http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:lyokan&section=today deviantART RSS for by:lyokan en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:10:27 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/19412129/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/19412129/ Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:07:13 PDT
a) tell you why I friended you,
b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.,
c) tell you something I like about you,
d) tell you a memory I have of you,
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
f) tell you my favorite pic of yours,
g) in return, you must post this in your journal.

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18878088/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18878088/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:02:21 PDT [link]

My desktop of my laptop, after a full reformat. The files are mainly installation files that I haven't deleted. Opera and IE are there for cross-browser testing, as Firefox is my main browser.

Anyway, the new wallpaper is goldfish's group picture. This was an old photograph too, when I was still a one-tail and wasn't possessed by a power-hungry supervirus. I'm gonna see if I can get it resized whenever goldfish can, but for now, this works fine.

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18718384/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18718384/ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:40:48 PDT [link] Don't forget to signup for the forums too. The site and forums are still being worked on. (Me and Volt have been having fights too recently over this prologue as well...)

Chapter 10 of TRK is half done. I'm waiting on the other chapters to continue, as I'm waiting for the first half of Book 1 to be completed so I can come up with the characters' personalities and their role in Chapter 10, as well as fight scenes for my character (Bionic) in Chapter 11 & 12.

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18442978/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18442978/ Thu, 22 May 2008 06:49:54 PDT
Tycat92 did this and it sounded fun ^^

I Fear…

[ ] the dark
[ ] staying single forever
[ ] being a parent
[ ] giving birth
[ ] being myself in front of others
[ ] open spaces
[ ] closed spaces
[ ] heights
[ ] dogs
[ ] birds
[ ] fish
[X] spiders
[ ] flowers or other plants

Total so far: 1

[ ] being touched
[ ] fire
[ ] deep water
[X] snakes
[ ] silk
[ ] the ocean
[X] failure
[ ] success
[X] thunder/lightning
[ ] frogs/toads
[ ] my boyfriends/girlfriends dad
[ ] boyfriends/girlfriends mom
[ ] rats
[X] jumping from high places
[ ] snow

Total so far: 5

[ ] rain
[ ] wind
[ ] crossing hanging bridges
[ ] death
[ ] heaven
[ ] being robbed
[ ] falling
[ ] clowns
[ ] dolls
[ ] large crowds of people
[ ] men
[ ] women
[X] having great responsibilities
[X] doctors, including dentists
[X] tornadoes

Total so far: 8

[ ] hurricanes
[X] incurable diseases
[ ] sharks
[ ] Friday the 13th
[ ] ghosts
[ ] poverty
[ ] Halloween
[X] school
[ ] trains
[ ] odd numbers
[ ] even numbers
[ ] being alone
[X] becoming blind
[X] becoming deaf
[ ] growing up

Total so far: 12

[ ] creepy noises in the night
[ ] bee stings
[X] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[X] needles
[ ] blood
[ ] dinosaurs
[ ] the welcome mat
[ ] high speed
[ ] throwing up
[ ] falling in love
[ ] super secrets

Final Total: 14



... if you wish to post this in your journal, it's been requested that you title it I'm afraid of _ out of 72 common fears...

If you get more than 30, I strongly recommend some counseling
If you get more than 20, you’re paranoid.
If you get 10-20, you are normal.
If you get 10 or less, you’re fearless.
People who don’t have any are liars.

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18332836/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18332836/ Thu, 15 May 2008 08:09:40 PDT
With this, I'll be working on several other projects including some for money to finance the KJ server. So this means the chapter I'm working on with Bionic in it will be put on hold until everything I have to do is done.

Oh, and The Royal Knights are going to be a webcomic thanks to ~RPG-grenade. The link is here: [link] I'll be on there like once a week to check PM's or the forums but that's it. Volt (Zack) and RPGgrenade basically run the site until the end of June.

