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Thanks Weilyn. Those backgrounds are really fun to create, but I could never get Midnight or Noon to work (not enough colour variation).

Anyway, forum contest entries.

Blueblazer’s Redesign Contest

Quest

Panik

And dblade’s contest

Neurotica

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Hopefully I’m not too late for this. I forgot I’d done this.

Neurotica

Looking at the other entries, I know I’m not going to win, but it’s the taking part that counts (literally in this case).

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reminds me of Deadman

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Indeed. We’ve all had days like that Scatman

I’m now just going through my deviantart gallery looking for old stuff to upload.
1: Background art (including my entry for the 100th character design contest)
Dawn

Dusk

2: Demon Girl & The Wolf Hunter (Image and short story)

“Are you coming Sam?” Asked Tracy. Her friend shook her head, causing her glasses to slide down her nose.
“Not tonight, I’ve got a lot of work to do for Professor Rueben’s lecture tomorrow.”
“Your loss.” Tracy said cheerfully, wink as her friend turned and hurried off back to the main college building. Tracy shook her head as she turned to her companion.
“I don’t get her,” She said wearily. “Professor Rueben’s work doesn’t have to be in for another week. She was just lying to get out of coming with us.”
“Can you blame her?” Azaria said, putting her books into her bag. “What we do isn’t for everyone. It’s dangerous and she obviously doesn’t want to be a part of it, she just helps you because she doesn’t want you to get hurt.”
Tracy smiled as they set off towards Azaria’s house.
“I know that,” She said, looking around. It was nearly sunset and the wind was picking up, blowing the leaves around. “She could have just said that.”
“She probably didn’t want to offend you,” Azaria said as they reached the front door. “You know what Sam is like. She cares how everyone feels.”
“I suppose,” Tracy said as the front door slid open, to reveal Azaria’s mother, standing in the thresh hold.
“Oh, Tracy. Hello. I wasn’t expecting you to be coming.”
“Hi Minerva.” Tracy smiled and gave the old woman a hug. She liked Mrs. Thomas. She was very like her daughter, kind, friendly and dependable. She also made awesome cookies.
“I assume you girls are going out tonight.” Mrs. Thomas shouted after them as the two girls shot up stairs. “Considering what night it is.”
“You got that right mum,” Azaria grinned down from over the bannister. Mrs. Thomas shook her head.
“You girls,” She sighed. “I’ve just baked a new batch of cookies. Shall I pack some in a rucksack for you to take.”
“Yes please,” Tracy squelled from Azaria’s room. Azaria smiled at her mother and winked. Mrs. Thomas shook her head again and walked back to the kitchen.

“So,” Tracy said as she dumped her bag on the bed. “What are we looking at here.”
Azaria picked up a rolled up map of the town and laid it out on her desk.
“Well, we have a summoning over here at midnight,” She said pointing to the woods to the north of the town. “And we have a rogue wolfman living in the woods to the east of that, so we need to find him.”
“Sounds fun,” Tracy said as she emptied her bag. She could feel the fur starting to prick through her skin. The sun was dipping below the horizon outside the window and she could see the moon starting to poke above the horizon. Her guns and numerous vials tumbled out onto Azaria’s bed. She grabbed the syringe from the side pocket and drew a green liquid from one of the vials. She winced as the needle pierced her skin, allowing the wolfsbane to flow into her veins and around her system. She breathed a sigh of relief as she felt her muscles relax. When she looked up she saw that Azaria was looking at her in an odd way. She looked down and saw claw marks in the wood of the bed where she had been holding.
“Oh my god,” Tracy exclaimed. “Az I’m so sorry.”
“It’s alright,” the other girl said calmly, covering the claw marks with the bed sheets. “I’d rather have scratches on my bed than a werewolf in my room.”
Tracy smiled gingerly. The sun was completely gone now. She would never let it get this close usually, but the excitement had distracted her.
Azaria had obviously noticed her friends expression, because she placed a comforting arm around her shoulder.
“Don’t look like that, you’ll ruin all the fun,” She teased. Tracy looked up and gave her a smile.
“Like I’d do that to you,” She replied, sticking her tongue out. “Now, are you going to get changed?”
Azaria winked and removed her shirt, revealing a black leotard. As she removed her jeans she saw a definite red tint to her skin. She smiled as the warm changes of her transformation flooded her body with different sensations. She could feel her wing bones rip from her arms and the horns pierce through her forehead, extending until they where at least half a foot tall. Her spine cracked as it elongated and rearranged, the tail sliding through the hole that Azaria had cut in the bottom of the leotard. Her ears picked as they stretched and elongated. None of the changes hurt anymore, not like her first time. Then it was agony, now it just felt natural.
Tracy smiled at the demon standing in front of her.
“You ready?” She asked. The demon grinned, showing her long fangs.
“Oh, I’m ready.” Azaria’s voice was much lower and more gravelly, but it was still recognizable as her. Tracy smiled and they both shot through the door and into the landing. Azaria leapt down the stairs, using her wings to glide to the ground, whilst Tracy slid down the bannister, holstering her guns.
“We’re going out now mum,” Azaraia shouted towards the lounge.
“Ok dear. The cookies are in the bag by the door.”
Azaria grinned as Tracy quickly scooped up the bag and opened the front door, quickly checking to see if no-one was around, before flinging the door open. Azaraia shot into the air, giggling. She would never get bored of this.
“Let’s go hunt.”

Hope you like ’em

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I don’t know, I can’t see them.

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@Weilyn said:

Holy. Shit. This is just creepy.
Please look at what I posted in my gallery six minutes after you posted the last picture.

Creepy.

I noticed. The coincidence is quite amusing. Maybe we had a shared thought, or maybe the world is just a mad place as a certain villain has always claimed.

