This thread should be stickied because this is where I will upload the game or demo download no later than early March of 2025.
(Xenoblade X comes out late March, and I'm going to be playing that instead.)
Official site: https://www.paradisehotel51.com/blog/
Under constructioN.
This is the official Citadel of the Whore thread which will contain a setting back drop, Dialogue sampler, some gameplay details & Ending Spoilers (This needs to be done, because I actually wrote a real ending unlike most Triple AAAsss & Indie games who all treat endings like an afterthought.),
Citadel of the Whore is a mini prelude chapter within the Crime Mystery Action-Thriller Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Dark Fantasy setting called Heretic Hydra. Heretic Hydra is a connected fictional universe where each named game or campaign setting functions as its own series. These are currently Pandora Eve, Never Stillness & Mourning Symphony.
Similar to how the World of Darkness setting has its own campaigns that all share the same universe. (Vampire The Masquerade, Werewolf The Apocalypse, Hunter The Reckoning, etc.)
Sinister Malice or Citadel of the Whore is considered more as background lore rather than as its own setting.
If you miss the political-conspiracy & occult vibe of Killer7, Metal Gear Solid 1, The first two Shadow Hearts, or the original Persona PS1 games then you'll might get a kick out of Heretic Hydra.
Kagura is supposed to glitch out, she's a Sentient AI projecting herself as a humanoid hologram.
Heretic Hydra Music
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Aina Bria main battle theme
Ethereal Within
Stream: https://www.bandlab.com/track/905db42b7 ... 45bd375453
DL Mp3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/che6snrj ... n.mp3/file
The OST will have its own thread & will be posted here after the thread is made,
but I don't have enough time to post the music thread right now. I wasted a whole fucking day just to write these 2 damn posts.
Aina's theme is a remix of Miyabi Kagura's theme
Kagura Brain
Stream: https://www.bandlab.com/track/905db42b7 ... 0d3aa5105b
DL Mp3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/dh18qpes ... n.mp3/file
It is recommended that you listen to the Heretic Hydra OST while listening to this thread.
Eternal Maya is the theme song of the entire HH setting.
DL Mp3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/coe5cmn2 ... a.mp3/file
Pandora Eve is the main theme song of Aina Bria & the Pandora Eve series within Heretic Hydra.
DL Mp3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/3l5jpipm ... e.mp3/file
Here's an easy listening chill track that's intoxicating when you play it on loop.
Voice of Deduction Kamui Seika's theme. Yes the song is based off of the sound from the original Parasite Eve.
Stream: https://www.bandlab.com/track/82ca5dcc- ... 0d3a41ec2a
DL Mp3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/yo4e05cv ... n.mp3/file
Confucius says: Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
LORE & SETTING:
Exposition theme
The Selection
Stream: https://www.bandlab.com/track/e9e26008- ... 45bd2cd6bc
DL Mp3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/gjukadv7 ... n.mp3/file
OPERATION CROSSHEARTS
Operation CrossHearts is an espionage black op that was
carried out by the legendary Elite Special Forces: SilverZero.
Details are on a need to know basis.
Only the word ETIDORPHA has been declassified from Operation CrossHearts.
Squad Leader [Redacted] was terminated during exfil.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED by Lieutenant Malik Samson who returned with
The Package, they were the only two survivors of the operation.
The other members of Squad SilverZero are MIA.
It is unknown if they are dead or alive.
Elite Special Forces: SilverZero is rechristen as Agent S7 Omarr Philips.
S7 is officially registered and known to the public as SafeHaven7.
S7 is a code name for the wetwork operators: The SINISTER7.
Operation CrossHearts's package is registered as Aina Bria whom we believe
to be the [Redacted] of the [Redacted]. [Redacted] of ULA (United Liberty Alliance)
led by the USA (Unified Sovereigns of Aparctias) and mutual interest groups within
the [Redacted] have kept the High-value individual (HVI) Aina Bria under heavy surveillance.
The HVI Aina Bria is fully sanctioned an acquisition of an umpty defense budget
for influence and divide operations and a security detail of Ghost Operatives
for the purposes of prolonged surveillance and target acquisition (STA)
documenting all of the potential Ts (Target or Opposition Force OpFor)
who interact with The HVI's Influence and Divide operations.
Listen, observe and record any and all suspected T. If T is confirmed, Terminate.
