Rick Tyger

Any luck with that, yet?

How in the world did I miss this topic?! Almost everything I write about or use for RP stuff, and even my dualing fursonas, are all based on my dreams and characters that I've either been, or encountered (often repatedly). I have enrire multiverses of dream content rattling around in my head. Hence, my tendency to reference the "Omniverse" (this encompases every possible and impossible reality, except for Heaven and Hell, which are beyond the limitations of Creation). Most of my dreams come out sounding like old-school action movies. That's where Rick Tyger the character/fursona came from. He's a representation of my "inner wannabe Chuck Norris". Luna Yvhv is a character encounterd early on in my "Being Rick Tyger" dreams, and I simply added a few more-coherant details to her backstory and abilities. Rick's wife, Princess Jessica Wolf, was origionally named something else, but has otherwise remained unchanged from how she appears in my dreams. Her new first name comes from a girl I had a crush on all through middle and highschool, who seems to have moved away or otherwise dropped off the map. Queen Colleen Thy-Wolf and King Texarcana Wolf have not been changed in any way. I like the way they are in my dreams: Technically royalty, but really just country folk with fancy titles and supreme political power. The Shadow Hunters are also based on my dreams. They're the guys who go after people who're technically "above the law", and can even execute the royal family, should the royalty become corrupt. They're kept in check by the older retired Shadow Hunters, who (much like the Yautja) just get more badass with age. And what makes Thylan royalty royalty is the fact that they're elected as such by the Thylan public, and then allowed to keep the job for multiple generations, until they either become corrupt and are killed, or decide they've had enough and want to go back to being proper rednecks. The bigass deasert that the Tyger clan owns, the 13 inhabitable "Thylos" planets in their solar system, and their green sun and skys are all from bits and pieces of dreams, that I basically consolidated into a single idea and added a backstory to. Vlad Yvhv and the Omnians came from my obsession with shape-shifters and dreams of being an "Omnianthrope" (now you know were "Omnian" comes from) who was neigh-immortal and able to kick ass on levels unknown to conventional biology. Morphing a hand into a biotech gatling gun that fires quills, for example. Or the classic "blade/harpoon arm" that resembles a cross between Krauser's Blade Arm from Resident Evil 4 and Heller's Whip Fist from Prototype 2... Or even just the ability to spit burning bio-napalm and be immune to heat and fire damage, due to dragon DNA. Vlad is, of course, named after my own favorite historical figure: Vlad the Impailer. His last name comes from the Muskogee word for "wolf", which ties in with my own long-standing obsession with wolves and werewolves. Before the dream variant of Vlad was an Omnian, he was a multi-shifter, and before that, a straight-up werewolf. Dreaming of being Vlad helped me overcome many a potential nightmare, and seems to have occured around the time I was 5 or so, when I developed the ability to lucid dream. He is very much the embodiment of my lucid dreaming self, combinded with my own will to survive (according to my medical records, I was close to death as a baby). He is able to shift to take advantage of most any situation, and to endure those which he shouldn't be able to "win". I first saw John Carpenter's "The Thing" when I was 7, and was surprised by the Things' similarities to my Omnians. Add in a re-writing of Vlad's origins to make him have been a dragon species before being assimilated and give him a giant neigh-indestructalbe SR-71 you've got the Vlad most of us know, and the Warwolf. Lyn came about as part of an RP that started in the Shoutbox of FUS and migrated to the 1000 pages topic. Origionally, she was to be the Warwolf's AI. When she bacame a Synth (short for "Synthetic Lifeform" [the idea being that they're tech so advanced that they go beond AIs and androids, into RIs {"Real Intelligence", packaged into an advanced machine like a quantum computer and unhidered by things like "programs" or "directives" or "the laws of reobtics"}]), I decided to make her a Thylan, say that Vlad had assimilated her creator and unlocked her mental potential, and give her a comperable roll to Luna (side-kick/sometimes character foil). Others liked the inteplay between the characters, so Lyn stayed and is now entwined in Vlad's life, as something akin to a step-daughter. Jed is just my take on the Dog-Thing from the movie (the name of the wolfdog that played that character was "Jed" [he also had a starring roll in "White Fang"]), as one of the survivors of the explosion at the end of the movie. The story "Thaw" is basically a re-working of his backstory. He's more antangonistic, since he's not actually an Omnian. Vlad's other crew are based on the unnamew wolf girl from the Sat-AM episode "Nobrainer", and of course, Lupe. And finally, we get to Lyn's robotic creations. Scorpio is the latest workign model, but also was the first prototype and once sided with Jed, due to a programming glitch (this is a shout-out to KARR from the Knigt Rider shows). He's a scorpion because I like scorpions. I've alwasys thought that the idea of a robotic scorpion makes sense: Heavily armored, stable mobility, use of tail for weapons platform and self-righting, and claws for manipulating and carying objects. And I really like the idea of Lyn (whose intended purpose is to destroy other machines) choosing to make robots as a hobby. Toaster is actually an ambulitory oven "junk-bot", created from scrap parts. Fridge is more aptly named, as a giant mobile refrigerator junk-bot on treads. While either can attack with their own elemental attacks, they are mostly programmed to collect useful parts and use their torsos to house items for Vlad and Lyn. Sentinel is a shout-out to the Sentinel Spheres of phantasm, but considerably less sociopathic and much larger (basketball sized). He's a tool-bot and serves as Lyn's side-kick when Scorpio's not active. And of course, we have Wolf, a feral RI created by Vlad to handle the operation of the Warwolf when he's either being lazy or away from the ship. I've always liked the design of the SR-71 Blackbird, so that's where the base design of the Warwolf comes from (an oversised SR-71 with the D-21 drone attached). The "drone" and necells house antimatter reactors, and the "drone" can be fired as an antimatter bomb. The Warwolf was named after a real-world weapon of war that was so massive and intimidating that it never had to be used (the enemies gave up upon seeing it). And it has a considerably larger and more stable verion of the black hole drive from "Event Horizon", which allows for interdimensonal and time travel. As a shout-out to another of my real-world heros, Stepehen King (who has also said on occasion that his inspiration is often dreams), I usually try to some sort of connectivity between all of my works. And the fact that they're based mostly on dreams I've had actually tends to make it more likely that those connections can/will exist. The "Phatasm" and "Terminator" movie seires were also inspired by their creators' dreams. So, it seems to be a fairly common occurance.

