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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 1767394" data-attributes="member: 10948">I'd gladly tell you the significance surrounding the imagery in the avatar you made for me, but it would take a LONG LONG LONG LONG time to fully explain it.        But, to violently simplify it...The pic signifies several key aspects of the main character in a story I'm writing (who is also named Angcuru, for now at least).  His people had 'evolved' to be identical to humans, save for a somewhat longer life span, and total ignorance to the 'negative' aspects of humanity I.E. hatred, anger, greed, etc. and simply put, finding love and being happy is all that matters to them.  Certain circumstances lead him to leave his people for a time, during which he first encountered violence, killing, and specifically, humanity.  He had to learn to defend himself, and as was his custom, he found the most direct and precise way to do so.  The whole purpose of combat is to remove your opponent(most often by killing), and so, the only weapon specifically designed solely for combat was the sword.  So he studied the sword, and the surgical, sudden-death precision of his strikes lead him to select the 'perfect sword'.  Single-edged, molecule-diamond sharp for killing, and a rounded blunt opposite edge for subual/non-lethal strikes.  Long story short, he discovers that he is technically immortal(much to his chagrin), his people end up being either slaughtered or otherwise lost to him, and his life generally goes to hell.  This is where to flowers and suchlike come in.  Amber was the color of his lost & undeclared love's hair and eyes, so he dwells on the color a LOT.  Ivy is signifying fidelity and marriage, something his people held very dear, and something that he will now never have.  So by intwining the blade, it is symolic of the drive that causes him to keep going, doing whatever it is he does.  The anemone flower signifies 'forsaken', which he very much feels he is, and at the base of the sword hilt, it is the fury which drives him in battle.  Forget-me-nots symbolize true love, the meaning of life for his people, again something he believes he will now never find.  Honeysuckle for devoted affection, something he wants to give and to feel, again, never will.  And finally the Lily of the Valley is symbolic of Return to Happiness, which he hopes to find, but doubts he will.It may seem a tad long, this, but it really is violently simplified.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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