Since I've gotten better with my Prismacolor marker coloring techniques, I've redesigned several of my characters from my manga "Twin Artemis" ; one of them being my African Muay Thai fighting girl with her overly loyal pet hyena "Eiyna" She is drawn this time in her commonly-worn outfit, which is an edited version of her previous dress. I know it sounds shallow, but I thought that loosening up her attire would make it more fitting for her wild Muay Thai fighting style, plus the looseness of the dress makes it easier for her to launch those powerful knees of hers to cave in the faces of "The 144,000" the antagonists of the story! Well, I did the same for the Grendhert Twins; I mean, their fighting styles totally call for the lack of baggy clothing and armor. And speaking of baggy clothing, Jorde is accustomed to that, since where's he gonna hide all of his weapons??

Changes:

-The material in her new headband and dress are meshy and see-through; Gold beads and hyena designed gold foil plates are sewn into the dress; wears full leg mesh stockings and colored Thai fighting tape on her hands, elbows, knees and feet. Now wears a tight leather coffee-colored sleeveless shirt and gold egyptian like jewlery. A reference of what her head looks like under the bandanna and her yellow markings and physical proportions can be found here [link]

-More yellow; being the unfortunate bearer of Yellow Muun power, her color scheme seemed to fare better with more yellow; originally, her eyes and body markings were crimson red; now that s a different story. The Yellow Muun markings cover the left side of her body, only her left breast, and all the way down her leg to her left foot.

-Porportions; a lot taller than originally planned; I got the idea from my friend Queen Kichaa's reindition of Tiamat, and someone commented on her being tall compared to her pet hyena friend! Since the Grendhert Twins were slender, feminine and long legged, I enhanced her feministic traits to an extent too; more lean muscle in her upper body, a larger waist and butt (yes, I said it, now go ahead and mock how shallow I am) and thicker legs! Basically, her height went from about 5'8 to a whopping 6'2-6'3!

-Her hair style is a little bit different; she has small hairs of various tones of yellow on the brow of her head, then some of those tiny 'cornrows' (forgot what they're called) that are popular with African tribal girls, then finally, the long hair comes down out of the back of her head. There are various yellow streaks of hair, and then finally, ebony-black hair that goes down to her ankles. The four braided hair strands now have gold rings on the ends.

-PErsonality is changed a little, as of both Aiven's friends; more fun-loving, she's a little more selfish and cute, although annoying sometimes, especially to Aiven. I've also increased the potency of her wild, troublemaking and unpredictable side! Also, she has a huge crush on him that pisses him off, and they both have an on-off destructive relationship of some kind. She only in extreme emergencies displays her heroic and daring side!

-I made Eiyna a little less thin; hyenas are short and stout animals, especially the females since they're superior! Dreads were added and her hair color was changed. Keep in mind that my scanner turned her brown-grey fur to green; it is NOT GREEN!


Tiamat Alluna
Age: 21
Birthdate: April 1st (Unconfirmed)
Birthplace: Unknown, but somewhere in Central Africa
Height: 6'2 - 6'3
Skin Color: Black (African) Yellow markings are seen going down her left leg
Hair Color: Ebony-Black w/ yellow streaks
Eyes: Golden Yellow
Afiiliation: Human, possibly Rwandan
Likes: Dances, strong men, making gold accessories & clothes, making people happy, sunbathing, running, playing with animals, to steal things, chatting, her crush object Aiven Grendhert
Dislikes: Weak men, poachers, bugs, isolation, chuhahuas, militants (thinks they're too noisy) stalkers (she usually beats them all up, though!)
Favorite Sports: Track Sports, Tennis, Donga stick fighting (nobody ever lets her fight though because she's a girl)
Personal Treasure: Her pet hyena "Eiyna", her dress & jewelry given to by her tribe, Donga fighting stick
Favorite Food: Fruit Salad, Jerk Chicken, Chocolate
Music: The Cardigans
Personal Quotes: "You wouldn't strike a woman, but this girl can sure hit you, baby!"
"Your moves are deadly! They could bore me to death..."
(mostly to Aiven) "Eeeeeeey, sexy. Mind if I teeeeeeeaaase you a lil' bit?"

