Sentinel,
The characters
The main page of my site
describes the main characters and their origins of the ethereal, but what of
their personal stats? Their height and weight and personal quirks? And what of
their origins in the real world? Why did I come up with some of this stuff?
The origin of Sentinel, The (known to
me first as On an Exploding Star)
Well, I’ve actually
been working on Sentinel, The for about four years, which is why its in
so much detail. It started as a story of a high school student who discovers a
cult run by a mad demon and eventually foils it. This version was a much more
cheerful story, in which not quite as many people died, the entire ordeal took
about half a dozen years, and after Kalvos (the mad demon) was destroyed the
fourth time, that was it. The romance was also much more open then.
All of this was good
in theory except for one obstacle that still holds me back today: I can’t draw.
At the time of my original creation, I lacked the confidence to draw humans, so
I tried something new- anime. It seemed so easy to me that I decided to make
the entire comic in the form of manga. This presented a problem since my first
intention had been to create a realistic, or at least physically accurate,
story. Thus, I ultimately decided that in order to make the manga style a
realistic one, there must be a species that looked this way. Eventually, I came
up with this origin:
In the year of 2064,
a genetics doctor named Donald Orland Cray, along with a supercomputer
nicknamed the Digital Omniscient Computer, had formed a team later called DOC.
The two engineered a new species that took about eighty years to perfect and
was completed in that year. This new species, called Homo perfectos, looked
like an anime person and was thus given the sidename Mangachild. DOC set out to
find someone willing to birth the first member of the new species, merely as an
experiment, but certain leaders in Japan became angry because the anime style
had then become copyrighted and this person was a definite infringement. To
settle the problem, the child was to live its entire life on a small neutral
island named Midland, which the inhabitants called “The rim.” The Mangachild
was born on the island, given the name of May Evans, and lived as normal a life
as she could. Later, some evil press members stole DOC’s DNA codes for the
Mangachild, which had been shortened to Machi, and because this species was so
efficient that a bullet wound to the lungs healed completely within half an
hour leaving no visible scar (May discovered this personally. Even DOC hadn’t
expected such a high level of healing ability), many, many people wanted a
Machi as their child as well. Over a period of 92 years, Machis replaced humans
as dominant species of Earth and humans became all but extinct. The Anglos and
other dominant breeds disappeared, and while Machis took to the sky, building
their entire civilization above the clouds, the only remaining people on the
surface were Native Americans, Native Africans, Ainu, and other groups that had
run their territory long before others came to civilize it. These groups were
not interested in Machi transformation and had remained humans to live of the
land as they had centuries ago. Meanwhile, the Machis build a second world
about 8 kilometers above the surface, and embraced a worldwide religion, Onnism,
and learned that Machis were not a part of nature and must protect the Earth
without any contact with it.
210 years After May,
that’s 2264 AD, was the time when the Sentinel and her friends found Kalvos and
started a war against him. Obviously, these alternate times meant that the
original Sentinel story was worthless, and I had to develop a new one.
Schooling had become passé about a hundred years ago so people were educated
with special “learning chips” implanted into their heads that gave them encyclopedia
information their whole lives. People as old as 15 had jobs and didn’t attend
school. I thus gave the Sentinel and friends the best job for them to have:
they became Jr. enforcers. By the way, the reason for the comic’s first name is
that Kalvos’ main plan is to blow up the sun and harness its power.
Age: 15 as of start
Ethnic
origin: Anerican
Height:
approx. 6’
Weight: usually 135 lb, later life 102 lb
Hair:
Light blond, 3’ 2” curved bangs
Eyes:
Flashy green w/skull, sometimes green lightning in them
Associates:
In love with Tyger, though they rarely show it, they do have a couple of kids
later, who go back in time to save their parents lives and accidentally stop
themselves from being born! Best friend Koni, other friends Menni, Shinni,
Kenni, Kalou, Büti, various goblins… prime enemy Kalvos
The Creation
of a Sentinel
Kady Kelly Kausthe
a.k.a. Machi Mecha Sentinelia a.k.a. Kary Ydak Kraumse. These are the three
personalities of the Sentinel. One is her original self, one raised by parents
as an average kid; one is another self who joined her 135 years before her
birth; the last is a doppelganger created by her life beams charging within her
soul to the point that they drove her mad to the point of having an alternate
persona.
Kady
Kelly Kausthe: Kady Kelly is someone I know, who also presented the looks of
the Sentinel (6’ tall, light blond, bright green eyes, etc.) but not the voice.
