Tyranny may flour­ish under the wis­dom of one.
— Yet unre­strained, it takes but another to ruin the works of all.
Democ­racy may ensure a bal­anced hand.
— Yet dis­so­ci­ated, it con­cedes to the desires of the now and many.

Thus, the Philoso­pher King shall be united with the Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Repub­lic.
— Grant the liege his orders, for civ­i­liza­tion must advance.
— Grant the peo­ple their voices, for the liege must answer.

Rev­o­lu­tion is the bat­tle­field on which author­ity is founded.
Bureau­cracy is the bat­tle­field in which progress is endorsed.
— But an Imper­a­tor has his allies; he need not walk alone, he must not walk alone.

This was the story of a col­le­giate cor­po­rate scion raised in occu­pied ter­ri­tory, who stum­bled through to the last bas­tion of mankind, saved by the hands of the black­est ops, and involved with a team that deemed no action too atro­cious for their goals, all to redis­cover the legacy of a dis­tant Utopian dream that will alter the oncom­ing strug­gle for dom­i­nance in the frac­tur­ing new world.

I men­tioned in my last post that I’ve been work­ing on a light novel project and that it was close to being made avail­able for open beta. Well, above is the syn­op­sis, and it’s ready now. Actu­ally been ready for a week after I revived the Projects page.

Avalon Beyond the Eclipse

It’s a scifi/fantasy drama, in a set­ting I spent a lot of time build­ing that would hope­fully be one that truly melds magic and tech­nol­ogy, and my themes were def­i­nitely some­what inspired by the series that really left an impres­sion on me: The Twelve King­doms, and Crest/Banner of the Stars. Just add some more shoujo ele­ments cour­tesy of things like Hakushaku no You­sei and this is my production~!

I also returned to my role as an edi­tor on Baka-Tsuki light novel trans­la­tions, after a friend there dragged me in to help a slow­ing project — Cam­pi­one!

It’s actu­ally quite an amaz­ing series~ (and def­i­nitely one of the most orig­i­nal action rom-coms I’ve seen; planned for Sum­mer[?] ani­ma­tion). Although due to the lack of staff I’ve dou­bled up as a trans­la­tor as well… no bet­ter way to rein­force my rarely used Chi­nese skills~ I’ll put together a review after vol 1 fin­ish translation.

Over the past two weeks my life’s free time had been almost entirely con­sumed by pho­to­shop, as the Tarot Project is finally com­ing together. I only have three things to say on the mat­ter — I’ve never taken pho­to­shop to be such seri­ous busi­ness before; I can finally say I’m more than just a noob to pho­to­shop thanks to the picto-editing skills I’ve acquired; and I haven’t felt so proud of my goods for a long time.

Before any­one asks “why all girls?”, it’s to cut down on the com­pe­ti­tion between char­ac­ter and more con­sis­tency in art style. Not to men­tion — the deck is cuter this way.

I might think about mak­ing a bishie/GAR deck later, maybe, if I feel like throw­ing away another week+ of free time.

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