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18181470/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18181470/ Mon, 05 May 2008 13:54:47 PDT
And Zack still won't finish the prologue :'(

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18133990/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/18133990/ Fri, 02 May 2008 14:01:07 PDT
Nillti and Einill are believed to be the Minds behind the Akashic Records. It is unknown what they are truly supposed to be, but are believed to be humanoid beings when not within the Akashic Records. Apparently there appearance are to match Volt’s likings, they are believed to be roughly 2 years younger then Volt (although they are actually as old as time it self.) Nillti is quite humble but only towards Volt, seemingly shy, she often hides behind him. Polite and well-mannered she isant that afraid to speak her mind and isant afraid to get introuble either. Einill is supposedly the excat oppisite of Nillti. She is everything but shy, she’s outgoing and even rude. Oter then that, theres not much detail about them. There abilties are a special power which directly effects the being of another person. Nillti is shown to have the abilty to cause another person to be completely drained of all their energy, rendering them useless. Einill’s powers are not shown, but it is believed Aoi’s power has somewhat came from them. When they first met Volt, volt had asked them a question, inreturn they were aloud to ask him a question. He asked them, if they were Star-born children. They told him, they were the reason Star-births occur. Inreturn they now asked Volt, which he would perfer, Nothingness or Existence. Apparently only Volt can see them, even though Bionic was with Volt at the Akashic Records, it is unexplained. They also only interact with him, and no one else except each other. Nillti and Einill share the same mind, they know what each other is thinking. Volt often tried to tell other’s that they were they, but they claim they cannot see the two of them. Afterwards Nillti and Einill then explain that they can only be seen by people, if they want them selves to be seen. Apparently they only want Volt to see them. Nillti and Einill can also enter people’s dreams, and in this case are visible to the person in which dream they are inhabiting. They act somewhat trecherously towards Aoi and Mimi, since they are the only other’s “Close” to Volt, they invade there dreams and prophecise horrible outcomes of events that could happen if they were to stay with Volt. Aoi and Mimi depict them as Witches. Inevitibly they play a cruel trick which causes Xaradian to take control of Volt and attack them both. They take a big role, in the middle of Book 2, and in book 3. Void claims that he can somewhat see 2 blurs around Volt, signaling that he is aware that something is there. Evantualy they let Void gain the abilty to fully see them, and then Void attacks them. Void’s attempt at attacking them fails for as he is defated within Minutes. The powers of Nillti and Einill are beyond anyone of them. The affection they show towards Volt is quite babyish, infact it often makes him think of them as two annoying little sisters, on occasions, they try to get “closer” to him, but only when Aoi or Mimi are in the area.

(Posted by lyokan: Bionic's powers)

Nicholas inevitably becomes Volt's guardian via an event known as the Death of a Sun (will be explained in a later chapter). In Book 2, he learns that he can use his new powers to his advantage. Nicholas is a spirit trapped inside Bionic, yes, however through the Akashic Records he can separate himself, so that one half of his spirit is still inside bionic, but the other half is free from his body. This other half, which he can still control from within Bionic, can do what ghosts do: be invisible, go through walls, and possession of mortals. However, the possession part is a limit of, sadly, only a few seconds. However, this power is useful for helping the defeat of Kroz. In Book 3, his android is, er, stolen by the harvester's other project, dyalnyr, a being of pure darkness, and Nick, like a ghost, is pretty much out for most of the book, as even Nick is trying to figure out what dyalnyr would need with his android body. Also, in Book 3, Nicholas being--well--still on the planet--is revealed to all of the knights.

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We're likely to leave The Royal Knights as a trilogy, although we're still brainstorming for a book 4 if there is one. This is how we got into a fight on Monday, with Zack and me screaming at each other, because it was either my character that didn't make sense for Void (Anthony)'s idea for Book 4 that just didn't make any sense as a book.

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17960312/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17960312/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:14:16 PDT
Two points if the title is a reference to someone I know. Anyway, ~goldfish078 has done this, so, without further ado a quiz:

Your real name: Steven
Age: 16
Height: 6 feet exact
Natural hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Skin color: White
Glasses/contacts?: Glasses
Piercings: None
Tattoos: None
Braces: Maybe
Mannerisms: 42?
Other distinctive markings: Dunno

FAVOURITE
Colour: blue
Band: They Might Be Giants
Video game: Smash Bros Brawl
Movie: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Book: And The Devil Will Drag You Under by Jack L. Chalker
Food: Pepperoni pizza
Game on a cell phone: Tetris?
CD: People still by CD's?
Flower: Dandylions?
Scent: Strawberry
Animal: Fox?
Comic book: Kitsune Jewel, because XKCD hasn't published a book
Cereal: Cocoa Krispies?
Website: [link] -- though all of the websites I've designed are my favorites
Cartoon: Danny Phantom

