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Channeled Angelic Wisdom of the Jewels of Truth Series on Meta-Divine Creation & The Meta-Nexus Reality Threshold
Hello All,
Today's duo entries of the Jewels of Truth series are a bit heady or overly intellectual in terms of cosmology from the Angel's discourse which I've penned via Inspirational Psychic Automatic Writing. An Intuitive writing technique I've been practicing now for 29 years. (ie. I count the anniversary every July 1st since I don't quite recall the exact calendar date, doh!)
The entries for today are respectively called Meta-Divine Creation following the Maxim of "As Above, So Below, So Below, As Above" from the fabled Emerald Tablet ala Hermes Trimetigus. The angel I channeled led with that conceptualization for the statement which was delivered to me last week. I try to deliver statements on a theme so the topics are moreso cohesive in nature for you the spiritual seeker slash reader.
The next topic of The Meta Nexus Reality Threshold speaks to the evolution of the soul for each of us. Where both Heaven and Hell as the afterlife annihilate themselves literally and metaphorically akin to a paradox of the Soul of God in each of us on a macro spiritual basis. Something akin to matter and anti-matter when combined both cancel each other out scientifically speaking. However, much like an esoteric energy of the essence of God which our spark or Image of God represents was neither born nor can die meaning it is immortal spiritually.
Subsequently when Heaven and Hell are canceled out spiritually what remains is Pure Neutrality. A stasis field of pure impossibility otherwise something closer to Pure Enlightenment that is Perfect in Divine Nature. That is what the angel describes as The Meta Nexus Reality Threshold.
So without a further adieu may your spiritual horizons broaden since these two topics have certainly done so for yours truly. Namaste.
Meta-Divine Creation:
3330) As stated in the fabled Emerald Tablet, "As Above, so Below." To this we the Heavenly Host do exclaim precisely before the astronomical "Big Bang" of this your universal physical Creation. There was another preceding "Bigger Bang" within a dimensional pocket that would later become the metaphysical afterlife itself.
Your physical universe creation story of the "Big Bang" was a secondary explosion triggered by our spiritual ethereal vacuum being created precisely before your own. Some of us call it the Shattering this was a nascent period of gestation before there was good, neutrality, and evil as existential forces. During this swatch of endless time or eternity, there was no heaven, limbo purgatory (sheol), and hell to speak of entirely.
Our Souls as Angels had just been decreed by God into meta-forms of itself times Infinity. The spawning of eternal Life of "Let There Be Light" from the Book of Genesis had just been encapsulated as a consecrated truth. We the various spheres or choirs of angelic kinds are the babes of eternity and infinity endlessly.
We were in a perpetual state of Meta-Oneness with God(dess) akin to a nursing babe still in the suckling phase of our combined births. When our number grew exponentially something closer to Infinity in near numbers is when the Metaphysical Shattering took place. Where there was no afterlife then our spiritual reality shattered creating the endless near Infinite Heavens, Limbos, and Hells as macro discs of dimensional realities unto themselves as dominion pockets of epic straggering proportions.
Before the Shattering there was no Void or Oblivion for those are names of the differing types of accursed pits of damnations espoused by the fallen as their beginning realities. Before the shattering there was no such thing as Eternity and Infinity for totality was a singularity with God by meta-macro conundrums.
When the secondary "Big Bang" occurred as your cosmic universal reality of life and death. That is when the various endless dimensions of time and space plus countless others took form. There was Supreme Unification with God(dess) nearly forever and then our angelic kind numbered near Infinity as souls and then like a pregnant mother's water breaking the womb of eternal life shoved us out.
After the Shattering when the early initial Heavens, Limbos, and Hells took shape as dominions unto themselves. This is when the godly infinite nature of our angelic minor deity kind took shape with forces of good, neutrality akin to being benign, and evil took hold. We became the original co-Creators with God helping to mold your reality in our newfound angelic Image and Likeness through God as Itself constantly.
