Comic:All Roses Have Thorns
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All Roses Have Thorns (ARHT) is a story following the lives, interactions, and sometimes the aquaintences of two vampires, Faylin and Collamair. Collamair is a a Master Vampire of average strength for his age who finds a human (Faylin) he believes holds curious potential. However, after capturing, torturing, and turning Faylin, his plans go awry when Faylin fails to lose his soul entirely and in the process of attempting to rid him of it, Collamair is almost killed by the overwhelming power that resides within Faylin.
After his brush with death, Collamair must concede what is left of Faylin's soul to him in order to protect himself. What follows is the transformation of the characters. Faylin must heal from his traumatic experiences at his death and rebirth, as well as his unique position as the only known vampire with a small bit of soul. Collamair must deal with the consequences of being connected, in a small way, to a soul after hundreds of years of separation, as well as with new and confusing emotions he'd thought long behind him.
ARHT is set in medieval Ireland with a plan to continue through contemporary times and into the future.
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Characters
For an entire list of characters, please see the cast page on the ARHT website. http://allroses.comicgenesis.com/cast.html
Main Vampires
- Collamair
- Faylin
- Auron
- Eanwulf
Main Non-Vampires
- Isleen
- Farrell
Plot
At Lord Edwardson's...
The first seven parts (chapters) of ARHT detail the beginning of Faylin's life as a vampire, his introduction to the rest of the vampire hierarchy, and his introduction to a love interest, Isleen. All this takes place at castle and town that belong to a man named Lord Edwardson. Collamair does not live permanently at this residence, but simply made an arbitrary visit to this castle. During this time we see Faylin's arrival cause an upheaval with both Collamair's attitude and Eanwulf's displeasure.
Returning to Collamair's Castle
After failing at separating Faylin's attention from Isleen, Collamair makes the decision to travel from Edwardson's back to his own home. Almost immediately, Collamair is visited by his own master, Bhruic, as well as a small troupe of Bhruic's vampires. Bhruic seems to like making a sport out of demeaning Collamair, and professes to know the secret of Faylin's mysterious power, though he will not explain any further. The next several parts deal with Faylin trying to resolve his unfinished relationship with Isleen, his unfortunate relationship with Eanwulf, and begin to reveal some of Collamair's own past.
Setting Out
Parts 12 through 16 begin to tell the story of Faylin trying to rebuild his own life/escape Eanwulf by setting out on his own away from Collamair. His journeys force him to become a somewhat better vampire by discovering some abilities (burying oneself in the dirt), but he resists his vampire nature as much as possible causing him to be starved much of the time. This starvation starts to bring to the surface another presence living inside Faylin which takes control of him at opportune moments to keep him alive. After several years of sporadic traveling, Farrell, a Fae he met at Edwardson's reappears in his life and offers to go traveling with him. They set out together for 19 years until Farrell finds his own love and Faylin's Other, upon smelling Farrell's Fae blood, attacks and nearly kills him.
A Time of Understanding
Parts 17 to the current one describe a shift in Faylin and Collamair's relationship. With Faylin's uncontrolled attack on Farrell, he returns back to Collamair's, and after a length of debating actually sits down and has an in-depth and honest conversation with him about what happened. The lingering shock of it causes Faylin to have an emotional break down giving Collamair an opportunity to comfort Faylin. After this small act of kindness, Faylin seems to have relaxed his animosity, giving Collamair hope for them, but also increasing a problematic trance state that has been creeping upon him. This trance has been affecting not only him, but also the other vampires connected to him. In an act of near desperation, Auron suggests Collamair make a new vampire. In a way that seems to mimic Faylin's actions, Collamair sets out on his own to do just that.
Tidbits
- Of all the vampires, Faylin was the first to be created.
- When Faylin was first created, he was actually a decent vampire. Then he evolved into a whimpy one.
- Faylin's yellow eyes were originally just for cool effect, but when all the other vampires had human eyes colors, I had to make up a reason for the yellow.
- At first, Faylin's master was going to be a woman.
- Collamair's eyes are actually darker than what is portrayed in the comic, but if they were any darker, visually they start to look black instead of blue.
- The original plan was going to have Collamair be a jerk for most of the past, right up until contemporary times.
- I get most of my names from the Kabalarians name website. Though I don't pay much attention to the meanings.
- If I ever have a question about a character's reaction or a plot element, Cait will answer with the final say.
- Bhruic's name was originally Baillidh, but when I found out the pronounciation to that was "Bailey" I had to go in and change all the references to him because I have another character already named that.
- ARHT was going to be entirely in b&w, but one scene is reliant on eye colors, so I colored them in, and the first time blood was portrayed, I wasn't confident enough in my own skills, so I made it red just so people would KNOW it was really blood. That's where the color came from.
- The title All Roses Have Thorns came from the "rose speech" Collamair gives to Faylin in an early chapter. This speech has nothing to do with the song lyric, "Every rose has its thorn," but more to do with the movie "Bed of Roses" which I saw when I was 12 or 13.
- I started drawing ARHT 6 months before its debut, during the Great Keenspace Server Crash of 2002. It took that long for my account to get set up.
- At one point I was going to do a second vampire comic called Velvet and Vinyl detailing the twins' story (trailing off into Ignatius' alone), but I decided, if I were going to spend years doing another comic, I'd like it to be at least a little different from the one I was already doing.
Links
Comic Link: http://allroses.comicgen.com