The Sentinel’s voice is actually huskier than that of her real-life
counterpart. The word Kausthe is Varatonist, and Kady’s Varatonist name, excl.
the middle, means “I break rules well” or literally, “I’m an excellent
criminal.” Why her parents named her this I don’t know, as it’s far from her
true, pure personality.
Machi
Mecha Sentinelia: The Sentinelia species is a race of warrior women, and all 2½
billion of them belong to two families. The Sentinelia family is directly
related to their leader, or Mh, who happens to be Machi Mecha herself, and the
Sentenelia is made of everyone else. Both families are about the same in size. The
name Machi refers to her looks, since Sentinelia can look like humans or Machis,
depending on their genetic strain, though the word means nothing of the sort in
the Sentinelias’ language, Suhrapakak’ti. The word Mecha means that she has
good motor skills, but it too means nothing. While most Sentinelia have silver
eyes, and those of other eye colors are considered defected, Machi Mecha has
always had green eyes, and her people mostly just ignore the fact.
Kary
Ydak Kraumse: Her last name refers to her as a “bad girl.” Ydak is Kady
backwards (hey, she is a doppelganger) and Kary is named after the main
character of the movie Carrie, who was also crazy and had telekinetic powers,
but it’s spelled in a 23rd century style. Kary was created by Kady’s
pure soul in contradiction to her evil instincts, which would normally be low
for a Machi, but being the Sentinel means she generates a strange energy type
from her body, which was generated for 15 years of her life before she learned
how to use it. When the Life Beams get too high, the combination of the
fullmoon and Allhallowseve can together bring forward an insane version of Kady
bent on… well, nobody knows. Kary’s so crazy that she has no real goals. She
just follows her glowing green heart.
Other
names: General of the Army of the Dead, Bone Warrior Leader, Death’s maid,
Slit-hak Phut (dragon name), Tygon (Tygeran name), Destroyer of Demons, Mh,
Great Sentinelia Leader, Planet Mother, Mother, Guardian of the Deathlands,
Angelyne of Death.
Age:
16 as of start
Ethnic:
Anerican
Height:
approx. 6’ 1”
Weight:
avg. 141 lb
Hair:
Midnight black, 3’ 3” curved bangs
Eyes:
Deep blue, sometimes cold pure blue
Associates:
Best friend Kady, other friends Menni, Shinni, Kenni, Kalou… prime enemy Kalvos
Koni Schuarts Also Doesn’t Live up to her Name
Koni Schuarts means
“I like gems” in Varatonist so naturally she doesn’t care about them the least
bit. She’d better fit her best friends name, because she is an excellent
criminal. Actually, she’s a master hacker, as she says, and is indeed the
world’s best. She’s hacked into the USNA’s site at ww.USGov.Govu single handed,
and it’s protected by eight different forms of ancient coding, all of which are
linked to each other in miniscule ways! Koni’s name and hair color do come from
someone I know, but the rest of the traits, including the spelling of the name,
are something of a stretch. Koni was originally the angel Mueratè, who, like
her later self, loved to pillage and steal and violently whoop it up. Her personal
motto is, “You dance like you fight and like you feich.” Those happen to
be her three favorite things to do, and of course she’s equally well at all of
them (how many other people can use two long katana simultaneously?). When it
comes to what Kady calls the “three prime evils,” e.g. sex, drugs, and
rock’n’roll, Koni’s totally into at least two of them. The second one is a
little out of her liking, as drugs are bad for one’s health, and if you can’t
do all three evil things at the same time, two outta three ain’t bad. Koni is
probably the only Angel known to wear leather and army boots. She’s the epitome
of free spirit.
Other
names: Angelyne, Mueratè, the only militant Angel, Angelyne of (Deadly) Life,
Ka-ni.
Age:
17 as of start, transformed 4184 as of now (2000)
Ethnic: American/Anerican, transformed
Grenan
Height:
6’ 5” as of start, transformed 8’ 10” later 22’ 3”
Weight:
310 as of start, later 899, transformed 16 tons (silent walker nonetheless)
Hair:
Dark maroon, medium, curved up in back, transformed deep red w/ black stripes
Eyes: Gold/bronze
Associates:
In love with Sentinel, shows it even less than her, friends Koni, prime enemies
Kalvos, Darok-Tygehr’ranach, Ẅulf
Tyger, Torah,
Tygehr’ran, you decide
Well, Tyger
Landrunner was given his name by his own parents, the only Machis in the world
who’ve managed to live on the surface. In Varatonist, the word for Tyger is
torah, which the Sentinel calls him sometimes, and in his transformed state,
his birth (Grenan) name is Na’harazeth Albraheim Altruisian, but everyone calls
him by his rank, Tygehr’ran. His birth name, his looks, everything except power
level and transformation come from someone I know very well- myself! My birth
name is Tyler Landrum, but now it’s Tyger Lendhr’am. He’s part Native American
and part Irish, like myself. A man of few words, Tyger became the first person
in history to be allowed to enter the full enforcers at underage (joined at 16,
17 at start of story) and also one of the first in the world to achieve
directional ki (chi is internal body kinetic energy, ki is a charge created
when chi leaves the body) His power level at the start (as per Dragonball Z
standards) is 125, when he learns ki a little over a thousand, ultimate power
level about 694 million; in his transformed state the norm is 3,659,720,000 and
the ultimate is 32,307,420,000. By the way, the average human power level is
about 5 or 6. In his birth state, his hair was white and his eyes were hazel.
