Holy Gear and fan art tab now up.
July 5th, 2008My fave character in Edenworld is Holy Gear Machina, a mech that sort of looks like a shriner who is inspired a bit off of Renmazuo from Xenogears. Holy is the creator of Edenworld and the technology behind the homeostasis on its surface. For the most part he is one of the oldest characters in the story and is sort of off-kilter like the Jotuns due to his exposure to the Zeboin humans in the distant past. His body is basically mostly a housing for his brains/engine that take up 80% of his body. He is both a genius and a foreman and carries on the religious history and ethics of the God “WAVE” the official God of the Machina. He’s mostly badass except for the fact he’s the size of a Guardia (female bot equivelent) and he’s got a real ’short man’ complex.
Speaking of brains, it’s actually a rarity to have both halves of your brain in your head. What I mean by this is that Machinas’ brains can exist in multiple places on the body. Lyron may have his brains in his head but Beo prolly has one of his brains in his back, and Terra has one in his chest. Because of this (and this applies to the Guardia too) you can suffer a nasty attack to your face and it doesn’t necessarily equate death.
I’m playing with the idea of making the baby Gouli on the side there the donate button. What do you guys think? Pass or fail?
July 6th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I think I’d have to see the baby Gouli in colour to make a final decision on whether or not he’d make a good button.
Cool looking design though, and I love the lower legs, that spikey peice on the shins just looks awesome! I don’t get what you mean about off-kilter though, how are he and the Jotun’s off-kilter because of the Zeboin?
July 7th, 2008 at 12:15 am
A bit of history behind the machine people:
Basically all machine people, Jotuns too, are creatures of logic, so it’s easier for them to understand math, science and the laws of physics. It’s much harder for machine people to express emotions, and give into religion and imagination.
Regular Mashina on the whole, can be incredibly xenophobic. They don’t like other Mashina exhibiting behaviour that is not typical to their race (wearing clothes, dabbling in magic, learning music etc.) These things are generally only acceptable behaviour for the ‘Guardia’ who are the female machine people who physically come from human/Norn kind.
Lyron and his brothers are also Mashina, but a subset of that; Jotuns. They are mecha people who evolved a tiny bit differently. It’s like a cultural thing - similar to how Panchun is a Norn, but that humans in general also exist in this other world. Jotuns, though at odds with the Norns, have grown and lived very close to Norn society and have taken on aspects of thinking and acting based on that contact. Things like wearing clothes, accepting the existence of magic and gods are not beyond the Jotuns’ scope.
The ‘purebred’ Mashina are different, they didn’t grow alongside humans and have been hostile to them for the greater half of their existence. Mashina are much older, and more knowledgeable than Jotun are, but speak in a very proper, almost angelic/arcane manner and they don’t have a good grasp of emotions like the Jotun do.
Holy Gear, while not a Jotun, is almost like a human because he’s researched so much about the human societies of past and present. Their culture, poetry and social history are all things that Holy enjoys understanding. He is very down to earth, but though Mashina respect him as a genius and a foreman, he’s different from them. He cant go back to being like a normal Mashina because he’s ‘polluted’ with too much culture, fundamentally. (even though he’s the one that created Edenworld to save the Mashinas’ asses.)
So all the things that happen to the main characters in the story contribute to them being seen as ‘off-kilter’ or alien to the Mashina in general… maybe even sinister.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Hang on, so anything not strictly logical/scientific is attributed to either girl bots or something worse… are you suggesting that anything ‘odd’ is seen by the Machina purists as being err, well, sort of like being gay or something?
*giggles!*
July 7th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Ah, I get it now, thanks for the explanation Ratbat! ^_^
By the way, the Gouli donate button looks adorable coloured and where it is, it fits perfectly.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:47 am
to Jay: In a way yes, if you’re a male mecha and you do things that are perceived as illogical by Mashina culture… it’s like you’re seen as gay or a loony. The severity of the way normal Mashina act around you varies from outright avoidance and mockery to indifference. This generally doesn’t effect most of the main characters too much, but it gets on Beowulf’s nerves and Jet is just depressed by it.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Rolly-Polly-Floofy… It soooo works!
July 12th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Heehee! I think people like baby Gouli a whole lot! I know I do! ^-^
July 24th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Much pats on the back Jaylaw. Thanks for taking the time to correct my crappy spelling. =*
July 24th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
In doing so I’m looking at your site, too. o_~ Sneaky.