There was never an angelic battle in Heaven versus evil or defectors of any kind. We have superior Free Will as the angelic minor deities greater than humanity or the Universe itself decreed by God him/her/itself as Divine Law. Each according to their soulful vibrations struck the eternal cord of Life and Death in the metaphorical Harp of the Afterlife. Those attuned as demonic or the fallen were volunteers choosing the dominion of the cursed by choice seeking a shallow form of imperfect warped enlightenment.
For how could a perfect Immaculate Heaven ever be desecrated by any taint with a battle of angelic traitors of our own kind? God's Will is Absolute and Perfect and so I retort how can Perfection in Heaven be Corrupted? It Can't, that is the barbaric flawed assertion of a brutal humanity with a corrupted channeling by so-called theologians.
In terms of near-endless Eternity and Infinity of your physical Universe, it too will succumb to a great cosmic collapse proposed by your scientists such as the "Big Crunch". Unless it becomes subsumed adnausem by another reality in the meanwhile much like your galaxies and solar systems collide with each other gradually with what seems like forever. This too occurs with Universes colliding with each other and so will your meta-physical realities be gobbled up as a reshuffling of the cosmic deck of life and death forever. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo.
The Meta-Nexus Reality Threshold:
3331) Before there was time and space there was nothing to interact with physically or gravitationally. At this stage of the soulful spiritual essence of evolutionary Being, there was nothing outside the womb of God(dess) pregnant with pure perfect possibilities.
Creation was not to be just yet in the apple of God's eye but nothing was for certain either since parallel realities are constantly being created and destroyed by God forever. The Omniscient choices of a Creator are equally at play as the Supreme Sustainer and Destroyer of Mysterious Totalities. Some realities are even unknown to us, for we the angelic kind only know what came after us, not so much what preceded us by God's tenure is Absolute.
Angelic kind upon the afterlife isn't Absolute in any nature spiritual or whathaveyou. All subsequent universal constructs as near-perfect archetypes had an angelic hand or wing as you humans celebrate our auras metaphorically with anthropomorphized birds. We shaped with God as the lead Inspiration and modeled the template to create near-endless iterations of good, neutrality, and evil. To populate not only the spiritual ethereal afterlife but also the physical universes such as yours and others mysterious to your own.
There will come a moment upon eternity and Infinity that it will collapse upon itself akin to a "Big Crunch" which can be synonymous with the next "Big Bang" simultaneously. Of another parallel universe physical or otherwise exotic from your current comprehension of reality or the natural laws as dynamical forces at play endlessly.
Metaphysically there is a near-constant trifecta of forces through God as the Supreme Sustainer of life, stasis (ie endless perpetuity), and death. All soul kind including our angelic own will be funneled through the Mysterious Will of God as Perfect Karma. Reconciling the Wheel of Reincarnations once it stops spinning and is reoriented to reclaim the dead what the Christians call the Rapture. Judgment here in the afterlife reconciles the good, neutral, and evil lumped together to ascend and descend simultaneously as spirits and souls.
Here good and evil are canceled out and the soul is absolutely forgiven with Mysterious Mercies by God itself. When the Soul is ready after balancing the scales of its own native karma to zero of neither credits nor debits perfectly. It is launched by a countless factor into The Meta-Nexus Reality Threshold. There is perfect Immaculate Enlightenment where such a specific Oversoul has reached a critical number of allotted rebirths or reincarnations of its basket or cluster of spirits as ghosts.
Each has been reborn into countless realities. Be it as people, animals, insects, foliage as plants and trees, and even ecological environments and meteorological forces itself as the elementals. Furthermore, the rebirths can take supernatural emphasis such as ascended masters (ie saints, prophetesses/prophets, saviors, etc...) as demigods. Afterward, rebirths elementally can take shape as a whole planet akin to Mother Earth, a solar system, a galaxy, and even the universe itself.
Upon the Meta-Nexus Reality, there is no more need for souls and spirits that entity of God has perpetually graduated from that stratification of the metaphysical itself. Another undiscovered country is afoot here where the afterlife of the Great Mysterious Shattering never took hold. The former soul gets to experience a Divine reality before good and evil as twins were dislodged as dominion discs or pocket dimensions of their own respective forces of nature. To relish upon a pure perfected Enlightened Neutrality just as our angelic kind once did prior to the event horizon of the Great Shattering before your physical Creation became realized by God(dess). Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo.