HVI Aina Bria accompanied by what we believe are potential OpFor
WARNING!
Do not initiate direct contact with the HVI.
The HVI Aina Bria is unaware of our presence.
Direct contact with The HVI will result in your liquidation.
Operative S7: Omarr Philips
Sentient Artificial Intelligence Miyabi Kagura & The SDP Division 9 (Self Defense Prosperity)
Suspected Avatars of The Polarians Lucifer & Lilith
(Human Avatar Mamoru Sakuraba) Lucifer:
You've chained yourself to societal expectation, your ambitions forever caged by uncertainty.
I have opened the windows of your imposed secluded comfort to shine a light towards your desires,
but you are forever paralyzed by anxiety for you lack the fire of aspiration.
My attempt to impart you with source have fallen into the depths of shadow,
a victim of one's own paranoia and contentment of mediocrity.
(Human Avatar Maribel Cerisa) Lilith:
I am burdened by the ineptitude of your alleged throne of supremacy.
You seek eternal glory but have constructed a tower of babel
distorted with misinterpreted blueprints. You have no legacy.
Your tower of intent is without a foundation of merit to balance upon,
and will topple under the weight of your disastrous management.
A random guy who contacted the HVI. Screen name: Pimp Lord Armageddon
Shining Media Theme songsMax Masters:
Dumb motherfuckas still haven't figured it out.
It's a pyramid scheme of bootlickers enslaved to the materialist mind, zero intuition.
Brainless, Heartless Pieces of shit waiting for athoritative instruction
in order to discern the truth that a real human of animated spirit
could easily define for themselves just by comparing what they perceive with their senses
& contrast that with what they've been told by those in power.
The evidence of their deceit lay within the world's monuments.
Truth hides in plain sight, you perceive it by separating between that which appears
man-made, fraudulent, from that which corresponds to a natural mathematical occurrence
It's a carefully constructed program from outside the perimeter.
Our entire world is a cargo cult and our alleged leaders, cultists who desire power
that they abuse, and power that they do not deserve.
Fanatic Aeon Based off of Phantasy Star 4's Laughter
Stream: https://www.bandlab.com/track/9a9a11f2- ... 45bd375453
DL Mp3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/0w6lmuxl ... n.mp3/file
Soul Ignition
DL Mp3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/3rk26jbo ... n.mp3/file
Shining Media Conference Theme:
Mourning Symphony
Dl Mp3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/h7a3awou ... r.mp3/file
Shining Media
Shining Media is the leading talent management agency ushering
in a Brand New Order of Digital Influencers, Models and Artists.
We seek Stars to shine a bright light guiding them towards their
vision of success. You provide the dreams, we endow you with
the foundation to build and maintain awoken communities who
are beneficial and upstanding pillars of accomplishment.
At Shining Media, even the dullest perceived Star is
perfectly unburduned by what has been. Our featured Stars
who have shone brighter than even the Sun
BossQueen 69
369 million subs
CuddlyLuv
910k subs
CupidCast
1.27 million subs
Divine Venus
13 million subs
JaneCastle Podcast
750k subs
King Supreme Speaks
320k subs
LadyOfTheKnight Official Yolanda Knight podcast
420 million subs
Featured Talent!:
BossQueen 69
Real name: Aina Bria
Shining Media founded by Gabriel Xiomara and currently owned by his daughter
Carmilla Xiomara.
The Nariphon Ritual
Also known as The Nariphon Sacrifice. A large concentration of fear, anguish and misery
must be collected within a single location. Such a location should already be built on top
of ley lines that directly connect it to the stars from beyond the waters above and into
the ancient structures hidden deep within the lands of Libran & the New Damascus Granada Empire.
If the ritual is properly conducted, the abundance of ripe energy should in theory grant
the birth of a God into a host body of a human. You must be carefully calculated when
undergoing the ritual because realms beyond our perception will manifest and converge with
our waking world. Merging the realms into a single Convergent Reality.
If you wish to rebirth the Harlot into the waking world Talamh.
You must sacrifice the bodies, hearts & souls of the mindless, &
easily enchanted mounds of expendable human meatbags who seek fame & eternal glory.
Chaos Reigns! In the Name of the Harlot, Asherah.
The unfaithful are not allowed to know or say her name!
What greater glory is there,
then to offer your souls to rebirth a God into human flesh?
