a mission and a little creative background...

I have no idea where this concept originated, but I thought it was neat. It's called Fanart100, and consists of a list of 100 prompts to inspire pictures featuring characters from any story that you enjoy. There's a whole community on LiveJournal with rules and regulations and stuff, but I don't have patience for that. Besides, I won't be using existing characters.

Rewind!

For several years, I've taken part in roleplaying online. No, nothing questionable, nothing used to pick up strangers...just a casual escape from the real world. About 8 years ago (can't believe it's been that long already), I started frequenting fantasy and anime themed AOL chatrooms, creating a character with a background that interacted with all the other characters present in the room at the time. It was entertaining, but rarely amounted to anything substantial.

Then I met my friend Cat, who introduced me to concept of breaking away from the chatroom atmosphere to roleplay with only one person, and between ourselves create a specific world and many different characters to populate and drive a specific story along. I had never heard of a creative outlet quite like it, and I found it hard to describe to anybody unfamiliar with the world of roleplaying. I've gotten a lot of blank looks while talking about the stories that have come out of the "skit", as Cat and I came to call it.

Fast-forward five or six years and we've started over countless times, added characters, dropped characters, branched off into new stories, re-vamped others, and we were beginning to run into a lull. We found ourselves joined by my current roommate and best friend Laura, who was the only person who didn't just listen and nod or stare at me blankly while I rattled on about the skit. After adding her characters and story ideas to the mix, it became obvious to me that she and I had more similar storytelling style than Cat and I did. We were also able to create a more eclectic mix of believable characters...even if sometimes their circumstances were unbelievable. So we got to thinking...why not start our own skit, using no copyrighted or existing characters or worlds, and tell a story that would be worth sharing with everybody?

Back to the present!

Laura and I have developed a very involved world, with a cast of core characters numbering in the 50s (at my last count). So we have plenty of stories to tell that have stemmed from this universe of ours....and it is THAT collection of stories that I will be drawing from for this Fanart100 challenge.

End of story, beginning of challenge.




The 100:

001.Beginnings.
002.Middles.
003.Ends.
004.Insides.
005.Outsides.
006.Hours.
007.Days.
008.Weeks.
009.Months.
010.Years.
011.Red.
012.Orange.
013.Yellow.
014.Green.
015.Blue.
016.Purple.
017.Brown.
018.Black.
019.White.
020.Colourless.
021.Friends.
022.Enemies.
023.Lovers.
024.Family.
025.Strangers.
026.Teammates.
027.Parents.
028.Children.
029.Birth.
030.Death.
031.Sunrise.
032.Sunset.
033.Too Much.
034.Not Enough.
035.Sixth Sense.
036.Smell.
037.Sound.
038.Touch.
039.Taste.
040.Sight.
041.Shapes.
042.Triangle.
043.Square.
044.Circle.
045.Moon.
046.Star.
047.Heart.
048.Diamond.
049.Club.
050.Spade.
051.Water.
052.Fire.
053.Earth.
054.Air.
055.Spirit.
056.Breakfast.
057.Lunch.
058.Dinner.
059.Food.
060.Drink.
061.Winter.
062.Spring.
063.Summer.
064.Fall.
065.Passing.
066.Rain.
067.Snow.
068.Lightening.
069.Thunder.
070.Storm.
071.Broken.
072.Fixed.
073.Light.
074.Dark.
075.Shade.
076.Who?
077.What?
078.Where?
079.When?
080.Why?
081.How?
082.If.
083.And.
084.He.
085.She.
086.Choices.
087.Life.
088.School.
089.Work.
090.Home.
091.Birthday.
092.Christmas.
093.Thanksgiving.
094.Independence.
095.New Year.
096.Artist‘s Choice.
097.Artist‘s Choice.
098.Artist‘s Choice.
099.Artist‘s Choice.
100.Artist‘s Choice.