User blog:Parmduck69/Project Zero-X Character Arc Series

Welcome everyone (which I'm pretty sure is No one) back to this blog post of mine, where I post random bullshits such as my own roadmap for my own project which I'm pretty sure nobody give a single shit, let alone a fuck.

With that being said, hope everyone doing well in this hell-of-a pandemic.

The topic series that we're about to diving in is my own series of Character Roadmap.

The first chapter of this series will be covering the first non-Japanese character of the Project Zero-X, OUR non-Japanese character of the series, Anna Novackova.

=Why?= Quite interestly, Anna was among some of the late "v.2" character lineup (which if you have read my previous blog post then you'll know) that, quite ironically, had put in so much times to perfected her persona and charisma.

Anna was unlike any other characters of mine, she doesn't have a proper target or purpose to exist, doesn't have the role of the main protagonist (which is Ayato Tokouryo), yet she's the one who, not only portraying the role better than Ayato, but also outshines him in many situations.

The villianist vibe (though she's the good one), the skillset, the menacing aura, everything... Makes her stands out the most to me.

Let's start from the beginning (of the v2 arc, ofc). =How?=

The "Origins"... or so I thought
When I decides to rewrite the whole storyboard, I wanted somethings different from the already-popular "isekai" genre... somethings that, not only did it brings in the menace aura of a villian, but to make that a hero; I wanted somethings that not only stands-out, I want the "thing", the laws of anime powers, the actions, the... things... Ah yes, the vibe.

"I want something... robust, precise", that's what I thought.

Through some google "random binge search" (well that was a fucking lie, i used, USED, bing), I found a topic about "Russian Spetsnaz" and the "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation", and then my brain kicks in, working in full gears thinking "Oh wait did you remember uh... what's her name again? The Russian women with the Rasputin musics in the background?", that I started to realize... the one...

So... I do some quick searches and sure as hell, there she is, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Poklonskaya

The only problem is... she's... kinda old... even for my standards.

Like.. everythings check all the boxes:
 * From a slavic country? Hell yea, the motherland of all slavs.
 * Blonde? Blonde!
 * Fits in with the anime vibe? Hell yea it is.
 * Looks young even for her age? Oh hoohohohohohoho, very checked.
 * Formerly works in the law enforcement? Sure as hell it is.

So... she checks all the boxes, but she's kinda old... nah fak it.

The... Uh... Holy Remake?
After some quick searches around her, it's time to build a building. Now Anna that I (and us all) know is kinda different to what we have then, but let me finish the goddamn dinner.

It was time to planning out the designs and backstory.

Originally, Anna didn't have a backstory, and she's more like the support character element rather than the main one; oh and she doesn't know martial arts back then.

Through the power of "random bingings" aka The Holy "Youtube's Random Recommendation" (which quite interesting because what's recommended to me was pretty much related to what I was searching for, but hey, at least I won't have to squeeze my head painstakingly designs the characters myself), I stumbled a series called "The Female Battalion" (ooh wee, it have everythings, minus the English dub, it was cringe af), and after some even more researches, I think to myself "This is the one! The Eureka moment!"

So I scrapped the original designs of her, minus the hairs (since it would be kinda odd to put a character as old as Natalia as the main character when everybody else was like U30) and makeups.

This is what I came up with:

Kinda interesting, isn't it? Well wait until you heard that I've watched the Trilogy of John Wick.

Yes, through the powers of Call of Duty and John Wick, I finally found the final piece of the puzzle: the menace. Now the only remaining question is "how would she fits in the *NEW* story?"

Instead of let her have a former relation ship with the main one, why don't we let her become a lesbian?

And that's where the first major roadblock stands in the way:

The Product (and it's byproduct)
First of all, she's Russian, LGBTQ+ in Russian will results in immediate cancellation (trust me, I did have this issue once, I'm not gay btw, thx)

But at the same time, everyone have a couple, so why let her alone? Which is why I thought: "Y'know what? Fuck it, let's give her a girlfriend and fuck what everyone thought!"

That one, was Marcy, which quite interesting, because not only did their relationship brighten up the whole stor, it's even better; but we don't talk about Marcy for now, that's for the other time.

Now onto the real deal, herself.

=The Present day= After some couple sleepless nights (well actually it's more like insomniac), I've finally settled the designs and keep her that way.

Now all I need is a backstory... hmmm... but how should it?

After some selection ideas to basing on, from being the lover of Ayato to be the lover of Marcy, I kinda wanted her to have the personality of... like a retired assassins.

Which is why I came to John Wick to based the ideas,

But just Keanu in his natural habitat wouldn't be enough, I need some Russian; and I don't mean someone writes in faux-cyrillic and just spam "cyka blyat" all the times, I mean actual Russian used by actual Russians.

Which then lead us back here, where we are now: the present.

=The designs= Anna is a pretty stoic type, but also pretty open and kind (just don't let her handle her book in her left hand, that's when you know you're fucked).

When I'm think of Anna, I think of "the women of focus, commitment, and sheer-fuckin'-will" and that's her entire aura. The next big thing about her is the smile.. just look at it, who would've know that behind that smile is a literal representation of the daughter of John Wick, assuming if John did married to Helen and have a kid before the actual events of J3U, obviously.

As for her body designs, I just grab what ever looks good, which is everything, which is hard for me to settle on a design that just recognized immediately even if you just look at the silhoutte.

But after some trial and errors (which hardly any since everything just looks good on Anna), I decided to stick with the "elegant but not weak, but also not too petite and not too tall, but also not too short", which I settled on 1m8 (6'), no more no less.

The eyes
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. Anna's type matches both the "cute and innocent" style and "the angel of death" style to it... just perfect.

Of course, later down the line I switched to a blue right - cyan left model because of a minor writer's mistake that ended up became her signature look. (which at this point any further mistakes will just makes her even better, but I have a limit)

=Conclusion= I'm bad at blogging, and long essays in general, but Anna Novackova is someone that'll left you wordless anyway.

With that being said though, I'm truly proud of the product that I've made, and I really wish (if I have the times, obviously), to made it to the reality.

And that's all for my today's blog, on the next one I'll cover the 2nd character in the lineup, Madison Taylor, who you may "mistake" her with the counterpart in Cardcaptors, but she's the original that I based on.

Until next time, my friends, do svidaniya.