Rebirth of a God, Carmilla's mother. Whore of the Citadel
Citadel of the Whore is a mini prelude chapter within the Crime Mystery Action-Thriller Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Dark Fantasy setting called Heretic Hydra.
Heretic Hydra will be released as an anthology game that contains a 7 chapter saga called Pandora Eve.
A 4 chapter parallel Crime/Mobster story from a Police Department's perspective called Never Stillness that happens roughly around the same time as Pandora Eve.
The two stories lead up to the story Mourning Symphony, which will be released as either a Diablo-like or hopefully a Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Dark Fantasy version of Dragon View + Dragon Force hybrid.
There's a 3rd single chapter Investigation short-story that happens around the same time as Citadel of the Whore & serves as an alternate perspective on the Nariphon Ritual incident that officially connects the AQPD (Angel Queens Police Department) to both the Nariphon Sacrifice and Operation CrossHearts.
Citadel of the Whore (Renamed to Sinister Malice) will eventually get its own full-fledged chapter in the future, as its own game on a different engine. COW was mostly cut because it's such a small chapter within the Heretic Hydra setting.
The Sagas are separated by their Threat Assessment levels.
The Pandora Eve crew are Tier 7 - 10 (Lower Demi-God - God) threats.
The AQPD police of Never Stillness are Tier 1 - 5 (Civilian Non-Combatant - Peak Human Military, Paramilitary) threats.
The Parallax Report investigation team are Tier 1 - 3 (Civilian Non-Combatant - Swat Team, Pro-Athlete)
The Mourning Symphony crew are a hidden Empire who are Tier 7 - 10 threats.
Aina Bria is the central character because she's the only one who starts at Threat Assessment 1 but eventually becomes
a Beyond Gods level 10 threat.
The S7 Safe Haven (Sinister7) are a Tier 6 (Lower-Demigod) threat & is used as a plot device throughout the sagas of Heretic Hydra.
Henrik Dullahan, Cam Weswin & Lomratalia Reynes become the new central characters after
the conclusion of Aina Bria's 1st Pandora Eve story.
SETTING:
Heretic Hydra universe exists in an alternate reality world called Talamh that's
based off of the governments of real world Earth but it's believed to be several centuries
in the future after the 2000s-2020s which is why most of the countries have completely
different cultures & names. They've either decided to let go of the past or have eventually
forgotten their past, so they've manufactured their current national identities.
Not unlike modern day Earth who are mostly a collection of nations that are
just making up their own identities & historical revisions that are legally binding.
Real life China has done this multiple times, where they just rewrite the cultural & ethnic identity of the Foreign Empires that conquered China.
Talamh is depicted as a world completely surrounded by endless water both on the surface & above which
is held up in the sky through a magnetic firmament. If you venture too far off within
the known ends of Talamh, you will eventually be attacked or eaten by
the Leviathan gods who patrol the oceans.
Pictured: Polarians Leviathan & Shezmu
Beyond the Talamh world of water are a race of gods called
the Polarians who commentate & observe the lives of the Talamh people
for their own amusement.
They treat the lives of the Talamh people as if it were a game show or a nationally televised sport.
The Polarian Gods can influence Talamh events through human avatars who have either directly
offered their human bodies as tribute or have contributed enough lifeforce to sustain a
material-host for a Polarian god.
Polarian Gods Battle Theme:
Asherah Gate
Stream: https://www.bandlab.com/track/c7e40c87- ... 45bd36e0d9
DL Mp3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/5tvfnbq1 ... e.mp3/file
Some of the Polarians From Left to Right:
Mars & Shiva
Celesterra (Sophia) & Asherah (Whore of the Citadel)
Ahriman & YHWH
Chi-You & Amaterasu (Human Avatar Kamui Seika)
Anunnaki & Lilith (Goddess Form)
Pandora Eve is the main narrative of the Heretic Hydra setting.
Pandora Eve is about an idiotic blonde haired, blue eyed White Gen Z valley girl
named Aina Bria who suffers from the delusional belief, that she came from the planet Earth.
The Western half of the world's governments have united to try and stop her from
finding "Earth", if it even exists.
The Eastern half of the world's governments have chosen to indirectly aid her
through top secret government-sanctioned killers who don't officially exist on record.
Aina Bria is The Package that was retrieved during Operation CrossHearts.