Age:
unknown
Ethnic:
unknown
Height:
14”
Weight:
6 lb
Hair:
none
Eyes:
none
Associates:
Sentinel’s mentor, gave superpowers to Menni, Shinni, Kenni, and Kalou as well
Skulleye
He’s just a skull.
Namely, he’s the skull seen in the Sentinel’s eyes. He’s the one that told her
she was the Sentinel in the first place. An old enemy of Kalvos, Skulleye’s
only goal is to help the Sentinel in any way he can, which is mainly by telling
her pretty much anything she needs to know. Later, he mysteriously disappears,
but his image continues to exist in her eyes. He never really goes away, but
eventually the character just fades.
Age:
3600
Ethnic:
Suranir Clan
Height:
13’ 2”
Weight:
762 lb
Hair:
glossy black, random spikes
Eyes:
glossy brown
Associates:
Goblin-Dae of Kalvos, leader of Kalvos’ other goblins, friend of Kady and Koni
Kailvōs
and the other goblins
Who
would’ve thought goblins would appear in something like this? It’s like this:
long ago, a MasterDemon with no followers but extreme conjuring powers created
a race of small demon-like beings to serve him, but there were so many of them
and so few of him that they very easily escaped. Eventually, the various demons
of the underworlds captured them, and the goblins chose that rather than oppose
the demons and lose lives, they would be indentured into a kind of voluntary
slavery at the hands of the demons. They severely regretted this decision. Over
the last thousand years, the goblins have planned to escape many a time, but
successes have been few, as the demons have a strict hold over them.
To
enslave a group of goblins, a leader is chosen, who is then imbued with copy
powers of the MasterDemon. These powers cause the goblin’s body to grow to
enormous proportions, and to finalize control, a variation of the MasterDemon’s
name is given to the Goblin-Dae. Kailvōs is the Goblin-Dae of Kalvos. The
goblins have been sold to other demons for power, but six remain:
Pontercrankertous Positerrortorious (Demon Face), Tethanious Malicautios
(Scaredy Cat), Celovenius Bugiosertank, Napacoldinam Chewmukasious (Chiller),
Desitorious Dechasmafatinous (Pot), and Sewhorra. All goblin names are like
that. These goblins made their homes in a warehouse, and sometime into the
story, the Sentinel and the Angelyne were chased into it so that the fierce
goblins would destroy them, but they decided against it. Eventually,
Kailvōs gave his life to aid his people and free them, and much later,
after the destruction of Kalvos, the two released the entire goblin race and
destroyed as many demons as possible.
Age:
14-16
Ethnic:
Anerican
Height:
5’ 8”-6’ 8”
Weight:
130-150 lb (Menni- 800 lb)
Hair:
Red, long/multi- brown w/ 3 white streaks, med/green, short/blond, long
Eyes:
various
Associates:
Friends of Kady and Koni, prime enemy Kalvos
Menni, Shinni, Kenni, and Kalou
These four got
knocked off by Kalvos over a period of a month in the early part of the story,
before the middle of the second year, but before they each died, they did
something helpful for the Sentinel and the Angelyne. Kady gave them each
superpowers of the elements to use against Kalvos, which they later perfected.
Menni had the power of lightning. To use it she had to say “Teliktomym” but she
figured out that by using a special stance and the word “~ktomym” (the ~ is
pronounced as a long “I”) she could boost the electric blast a great deal.
Shinni’s power was fire and was designated the term “Na’gulna” but later she
shortened it to “Nagul” with a stance to heighten its power. Kenni had sonic
blast with “Keilnamnata” shortened to “Kelnama,” and Kalou had the devastating
force of insanity with “Serenami” shortened to merely “Serenam.”