Ivan "Atrayo" Pozo-Illas, has devoted 29 plus years of his life to the pursuit of clairaudient-inspired automatic writing channeling the Angelic Heavenly host. Ivan is the author of the spiritual wisdom series "Jewels of Truth" consisting of 3 volumes published to date. He also utilizes a unique channeled angelic divination method called the Multi-Deck Divination System. Numerous examples of his work are available at "Atrayo's Oracle" blog site of 19 years plus online. You're welcome to visit his website "Jewelsoftruth.us" for further information or to contact Atrayo directly.
Channeled Angelic Wisdom of the Jewels of Truth Series on Material Possessions & Support
Hello All,
This is a bonus entry for the month of July off the momentum of my last entry a couple of days ago. Today's topics come from the tail end of the month of June in my longhand notebook where all my written channeled missives with the angels are deposited.
The first topic is upon your material goods as your possessions in life accompanied by your household. In part, the mental psychology of the blame game when someone loses it all in a tragic accident be it a natural or man-made disaster. The second "Jewels of Truth" statement is regarding Support in life in general. Again how someone can struggle with anxiety and the torment they can put themselves through unnecessarily.
At times I can be a news junkie in terms of watching too many current events globally, nationally, regionally, and locally of it on television and streaming online. In light of the climate changes whether accelerated by humanity or not. I inquired with the angels about the topic of innocent victims losing their former residences, material possessions, and to an extent their former lifestyle temporarily.
May this pair of topics further bring some solace although it won't ever be complete on such a troubling occurrence in the world which has been occurring for eons.
Namaste.
Material Possessions:
3324) Do not be afraid those of you who have the tragic misfortune of losing all your material possessions in sheer minutes towards hours during a natural or man-made disaster. Yours Isn't at fault and count yourselves fortunate for not incurring a personal injury physically during and after a storm in terms of attempting to salvage your property. In such a turbulent world of yours, it will happen at least once in a lifetime if not more for all others who live upon swaths of the earth that suffer greater than others environmentally and geo-politically.
Your minds and critical thoughts will suffer greatly, rehearsing unfairly how you could've, should've, and would've done things differently to stop such a misfortune. Please stop, you aren't seasoned clairvoyants and demigods to spare yourselves such a tragic turn of events. That sort of rationale loses sanity every single godforsaken time period. Do grieve privately when you are safe and secure in a stable environment away from such hardships even temporarily.
The victimized mindset will always predictably fall into the traps of its own despair. Equally so please do not project the tragedy on your loved ones, strangers, and first responders as your potential rescuers. No one is at fault but the circumstances beyond your control as an act of god or Mother Nature. Do not become despondent falling into the ego traps of hate and loathing with the lack of initiative of your local authorities.
Do have faith you shall overcome such a whirlwind of chaos and disorder in such a stage of your life. Avoiding the blame and shaming game on yourself and all others is pivotal for such a frame of mind and heart to heal emotionally and mentally from such an ordeal. Do not allow your fears to cloud your judgment otherwise, unsuspecting individuals will manipulate your circumstances to their advantage unscrupulously.
What time can not heal with the distance of years of such a series of bizarre events in your life. Then always give it to God wholly and unconditionally with complete emotional, mental, and spiritual surrender. This will aid you with an instant boon even if the practice doesn't take hold of you Immediately. Repeat the devotion as required to purge your heart and mind of such dreadful suffering.
Truly any and all material treasures including residences will pull at your heartstrings as your cherished family heirlooms. Be they mementos, keepsakes, and countless other do-dads that one collects throughout the years and decades as memories attached to materialism. If they are truly special to you pray that in your personal Heaven upon your afterlife with God the spiritual essence of such material goods appear in your private metaphysical abodes.
The ethereal essence of God is like energetic spiritualized clay as a building block for blessings, omens, and miracles. Able to recreate lost memories and physical objects now only as pure limitless ethereal substances refashioned to suit your needs and desires as ghosts in the afterlife. Nothing is truly lost that is worth remembering with God's Love Forever. This includes the memories of your former material goods that are now physically lost to the world but never to the spiritual heavens. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo.
