectly. Not that that really matters too much...the best part of soda to Seven is the flavor. The shock of cold sugar meeting your tongue and traveling slowly down your throat, cleansing your whole body... *Seven licks lips* It's just so good!
Soda Haiku
Sugary bubbles
Slowly rise to the surface
Sweet, cold perfection
✔ Boys
Here's the controversial one that I'll take out if I have to, but I see it as a respectable fact of life. Seven is gay. He has been that way since his first crush at age nine, and he has never had a problem with it. In his eyes, love life, love love, love boys! Why not? It gives him that thrill we all know so well, the one where just a person's eyes can tell you so much about them, so much about what they feel for you. Love is love, and Seven loves it! He's gotten a lot of grief for his beliefs, but he's willing to overcome it. Who you love shouldn't matter, just as long as you love somebody. Other peoples opinions? Don't really matter to Seven. He knows he's doing what's right.
Love Haiku
Look into my eyes
And you'll see someone who will
Be yours forever
✔ Travel
Seven loves to see every new place he can! He loves to see the world through a million different colors, and every city he goes to brings him a new way of being happy. The train is his favorite mode of travel--he's met so many nice people just by eating dinner with them on trains. But train-travel aside, Seven mostly just loves the adrenaline rush of traveling the globe. He really wants to get to Afghanistan, but the whole 'war' thing presents a slight issue. So far, his favorite place is Luxembourg. There's just something so wonderful about a whole country with its own culture that's so...tiny!
Travel Haiku
I'll send you a card
From the center of the world
Then you can come, too
✔ Summer
Summer is Seven's favorite season. The sun comes out and makes everything ok again, and there's fresh grass to roll in and sports to play and water to swim in and life is just plain happy. Plus the added bonus: no school! July is the best time of the year to Seven. There's always something new and entertaining to do.
Summer Haiku
Sweet warmth pounding up
From the earth and through my body
The sun has returned
✔ People
Well this is the obvious one! Seven is a charismatic, people-pleasing Jellybean Dragon. He adores people, talking to people, being with people, and when around those he loves Seven is in his element. It just makes him so happy to be around others, it's really nice to see. He's a party dragon!
People Haiku
Swarms and hoards and crowds
So many souls mingle here
Every one a star
✖ The Country
Seven is a city type of JBD, and the country quite honestly scares him a bit. When you go to sleep at night there are all these weird bumps and noises, and it's so much darker than in town, where you can see your friend's houses right from your window. He's never sure what to make of all that empty space, and he doesn't like it! Given the choice, Seven will always stay in town.
Country Haiku
Strange thoughts and noises
Things that go bump in the night
How's that beautiful!?
✖ Bullies
Seven's orientation coupled with his no-fear attitude mean that he can get picked on a lot. He hates the feeling of someone, a living, breathing person, being so cruel. It hurts more than just about anything else that happens to Seven. He suffers through it most of the time, and his friends and family try to help, but what can they do? There will always be somebody waiting around the corner, ready to pounce. It gives you a kind of paranoia, and there have been nights where Seven hasn't been able to sleep with the hurt of it.
Bullying Haiku
I hope you're happy
With the constant pain you cause
Happy with the hurt
✖ Frowns
Seven is just such a happy JBD--it always makes him sad to see another frown. A mouth turned down means that somebody is unhappy, and when Seven's friends are unhappy, so is he. He loves making people smile, and when even his bubbly ways can't cheer them up? That makes him frown too. They're a bit contagious, and a lot unpleasant.
Frown Haiku
Corners of your mouth
Turned down, showing misery
And hate to the world
✖ Grayscale art
Come on, now people; why have black and white when you can have COLOR? It's ridiculous! Pictures with color are always popping with life, and gray is just so DEPRESSING...Seven's art style is anything but! When he makes a picture it usually involves stepping in about five colors of paint and making rainbow paw prints across a sheet of paper. It makes such colorful art--don't stick with pen and pencil when there's paint to be found. Grayscale art to Seven is just downright boring.
Gray Haiku
Slabs and drabs of coal
Mound upon mound of storm clouds
A desolate sight.
✖ The cold
Seven loves summer, and what's the opposite of warm days and lemonade? Snow. Freezing, slushy days where your paws are about to fall off and you can see your breath and there's no grass anywhere. Yuck--who likes that!? Coldness chills Seven right to the bone. He's the kind of dragon who tries to get to Hawaii the minute you feel the first frost...not that that's ever worked before. The only thing you can do about the cold is wait it out; which Seven absolutely loathes.