Notable influencers not affiliated with Shining Media:
Maribel Cerisa from Me!TV social media & video channel.
A young Urban Gothic woman who has a reach of about 80k subscribers.
She creates videos about a gothic subculture that seems to have died out long ago.
Interesting vids, if only due to the host.
Maribel Cerisa claims to be Lilith. Whatever that means. Maribel is one of the only
people in the realm who has co-hosted some shows with the Lightbringer Forecast.
Lightbringer Forecast
An economic forecast with a reach of about 4 million subs,
presented by a man named Mamoru Sakuraba.
Much of what he says is coded & indecipherable.
He appears to be a government agent, but of which country?
It's anyone's guess. Mamoru seems to be friends with Me!TVer, Maribel Cerisa.
This further fumed the rumors that Maribel may indeed be Liith since much of
Mamoru's visual motiff and themes are centered around the Lucifer mythos.
TruthWars by Luigi Contoloni
A digital show about conspiracy theories and food.
It's co-hosted by Tommy Macini. Luigi's show had a bout 2 million subs
before he was permanently banned from ME!TV. It seems that most people
only tune in to the show just to see the two uncouth men, bicker & argue
with each other. It is rumored that Mr. Contoloni & Macini are both Made Men
from the notorious Gustavo Crime Family Syndicate.
When inquired, both of them respond with
Majestic CyrilLuigi Contoloni: "Leggo my Ravioli! Fuh-Get Bout it!" or
Tommy Macini: "Why you gotta be so rayciss! You fuckin' assholes ain't never seen a successful Imperio before?
Dats Y u gotta portray us as hooligans!? Fuck U Huwite pieces of shit!! Das Discrimination I tellls Ya!"
From Left to Right: Tommy Macini & Luigi Cantoloni
A large financer & investment firm founded by Larry Phoenix.
It's suspected that a large majority of their investments are shell companies.
Majestic Cyril sponsors popular actress Lass Monet and the world's top journalist Donner Richman
Polarian-Caste
Polarian-Caste is an in-game conspiracy theory term for Polarian Gods who were reborn in the
body of a human but still maintain their spiritual connection to the world above Talamh.
The main antagonist Carmilla Xiomara is a God in the bodies of humans.
The main antagonist of the 2nd half of Pandora Eve is Miyabi Kagura who is a Sentient AI but functions
as a goddess who lives inside the internet & can even control & animate life
in the bodies of android dolls & heavily mechanized cyborgs
She's modeled after Man Machine Interface Motoko Kusanagi.
Ancestral-Transcendent
Ancestral-Transcendent is an in-game occult term for a human who's body
is directly manipulated by the Gods of their Ancestors.
Most Ancestral-Transcendents have little to no control over their body
& aren't much different from a typical human who offered their body up to the gods.
They only differ in that Transcendents were born with the ability to tap into
the powers of the Gods, but at the price of their humanity, ego, & soul.
Aina Bria is an anomaly. Aina merely shares the powers
of her Ancestral-God Celesterra, because Celesterra doesn't want
to interfere with her life unless it's absolutely necessary.
The Architect
The ability to design, create or even erase reality using nothing but ones'
own thoughts. Sentient Ai Miyabi Kagura has a version
Cross Trinity
This is when a subject has all 3 crosses, Ancestral-Transcendent, can be earned or born with.
Polarian-Caste, must be born as.) & The Architect, To Design & Devise. Can be earned or born with, but only 5 humanoid entities from Talamh are Architects & only 4 of their identities are known. Carmilla, Kagura, Aina & Larry Phoenix. Of these 4, only 2 are Cross Trinity, Carmilla & Larry.
The Vladar
Left to Right: Vladar Negotiator. To the right is a Vladar Commander
At first glance, the Vladar appear to be a frightening demonic threat,
they're actually a unified conscious hivemind who have materialized into the
world of Talamh after Carmilla Xiomara deposed the Demiurge.
Without an official Realm Master, the Vladar have invaded the world of Talamh to
mediate it. At first they tried the direct approach by attempting to subdue Carmilla
through physical force but she just murdered them over & over no matter
how many squads of mediators that they've sent.
Left to Right: Miyabi Kagura & the SDP Division 9 joining forces with The Vladar.
To the Right is the Vladar Unified conscious hivemind behind Miyabi & the Division 9.