Support:
3323) There are times when life takes on a whole new meaning with twists and turns out of what would otherwise be normal routines for you personally. You don't recall where rock bottom can truly be for you as the end of your metaphorical rope before you begin to crash as an individual emotionally and mentally. This is when a foreboding sense of great frightening despair sets in with a grim chokehold squeezing your sensibilities out of sight.
How do you cope when everything is passing you by with hardly a point of no return seemingly as your nowhere destination in life currently? Where do you turn, and whom can you turn to for help? When fears lash out at you revealing your deepest insecurities for all to allegedly see.
This is when you slow down perhaps to a grinding halt for a moment or two before speeding up until your former life is a blur. Catch your breath and be still with Inner poise for a while longer. Pray, contemplate your circumstances without rancor, and meditate seeking your dignity instead of fearing and hating elsewhere.
Relax a while longer since you're not supposed to have all the answers to life and death in this world. Confusion can bring suffering only if you wallow miserably in it with heartache. Take a step back mentally and breathe in your surroundings allowing for details to reveal themselves that are pertinent to your current needs. Clarify your "Why's" with sincere intentions and allow the "How To's" to come later.
What matters now is your well-being above all else. Even if other people as loved ones and strangers are relying on you to perform well in life in terms of service. Your routes to success may be limited by your choices or the limits you allow others to place upon you that may or may not be beyond your personal control.
A life of personal recovery takes courage and much forgiveness to reveal the character of spiritual greatness within you. No one has the power to ruin your integrity if only you give it away like pearls before swine. Sometimes advertising your intentions and seeking permission to move and improve your lifestyle choices can be a folly of naivete. Broadcasting everything you do seeking approval from others such as loved ones, friends, and all others such as co-workers. Can be the worst possible outcome to choose.
Their reactions and recriminations will be legendary and dismissing to no end in sight. Since you are asking other petty egos to clarify your needs for you. If that isn't oxy-moronic then what is? Only those you trust for their wisdom who treat you with compassion are worthy to share some if not all your wishes, hopes, and desires. Everyone else be on your guard and wear the foolish mask the world puts on you. Let them underestimate you to their own foolish conclusions you can't control nor should you ever.
To care what other people's rightful and erroneous opinions of you is to make you a slave of their fancies wherever that may lead disastrously. Be upright and rise above what you have no business controlling the wills of others. Whether well-meaning or devilish a sense of personal conviction requires you to overcome the knee-jerk urgings to control the chaos of the world especially in social interactions.
You will have moments of apprehension in spite of such difficulties rely on your strengths in living well as best as you can achieve it. Life isn't meant to be a drudgery it can be tedious and boring but that too is usually in your control that's if you don't give away your personal power to all others. You are so deeply loved by God and the Heavenly Host of the angels, ancestors, and so many other wondrous entities as forces you have yet to encounter in the world.
Live with Intelligent Compassion for yourself do not recriminate your actions and inactions if at all possible. Bring balance to your interactions with people and creatures alike in the world. If you do not control your fears they will haunt you to no end in sight. Exercise caution but do not avoid risk at all costs for some risks are for a higher echelon good in order to overcome the world.
Each of you deserves to love and be loved, to have happiness and health followed by prosperity in this mortal life. Some of you rare few will have more than you deserve so please be generous in moderation to all others as you see fit holistically in life. Surround yourselves with compassion, wisdom, and mercy either as forgiveness or goodwill this will soften the blows of the world towards you and all others. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo.
Ivan "Atrayo" Pozo-Illas, has devoted 29 plus years of his life to the pursuit of clairaudient-inspired automatic writing channeling the Angelic Heavenly host. Ivan is the author of the spiritual wisdom series "Jewels of Truth" consisting of 3 volumes published to date. He also utilizes a unique channeled angelic divination method called the Multi-Deck Divination System. Numerous examples of his work are available at "Atrayo's Oracle" blog site of 19 years plus online. You're welcome to visit his website "Jewelsoftruth.us" for further information or to contact Atrayo directly.