Cold Haiku
Frost settles in fur
Snow sweeps through and blows it out
Winter's vicious rage
~Every Soul a Star (Seven's story, as told from his perspective)~
It was the perfect day in spring, and I was as happy as could be. The thermometer said 65 degrees, and it was April 21. Exactly two months until my thirteenth birthday--yeeess! Mom said I could have any cake I wanted, and I already knew exactly what I was going to get. Caramel ice cream cake with rainbow frosting and my name written on it with big letters; and 7-Up to drink. I always had 7-Up on my birthday, it was kind of my ritual.
Anyway, I had told Mom that I would take Tanya (my little sister) to the movies. Something about Belle?...she had always been Tanya's favorite princess. The kid had been dying to see the movie forever and Mom didn't want to go, so I figured why not? It means I get better presents in two months anyway. So I decided to do it: blow the day and take my little sis to the local theater.
At the movies I paid the admission, got Tanya Junior Mints and me soda, and grabbed us some seats towards the back. It actually felt pretty cool--like I was being the awesome big brother that most of the time I really wasn't. Sure, the movie was boring...but so what? I didn't come to see high culture.
About halfway through, I realized I had drunk a little too much soda. I told Tanya I would be back soon and made a dash towards the bathroom--not so big-brotherly, but whatever. I had to go! After I had relieved myself and washed my hands I strolled back to Theater 5 to meet Tanya. The depressing thing: I didn't even get halfway there before my life changed forever.
Right beside the gum-ball machine, I ran right into him. Him. I didn't even know who he was, but he was the single most gorgeous living creature I had ever seen. He had pink eyes, a deep, soulful magenta with a complex maze of intertwined veins like ivy on an old brick building, and his fur was chocolate and cream with touches of that same incredibly hot pink. I just stood there with my mouth open.
"Erm...excuse me." He smiled. His voice was the same chocolate-rich as his fur, and his teeth where pearly white. "Sorry to run into you."
I nodded. "No, it was my fault. I was trying to get back to my little sister. She's in Theater 5."
He gave me a grin. "Coincidence! My cousin is in there too. She's been dying to see what Disney's come up with next. Cute little kid, but a mouth like you wouldn't believe. My name's Rishko, by the way."
"I'm Seven! Care to walk back to the theater with me?"
He nodded and smiled, and my heart did a little dance. Rishko. Beautiful name! And he was mine...for the next hour and a half of the movie, at least. We stepped in time to each other, and I could almost feel a summer-like heat sizzling between us. Just so you know, I LOVE summer.
Back in Theater 5, Tanya and Rishko's cousin got along fine and ditched us to sit up front together. Rish looked at me and shrugged, and we decided to stay where we were. He had a bag of popcorn that he offered to share, and I don't think it was coincidence that our paws kept meeting when we reached for another handful. Could I dare to hope...did he like me? Could something so beautiful EVER like something like me? I never thought it could...but then it happened. The moment that, above all else, changed my life.
The movie was ending, and Beauty was leaning in towards the Beast. Just as their lips touched, Rishko grabbed me and pushed his lips against mine. A kiss. My first ever kiss, and from someone who was absolutely gorgeous! Fireworks lit up the inside of my mind, brightening forgotten corners I forgot existed. My heart started beating, and I almost started singing along with Belle. I was still me...but I was changed. My lips tingled with the joy of it, and I had a hard time sitting still. Rishko liked me. I liked Rishko. Was this...love? It didn't matter. Whatever it was, I didn't want it to end.
Of course, it did. But Rishko and I didn't care; we may have only been acquaintances who met at a movie theater, but we knew that we would be special to each other for a very long time. When the movie was over we even went outside together--and that was where everything went wrong.
When we said good-bye (complete with phone-number exchange) I worked up the nerve to give Rishko a quick kiss on the cheek. It left me feeling like there was helium lifting my heart up...really incredible! But the guys in my class hanging around the back of the movie theater didn't think so.
"Ha, Seven--I didn't know you were gay. I mean, it's not like you've ever been cool or anything, but this is a new low. Guys, whaddya think? I've always thought Sev seemed a little...freakish."
The words came like a punch to my gut, and had to blink back the tears prickling behind my eyes. That was Fresca who was talking; he had been my partner in Social Studies! We had both been named for soda, and liked to laugh about it...Fresca was my friend. How could he say something like that!? How DARE HE!? It was then that I got mad.
