Dear Clockwork,<br/>I have been browsing your Final Draft, OOC musings, and Launched sites. I read over the posted characters to see what you are looking for.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Keimun Reigumon'</span>s picture is fantastic, and his background story is delightful. He's also chosen the Japan-themed continent!!!  Very well written, Lord Johnny. It gave me a much better feel for the world then I had before!<br/><span class="bbc_u"><br/>Julianne 'Jules' Morgenstern</span>is also delightful though she chose the other world! Which brings me to a question … Usually I ask Haloriel to proof read my stories, and vice versa. Do let us know if certain plots will be put into effect that would be diminished if we shared stories before the two worlds collided!<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Teisei Asomun</span>, whose background story is wonderful and fills me with questions … but is also cleverly crafted to not give too much away! Nicely done, Clockwork! And I am pleased you will have a character on the Japan-themed continent.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Proto Menamia'</span>s background story is so very sad! And what on earth are you hinting at??  This one is also yours, and plays on the Victorian side.<br/><br/>I am thinking of a young woman of<strong> Paramnar,</strong>still bound to her clan. For me, though I love the notion of Victorian gowns and lovely robots (I LOVE robots), the Kimono won. I just … couldn't resist that aesthetic and tradition.<br/><br/>I would like her to have skills in herbal remedies, acupuncture/pressure, massage therapy, and<strong> tei ikaoi </strong>(The Tai Chi). My goal is for her to be a Healer, and use the<strong> Ikaoi Daomasu - Life Manipulation</strong>- (a moderately advanced mastery pertaining to the ability to sense, then gently encourage, then actively redirect a human subject's natural static electricity (chi) ).<br/><br/>What would fascinate me, if there is a way, is for her to be able to mend things. To be able to sew up a wound in a fashion that it would not scar, and would heal fast; to be able perhaps to likewise mend silk kimonos, perhaps organics? I did not see an energy manipulation for that sort of thing, unless I went with<strong> Meilar Daomasu - Wood Manipulation </strong>(a journeyman mastery pertaining to objects that contain a percentage of wood; low- to mid-level mastery involves the extraction of quantities above 50 percent) and<strong>sub-mastery: Meilaoi Daomasu - Growth Manipulation</strong>(a journeyman mastery pertaining to anything that would be the equivalent of Earth's term "flora") which would have the added benefit of adding to the quality of her herb and kitchen gardens. Perhaps some day she could even learn how to mend armor, and eventually Automatons! Who knows?<br/><br/>I have found a picture that I just LOVE … I would really like to use it. I have not yet found answers to what the marks on her forehead are, unless they are clan-specific, and speak of her lineage or ownership.<br/><br/>If these basic mechanics seem to you like they will work, I will concentrate on her family and character. How much of her family are you interested in seeing? Should I populate a whole clan? Just her immediate family? A three generation family tree? With these goals and the very lovely picture, where would she fit socially? Here is the picture I found.  I used Tinypics and chose the Bulletin board code and size; please let me know if that was not the correct thing to do!<br/><br/>(http://i52.tinypic.com/4zw48g.jpg)<br/><br/><br/>