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A bunch of really old characters I made like two years,,,the old drawings were r e a l l y badly drawn. I kinda just wanted to draw them since these guys were some of my first oc’s and I had a whole story written about them
Actually did a background for once, that’s insane
~Mystic, CT - July 2005~
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Mei-Ling Design Notes and Inspiration 1/2
Unlike her younger twin, Mei-Ling actually went through a large degree of changes compared to both versions of her design in the main timeline. Honestly, went through a large degree of some research and thought to get to the current design that I now have for Mei-Ling. I hope you find some of these notes interesting and fun to read.
I say two designs, but technically Mei-Ling has like 3 designs: Vampire Hunter, the Darkstalkers OVA, and Vampire Savior. Really sad the only full body look of her VHunter design is literally her sprite. The illustration of her Hunter design from one of the covers of a Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers comic by Udon is quite the beautiful pin up shot, but makes the mistake of giving her the bracelets she has as part of VSAV design. Oops.
Her design is honestly not that different in the OVA compared to her VHunter design. Only big differences are the color of her clothes under her robes, her pants being a different color, the main color of her robe being a defined orange color, and how her hat is both taller and is both orange and yellow. Actually, sounds like a lot really, but design of the clothes themselves are not that different.
Her VSAV design is a general overhaul of the Hunter design. I can only imagine the reason that was done is because they had to animate her for the 'Detached Souls' Dark Force and it might have been a major pain in the ass to animate her robe and sleeves. It isn't bad, but I hate the hat and prefer her robe being open rather than closed. It is genuinely surprising that despite being a non-playable character, the team gave her a different design. A nice consolation.
OH RIGHT, I need to talk about what my thought process was. Sorry, just needed to note all the interesting design things regarding her different designs. So, I generally have stuck with the design she had in VHunter as I just prefer it more compared to her VSAV design. I might have given a jab to the artist who made that pin up of her for that Udon comic. Let me retract that cause I did basically the same thing when I first started drawing her back in 2020. Tweaked the colors here and there to my liking and made her sleeves not as large, but generally the same idea.
Later on, added a little detail on her clothes that I saw an artist by the name of Murai do with her interpretation. This won't be the last I will bring up this artist, hoo boi.
At one point, I changed the sash around Mei-Ling's waste to be an Obi Sash as to make things easier for me.
Around mid 2021, when I was getting more serious about my Cryas Darkstalkers mythos and even further with my love and obsession with the Shao sisters, I went about the process of giving them a makeover, truly trying to give them distinct enough designs. While Hsien-Ko was not too different as her core design was basically near perfect, there was a lot of room for change for Mei-Ling. I mean hell, she had different official designs anyway, what is stopping me from going ham. I mean hecc, look at this concept sketch when they were considering her design change from VHunter to VSAV. Quite a bit of thought. However, I wanted to go further.
Since I wanted to flesh out the sisters, I went about thinking about their potential heritage, the time period they were alive in during the Qing Dynasty, women's fashion at the time for the potential social status they could have been in at the time, the occupation they were training for, and the fact that…well they are Chinese. Since Mei-Ling gives the vibe of being very into her culture and wanting to maintain it, I wanted her clothing to both show off her heritage and her role as a Xianshushi Mystic. Hsien-Ko is said to be more 'modern' in her mannerisms compared to her older twin, so why not have Mei-Ling be more traditional. The first thing to get us on track is to start at the beginning. Mei-Ling and Hsien-Ko were born in 1730 in China during the Qing Dynasty period. In my research and with corroboration with a friend of mine, I decided that the Shao sisters would be a mix of Han and Manchu, two ethnic groups that were the most prevalent at the time period. Their mother was Manchu while their father was Han. However, since their father was killed before they were born, they were more influenced in the ways of the Manchu people as they grew up. The Shao family in themselves are not among the imperial courts or the elite. However, because they have provided a great service over the centuries, they are given more leniency and not treated like the common folk. Plus, with eventually being trained to become Xiānshù warriors as their mother saw great potential in them, that helped to influence them as well.