"Get lost, Fresca. Who do you like--Manda? Everyone knows she's dated about five people in the past month...wanna bet how many of those she's slept with?"
I didn't know where those words came from, and they made me feel even worse. It was true (nobody liked Manda), but...it was an awful thing to say. I never said those kinds of things, never.
Fresca looked at me, his mouth hanging open. I expected him to come back with the retort I deserved, but instead he grabbed me around the neck and started yanking me over. My head spun. Five minutes ago I had been dizzy with love, and now I was dizzy because my face was being smushed into asphalt. It hurt like nothing had ever hurt before; little black bits dug into my fur, and I could taste blood on the end of my tongue. A sharp, searing pain tore down my cheek and I knew I had gotten another cut.
I thought I was going to die. I know it probably seems like an overreaction now, but that was the first time I had ever really been hurt. When I thought about it, I was actually a pretty sheltered kid. Nothing had ever been this painful before, nothing. And I didn't know how on Earth I was going to get out of it.
The answer came in Tanya. When she ran over and saw the scene, her shrieks started up immediately.
"That's my brother! What are you doing to my BROTHER!?"
Fresca looked a bit disgruntled and let me stand up. It's one thing to beat up a kid your own age, but it's another entirely to do it in front of that kid's cute little sister. I took Tanya's hand and (coward that I am) ran as fast as I could run.
A few blocks away a voice stopped me. "Hey--Seven! You look beat up...what happened?" I knew that voice; it was Rishko! I turned, and now I really did start to cry.
When I stayed quiet, Tanya explained what little she understood of the story. Judging by his face, Rishko got exactly what had happened. He put his arm around me and wiped some of the blood off my face. In a soothing voice, he whispered, "It'll get better. They did that to me at first too--you just gotta stay strong and go through with it. This is your choice, Seven. If you decide to like other guys you'll be making life harder for yourself; there will always be jerks like the ones who beat you up. Follow your heart or take the easy path. It's up to you...yes or no?"
I looked up at him with my face dirt-coated and tear-stained, my very eyes trembling. This was the first day of the rest of my life, and I knew what I had to say.
"Yes. I'm going to do it, Rishko...I love you."
~Song~
This took forever to write and sing! It's entirely original, so I'd appreciate it if you gave it a listen.
http://youtu.be/rWz2mZLal_A
~Why I Want Seven and What I Would Do With Him~
The short answer is really, really simple--I love Seven! He's beautiful, with a complicated but not over-fancy design and colors that mesh perfectly. There's such an ideal balance: colors on other sides of the color wheel meet, lines and circles combine, and a perky-bubbly pattern meets a mysterious frown. Seven is not a subtle dragon, and I really love that about him. Even his coloring shows that he's not afraid to put himself out into the world.
There's also the personal reasons: Seven's personality speaks to me like not many other dragons ever have. His design is beautiful, yes, but it also immediately stood out as a design I wanted to have, just because it made me happy to look at it. That's a pretty powerful thing, to see a piece of art and smile just like that. If I owned Seven, I would own that smile. And to me, that's one of the best things I can think of.
As for what I would do with him, that's another fun question to answer. I would put him in RPs and make tons of art of him...but mostly I have to say I would write. I love to write, both music and stories, and he would become a brand new, elaborate character to feature. There's a program called NanoWrimo that my school does, in which for the month of November you write a 50,000 word novel (that's well over a hundred full-sized typed pages), and for 2012 I have a brand new idea. I'm going to take my six most precious characters and create a world about them, and then have that world and the world consisting of me and my six best friends clash. It would be told from different perspectives, meaning that every person and every character would have lots of time to be talked about. Should I win Seven, he would be the counterpart of my real life BFF--that's a starring role! I could even show you parts of the book if you'd like.
Seven's design and personality immediately stood out to me as what I wanted to have be a part of my life. I doubt I'll win, but I would be overjoyed if I got to call him my own. <3
~Final Thoughts~
Good luck, everybody! Stripey, your form is amazing, and everybody else showed so much heart. I know this JBD will find a loving home no matter what. I'll probably be adding to this form until the deadline, but I have some other stuff I need to do, so this is all for now. Ivara, I'd love some feedback, and I can change whatever needs to be changed...more art, more story, less clutter, whatever. Thanks for making such an amazing dragon...I'm really nervous, but really happy too.![]()
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