Menni, a bionoid, was
created by BioTech Industries at the age of eight and underwent many upgrades
to get her to her final age of 15. Created mainly for fighting, she loves to
battle and has no true morals. Her only reason for remaining on the good guys’
side is her extreme loyalty to her friends. At normal one percent power she
seems in all ways to be merely a Machi, with some high-level skills, but
nothing unusual. At one hundred percent, she has the destructive capacity to blow
up a good-sized moon. Because her personality was downloaded into ultra-minidisk
before her death, Menni can be rebuilt as a soulless copy at the Angelyne’s
discretion. Other skills include linguistics.
Shinni isn’t a
fighter at heart, but she does what she can to ensure that justice is served.
She’ll even help her enemy if she believes an unfairness is happening. She’s
the first to die, and is caught by her overt sense of justice. Her blast,
merged with Menni’s electric attack, creates an electric blast with 4x the
destructive capability of either attack alone.
Kenni is somewhat
shy, her timidness forbidding her from breaking the rules, which also presents
a setback. She dies alongside Kalou, being the second dead. Her sonic blast
works well for subtle destruction, not blatant blasting power; it can shatter
walls and people alike, and at its weakest provides a sound cover to make the
Sentinel and her friends seem silent.
Kalou is the quiet
one, rarely saying anything at all, she’s also slightly suicidal, so that she
doesn’t mind death- until it happens to her and she realizes that she’ll never
see her friends again. Her insanity power is the most devastating of the
superpowers, but being so withdrawn, she’s passed up many a chance to destroy
Kalvos’ mind. When she did try it, he crushed her before she got the words out,
and damaged her heart in a way that even a Machi couldn’t heal from the wound
(they can grow back their heads, for crying out loud).
Age:
25
Ethnic:
Japanese American
Height:
5’ 8”
Weight:
approx. 200
Hair:
Black, straight long bangs, med back
Eyes:
Black
Associates:
Helped the Sentinel, works in Kalvos’ cult, tried to hire Koni as spokesperson
for his company
The ultimate Tailor!
Arthur Yoki. Never
heard of him, right? He’s the Kalvin Klein of the 23rd century. His
designs go world wide (he lives in Japan, but sells equally in America), but
unfortunately for him, he’s second in command of Kalvos’ cult, a job he didn’t
ask for, and he does all he can to demolish Kalvos’ dreams without being
discovered and killed. After about a month of helping out the Sentinel, he
moves back to Japan and no one hears from him again.
By the way, Kady and
Koni made an oath when they were young to wear only products of Yoki
Enterprises, and maybe armor.
Age:
approx. 10,000 years
Ethnic:
none
Height:
6’ 11”
Weight:
norm. 198, transformed 22
Hair:
none
Eyes:
yellow, White Kalvos’ Kross visible
Associates:
Owns Omega cult, prime enemy the Sentinel
Kalvos, the great destroyer
Many thousands of
years ago, a son-Dae turned against his father-Dae and destroyed him. Because
Satán was so powerful, and because Dae lack the strength to truly destroy
another Dae’s soul, Satán managed to focus his power into a great nebula. When
that nebula exploded, Kalvos was born. Kalvos isn’t insane, and he doesn’t
follow normal bad guy protocol. He doesn’t gloat, he doesn’t laugh maniacally
all of a sudden, and he doesn’t give away his plan for no reason. His main
skill is that of Hitler: persuasive speech, and using it, he created a cult
known as the Omega, because their purpose is to end the earth, as well as Sol,
Mercury, and Venus, but not Mars or anything beyond. Why? Because, their plan
was to create a giant metal shield that could encompass the entire system to
Earth’s orbit (HUGE!), then blow up the sun and harness its destructive power
so that its perpetual explosion could be used against their enemies. At the
head of this vast, hollow metal world would be Kalvos himself, enslaving the
entire universe. To this end, Kalvos actually succeeded, but the Sentinel, the
Angelyne, and Tyger lived and, stowed away on a ship so huge that no cult could
maintain the whole thing, attempted to take revenge for the deaths of the
people they had known. However, Tyger soon achieved such a high level of power
that he learned to create a time portal. After a tricky operation in which the
Sentinel stole the main power supply for the ship (1 of 99 super-atomic ultra
reactor crystals), Tyger used the energy to send the three back in time and
stop Kalvos from destroying Earth. Then, using her ultimate attack- “Armaggedon
Dias” (By my soul, I’ll stop your Earth destruction)- she finally killed
him and even his soul didn’t remain in Hell.