To start with, let us begin with the robe. So, to my understanding in the main timeline Mei-Ling was generally based on the idea of Daoist priest attire. Doing some searches, jiangshi films did feature such priest like characters with that general idea, even with the color. However, I wanted to do a bit more looking. In my search, the open robe design that her VHunter and my design go with is something referred to a beizi (褙子).
Some parts of Daoism do have their priest having an open robe design, but also the beizi in general was a form of wear that the Chinese people did wear.
It was around during the time of the Qing Dynasty and according to Wikipedia, it was something that was dominant among the Han women of the time. A nice way to acknowledge her Han roots. Yellow doesn't seem to be really a thing with actual Daoist priests' attire, but it just fits Mei-Ling so well, I stuck with that color. While the beizi is prominent with having long sleeves, I decided to trim it down enough to where it ends past her elbow, kinda like her VSAV robe's sleeve length. Ey, giving some credit to that design. As for the trimming, this card I came across showed it in a neat way where it is actually not just flat but has some dimension to it. I liked that and went with it, along with the idea of the trimming being orange.
The hat is loosely based on a hat known as a guānjīn, shown on the far left of this image.
The main timeline version was certainly not one to one about it. But honestly, I like the stylized, simpler idea, so I used that as a base. I took a lot of observations and notes from the way the OVA hat is drawn. However, I just prefer the hat to be one color, so I stuck with yellow. I liked the yin-yang symbol as well, so kept that too.
Another minor detail about Mei-Ling's beizi are these almost padded looking pieces of cloth that follow her trapezius to around the middle of her shoulder. Honestly, I just made them up. These concept sketches I made show me coming up with the idea as I was thinking of her design. It just looks cool and neat.
On to the garment underneath.
With the Shao sisters also being Manchu, this is where some of the influence kicks in. The Manchu wore a set of clothing known as 旗裝 (qízhuāng). The specific kind that the sisters wear falls under something known as Bianfu (便服). Mei-Ling's bianfu is stylized to be a robe that is the length of a magua.
The sleeves are loose and long enough to reach her wrists. The main part of the robe is rich red color while having trimmings and a collar of a lavender color. Contrasts nicely against her beizi.
You may be curious what is going on with the cloth around her waist. Honestly, it was only put there mostly to help solve an issue I had with Mei-Ling's design: the bagua mirror. So, in this shot from the OVA, it is held up by a set of straps.
Ok, fair enough. But the issue is that nothing from the front suggest that those straps even exist. The mirror may as well just be magnetically attached to her a la video game style. In my concept phase, I was wondering what to do. One thing I did notice that was really cool was from the story 'Monsters and the Secret of Immortality'.
Granted, the design of Mei-Ling in that story is wildly different from any incarnation of Mei-Ling, but it presented a neat idea: her mirror was holstered at her waist. Not only that, but it did also look a lot more like a bagua mirror in its design. The mirror's design in this story set the base for how I design the mirror, though I only have two rows rather than the typical three. However, she is wearing attire that doesn't really fit with either her Han or Manchu roots, so I needed to come up with something more fitting to her culture. In my research, I did stumble on something that fascinated me.
What you see is not the original image that inspired me, but still illustrates the idea. Cloth at the waist held in place by a ribbon. I honestly don't know if that idea of garment has a name, but it struck a chord: Have the mirror hang around her waist.
Unlike any official design of Mei-Ling and to differentiate herself from Hsien-Ko, I decided to switch from the baggy trousers to a more straight cut pair. Looks nice and smooth and still goes along with the kind of trousers they wore in that time era. The color I chose just honestly meshed well with her bianfu, plus is warm compared the cool colors of the trim of her bianfu.
While the wristbands she has for her VSAV design are cool looking, something about them just doesn't mesh well with what Mei-Ling is supposed to be. While yes, she is a weapon master (and likely taught Hsien-Ko all she knew about weapons), she is presented more as the mystic of the duo. They look rough and tough. Honestly, would look better on Hsien-Ko in all honestly since she is in the thick of battle. However, I still wanted her to have something at her wrist. I chose to go with a simple orange jewel bead wristband. Simple and elegant for her.
