User blog:UkantorEX/Monthly Update: May 2013

'''AHOY! Tis I, Ukantor, bringing you my second Monthly Update!

Of course, I suppose you've all long forgotten about me seeing as I haven't posted a Monthly Update since February. Why, you ask? Well, because I did virtually nothing in the way of MOCing until about April, when I built a MOC which is feeatured in this update (too focused on other things to post it in April, plus it'd look pretty stupid just making a Blog Post for ONE MOC with nothing else at all to say). Then, earlier this month, I built another MOC featured in this update.

Then...yesterday...

I built the MOC featured in my new initiative (well, for my Blog Posts, at least), the Monthly Highlight! In the Monthly Highlight section, I will place a MOC of my own that I think is just a cut above the other creation featured that month. Obviously, it will always be one of mine because, well, this is about me. However, the Monthly Highlight slot will be given to another user's MOC, provided that I have only one MOC or less (as if there'd be much point in posting an update without MOCs until I begin writing here) in the update that month. Anyway, I'm digressing! Back to the tension-building pauses.

This MOC I built...

Is honestly the the coolest thing I've ever made. Seriously. Even The Veridact falls short of thsi level of OMG-ness. Of course, this isn't me trying to convince all of you that my MOC is going to impress you 110%. No, this is me trying to convince all of you that I poured all of my heart and soul into making this MOC (honest-to-God, I did. If 11:00am until 1:00am isn't all my heart and soul, I don't know what the hell is) and that it, in my honest opinion, turned out absolutely fantastic. I'm chuffed, let's leave it at that.

Of course, no great MOC can come without a great source of inspiration (as well as experience and...innovativity? If that's a word). In this particular case, my source of inspiration was Malgothiel, The Nightmare Queen by Clever Crowe on -if you haven't figured it out yet- MOCpages. Now, obviously, Malgothiel is much neater, bigger (the way I say that as if size decides how good something is, but whatever), and probably a fair bit "cooler" than my MOC, but I'll draw on my personal logic here (I'll probably call it "...'s Law", once I find an appropriate name from my MOCs to name it after), which is that once you make a MOC inspired by someone else's MOC, you will be satisfied with your own no matter how much "better" the inspiree MOC looks, simply because it's the product of your blood, sweat, tears and cursing (probably not blood, I hope).

Also, my 1 year anniversary of being a member of CBW is on the horizon. I joined on 7/7/2012 (The same day as the 7/7 Bombings, God that bugs me DX).

Anyway, enough of my nattering. On with the show!

Tyrannax
COMING SOON

Styx
COMING SOON

Monthly Highlight!
"If the people we love a stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever." -The Crow (1994)

On that note, here's the MOC I'm just dying to introduce:

MOURNE, THE TATTERED BRIDE



Mourne is my newest MOC, a great new addition to my minority of Fe-MOCs and, as I measure it, my joint tallest MOC, locking horns with Ariszek at a grand 31cm (from the top of the head, I don't count Mourne's wings or Ariszek's mini-horns). I haven't quite etched in the intricacies of her backstory, but I do have something rudimentary, which I've decided to put into a poem. Here goes!

The Tattered Bride

Once upon an ivory moon, there was a Tattered Bride

Of day She was no longer, but in darkness did abide

When once She had a lover, She shone like th'radiant star

But when Death's tragic grasp did prematurely reach

The pain did leave its scar

Life became death

White became black

And what once was whole was broken

With an obsidian mask did She hide Her loving tears

So as to as to remove Herself from Her own soul's realised fears

That Her lover was gone, nothing but bone

And She was left all alone

But from Her bloodshot eyes, "alone" was oh so wrong!

While Her lover waited beneath the stone, he'd never be truly gone!

So stay She did, the Tattered Bride

By Her faithful lover's side

Vigil to Her beloved and all others at rest within his silent garden

Stand by the berieved She would, silent, invisible, whenever they would visit

Until one day a new bride and groom had married, and begotten

Sharing happiness She'd long since forgotten

Cast Her vigil aside, did the Tattered Bride

And execrated all who married under Her deathly gaze

Melancholy lust became Her drive, so malign, so dark

And with Her envious ill intent a brand new afront was wrought from ancient tree's hardened bark 

Anathema



A darksteel scythe, with murderous gleam, did She hold with widow's hands

And with it She tore and sliced at the delicate seams holding in the body life's precious sands

Howl and shriek and wail She would, when new lovers found true happiness

For bound by jealousy She did remain, locked away in darkness

The Hateful Maiden

The Loveless Matriarch

The Griever Eternal

The Silent Queen

By these names and more does she go

But most common of all was her birthing namesake

The Tattered Bride

But beyond these many crowns, The Silent Queen has a title self-given

Mourne

To do such is to know her malevolent touch

This might not end up being Mourne's canon backstory (well, I say "might", it probably won't), and her name, the pun within which I pride myself in (lol) is also a test-out (although it's more likely to stay than her poetic backstory is) but anyway, it's no matter.

However, I do have a problem at the moment wiht deciding on Mourne's theme. I'm torn between Haunted, Snow White Queen and Even In Death (the last one will be dismissed immediately if her backstory changes from what I've got above), all by Evanescence (yes, I love them, bitch please :3)

Happy early Hallowe'en, mortals. >:D

Storyline Plans
Not much to say here, really. All the stories I have within the Refracted Destinies Multiverse will be going ahead evetually. It's likely that it won't be for a very long time, however, as I've an ongoing fanfic on another wiki which is the first of a trilogy and which I've just taken a breakf rom for a few weeks or so because I have mock exams in a few weeks, so I need the extra time to put into revision.

That, and I have no idea which one I'd want to begin first.

All in all, nothing's gonna be happening on the author front for a while.

Summary
All in all:


 * 45 days until my 1st anniversary on CBW!


 * Monthly Highlight introduced


 * Three new MOCs


 * No story releases for the forseeable future (exams)

That's all for this month. See you again in June (hopefully)! ^_^