[=10]There was a swell in the dark; a swell of cobalt blue, swept with stars. A round eye turns toward the sky, black with laces of spots, unnervingly violet, before turning back down onto the shuddering surface of the Pond. The hind smiled ruefully, while the others slept, their chests rising and deepening with each breath of sweet air that they took, complacent in their unconsciousness, placid. She stepped among them, a grace in the dark, a naïve and otherworldly grace like no other. The pond shone in her wake, silver and glorious. How could something be more glorious than she? The thought pestered her for a few seconds before she mildly answered to herself; it wasn’t. It just appeared to be, for she knew that all were always less than she, in value and in appearance. She was beautiful, motherly, kindly, lovely, spirited, pleasant, admirable, gallant, a perfect spirit. As she did often say so herself.

There was a fawn sleeping down by the edge of the pond, shuddering whenever a breeze passed over, disturbingly cool. Kaoori watched with an interest that prickled—such gorgeous interest!—at the little being, so fragile and easily broken. Very easily broken, as it was. Ears flicked. The child was freezing, obvious to her eyes, but she made no move to comfort it. She was simply too good! Although restless in this night, she did not have time for such unimportant matters. She did not even know the creature. It coughed, hacking and sputtering, waking up from its light doze, staring around with frightened eyes. “Mum?” it questioned, hollowly, staring at the blue hind with a stare that could terrify the dead. Lavender eyes, like cold doll’s eyes, stared back into brown irises. “No,” she said simply, and the fawn swallowed, a cold sweat running from it’s forehead.

“Where is s-she?” it asked, sounding afraid as the doe stepped closer, her antlers sleek and black and imposing in the shade.

The forest that evening was dark, silent and foggy. Tsuki no nai yoru- a night without the moon. To these three small deer, it was an odd and dangerous night to travel. Wolves howled in the distance as a stag, doe and tiny fawn huddled on the edge of a thicket, looking ready to bolt at any minute.
The stag sniffed the air and paced impatiently. “We said we’d drop her off here and go. I don’t want to be here any longer than we have to be. This forest is not normal.. It never has been and I want no part of it.”
He snorted, stomping his hoof, and the young fawn darted underneath its mother. The doe looked down at the fawn with a hint of concern which slowly faded the more she looked at it.
“You’ve.. Never been normal, Kaori.. You’ll fit in better here. Your strange looks, markings..the color of your fur. They all stand out too much, bring the bears and the wolves to us too easily. I thought perhaps you were a gift of the Kami, being so special.. But..”
The doe’s voice trailed off as she looked up to her mate. “Takashi. We should at least stay with her until she sleeps. She will only follow.”
The tiny fawn had lay down underneath her mother. She did not understand much of what they were saying , or why they were here on such a night.
“You’d best hope she fall asleep quickly, Sayako. I am not waiting around all night. The wolves are getting closer. They’ve followed us here, and they know there is a fawn with us. They’re waiting for it to come back outside of this forest”, Takashi huffed, shaking his head and snorting, before he lay down in the grass. Sayako lay beside the fawn, who quickly moved closer to her mother, seeking warmth and comfort. She found little comfort, but the warmth was enough. Her eyes drooped as she became drowsy, and soon enough the world faded into silence and darkness.


Morning came, burning away the fog.

Been wanting to write something for him and couldn't think of what exactly so just let whatever come out through writing. It's just a snippet, something to help develope Rakkaus. Also, warning that it starts off dark and gore-ish, as a heads up. Hopefully it's not too dark but can show you what his past life was like and how much a difference being in the Forest is for him. I hope you enjoy! <3

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The battlefield reeked of death and the winged carrion seekers flew overhead, circling scavengers. Keepers of the souls, ready to take the dead to the next realm –whatever and wherever that might be. He could remember the detail of the carnage, of the dead littering the ground. But there was no noise and no movement but of the soul eaters in the sky.

It was like he was there, but not there. An observer who could not affect the moment frozen before him.

He could see the frozen faces of comrades and enemies alike, strewn about and riddled with holes and bathing the earth beneath them with blood. Sacrifices to the Mor-Ríoghain. To the whims of a king. Wasted lives.

As much as he wanted to walk away from the pain and failure he felt at this great loss, he couldn’t. He was pulled here often, to see what had been left behind. The carnage that he had been a part of. Found himself here, in this place, in his dreams and nightmares. It was were he went when he slept, to this blood soaked world and in a body he no longer possessed but was eerily familiar with.

He had a name, but he could not recall it.

Tall for his kind, his ancestors had been warriors and thus why he was one as well. Pale skinned and azure eyes that were dark like the night sky. Hair that was soaked with sweat and blood, black at the roots and fading out into silver tips. Whenever he dared to glance down, there’d be blood splattered upon his hands and forearms. Blood not his own, or so he assumes.