Personality

Tiamat's upbringing amongst her all-woman tribe has turned her into a bold and leadership-capable young woman. However, while she knows how to stand strong, she is ever childish and sassy, often taking orders from nobody and acting based on personal freedom and sometimes personal gain. Tiamat loves to socialize, especially with men that she finds charming and often teases them out of their interest in her. Her excessive chattering especially bothers her two companions Aiven Grendhert and Rocco Mulcun, but she is the one to bring them together when the time is right and/or they end up in fisticuffs over small and trivial disputes. Her heart is constantly yearning for new things and it is never wrong; once she finds someone that she loves, she goes all out to impress them; in this case, Aiven Grendhert. The volitale and anti-social boy however finds her a nuisiance. Tiamat's love in animals also leads her to be mischievious, but sometimes she outbalances an animal's life over a human's; This might have something to do with her dark past.



Fighting Style - Lethwei & Muay Thai Kickboxing

Muay Thai kickboxing was developed in ancient times and remains to be one of the world's most powerful and brutal fighting styles. It was once staged between two fighters before kings as a form of entertainment because of its bloody and entertaining moves. It employs the use of shin kicks, knee strikes, elbows and sharp roundhouse kicks, as well as clinching, which is bringing the arm around the neck and performing knee and elbow strikes to the disabled fighter. IT also has one of the most rigorous training regimes of any sport, involving lots of running, weight training and dishing out pain as well as learning how to take it, since Muay Thai was a fighting style strictly for the ring. Muay Thai has become a very popular fighting style, and many watered-down offshoots of the sport exist and are practiced today.

Tiamat, like Kiyel, has powerful legs and uses them very effectively in her own style of Muay Thai; ever since she was adapted into a clan of women fighting for their survival in Africa, she met a woman who was of half Thai descent in the tribe, who taught her all of her moves. Their tribe developed a specific form of Thai kickboxing which involved launching powerful moves while most of the time standing on a single leg with the other raised ready to strike or to switch to the other foot. Their tribe's love for animals also inspired them to incoorporate various African animal stances like Hyena, Gazelle, Lioness and Jackal. Tiamat as a result relies on her unmatched agility and extremely unorthodox movements to mess with the opponents head. Tiamat is also blessed with being the fastest runner in the tribe, as well as the highest jumper out of all of them (and the other characters!) in exception to the tribe leader who taught her the moves, of course!

Tiamat also possesses the power of Yellow Muun, which is wind-based and allows her to run as fast as its currents and generate tornado-like powers to blow her enemies away.


Storyline


Although Tiamat has no idea who her parents are, her father is actually a German ambassador in the UN and her mother a member of a major African charity group. But all that is known is that she was adopted as a small child into a group of Rwandan refugees and has never met her parents before. She stood out from everyone because of her tall height and powerful legs and knees, as well as yellow eyes that shown like the African sun. Despite her differences, she always made friends wherever she ended up, displaying her cute and mischeivous nature and innate ability to run for long distances very quickly without tiring. However, the group ended up between the conflicts of various militant groups and the UN, and Tiamat got tired of these interruptions in her life, so she fled. Adopted into another wandering tribe, Tiamat found herself a new home, but she was bullied by the other boys a lot as she began to mature. She put them in their place by being faster than all of them!

Around the age of 13, Tiamat had gotten herself into a life-altering experience involving a maturing ritual for the boys and a female hyena; Their tribe considered yellow-eyed hyenas a bad omen to their tribe, so a maturing ritual involved hunting down a female one. Tiamat got in the way of the female hyena the boys had to hunt when she discovered the animal going through labor. She wanted the boys to not kill it, but the tribe leader ordered the boys to hurl their spears whether Tiamat was in the way or not! Before the spears could pierce her body, a flash of yellow light enveloped Tiamat and she went unconscious.

She awoke alongside a woman wearing a strange dress embrodered with designs of a yellow-eyed hyena, who was helping the dying mother hyena with her sole cub, and Tiamat didn't hesitate to pitch in. Eventually, they freed the cub and wished the mother peace in her afterlife. The woman told Tiamat that she was a chosen one of the Yellow Muun power, pointing to the strange yellow markings that appeared along her leg and torso! Tiamat was a little shocked by this, seeing the markings as permanent. Cleaning up the cub, the woman told her to come along to their tribe of Yellow Muun bearers, but she refused and ran off with the baby hyena, raising it in secret, naming her "Eiyna" and returning to the tribe, but not long for being expelled for being snuffed out by the other boys and blaming a man named Marduk and some high ranking members of the tribe of their associations with a militant group Tiamat knew fairly well. With nowhere to go, Tiamat wandered off to find the yellow-eyed, hyena worshipping women she was told about. Eventually she was savved by them when bandits attempted to steal and sell her and her hyena!