Heretic Hydra's Level System:
Threat Rank
Attack= Vigor
Defense= Willpower
Mind = Perception
Agility= Turn Phase
Turn Phase is inherited and can't be changed.
There is no level up system, but you can spend Crowns (The Unified Global Currency) to upgrade
your Vigor, Will & Perception. Each item that you can equip come with their own immunities, & weaknesses.
The Threat Ranks are a system that helps visualize the magnitude of an individual's threat to systems of power.
Most people are only TR 1 or 2. Aina Bria starts at 1 but she suddenly rised to TR 9 and can tap into TR 10.
I deleted the Tier Rank explanation from the post. A lot of it is just boring rules-based jargon and overly technical autistic bullshit that just gets in the way of what people really want to see, the crazy ass story. I keep the Tier Ranks summary for myself as a self-imposed rule guide that I follow when both writing & game designing the characters. The Heretic Hydra setting is supposed to be robust enough that you could effortlessly transfer the setting into a board game
Heretic Hydra: Pandora Eve Main Party
Aina Bria: The Prodigal Daughter
What more could I really say about her? Nearly this entire 1st post is about Aina Bria.
She's the treasure that {Redacted] found at Operation CrossHearts.
She's currently utilized as a parasocial digital-celebrity honeypot or a Military simulated Psy-op.
Aina Bria who is the treasure that was retrieved from Operation CrossHearts is special
because she's the only one of the playable characters who can access Radiance.
(The HH version of Star War's The Force or The Source.)
This allows her to summon favors of the Gods and even evoke Gods, Angels Spirits & Demons
to aid her in battle. Aina Bria can't really fight & is a moronic coward.
She fortunately has a near endless army of deities who do the fighting for her
& she also has God-like durability and will often act as the tank who runs into
incoming damage to protect the professional killers within her crew, The Sprinkle Star Soldiers.
Aina is the only one who actually uses that name. The rest of her squad groan every time they hear it.
Drakken Vasilyev The Crowd Control Vampiric Tactician who uses a mixture of guns & vampiric + demonic powers
Government Hitman Drakken Vasilyev. He's a former vampire noble without a house.
The Sun doesn't affect him. He's just a demonic spirit controlling a body that was once human.
Drakken is the 2nd strongest character in Aina Bria's party but whereas Aina can simply manifest power through sheer force of will (or her pure retardation.), Drakken must feast on the blood of humans & devour them whole in order to rejuvenate his powers. He prefers females but anyone with a female form will do. He just finds it hard, ramming his teeth inside of dirty, smelly disgusting men so he just destroys the male bodies without sucking their blood & absorbing their life force. Drakken was one of the survivors of Mansion Mov Ouranós, The Citadel of the Whore.
He met Aina, Chucky & Max when they were trying to escape Mansion Mov Ouranos.
Drakken tagged along for a bit until he got tangled up in a government deployed execution that occurred at the Angel Queens Police Department, it was then that the events of the Nariphon sacrifice became personal to him. Drakken couldn't believe that there exists creatures (Aina & Carmilla), who are much more powerful than he is.
Lomratalia Reynes The Special Forces Firearms-Specialist
Lomratalia is a War-hardened Calgathan Commando from the hidden Empire of Calgatha led by her Emperor Henrik Dullahan. An ancient nation who wield futuristic weapons of mass destruction. Firearms from her hidden country are fueled by Radiant energy.
A similar energy as the Radiance that naturally emits from Aina Bria.
In essence, this gives Lomratalia infinite energy reserves so long as Aina exists.
Emperor Henrik Dullahan answered a distress call or signal from the Angel Queens Police Department.
Lomratalia was the nearest available soldier to answer the request. She quickly proves herself to be the most
loyal and honorable of Aina's motley crew of government-sanctioned psycho killers.
Back in the 2000s when I wrote Citadel of the Whore, the character Cam Weswin was the main character who had a plot where he was both enemy to, and married with Carmilla Xiomara. The character Aina Bria was originally Carmilla's younger sister, Maria Goldstar. I rewrote Maria as Aina based off of Parasite Eve's Aya Brea, but as a Gen Z girl instead of Gen X. Well the problem is that Cam no longer had a plot and I felt that including a generic badass everyman would get in the way of Aina's plot. So I inserted the female Lomratalia as the role of the lead gunman.