DO YOU
Play an instrument?: Does a recorder count?
Watch TV more than 60 hours a week?: Yes if it were 4 years ago, but there's nothing good on now.
Like to sing?: Sometimes
Have a job?: Freelance PHP Programmer? Dunno if that would count
Have a cell phone?: Hacked T-Mobile Wing with WM6.1
Like to play sports?: Hockey or Volleyball only
Have a boyfriend/girlfriend?: Three ex's...so no
Have a crush on someone?: er...yes...
Live somewhere NOT in the united states?: No
Have more than 5 TVs in your house?: I dunno, a 60 inch TV might be considered 5 and I have several others in my house so yes.
Have any special talents/skills?: I'm a writer and programmer
Exercise daily?: I walk one and a quarter miles every tuesdays and thursdays afterschool
Like school?: I haven't met anybody yet who has said yes. Me included

CAN YOU
Sing the alphabet backwards?: Is it wrong if I answer yes?
Stand on your tip toes without wearing shoes?: Yes
Speak any other languages?: Fluent French only...
Go a day without food?: Yes, if it's replaced by Slim-Fast stuff...
Remember your dreams: Extremely rare if I can
Read music, not just tabs?: No
Roll your tongue?: Yes
Eat a whole pizza?: I can eat an extra large pizza if I wanted, so yes

HAVE YOU EVER
Won something in the lottery?: No
Snuck out of the house?: Not really
Lied to get out of trouble?: Yes
Had a computer crash?: Several...
Gotten lost in your city?: Yes
Seen a shooting star?: No
Been to any other countries?: Too many to count
Had a serious surgery?: Other than stitches in my knee, no
Stolen something important to someone else?: No
Solved a rubiks cube?: No
Gone out in public in your pajamas?: Hell no
Cried over a girl?: No
Cried over a boy?: WTF?
Kissed a random stranger?: No
Hugged a random stranger?: No
Been in a fist fight?: No
Been arrested?: No
Done drugs?: No
Had alcohol?: No
Laughed and had milk come out of your nose?: ...you're expecting me to say yes, aren't you?
Pushed all the buttons on an elevator?: No
Sneaked into the opposite sex's bathroom?: No
Gone to school only to find you had the day off because of a holiday/etc?: A lot of times...
Swore at your parents?: Not really. If it's politics, I'll usually say "We'll all be damned if Hillary becomes president" but no
Kicked a guy where it hurts?: No
Been to a casino?: Not old enough yet
Ran over an animal and killed it?: No
Broken a bone?: No
Gotten stitches?: Yes...
Had a water balloon fight in winter?: ...yes...
Made homemade muffins?: Yes
Bitten someone?: No
Been to disneyland/disneyworld?: 5 Disneyworld visits, 2 Disneyland visits...I'm that much of a traveler
Burped in someone’s face?: No

WHENS THE LAST TIME YOU
Brushed your teeth: I forget
Cried: When my dad died
Went to the bathroom: 2 hours ago?
Saw a movie in a theatre: 2 weeks ago
Read a book: 4 hours ago
Had a snow day: December of '07...
Had a party: Never held one
Went to a doctor: Last week
Tripped in front of someone: In a hockey game in gym? 5 months ago
Went to the grocery store: Yesterday in a thunderstorm
Got sick: I am right now *cough*
Got cursed: I usually disregard it
Called someone: Yesterday

DO YOU PREFER
F... ]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17801918/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17801918/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:09:09 PDT
]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17739004/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17739004/ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:29:05 PDT
At first, it would've been Aoi's Group trying to get Volt, and we know a bit more about the characters themselves. Lame? Definitely. So we added in "The Harvester", and kept in Aoi's Group, however I couldn't convince Zack out of it as well. We started over from scratch, keeping Aoi's Group, but adding in a different villain than The Harvester.

So now we have a prologue-ish book. Basically, there is another guy with the same powers as Volt, trying to frame him, which mistakenly leaves the real Volt to go to jail. Now, this new villain won't have Xaradian or anything connected to him, nor will it be the REAL powers, probably some tech to make it look like he has the same powers.

Now, as for Bionic/Kryak, I'm still writing up Chapter 4 and I'm trying the best I can to make it seem like an actual chapter. The previous one I posted is a rough draft actually. Nicholas was killed in a 10-second period known as the Death of a Sun, where a black hole-ish portal will open that will let the gods intervene, and...well, I'm not going to say anymore other than this triggers an event known as The Artemis Loophole.

Also, Nicholas (When he was alive) just didn't care whether they were good or evil, as long as he was paid he'd work on the project as quick as he could. Will that tie into the fake Volt? Who knows. The next time I meet with Zack will be Wednesday, when I'm better informed of this.

