Kyo's Development Timeline
1999, 1st Kyotoshi. Click to enlarge.
2000, later Kyotoshi (with Misuka and Soshika). Click to enlarge.
2000, even later Kyotoshi. Click to enlarge.
2001, later Kyotoshi. Click to enlarge.
2004, later Kyotoshi. Click to enlarge.
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| Kyotoshi's Character Development Timeline
90s? Kyle a small boy who was always in trouble at my babysitter's. At 8 years old, Kyle was blamed for ANYTHING that went wrong, ever. He was constantly in the time-out chair. We'd always smuggle him toys or things to play with, which made him happy. But this kid lived a jaded life at this sitter's. I liked to imagine if he was my brother, this shit would not happen to him. His mother also yelled at him a lot, if I remember. He was blonde and had blue eyes, and a little sister named Sarah.
96 Cial Nemax Star Wars is entirely to blame. What started out as a fanfic about a female assasin and a smuggler she meets had the show completely stolen by the intended-to-be-minor blonde drug dealer character Cial, based on Kyle. I know, I'm so nice to those I wish good on. He was viewed as a younger sibling by the other characters. He was about 14, if I recall, though his age seemed to fluctuate depending. While the other characters were straight edge (to the point of one even claiming drinking would KILL HER) Cial was the polar opposite, doing both drugs and drinking. He came from Tattooine where his parents were never explained. Just that one was human and one was not. He apparently made good enough money selling drugs or something. The story was really bad. He was best friends with the smuggler while they were growing up despite the fact there was supposidly a ten year age difference. There was some trite attempt at 'you left me here on Tattooine angst angst' that never really worked itself out. Mostly he's notable for the fact that he had a kind of jokingly pleasent personality that offset the two assholes who were supposed to be the 'cool' main characters. He was obviously more favoured than them as the writing went on, which is good. :B cause they sucked.
Excerpt from Cial's Story (very bad)
Nelkf didn’t know. She glanced into Cail’s eyes, looking for something again. They were still glazed over with the remnants of intoxication, but other then that, they were fine. Nelkf wasn’t so sure she should say anything until Jax put his hand on her shoulder. He understood this power, this whisper. Well, maybe not understood it, but knew it was there. Yes, now she was sure. It was safe. Maybe they weren’t alone, but they were safe. “It’s okay, Cail. You can talk.”
Cail raised his eyebrows in a hopeful gesture. “Can I lie down on the couch?”
Why was he asking? It wasn’t like the couch was booby-trapped! Cail was one of the strangest people Nelkf had ever met. One of. “I don’t see why not.”
Jax nodded. “Yeah, I’m pretty sure that Ky won’t mind. An addict on her couch is the last of her worries right now, I think.”
Cail flopped down on the couch and buried his face in the cushions. “Ow.” he muttered. “Owch, owch, owch, owch, owch. I am in pain.”
“Does your head really hurt?”
“Absolutely.”
(....trust me the rest of it is much worse. no linky for you.) |
His major contributions that lasted unchanged were these. 1- adding to Kyle's blonde and blue, Cial had a silver eye patch around his right eye. Despite this, he appeared outwardly human. 2- His outfit, a white teeshirt, blue jeans and brown duster, has remained with the character unchanged.
97, more Cial I'd become partial to the drugdealing alchy from the fanfic, and while I was willing to ditch the other characters I wanted to hang onto him. Something about him just seemed to say it belonged someplace else. Like he was too good for that crap. So he wandered from short story to short story for a while. Most notably, he showed up in a detective story as a client named (duhur) Kyle Nemax where he turned out to be a clone of a man who'd fallen off a mountain. Or something. Unlike the bad fanfic his drinking problem is introduced more as a HOLYSHIT OMFG THIS GUYS A LUSH than a gradual 'duuuh maybe he's a drunk, I haven't decided yet' approuch. His age was bumped up around 21 or so because I felt weird writing underage drinking. Or something. AH, YOUTH.
97, The Hellcats it's not quite easy to say whether or not Kyle/Cial's name changed at this time or if i left it alone for a bit. I'd started my first website and wanted to be like the 'big' ones at the time where a whole group of fictional people 'staffed' it. It was the trend back then on the interweb. A few fictional people were developed (like Jet's original appearance, Soshika, Jino Igna and a few others who did not make the cut.) for this purpose. In that vein, the first version of Hekshanian Kyotoshi appeared. The creatures were then called Hellcats, for a sort of mix of standard generic demon-y look and feline look. Original Kyo was Soshika's older brother and headed the chatroom. He was supposidly very serious and not such a horrendous lush as his previous incarnations- just kind of a weirdo.