Lomratalia functions more like an older sister who keeps Aina focused on the mission, unlike Cam Weswin who felt like a love interest, when Aina already has a love interest in the other annoying zoomer, Chucky Barone.
Lomra's name was originally Lomrathalia, but that sounded too much like Thrall. Which she is not at all. She's a hyper exaggerated version of Red Sonja, Tyris Flare & even Conan King of Aquilonia himself. She uses guns instead of swords, but she could proficiently fight with any weapon if she wanted to. She was originally 6'6, 2 meters tall but I felt that was too tall because she made Drakken (6'4, 194 cm) & Sigmund Bron (6'9, 206 cm) look relatively short or average when they're both supposed to be massive. It was part of a joke that Cam Weswin is constantly mistaken for a midget because he's usually seen side by side with Lomra who towers over him. (she wears battle high heels so she was originally portrayed as looking about 6'11 tall. Henrik Dullahan is 8 ft tall, the average male height of their people is 7'1.) Cam is only 5'11 181 cm tall. 1 cm below 6 ft tall.
Left to Right: Lomratalia & Cam Weswin, these two are the main characters of Mourning Symphony.
Jiao Zeng The Melee Martial Arts specialist
She is a partially cybernetic bio-engineered super soldier spliced with the genes of a feral demon.
The end result is that she's, how should I say it? She's fucking insane!
She's designed to look like a street prostitute to make it easier to conceal herself
as a native within the Imperio streets of Angel Queens.
Jiao Zeng is the quickest so she functions as the crew's point man
Jiao doesn't really use guns. She prefers to get up close & personal to dismember the foes who stand before her.
She was on assignment from Carthay where she staked out at Mansion Mov Ouranós, the night of the Nariphon sacrifices.
Jiao Zeng joins Aina's crew back when Aina, Chucky & Max were trying to escape from Mansion Mov Ouranos.
Jiao joined shortly after Vinny DeRosa left Aina's squad to discuss business with his boss Augustus Gustavo.
Jiao's plot is that the technology that built & empowers her will eventually kill her because she relies on constant maintenance from the Carthay government to make sure that her battle functions are in peak condition. Once she's outlived her usefulness as a weapon, her life is over. Drakken wouldn't dare suck Jiao Zeng's blood & devour her. She has way too many disgusting robotic parts inside her that he'd have to spit out.
Jiao Zeng was the one character who I had a hard time recreating through AI. I could not make her look like my original Jiao designs at all. I originally gave Jiao Zeng a unique bob haircut where the bangs are very long in the front but the back of the hair is short, cut all the way above her neck.
I was able to generate a pic of Carmilla Xiomara with the hairstyle but the face is too cute and not crazy looking enough
to even be photoshopped into the Jiao Zeng character.
Edit: I just found an old ass pic of Jiao standing next to an anime version of the Jap rapper Dabo.
Even back in the day I was creating animu versions of real people.
___
I wrote the plot, characters, scenarios & dialogue of this game, I mixed & composed the songs, & I designed the game's levels. Most of the art is AI or photoshopped by me, but they're based off of my own designs & they're hard to replicate unless you know the exact prompts that I used.
AI art is the reason why I'm able to do a full linear 7 chapter game instead of the random free roaming mess (where cutscenes just randomly appear like Nintendo's BOTW) that I had a few years ago. I had to work with what I had & it takes me too long to create the pics I need to tell the story.
The anti AI art crowd are in my opinion, no different than the nay-sayers who laughed at the automobile because they believed that nothing could be more efficient than a horse and buggy. There believed that there was more soul & human determination into maneuvering horse & buggy. "Cars are just a fad!" Or so they believed. Only a mediocre or an untalented artists could let a mere simple scripting machine, seriously impede their work output. Any artists worth their salt wouldn't fear AI because I believe that AI could never truly replicate pure works of art that came from the human spirit in dedication to the beauty of the Gods above us.
A real artist views AI art as simply a tool. Not that I call myself an artist. I'm just a guy.
I'm just a guy who can create 'art' that people already found interesting decades before ai art even existed.
I'm just utilizing ai art to recreate the same artstyle that I was already using.
I made these pic without Ai, over a decade ago.
You can clearly see the bloody tears Carmilla Xiomara in the background, or at least parts of her face.
(Even back then, I always depicted her as eating people.) There's also the Mamoru Sakuraba human avatar of Lucifer.