Tiamat spent the rest of her upbringing amonst these women, who also had yellow-eyed hyenas whom they claimed they had a sacred 'bond' with that enabled them the power to run like the winds, use golden wind power to attack and blow enemies away, speak with animals, and occasionally, merge with the hyena and obtain the ability of lycanthropy as a werehyena sorceress. However, their lives were tied to these creatures, so death to the animal apllied to the human owner as well! She learned that these nomadic women were from all corners of Africa and the Middle East, and they formed a group to escape from raiding bandit groups and the militants from "The 144,000" and to share in their differences. However, they were very distasteful of men, but that didn't stop Tiamat from trying to find her true love! Since their group only "accepted" certain women, her flirty behavior was shunned on. Some of the other women though didn't take this too seriously, though, with the definatee exception of the leaders!

Tiamat made a critical mistake by associating herself with a man who was from the militants, leading him back to their campout and stealing their most precious artifact; a key to the supposed Yellow Muun stone! The other women found out about this and promised Tiamat that if she found the key, she would be given a second chance, but until then, rejected from the tribe! Tiamat defiantly walked away with the middle finger aimed at the tribe leader and a grin eminating from her big yellow-lipstick covered lips. Since their tribe had relocated to several areas in Northern Africa, she found herself in Morocco where the key was being sold somewhere, and in order to survive, taught Eiyna how to pickpocket the richer tourists and even soldiers and policemen.

However, she spotted a 7'5 foot tall man she thought was the militant and found herself fighting this man briefly before he weaved past her fast knee attacks and grabbed her by the neck threatening to kill Tiamat. OF course, Tiamat played with him, and he got upset and grabbed Eiyna, who attempted a sneak attack. The hyena knocked loose an object that looked like the key she was looking for but was a different color. The man introduced himself harshly as Rocco Mulcun, an information agent from South America, following a lead on the same group Tiamat was after. Militants finding out their attempt to sabotage their operations surrounded them and they briefly joined forces and fought off the attackers, but a plane took off towards Southern Africa awhile ago and Rocco had to go after it. Rocco made his leave after some investigations, but Tiamat saw him like a big brother and didn't want to leave without her since she hated being lonely! Rocco was sweating bullets trying to get away from the girl that adored him so much, but no matter what, whether it be loosing her in a crowd, setting traps or fleeing upon a train to South Africa, tiamat was too nimble and persistent so Rocco eventually decided to put up with her! After all, they became slight, if not bitter, friends.

Rocco was actually stopping by a joint of his organization located in South Africa, which was made up of members of his large family. He dropped by to pick up some paperwork and information, and to say hello. Once he got to his bedroom there though to retire for the night, he finds a naked black-skinned youth lying on his bed instead! Rocco of course attempts to strangle him of all responses and two of his brothers mentioned that they found him washed up on the shore of a lake nearby, saying his name was Aiven Grendhert. Breaking them up with the help of Tiamat, the volitale and angsty Aiven explains that he is looking for his brother Kiyel and he had no idea why he was here in the ' despicable human world'. Rocco takes offense to this and Tiamat tries to strangle Aiven herself; with hugs and kisses to his sweat-covered body! Blushing somewhat, Aiven shakes her off and tries to ignore the intense crush Tiamat has on him! Aiven spots the two keys held by Rocco and Tiamat and feels a tie to them; he then takes out his own key, which strikes a similar appearance but is black colored.

Despite their quickly formed and somewhat bitter alliance, the three then depart on their own brand of adventure throughout the African and Middle Eastern lands, seeking their own answers and taking the fight to the militants of "The 144,000" whom have their own devious plans for the world, working together with terrorist joints like theirs around the globe...but can they hold long together to save this world and Aiven's?

Tiamat Alluna and "Twin Artemis" all characters copyright to me, Coldy! 2006