Hey there! This is my very first contest, and I figure that it's about time that I hold one. I'm hoping this runs smooth, and if there gets to be lots of entries, I'll have more than myself judging.

Basic Rules
You're allowed as many entries as you want. Only one will place, however.
Any type of media is allowed.
Please be sure to read all of Ama's history, to get all the details of your picture right. Of course, you're allowed mistakes, but research is good, too.
Deadline will be Saturday, December 23rd, 2006. That's right before Christmas, so a very nice present indeed. 0_0

Submitting an Entry:
Post your entry as you would normally, and just note me or comment with the URL of your entry. ;3 Once I see it, I'll add it to the roster.

Prizes:
1st Place - One Year Subscription on either DA or Livejournal.
2nd Place - Six Month Subscription on either DA or Livejournal.
3rd Place - Three Month Subscription on either DA or 2 Month + 100 Icons on Livejournal.

The prizes CAN be negotiable.

Now that you know of the prizes... let's go onto the actual character~

Image Sources/Commissions:
Okay, so here she is: [link]

Amadeus and Vava: [link]

In short, she goes by Amadeus. I've thought about it for a long while, and it really doesn't matter what gender you draw her as. More will be explained below.

Name: Amadeus; named after Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart, and the song 'Rock Me, Amadeus' due to her affinity with music.
Gender: Female, though can be drawn male.
Eye color: Left eye azure blue, while the right eye is a brilliant gold.
Hair color: Red, with black tinges - to match her 'dream flowers'.
Charm: A black-rope necklace with a silver three-pointed crown. Think Kingdom Hearts.
Wings: Huge red wings, with a golden red tinge to them, coming from her back (and shoulders). If you're not good at feathery stuff, you don't have to worry about this. x:
Personality: Very outgoing and adventerous, though has quite a short temper. Tries to hold it back most times.

Ama's history is easy to understand, but it's quite a bit detailed. To begin with, she started as a Harpy (though in my version, harpies were not foul nor wickedly ugly. She was the only 'true' one). It was a Medievil City, where she resembled the Day and her opposite, a vampire, resembled the Night. Curiosity overwhelmed her and, having immediately gone to bed as soon as twilight started, she stayed up and found the vampire, and soon a friendship blossomed to make a deadly tag team that no intruder would ever dare to tread upon.

It was not long, however, that they soon fell asleep in each other's arms, leaving the castle defenseless for attack. The castle was indeed attacked, and when they woke, the castle was in ruins. The harpy, Amadeus, blamed the vampire first of all, and soon he began to blame her as well. Each believed the other to be a betrayer. A raging battle broke out between the two; blood was shed, vampire mixing with harpy to make deadly-looking flowers upon the battlefield. Before the last blow was struck, the battle was halted as a strange figure appeared in the middle, sending both of the feral warriors apart.

Tiresias was his name, and he was the first Meddler. He turned first to the Harpy as he held out his hand, and asked her if she wanted to join him, to evade death. She gave a glare to the vampire, and accepted, putting her hand in his. The vampire declined, saying it was not his place.

It was not long after that that Amadeus was turned into a Meddler (painful procedure for her - in short, they made her half Meddler, taking out some Harpy attitude/temper) - all Meddlers have one trait that sets them apart from anyone else, which is a golden eye. The eye marks them to each other, almost like a non-dominant trait, though in their case, it does represent dominance.

The Meddlers were thought of as Gods to most - the Meddlers took it upon themselves to 'Meddle' in the affairs of others, and each Meddler had their own unique power. The Meddlers, in short, are dimension travellers. They can go into any demension they wish, or are needed in, by merely a flick of the hand. One can also experience this by dreaming of another world when they are asleep.

The band of Meddlers stuck together until one particular incident where some disagreed on what was to be done.

"Once, long ago, a sect of the greatest wizards in the world began a project for the good of all mankind. They had found a process that could extract the dark and evil essence from the soul of a person and store it away, so they with all their power began building a great machine with which to purify every person in the world.

Using marble and alabaster and silver and steel and bone and bronze and copper, they built the largest golem ever seen, a gigantic white serpent. As a snake, the symbol of healing, it would take a person within itself and draw out their greed, lust, wrath, envy, guilt... every negative aspect and emotion that dwelled within them, leaving only the trust, the hope, the kindness, the joy, the happiness. It had teeth like glittering steps, a throat like the most exquisite marble hall, and its belly was a seemingly endless corridor filled with white silk curtains of the finest quality. The beast's heart, made from two great chambers; one of ebony and one of ivory, separated and sorted these essences, storing the evil ones away in the tiny magical crystal at the very center of the serpent.

The process, at first, seemed flawless, and they named their monster Vavalion. The purger of the world.

No one ever imagined what happened next, or so the story goes. Perhaps at times you will hear claims that an upstart young researcher on the building team tried desperately to warn the wizards overseers, but to no avail. Any official source, should any indeed still survive today, will nonetheless tell you no such thing.

Vavalion's tiny crystal heart saw all of the emotions and aspects that pass through a human soul. In an unprecedented twist of magical law, it began to develop a soul of its own.

The great serpent began acting oddly, responding slowly to commands, or not at all. It would move and coil about itself in a worrisome manner when it was supposed to be inactive. The wizards puzzled and fretted over the change, but chalked it up to mechanical malfunction.

One day, when the one thousandth person passed through Vavalion's craw, that final straw on the construct's patchwork soul shattered it like glass. Vavalion cried out, a sound like the torment of a thousand trapped phantoms, and began raging out of control. It thrashed, and screamed, and leveled buildings and land alike in the torture that was the culmination of all mankind's evil.

The wizards, frantic, managed to draw Vavalion into the sea and trap it there. However, for many years thereafter, the waters churned and boiled and were drunk up by Vavalion in futile attempts to drown itself. No ships could sail, and the world suffered."

The Meddlers, at this point, intervened, and a line was drawn where some wanted to kill the great serpent, and some wanted to help. Amadeus was on the side that wanted to help, and a battle broke out between the Meddlers - ally against ally. Tiresius was the first to fall as he was hit by a betrayer of the Meddlers - who never appreciated his choice of Amadeus - falling instantly. Other Meddlers soon fell after that, and Amadeus was the last one standing between the Betrayer and Vavalion, refusing to let the Betrayer harm the great serpent. Both the Betrayer and Vavalion each echoed 'Why?', when in reply, Amadeus simply stated, 'I know what it is like,' and did away with the Betrayer. She herself was hurt badly, and turning to Vavalion, gave him a grin before falling, her body disappearing out of the dimension, as did the others.

No Meddler truly dies in spirit, though their bodies may die. However, Amadeus did not succeed in killing the Betrayer, and thus the Betrayer survived throughout the years, as did Amadeus, though Amadeus sleeps onward, kept sleeping until the day the Betrayer and his new followers can kill her and revive her under their allegiance...

In short, Amadeus will not like what the Meddlers have become.


Another important factor is that in one particular dimension, there is a field of black flowers tinged with red... and in that dimension, the vampire lies. He is not an imposing figure, but in Ama's 'new life', he sees her in dreams and tries his best to guide her, even though she does not remember.

Also, in each dimension, Amadeus can look different. She could have no wings in one dimension, could be male in the next, could be half-fish-no-wings in the third... the possibilities are endless, but she does remain, no matter where she appears, physically the same, in both color and build. She doesn't appear feminine because she is a complete tomboy.



I feel like I've rambled on forever... this idea has been sitting in my head for a good long year and a HALF, and I'm just now writing it down and getting it out. x_x She's my dream, my whole muse.

Good luck~