Age:
33
Ethnic: Anerican
Height:
approx. 6’
Weight:
approx. 200
Hair:
Black, no style
Eyes:
brown
Associates:
Hired by Kalvos from the Worldwide Assassin Agency (no acronym), a company used
mostly by the UW (United World) to kill terrorists and dictators
Wiperr, also Frog Throat and others
Wiperr the sniper was
hired by Kalvos to assassinate the Sentinel, as were several other assassins,
but only he had the will to keep trying. Every attack (of like 50) by Wiperr or
any other sniper was the same- he’d set up on a nearby building at a higher
level, aim through the wall, and right before he fired he’d hear the Angelyne
yelling right before she kicked him in the face, dropped from her rope (no one
ever found out where the rope came from), destroyed his stuff, and kicked him
off the building. After some time, Kalou made Wiperr crazy with her “Serenami”
attack, but since it wasn’t at full potency, he was able to sustain the
concentration to hunt the Sentinel for the rest of his life.
Age:
15
Ethnic:
Anerican Demonica
Height:
approx. 6’
Weight:
130
Hair:
bright blond, short
Eyes:
red
Associates:
daughter of Kalvos, enemy of Kady and Koni
A brat from Hell
Su Nattatka, or
Su’natka, as her birth name, was an enforcer like Kady, and blond, but the
similarities end there. They hated each other, as the Angelyne hated her as
well, but this girl who could only be described as a slut was far more than
your average brat. She was also a demonique, with an Inferno attack from her
eyes, mouth, or fingernails, as well as generating thorns out of her back to
make an armorlike covering of her body. Unlike the Sentinel’s bone armor,
Su’natka’s thorns, when they shot out of her spine, ruptured her skin and spray
blood everywhere, and since she never had much willpower over them, so whenever
she got mad, her back bled. Although her attacks were better, the Sentinel had
more fighting experience (thanks to Sirius) and killed her. However, Kady has
much to thank Su for, because when Su’natka’s body faded and her soul
descended, a twisted heap of poisoned thorns remained, and Kady absorbed them
into her own bone armor, tearing apart Su’s soul in the process into about
three shreds, and giving the Sentinel the ability to make her bone armor as
poisonous as she desired.
Age:
unknown
Ethnic:
none
Height:
6’ 2”
Weight:
260 lb
Hair:
White skin, black in back, spiked up 2’
Eyes:
Yin-Yangs
Associates:
created to serve Kalvos and kill the Sentinel and the Angelyne
The ultimate life form, Sohr Akzs
Pronounced Soar Axis,
this superbeing was made by a perfect union of the five matter types (solid,
liquid, gas, plasma/energy, plasm) in the name of Kalvos and thus made the guy
evil. He doesn’t really look Terran, and his main weapon was the Death Ray, the
opposite of the Sentinel’s Life Beam, so Kalvos thought that Sohr would make a
perfect nemesis for the Sentinel. What he didn’t count on, though, was the
Angelyne. One of the first things Mr. Akzs did was to slice Koni’s face, so she
got mad and pushed him off a cliff a few days later. Kalvos revived him using
the same method as before, and the Angelyne got mighty pissed, so she finished
him off for good (she’s not quite at liberty to say how).
Age:
approx. 1200
Ethnic:
varies
Height:
6’ 1”
Weight:
12 lb
Hair:
none
Eyes:
none
Associates:
trainer of the Sentinel
Evil good guy? Sirius
It’s hard to tell
whether Sirius (first “I” pronounced as the diphthong “ai”) is a good guy or a
bad, since he did train her in fighting, but then, in his past lives… He’s been
James Hook of Peter pan, the bad guy in any Craven movie with a hook-handed
guy, etc., and he’s killed quite a lot of people, so what? When Skulleye first
introduced the Sentinel to him, he killed her, and then used his power to
revive her, and his first lesson was that she should always be on guard and
never trust anyone. This kind of training made her so paranoid that she began
to question his real motives. Sure, he wanted to defeat Kalvos, but he was just
as evil as his enemy. Finally, Kady locked him in the Archives of the
Deathlands, a tiny locker compared to the glorious library of the Archives of
the Heavens, because of his cruelty.
That’s the main
characters. I’ve been writing all day and my hand is tired, so I’m gonna call
it quits from here without describing the remaining characters. I’ll just leave
a list on the way out. And by the way, if it seems that pretty much all the
good guys are girls and all the baddies are guys, I’m not really biased against
my own gender. It’s pure coincidence.
Other Goodies:
Sentinel/Tyger children, Chupacabra (go figure) Kmatami, various parents, Luk,
Hitoshi, Death, Karo-De, Arura.
Other Baddies:
Ẅulf, Wulf, various priests, Kron, and others, CyberPig 2689.