Master Gray Wolf

Sagittarius Aiolos from Saint Seiya: Episode G.

Armor = protection. The original derivation of the word is from "armo", Latin, meaning to "equip with weapons". Aren't strong women quite sexy?

RAMBLE TIME to unravel thoughts.

Spoilers abroad. Check the links, please?

For the Saint Seiya fanfiction that I plan to do, I want to make a female Gold Saint. This wasn't done in either SS series until Saint Seiya Omega with Gemini Paradox and Scorpio.

What I'm looking for in this FF is to represent the spirit of Saint Seiya, and I'm making it for those who enjoy Saint Seiya. Rather, they inspired me to make it, especially the fans in Europe (Spain) and Latin America.

In the story, the female will wear the standard Sagittarius cloth. No renovations, no changes, no "femininity". My reasons are from SS canon and historical facts; the only thing I'm going against is the "wearing of the mask" rule, which was done in Saint Seiya Omega.

What finalized my decision was really the cloths themselves. Before worn, they look like statues representing the constellation, mostly animals. In the above image is the Sagittarius cloth, composed of different pieces that I can fit on a Saint's body. The cloths remain conventional. Here is the pieces to the Sagii cloth. It may look male due to possibly representing Chiron the centuar.

Is the Taurus Cloth QUITE masculine looking?

This is a conventional breastplate, and are worn to protect even the navel. The Gold Cloths are full armors, protecting virtually every area. Apparently "female exclusive" armor, or a protruding/bulging (literally) breast plate, compromises a vital bone weakness in the chest. In addition to damage from the "attacking" material, there is also the kinetic force. Breasts can bind behind the armor.

Full armor of 16th century armor with bulged (or globe-like) breastplate

While Saints' cloths are known to heal and evolve, Gemini Paradox and Scorpio from OMEGA donned gold cloths that transformed to become "compatible" with their bodies (breast-wise). In LOST CANVAS, Yuzuriha wears the crane cloth (link has specifics). The crane cloth apparently has its own mask.

It doesn't seem to hinted that the fate of the stars follow a gender-specific selection. I haven't found any information. Like, is Pegasus always chosen inside a boy? Is Dragon? How about Ophiuchus (Shaina) and Eagle/Aquila (marin and Yuna)? Andromeda Saint is male.

Many characters from Shun to Aphrodite, are quite androgynous in looks. The Saint Seiya series is no stranger to feminine looking males. In LOST CANVAS, Pisces Albafica stands out with his beauty. There is also Nasu Veronica, who I quite confused for a woman in the comic. He was quite gorgeous. There is also the specter Behemoth VIOLATE. Leo Regulas confused her for a man because of her torso armor. Voiced by Honda Takako, I thought Violate was a boy; there's also her name. Here is her surplice.

As for Shun, his cloth (armor) is based on the Constellation Andromeda; in Greek myth, Andromeda was a beautiful woman who was chained to rocks as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Aside from being pink, the Andromeda cloth has a feminine aspect when worn on Shun

Female in military and police forces where the same body armor around their torso. In paintings and statues from Japan, women such as Hojo Masako and Tomoe Gozen (statue figure amd painting), wore the same overlapping cuirass. In records, there have been various accounts of female samurai. A somewhat modern example of a female samurai is Nakano Takeko.

Here's Tomoe Gozen from video game YOSHITSUNE YUUDEN

In Western folklore there is Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) AND the supposed first female Pope. Painting of Joan.

Also inspiration for my choice is SACRED SAGA SS FANART! Please enjoy! The cape behind Aiolos is a nice touch up.

Interesting Links
Misogyny and Sexism in Video Gaming

Anatomy of Armor

EDIT:

Would you like another example of woman wearing armor from video games?

Charlotte Colde from Samurai showdown (Spirits), another of my favorite series:

LINK: http://iplaw.wikia.com/wiki/Take_Action_Now

"Imagine a World without free knowledge".

First, I'd like to say that I am sorry for not uploading anything last week or this week. I'm still surprised that is Wednesday. I was feeling under the weather. I had Rhinorrhea for some dumb reason too.

Anyways, this SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act; Internet Piracy) business has gotten serious, so I'm just taking time to reflect and ramble.

My icon is more of a thoughtful or "hmm?" face rather than angry.

Ask yourself, are you committing piracy?

Today, on my Wiki, in response to the protest, I wanted to type why I think Wikia can be useful. I was an amateur editor for Wikipedia and wanted to learn how to use the editing system. Because of that, BOOM, made my own database. It first started off as as experiment on PBworks, but it was difficult to work with so I used Wikia.

Today, I also want to honorably mention the LJ comm stop_plagiarism, where the members commit themselves to fighting piracy. It is backed with facts and I appreciate the hard work. Surprises how people just indiscriminately copies from another.

Which makes me think: Would parodies on youtube fall into the piracy category?

I had more to say but I forgot. Again, it's a ramble, and looks like there is little to no point.

Since Seishin is getting significantly redone, I am deleting some useless MS word files from my desktop containing character and mixed-up history information. Since the info is old, it does carry ideas. Who knows, I may even go ahead with the ideas. Therefore, something might be seen as spoilers.

Nothing will be covered; nothing needs to be highlighted.

( Fuuma Ninja )

Hello Sunday. I don't have much time but here's something from my notebooks, and will expand on it on another day (Also will be revealed on Wikia).

TWO SHORT STORIES

1.) [Title unknown]
Sub Cate: Mythology
Genre: Supernatural/Comedy, General, General/Comedy, or Supernatural/Romane, or Supernatural/Comedy. It may have to be General, lol.

Info: In Modern Europe, an ageless boy, the so-called True Paladin from Celtic days, is under the service of the Pope to battle against the plague of Balor's eye.

2.) [Title unknown]
Sub Cate: Historical
Genre: Drama, tragedy or general?

Info: Basically, a fictional event happening during the Civil War. It'll only be a single chapter.

Going a day ahead so I don't forget. ;)

Word of the Day
July 13:
- Flippant: disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness (lightly).

- From Northern English dialectal flippand (“prattling, babbling, glib”), present participle of flip (“to babble”), of North Germanic origin. Cognate with Icelandic "fleipa" (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal "flepa" (“to talk nonsense”).

Julu 14:
Neolithic:
- Related to the New Stone Age (After Pre-Ceramic)
- From Ancient Greek νέος (neos, “new”) + λίθος (lithos, “stone”).


History of the Day
July 13:
- In Montevideo, Uruguay, the first two matches in the FIFA World CUP began in 1930

July 14:
- Bastille Day in France, marking the Fête de la Fédération of 1790.

This feels like the longest week ever. And no, I barely had a chance to work on SolAka because of a stupid family member's newborn baby (my niece). I had a raise of stress from it. Why? I shouldn't right?

Babies should be cute and wonderful right? It is a cute baby, but it's the baby's "parents" and the involvement of the [sickly] grandparents.

It is personal problems that I probably shouldn't get so annoyed over, but I did because the situation is so careless. When your parents are idiots early on, it effects the baby.

Let me change the subject here

The New ACE COMBAT is looking great:



And Mirror B always makes me happy: http://youtu.be/a2iBY6ZeWG8

About Seishin: I screwed up while reading Japanese history. Mibuno Kai's history is not correct about Imagawa Yoshimoto; The MAtsudaira served them momentarily when Ieyasu was younger. Also, been trying to figure out why/how Kyoushirou's parents died.

And there might be some name changes to fit with the Pre-Edo times since names like Hajime (this would PROBABLY fit fine for like the first son) are too modern. Ugh. I wish I could be a little fancy.

Story making for Seishin is still super difficult.