So, if the mirror was moved to hanging around her waist, is there nothing at her back? For a while, there wasn't anything. But eventually, the idea of putting some kind of design back there did come to mind. Eventually, I landed on this design.
Her ref sheet goes into to detail about it, but to put it simply dragons have a big thing with their family considering their mother upon using the Art of Unusual Transformation turned into one. According to what I found via searching Japanese sources, primarily the Japanese Wikipedia entry for Hsien-Ko, there is mention of their mother transforming into a golden dragon. That is very cool since the OVA and a few anthology stories show this.
Mei-Ling's official hairstyle is best described as a bob cut. I went with the OVA as a general base, but slowly overtime adjusted it.
On both sides of her hair and near her hairline, there are these basically fangs. Despite her being more human in appearance, I thought it was still a nice idea to subtlety add some mildly wild elements to her since she is non-human. A bit crazier are these two pincer locks of hair. Honestly, I just took what was already part of her official design and exaggerated it into something cool. For some asymmetry, one is larger than the other. As for the general shape of her hair, I did fan it out more for volume as to make her hair different from her human form.
Mei-Ling's general body shape. Honestly, besides making her distinct from Hsien-Ko as they are both fraternal twins, I just wanted to really make her unbelievably beautiful. In a way, considering hardly anyone gives her the time of day because she is non playable, I just like the idea that she is actually very voluptuous and gorgeous. So that is why she has the general proportions she has. I wouldn't say she is skinny or the typical anime proportions: She is just fit, well endowed, and curvy. Among the Cryas DS cast, the only character that is around her breast and butt size is Felicia. As for why she also has tone to some parts of her body, the fact is she was conceptualized with that as you can see with this concept sketch of her official design. Mei-Ling has just about everything going for her in terms of looks.
Whenever she has appeared in games or media, Mei-Ling has had a multitude of different eye colors. I personally just stuck with green, like the OVA did. Green just looks nice on her, really makes her face mesmerizing. Specifically, I wanted the shades of her eyes to be more of like jade.
For now, will need to end things here for the first part of this design blog as I have used the permitted 30 images for a blog and the last bits require more images to explain things. So be sure to head to part 2, the final part right here:
Mei-Ling Design Notes and Inspiration 2/2
If you stumbled on this randomly, please go read part 1 first before engaging any further. Please and thank you.😊🙏
With that disclaimer said, now we gotta talk about the Dark Embrace Burst for Mei-Ling. To be frank, most of the origins of how I came to give it to her and Hsien-Ko is basically already stated in Hsien-Ko's design notes, so you can go there to get an idea.
However, I would like to talk about some aspects of Mei-Ling's design in this form. The first time I drew her, it was super simple.
The first big note of change was with @capyguava rendition of Mei-Ling.
The additional markings on Mei-Ling's face were honestly beautiful, so I reworked her face to incorporate some of those ideas. Later on, made a render that fully showed of some other details.
The markings at her legs and feet and the mirror on her back. Having the mirror on her back was not only a call back to how the mirror was on her in her main timeline design, but also just really love the idea of how all that Qi and Corriyami in her body just sprouts out from there. This shot from her ref sheet shows off how there are some changes to the mirror as the story progresses.
The latest full render of her Dark Embrace steps up to show how her shadow can really look.
However, I want to give special notes to these two commissions made by O_C_o_r_v_o and aamiraglia.
I love the ideas they gave with the way her shadow can look. Like a flame or like water. It is sublime and I want to keep these in mind for future illustrations. Last note about the shadow: the shadow dragon. While the form her shadow can take is only limited by Mei-Ling's imagination, I really want to note the dragon. In a way, it is a form of catharsis for Mei-Ling. Utilizing the form of a dragon to bring down those who oppose her and Hsien-Ko. But also, it makes her feel connected to her mother as the shape of the dragon is similar to their mother's dragon form. The memory of that night is still quite strong. Makes it feel like her mother is aiding her in battle. It is ferocious in appearance, like Mei-Ling in this burst. But it is still eerily beautiful in a way with its majesty, like Mei-Ling.
