COMMISSION INFO

Hello. Been a while since I gave any proper information on this. Why? Because quite simply I lost any and all interest, motivation and desire to work on it. I have been tempted to scrap it entirely, but the amount of work and planning I put into it already keeps me from doing that.

It became stale and dead to me, too long trying to push myself to work at it. Too long trying to force myself back into it. Shadar, now, is nothing more than a cause for frustration to me.

Am I scrapping it?

No.

What am I doing?

Scrapping basically all the characters and plot already made. I want to start anew, or should I say rather, I want to go back to what it was originally meant to be.

Various reasons, its been picked apart and become harder and harder to deal with. People either changed their characters without consulting me first, I dont mean minor appearance changes, I mean big changes to their character and background which made it increasingly difficult to keep up with and constantly having to change aspects of my story to keep up with it. People would adjust and make up things for their characters, in essence attempting to make them more important to the central plot when they were not meant to be. Or simply people submitted characters and then disappeared, never giving me designs or information when asked to.

I have thought a great deal. Thinking back to the original gave me some excitement again. I am dropping every single character that was previously involved and taking new choices.

I am taking character submissions to start again. So to anybody interested, please send me a note. However, I do not want any characters you have submitted to projects belonging to other people.

What is Shadar?

Well, it changed alot, and unless you were involved you probably dont know a great deal.
It is a fantasy story (with modernised twists) based on my own spiritual beliefs at its most basic. To get an idea look through my gallery at any art and writing you find. It started as a challenge to work with other people's characters for the diversity and ideas other people can bring. Being that Im starting over, there's not much information I can give you at the moment, and alot will be based on what people offer me.

Submit a character

Originally alot of people submitted their own beyblade OCs to be adjusted. While you are able to submit your existing characters, I would really rather a fresh one you create specifically for this. You can do whatever you want basically!

I will not give a template, you are very welcome to make up your own to offer. I need basics of course, name, age, personality etc, but however and whatever else you choose to include is up to you (the more the better ;3) FYI characters that had been submitted prior (whether they were actually used or not) are very welcome to be submitted again, I simply want to know who will be involved properly this time.

While I may find a character very interesting and wish to use it, some aspects may not be suitable. In which case I may ask you to change certain things for it to work. By submitting a character you must allow me to make my own choices with what happens to them (you can make suggestions of course, but I dont want everyone telling me again 'Dont make them die, dont make them bad etc) Cant have everyone as the main hero running around and all live happily ever after...wouldnt make for much of a story.

SOME TIPS
Try to make your character unique without going overboard to the point its just cliche
I would rather NOT have a cast full of japanese names, it does not take place in Japan. While there is an area who's language is of a similar style, I am very unlikely to accept a japanese name and place your character in that region.
I do NOT want a cast full of 15-19year olds. Please give some variation.
Be original. Think about the personality, the traits, the appearance, and ask yourself do they really look like the same fan character every other 15yo fangirl is spitting out these days.
Doesnt have to be human. Make up your own race if you want And no, a race who's only difference to humans being that they have red eyes and some insane magical power does not count as your own race.
Be informative, but be open. The more information and background you give, the better, but it wont work if you stick it in a way that there is no flexibility at all.


I may make this into a proper contest later, but only if people already show interest.