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Thanks Scatman. Unfortunately, I don’t know what to do now I’ve finished those guys. my inspiration seems to have gone on holiday now.
Anyway, whilst I wait for my inspiration to come back, here’s an old one.

“What would you do if you knew something that no-one else knew, if you could see something that no-one else could see. What if you knew that everyone was in danger, but no-one would believe you. You would go mad, wouldn’t you? WOULDN’T YOU!
They are here. They have come.”

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Thanks.

I just threw this together.

I think my favourites are The Phantom Of The Opera (mask) and The Leopard Woman (the shading on the dress). What about you guys.

I issue a challenge to anyone reading. Go here http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Literary_Characters and design your own team. The character archetypes I’ve used are Detective, Adventurer/ Hunter, Supernatural, Brute, Spy/ Thief, Scientist/ Inventor & Villain.

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And finishing of the AAA series-

The Association Of Amazing Alumni

File 7-
Name: Doctor Fu Manchu
Profession: Crime Lord
Skills: Arcane Knowledge, Various Combat Skills, Invention
Further Information: Dr. Fu Manchu is a Chinese criminal mastermind who prefers to the arcane rather than guns or explosives. He is reputed to have numerous thugs, robbers, and secret societies, such as the Si-Fan under his thumb. Fu Manchu arms his forces with not only hand to hand weapons such as knives but also strange animals or chemical weapons. He funds his plots through drug trade and human trafficking. He is believed to be behind the current trouble is the Far East, which the Association were brought together to prevent.

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You now have 24 hours left to enter any not yet submitted designs for this contest. Get ’em in quickly people.

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The Association Of Amazing Alumni

File 6-
Name: Professor Sandford Quest
Profession: Scientist, Criminologist, Private Investigator
Skills: Scientific Knowledge, Criminology, Invention, Hypnosis Expert, Athletics, Hand-to-Hand Combat
Further Information: A criminologist and scientific detective who uses a wide variety of gadgets of his own invention, including an “electric mind-reader,” a viewphone, a pocket bomb made of a super-powerful explosive, and a “pocket wireless telephone,” to fight against crime. Quest is also an expert in hypnosis. He is athletic, an exceptional fighter and extremely brave and level headed. He is described as, “the greatest master in criminology the world has ever known.” The last member of the Association of Amazing Alumni to be recruited, he has worked with both Sexton Blake and The Leopard Woman on cases previously.

That’s the last of the Association. Now you guys can guess who’s going to be the villain. Hint- Public Domain Villains and the team where assembled to avert trouble in the Far East.

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The Association Of Amazing Alumni

File 5-
Name: Countess Lujza Miklos
Also Known As: The Leopard Woman
Profession: Spy (ex-German Government, Current MI5)
Skills: Espionage, Expert Aim, Fluent in 3 Languages/ Semi Fluent in many others.
Further Information: Countess Lujza Miklos, also knonw as The Leopard Woman, is a Hunagarian woman who worked as a spy for the German government. She speaks English, German and Hungarian with perfect fluency, and many African and Far Eastern languages with semi-fluency, though slight inconsistencies make it clear that English was not her native language. She is very clever and ruthless and usually carries a gun. She fell in love with rival agent John Culbertson, who she was sent to delay, and eventually abandoned her mission to marry him. She was approached by Sexton Blake to become the espionage specialist of the Association of Amazing Alumni, which she accepted, as the lure of a new adventure was to much for her to refuse.

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@Weilyn said:

Awesome! I’ve always thought the monster is far more interesting than Frankenstein himself (who was a bit of a dick).

Thanks. I’e alway wondered who’s meant to be the good guy in the Frankenstein story, because neither of them do anything good through out. Frankenstein plays god and the monster goes around killing people. That’s why I made the monster more heroic.

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Thanks guys. Here you go, the next one.

The Association Of Amazing Alumni

File 4-
Name: Adam
Also Known As: Frankenstein’s Monster
Profession: None
Skills: Brute Strength, High Intelligence
Further Information: Originally created by the scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein sometime in the early 19th century, in Geneva, Switzerland. Frankenstein originally gave life to the creature using a secret method that combined modern science with medieval alchemy. Upon the successful completion of his experiment, Frankenstein became horrified by his own creation and quickly abandoned it. Alone, frightened and unaware of it’s own origin, the monster began wandering the wilderness. It learnt speech from observing people from a distance. It’s travels during the time it was last seen in Switzerland and it’s reappearance in London are not widely known, but it now lives in the sewer system of London, trying to find a being that doesn’t flee at the site of it. It often attacks criminals, especially those who seek to harm women. Although perceived to be a brutish unintelligent being, many close-up eye-witness reports suggest it to be of a great intelligence, learned in both English and German, although due to it’s partially decomposed state, the monster does have trouble pronouncing various words.

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The Association Of Amazing Alumni

File 3-
Name: Erik Fantome
Also Known As: The Phantom Of The Opera
Profession: None
Skills: Illusionist, Trap Making, Swordsmanship, Pianist and Singer
Further Information: Born in a small town outside of Rouen, France, Erik Fantome was born with a hideous disfigurement. His mother, unable to bear his appearance, abandoned him. His father, a master mason, never even met him. As a boy, Erik ran away and falls in with a band of Gypsies, making his living as an attraction in freak shows, where he is known as “le mort vivant” (“the living death”). During his time with the tribe, Erik becomes a great illusionist, magician, and ventriloquist. Eventually he comes to reside in the Paris Opera House, making a home for himself amongst the catacombs underneath it and the rafters above it, where he watches the performances and tutors himself in music, sword-fighting and the art of creating traps and snares. He is saught out by Sexton Blake to become part of the Association of Amazing Alumni.

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