I've been looking forever to find this song! The internet keeps wanting to redirect me to Thomas Rhett's songs (no offense against another good singer, of course).

Kenny Chesney - The Big Revival.

Mvto (pronounced "mah-toe"). That conveys a heart-felt "thank-you" in Muskogee, as in if someone gives you an unexpected gift, or a nice compliment. It's literal meaning is "All is well with the Muskogee". And yes, I'm learning Muskogee and Cherokee, because those are what make up my DNA. It helps to feel a connection with my ancestors.

Just now checked again. Still says I'm not allowed.

Let's not forget that O'Neil is played by MacGuyver! If SG-1 doesn't have a boxed set, it should have one. I like how they figured out things like "you can get around a reactive shield by using a slower projectile". Also, the spoof of Groundhog Day was priceless. April's Item Of The Month for donators to KOL is an access badge to a "top secret Spacegate research facility", that looks an awful lot like a Stargate setup. They have a 7-digit world dialer, with digits being A-Z. So, you can access every planet from AAAAAAA (the safest one) to ZZZZZZZ (will probably kill you many times over).

Raptor: Call of the Shadows soundtrack - Attack Wave 2.

Still can't access the Mobius Multiverse section. I've submitted a second "contact us" message about this.

Sorry for the long wait. Stuff happend and we've been busy gearing up for spring. But, now things are settleing down. Next week, I'll be at my house again, but the following week, I'm house-sitting for mom.

Back to my house, after this post. Will stop by every couple of days, if not busy mowing. Will be back at Mom's house for another week starting saturday.