Now to talk about Mei-Ling when she was human.
Off the bat, she doesn't really look that different compared to the major changes Hsien-Ko underwent when she became a jiangshi. However, I still wanted there to be some kind of difference. The biggest thing would be her hair. This is where Murai Shinobu comes back into the picture. I cannot say enough my love for her designs of Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling and how much her 'Share' doujin means to me and helped to influence some aspects of the sisters for me. In a way of tribute, I wanted Mei-Ling's hair as a human to have the same general style that Murai draws for Mei-Ling: a straight bob cut.
Overall, rather normal and nice for this young mystic warrior. Her hair color was also different. While Hsien-Ko as a human had cool shades of black hair, I wanted Mei-Ling to have more warm shades of black for her hair. Not too drastic a change in hair color when she becomes a jiangshi. Her eyes were also changed. Again, kind like what Murai did, I went for some shade of brown for Mei-Ling's eyes. As for her clothes, once again a bianfu. As a twist, the colors of this bianfu are the reverse of her later beizi's color scheme. Also gave her red trousers as to keep her whole color scheme being very warm and vibrant.
In Darkstalkers, some crossover games they have appeared in, and even a number of anthology stories, Mei-Ling has been shown to be able to move and talk. To represent herself, she has a simple cartoon face of a pair of eyes and a mouth.
That is all well and good, but I wanted to go further. I got inspiration from this very funny random sprite of a card of the sisters doing a costume swap.
With that swap, Hsien-Ko became the ofuda. However, her ofuda form has her hair and a hat. I wanted to do the same for Mei-Ling. My first time drawing that is shown in the 'Jiangshi Tongue' piece I made.
Expressive and cute. However, when going about making the ref sheet, I stumbled upon this picture made by the wonderful artist skm_nnm.
I adore the idea of Mei-Ling being able to fly like a little paper spirit! Which… to be fair she is. So that detail is now part of her ofuda form for Cryas Darkstalkers. Some tweaks here and there, namely making her still feel like she is paper being and thus flat but giving enough details to her hair and hat in this form.
That should wrap things up with this very long two-part blog. I hope you can understand my sheer love and adoration for both sisters, especially showing a lot of love for Mei-Ling as she really deserves it. 😊💛
Lot of searching and thinking with an end result I am super proud of. I hope you take care and have a good day!
El Dark is looking forward to Halloween. Though he hasn't quite decided what to be yet.
Being so afraid of being wrong that you can’t move is actually the worst thing you could do for your practice.
You aren’t imposing on anyone.
You aren’t insulting the Gods. Arguably, you don’t actually know what would be considered insulting unless you’ve actually asked Them.
You’re not going to be beaten up and told you are the worst devotee ever.
You aren’t going to be told by any Deity you are morally imbalanced or impure.
The only thing the Gods are actually concerned with is the ability to get you to listen to Them which means peeling away layers and layers of trauma, biases, and patterns that take you away from Them. They would not forcibly remove you from Their attentions just because you wanted to try something new or do something that no one else is doing.
The ultimate goal of any Divine relationship for either side should always be to draw nearer to Them, not be pushed away because your discernment is inaccurate while you are learning.
🌟The Magician🌟
(yes, we have apparently become pretentious enough to title our paintings)
I thought I might do something magic-related for Halloween, so here you go.
It's been several months since I picked up watercolours, due to this parts of this illustration are a bit rough, but I am low key kinda proud of the composition.
(Close-up)
The boy and the moon
One day, a lonely and sad boy decided to visit his only friend-the moon.So, he built a ladder and went on his journey. When he arrived he noticed how wonderful it was in the sky. He had never felt such a fulfilling silenc. So he decided to stay for a while. The moon looked pitifully up on the boy. He knew that he couldn’t stay forever, so he decided to give him the colorful stars as new friends, and he said that the boy can go back to the earth with them.
Since that day, the boy wasn't lonely anymore, and he would visit the moon every night. He became one of the happiest persons in the world.