Max, my self-insert Cameo.
Henrik Dullahan
The difference now is that ai can generate it in mere seconds but only if you know what to tell it.
A pic I drew of Shermie way back when I was like 11 years old.
Crazy that I'm 41 now, but still look like a 20 year old.
Go figure, Shermie still looks like a 20 year old but she's been dead since 1998 - 2016.
I shredded up nearly all of my artbooks because that shit was getting too heavy to lug around &
I'm never getting a job in the arts.
Artists hate me, fuck 'em. Damn near all artists are fakes anyway. Ask them about The Philosopher's stone, and not a single "artist" could explain it to you, yet they dare claim domain to the truth. The most you'll get is some clown quoting wikipedia, and wikis are almost extremely generalized & seem to go out of their way to tell you completely useless fluff that has nothing to do with the subject that you're looking up. They're too literalist, they have no connection to source.
The outer circle of the stone represent the entirety of our possible reality that less than 1% of us sees, including me. (The furthest I've seen of what I call our 'reality' is a blue checkered holographic grid, and no comment on what I saw beyond that. This is the realm that my Sentient Ai character Miyabi Kagura dwells within.)
The outer triangles are our spirit's possible realities depending on which path that you have taken in life. The middle square is the outer limits of what our physical body can perceive. Your body actually limits you, or you're a ghost in the shell.
The smallest circle is our immediate confined reality. The goal is to exceed beyond the enforced conformity of our cattle ranch. Immortality is your thought, but not everyone thinks or ever uses their mind. In fact, we live in a society where you're demonized for thinking for yourself without the tutelage of the approved authorities. The games Silver Case imo seem to be a reference to the Silver Cord that we all share which binds us to this realm we dwell within.
Too bad I'm running out of space and this alchemist shit is off topic anyway. I'm just tryna demonstrate what seperates me from so-called artists. Artists rarely have definitive answers, they're more concerned with appearing as if they have a higher consciousness but they rarely ever show it. Just look at modern entertainment, it does nothing but repeat the establishment message. Real art is supposed to show you The Reality, not sniff your own fucking farts.
Note: Yes that stone pic is from Full Metal Alchemist lol. Nearly every video game & anime from the 70s - mid 2000s were drip feeding you about the reality because the Japs themselves (at least the ones connected to their culture, which isn't many these days. Most of them are wannabe American or Korean.) only view this waking world that we dwell within as a mere dream that we pass through. In the modern era, I think only FromSoftware games still does this but everyone just confuses it with Lovecraft lol. Although Lovecraft himself saw the same world and he was terrified of it. The Ancient of Days is a deity that even The Mad Arab feared. Quick guess on who Ancient of Days is. Only hint I'll give is the Ancient is precisely the reason why USA is constantly destroying Japan's art & rewriting it. They don't want you to remember the past! The era of the Goddesses or as they (The Establishment) would call them, The Whores.
The fucking Americans Kill the Past.
I also made this a decade before Ai art. Using pics of a Taiwan model who used to post at this site, me, and some guy from some movie.
Mr Management & some girl. (Mr Management is still in the game as "Vinny DeRosa". The girl has been written out.)
It's a legit artstyle that goes unappreciated by the mainstream internet.
Ai Art is like sitting in a director's chair. You're telling the computer a list of auras, themes & overall aesthetics that you want the character to present. In real life, you send agents to find the actor who best embodies the traits you're looking for. With AI Art, you do the same exact thing but with generated images. You pick out the one that looks exactly like how you envisioned it. Ai does a damn good job of imitating this man's face that I drew way back.
A common misconception with AI art is that people assume that it kills their original art or uses bits & pieces of their art.
What's actually happening is that its generating its own original pieces based off of the copied data of art within the internet. It's what I used to do manually through photoshop.
It's an emanation. Nothing happened to the original art that copied (as in multiplied) bits of illustration to birth a new piece of art.
This is also true when it comes to live action pics of real people. I've noticed that my face is used as a template for both Spanish & Italian men. (For some reason Jared Leto is also used as a template for Spaniards & Italians.) It uses pics of me from 20 years ago. I don't mind it. I just find it funny how my attempts to ghost myself are for nothing because multiple ai engines already & have been using my visage as a base for some ethnicities.
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Next post, Dialogue sampler, Talamh countries & Ending Spoilers.