Xaradian is an angered god, sealed inside Volt by another god. We decided to change him into one of 11 gods in the story from a demon.

Oh, and Sky is still the biggest pervert in the world.

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17667892/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17667892/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:44:24 PDT It was then that Nicholas realized that this wasn’t normal. He stood up from the grassy plain and looked westward toward what looked like a fight. He saw what looked like a Japanese woman wearing a kimono, with a tail, cat ears and orange fur, with sharp, weapon-like claws attached, trying to swipe at a blue-haired kid, trying to use a spear to attack her.
Nicholas ran over to the fight, getting a better glimpse at who they are. He didn’t recognize the humanoid cat, but he recognized Volt from when Nick traveled around.
“Hey, Volt!” Nicholas said when the cat woman kicked him toward the ground. He tried picking him up, but his hand went right through Volt, as if he were a ghost. He saw his hand, still visible, but he did not understand. Volt stood up on his own, not even looking at Nicholas. Nicholas was not even there to him!
The next thing Nicholas saw was Volt being stabbed in the arm by the cat woman, gashing at his arm and soaking blood into the ground. The sky started to turn dark and everything faded to black.
“Volt…Volt! VOLT!” Nicholas screamed as he was awakened by his alarm clock. He read the time as 11:00am, and shut off the buzzer his clock generated. Nicholas stood up as he took in a breath of fresh air, as he saw his old friend he met two years ago be torn and killed by a cat woman. It must’ve been a nightmare, he thought, as he turned and took the bed covers off of the top of him. He threw his old black shirt to the side, revealing only his boxers, and put on a white t-shirt and blue jeans, and reached on top of his alarm clock to a pair of tinted glasses, almost like sunglasses. He put a pair of white socks, and proceeded to go into the kitchen and take a granola bar.
He went inside another room connected to the kitchen; his invention room. It was filled with robotic parts and a musty smell of electronics, with four of his computers running above him attached to the ceiling giving off a “hum” from the fans, and the rust that applied all around his surrounding. There was a table with a bit of length stretching from wall to wall, and a computer monitor attached to one of the ceiling computers in a boot sequence. There was only a gray android; it looked exactly like him from head to toe, and a small stool.
Nicholas took a bite of his granola bar, and then walked over to the long table. He stared at his creation for a moment then took the stool under the table to him and sat, then opening a drawer to his right and grabbing a screwdriver and a solder gun.
For a few hours, all Nicholas did was tinker and build it, saying such things related to the construction of his android. At about 5pm he heard a knock on his door.
“Come in.” he said at the door, two rooms away. He heard the front door open, and a stranger walked into his invention room. He turned around a saw a man with an orange-colored shirt with a gray vest, with blue hair and eyes.
“I didn’t think you were busy,” the man who walked in was none other than Volt.
“It has been a long time since I saw you.” Nick remembered back to the first time he met Volt, unintentionally. He was twenty at the time, and Volt was only 16. Nick’s new teleporter worked quite well, but it had placed him in the wrong location: in the mountains and in a thick forest no less. His original intention was to travel one-way around the world at the speed of light, but a magnetic interference had caused him to land several miles away from his house. He started walking back to his house when he came across Sky, Volt and a mysterious man.
“Good day, sir, my name is John,” the man said, hurrying toward Nicholas. “You wouldn’t happen to know a doctor, would you?”
“My name is Nicholas Kryak, one of the top minds in the world. I’m not exactly a doctor, but I can treat someone the best I possibly can at my house.” Nick replied, stepping over a fallen tree.
“John, are you sure you want to trust this guy?” Sky hastily said.
“Yes, I’m sure this guy can help us.” John replied. Sky only sighed as all four walked up another mountain.
“Who might you be, sir?” Nick said to a man with a coat.
“My name is Sky.” He walked further ahead of the rest.
John turned to Nick after a few minutes. “Now then… how much longer until we arrive at your house?”
“By the looks of this forest,” Nick began studying the geography around him. “Eight miles, give or take three blocks.” He walked downhill, avoiding trees and bushes blocking his path. When he reached the bottom of the mountain, Nick lay on the ground, and so did the other three.
“Who is injured, if I may ask?”
None of them looked like... ]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17545692/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17545692/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:25:53 PDT
- Zack is doing a whole rewrite of Chapter 1. Not much of the plot will change, but will include a better detail of the environment and who the characters are or what they look like.