Gonna take three trades, please and thanks. If you like my art, go ahead and ask. I think I'll just be linearting them and putting the lineart in color, with a flat background. However, this will prompt me to pay attention to detail. :3 In exchange, I would like one of my four deer, in any fashion you like. I'll do human or deer.

1. ArrowDoe - Africa
2. Trigger - Tails
3.

Okay. So anyone who's met Kaoori knows she's far from an evil deer. So.. I have a bit of a challenge or idea for anyone who's suffering any sort of artistic block or writer's block. I'd like to see how evil you can make Kaoori.

http://www.endlessforest.org/community/kaoori-6 There's her bio, if you need it, along with a reference picture. I guess I'd just like to see what people come up with. And if there's no takers, I'm fine with that too. xD

So here I am, NINETY FIVE PERCENT DONE with Sithrim's deer anim, and there's this one little bug where his neck 'jumps' oddly as it moves. But only on the preview/export.

I've been sitting here studying it, frame-by-frame, and it does not happen. It's not there. Nothing happens. ...Until I export it.

I'm saying to myself "There's nothing there... THERES NOTHING F^*$KING THERE!!!"

Yet there it is, in the preview. Mocking me.

I've even copied frames from other deer files, which I KNOW ARE PERFECT, and it STILL happens in the preview! I've even tried closing down everything and rebooting! What the hell, Flash!? What do you want from meeeee!!?

I can't finish this until I fix it; but I can't fix something that doesn't exist! It's driving me mad!

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh! *Pulls at fur*

But Flash loves doing things like this. Oh yes. This is nothing abnormal. It's such a horribly buggy piece of software. It's ruined so many of my works that I couldn't even begin to count how many times this POS has made mountains out of molehill tasks.

i wanted to make this post because there is someting i want to say but i'm gonna say it in French^^

J'ai eu pas mal de problème dans ma vrai vie ces temps-ci et j'avais envie de tout claquer.Je me sentais rejeté de tous et toutes et je n'arrivais plus à comprendre pourquoi nous continuons à vivre dans un monde pareille alors qu'il est évident que l'on doit tout changer. Enfin bref quand je pensais que ce monde n'etait qui futilité et absurdité je suis tombé sur une chose qui allait me redonner un peu de cette énergie qui me fallait pour me relancer et me permettre de reprendre ce combat insecant contre cette drôle de vie...The Endless Forest

J'y ai 'recontré' des gens amicaux et chalereux qui m'ont montré que c'est pour pouvoir connaitre ce genre de personne que je continue à lutter contre cette malladie qui est la vie ^^

Alors pour tout les gens qui m'ont donner un peu de 'banana connection'(en yaniss ca veut dire de la bonne humeur XD) je veux dire ceci:Merci du fond du coeur, Gracias,Thank you et que grace a vous tous,un homme peut continuer de marcher heureux le long du chemin qui le mènera vers la fin de sa journée ^^

I decided that since everyone else was doing fanart to contribute to the community and whatforth, I would -- as time and whimsy struck me -- do likewise. I'd pick either a specific person or a random deer and do a little neck-up shot. Because I could.

My first? Solitari Tonto. Don't ask me why -- he was there. He was also really, really hard to draw, since I had not a whole lot of sense of his character or how to translate his look into my style. I just made him look happy, just because.


I'd say sorry that it stinks, but hey: it's free art. Everyone likes free art, right?

Tune in...whenever, when I do...whomever!

I'm just so outrageously bored (and have been kinda down the last few weeks due to RL), so...

I'd like to contribute to the community some.

If anyone isn't afraid to let me experiment...
I'd like to draw your deer... but not as deer. C:

Instead, I'd like to risk drawing them as I think they'd appear in "Invader Zim".
As a side note: I am aweful at drawing humans... so I will be drawing in the form of the other "alien" species within that show.
(That would include Irkens, Vort, Meekrob, Planet 'Jackers, Floaty cone things, Blorch Rats, Nhar-Gh'ok (which I know would kill me from being very human looking), and other varied aliens that appear in season 3. |D )

Er, though since the Vort look a lot like deer (or fauns, really.) I might mostly use them unless requested otherwise.

Requests so far:

-Tails (done)
-Ravyn (done)
-Jorogumo (done)



-Aegle (done once, again in lineart, and yet again half done.)


AND THE STRAITJACKET.


- Masque, Odin, Aegle, and Mar Sart.


-Scape(cop)
-Radeon
-Rev
-Bylah



Next:
-Kaoori
-Wesker


Bonus note: If you want any specific details that can't be picked up from your deer's normal appearance, please tell me. ^^ I don't nessessarilly plan to be strict about appearances. (so some skin/eye colors are subject to change.)