98, Kyotoshi Unmentioned on the timeline, Cial finally got his name securely attached from a pokemon fanfiction written using the Hellcat cast. Kyo (slurred from Kyle) and Toshi (from the tail end of Ash Ketchum's Japanese name, Satoshi.) Extremely surly, he still dressed the same. Only in this case, he was a pokemon-human hybrid (Meowth, Growlithe and Human) who was addicted to Rare Candies and was EXTREMELY surly. He also swore a lot. If you mated the Kyo of today to an angry short person you would have had the Kyotoshi of this fanfic. He almost never was friendly or smiled, sucked at everything and so refused to fight, got into arguments a lot and had a lot of "NOT HUMAN ARG" angst. He's not on the timeline because this character was mostly unrelated to the Kyotoshi of today. As you can see between 97 and 99, this version seems out in left field. A statistical oddity, I guess.
Kyotoshi in the Pokemon fanfic
I nodded. "Good point. And take that stupid hat and specs off. We're not in a city." i Psy-blasted the fedora and glasses right off him, and gasped when i did. He glared.
"Reeeeeal happy now, eh Mantis? You wanted to see what kind of a god-damn freak i am, well have a nice look-see."
He had Meowth ears, but in red and gold, like his hair. They stuck up above his head and moved like my sister's did, but none of the movements from Kyo's ears were cheerful. He turned around and stormed off into the forest, but didn't go very far. I heard a deadened thump and followed it.
Kyo was punching a tree with enough force to splinter the wood, and his hands were bleeding now. His ears were backed and tears were coming down his cheeks and staining his skin. I levetated a few feet off the ground nearby and watched him. After a few minutes, the Pokeperson broke down and sat against the tree, crying into his hands.
"Do you know what the hell i am, even?" he asked aloud. Tears were still streaking down his face, but his eyes were closed. "Where the hell i came from? I ain't human, i ain't a pokemon...what the hell am i?"
(AAAAAAAAAANGST. no more fic for you) |
99, Kyotoshi Lypha Deciding to ditch the fantasy schtick the Hellcats were loosly based off of and give Kyo something more meaningful to do than run a chatroom, Warriors 10 started (now known as Inhuman). Originally Kyo played an extremely minor role, his purpose mainly to exist as flashback fodder for Soshika. He borrowed from his second incarnation in the sense that he was supposed to be a heavy drug addict- although not an alcoholic, originally. How he took these is anyone's guess because i never drew him smoking and I've always been scared of needles and was too ignorant to know any other way. Apparently he did so many drugs that his pupils bleached out white. Now who could resist a life of sin if THAT happened? Glad that detail got lost along the way.
As some sorta teacher or something, Kyo's original Hekshanian outfit needed to be DARKER AND MORE SINFUL than before, so he wore grey pants and a black shirt. This only lasted a very short while, as with his character being so hard-assed and with no real explanation as to where he went or what he did, it needed to change.
00, Kyotoshi Lypha Like the sidebar says, for about three seconds the above Kyotoshi was also a hacker. I guess I had become INTERNET GHEY and liked the concept a lot or had just seen the Matrix or some shit. But for about three seconds, that was his job. It was ditched real fast as I kinda felt his character was going to hell in a handbasket from what I originally liked about it and decided to totally go back to basics. In the span of a few months, he reverted back ten steps. Back to being a drunk- we'll work out the other details later. There was no real reason for him being an alchy at this point but it gave the character a much needed kick in the pants back to where it should be. His eyes turned blue again at this point and his cloths went back to their usual colour.
01, Kyotoshi Lypha Romancing retarded, I decided Kyotoshi had taught Soshika how to use a sword and was some sort of tragic romantic hero or some crap. He worked for the Pagan resistance on Hekshano during this time (I hear you asking WHAT resistance. You're right.) as a demolitions expert or espionage expert or some total bullshit, because at the same time I was trying to keep his character as a drunk. You can see how these two do not work. But at this time, Kyo was apparently good with both sword and gun, and military strategy.
This was pretty directly contradictory with a few things. I guess at this time I wasn't sure if Kyo was to be a badass or a sap, and kept going between the two. He adopts Jet, yet he robs corpses. He babbles about peace, yet he blows some guy's brains out for fighting with him. He's apparently the only person with two braincells in the military, yet he's too wasted to get to the office. A TIME OF GREAT STRIFE AND CHANGE THIS WAS.
03, Kyotoshi "Kyo" Lypha By this point he's essentially been decided. Any skill or ability he had is forfeight in exchange for having him be a hopeless drunk. Why? Cause he's a more believable character when he's just an escapist sap than when he's a chest-puffing badass. Kyo's past is worked out at this point, about a year prior, in most details. It's finally established after this long - drink to escape. So unlike art in years prior, where you could see no sign of Kyo being depressed, there's a sudden influx of it. He can smile and be happy, like his second form of Cial. Why? It's a mask. Why bother to make him do that? Because, everyone likes a nice guy.
Deciding it's been so many years since his creation, it's about time Kyo was a grown up. Angsty teens grow out of this kind of depression but at his age it should be established it's permenant and won't fade in five minutes on whimsy. Thus Kyo's age is fixed at 24. His character no longer uses weapons or for that matter wants to fight (or is good at it). His health suffers from the drinking. And puppies. God i'm tired.
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