- Chapter 2 is temporarily on hold. In fact, I don't think we even started yet.

- Aoi's Group deviation is merging into the Royal Knights, as well as the bio's for all of the knights.

- Chapter 4 is having a complete overhaul. Anything you read you will have to disregard as I am personally rewriting it altogether.

In case anyone is asking -- yes, this is my father: [link]

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17476834/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17476834/ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:53:14 PDT I don't know if she wants to post it on deviantart or not. For all the times Zack has been bugging me to bug goldfish078 to get it done, well, it's finally done, Zack's at his father (no phone or internet) until who knows when.. so... OH THE IRONY! lol.

Zack is working on a new revision of Aoi's Group, so I don't know when he'll be done that. We're aiming to have all of the villains (well, not villains, per se...) be from different kinds of genres of science fiction, fantasy and general fiction.

And me and Zack have been formulating a climax point for the story...so should this be it or should an action scene be better? Climax follows:

Bionic held a sword to his murderer’s throat. “I finally know the reason why I’m still on this planet. I’m not here to kill or murder; I’ve seen my own future now, and what comes, and this organization is the least of my worries.” He pulled his sword back from Chi and put it back into a leather belt with a sword-holder. “The next time you touch Volt, I will not hold back--think of me as Volt’s partner instead of a guardian--wait, where's Volt?” He started running into the same room he had seen the first time he walked into Aoi's palace.
“Volt, is that you?” Bionic said, scratched and in several places showing his mechanical parts. Volt was staring down at the floor, in a blank state of mind.
Bionic looked up and saw Aoi sitting on a throne, staring at Volt.
“What have you done?” Bionic yelled.
“I haven’t done anything to him…yet.” Aoi said as she raised her hand. Volt turned around, with a blank stare still on his face, readying himself to fight.
“Volt, I’m not going to fight you.” Bionic said, as Volt leapt up and tried to attack him with a spear.
“Too bad.” Volt said. Bionic was still dodging Volt’s spear, trying to disable his arms from attacking. He tried to disable Volt’s arms, and the attempts failed.
“How in the world could you still be moving?” Bionic jumped back as Volt tried to punch him.
“Volty can still feel the pain when you try to attack him. When I control anybody, they can’t be defeated.” Aoi explained. “Finish him—”
“ Please Aoi… please stop this…you know Volt can feel pain! STOP!” a young voice screamed.

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17298484/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17298484/ Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:15:32 PDT
What are some good sources on both Japanese kitsune and Japanese dragons to use in the project?"

And Chapter 1 will be up, edited and completed...as soon as I stop playing brawl today

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17278149/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17278149/ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:17:05 PDT
I need to learn how to draw kitsune... I need one for my signature over at the KJ forums

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17237071/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17237071/ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:00:02 PST
Chapter 4 is fully done, and Zack still needs to finish Chapter 1 so I can edit it (and make it look like a book than fanfic writing) and upload it to DeviantArt.

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17196843/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17196843/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:53:33 PST
Plots:
- Book 1: Prologue book. The Royal Knights recruits and Aoi continues her plan to capture him.
- Book 2: More action. A demon tries to get into the Akashic Records, but finds out only Volt can. Both Bionic and Volt stumble into the Akashic Records and find a way to beat the invincible demon and his barrier.
- Book 3: Insert tagline here. A mysterious shadow demon begins to emerge as nothing, not even the Royal Knights or Aoi's organization can destroy it. Volt is going to have to learn how to rely on his own demon Xaradian to beat it.

]]> ~lyokan http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17152665/ http://lyokan.deviantart.com/journal/17152665/ Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:36:21 PST
bionic's character bio has been posted (written by me)
volt scryer's character bio has been posted (written by zack/xaldin on the kj forums)

thanks to goldfish078 for doing the book cover!

expect six more character bio's to come in the near future

BY THE WAY the protagonist's name isn't "Volt Scryer" its "Volt Seishou". Scryer is zack's rpg name

book summary: "Star Births, or people born in a time when a star is also born, happen in 4 days every 5 years. It is also said that whoever is born at the right time will receive a blessing from a god. Enter Volt Seishou, who was that child, with the curse of a demon's power sealed inside him. With the new organization called 'The Royal Knights,' he and his other super powered friends must take on another group whose leader, Aoi's intent is for him to fall in love with her, and won't take no for an answer."

]]> ~lyokan