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Shindaros, The Apocalyptic Exoskeleton
By: Komodo Date: July 27, 2015, 12:43 pm
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Height: 90 meters
Weight: 32,000 tons
Gender: Male
Overview: Shindaros is the beastly kaiju form of the wastelander
Jho. His appearance is that of a thin, chitin covered reptilian
kaiju with a bifurcated lower jaw and arms that can morph into
dual spiked plates. Plates on his chest open to fire super
heated shards. Shindaros has a long clubbed tail and a shell on
his back similar to that of an Orb Weaver Spider.
Origin: In the late 21st century, mankind had waged a war with
itself across the entire planet. Rather than nuclear or chemical
weapons this war was fought with biological weapons, genetically
engineered giant monsters. A wide variety of these beasts were
produced, each of them meant as a living weapon with a very
specific purpose. Many of these living weapons proved far to
powerful to control, destroying everything around them and
causing the fall of modern civilization. Most these kaiju had
killed one another, the few surviving kaiju going into dormancy
to heal their wounds.
In the centuries that came afterwards, great changes came over
the Earth. Continents shattered, oceans dried up. The very face
of the Earth had changed, catalyzed by the great destruction and
bizarre elements seen in the worldwide battle of the living
weapons. By the 26th century, mankind had established new
societies across this new landscape. The kaiju still persist in
their lore, some worshiping them as gods, some fearing their
return, and most doing both. Mankind heeded these beings for an
undeniable reason, a reason that is seen daily in the life of
every man, woman and child in most regions. The kaiju posses
enormous biological energy within their bodies, the fallen
kaiju's rotting corpses had fertilized the land even all these
centuries after their great conflict. There had always been talk
of the kaiju's return, specifically the return of one kaiju in
particular: Shindaros. Almost all of the bioweapons had been
entirely beyond the human race's ability to control, but not
this one. Shindaros in essence not its own independent life
form, but a combat oriented exoskeleton that attaches to and is
controlled by a symbiotic human host. The lore of this new world
spoke of a messiah, an empress from the midst of the kaiju world
war who would return to cleanse the Earth of the kaiju and take
her place not only as the planet's absolute ruler, but as a
living god.
This was the history and lore that had been facts of everyday
life for Jho, a young man who had lived his entire life in a
favela on a mountain that had once been part of a great
archipelago. This entire archipelago was covered in favelas,
living off the crops and animals raised off the nutrients locked
into the former islands by felled kaiju centuries ago. Jho, even
at his young age, had seen more trauma than most. Loved ones
lost, battles fought and a callous regime over not only himself,
but over everything he could have been expected to ever know.
This regime was led by Leliel, a warlordess who's forefathers
had conquered the areas generations earlier. Leliel was the
ruler of a city of the white sands of the dead ocean. This was
no ordinary city, no. The bioweapons were not the only leftovers
of the previous civilization; many colossal machines had also
remained. This city was an enormous moving platform, comparable
to a huge mothership, but sprawling across the land of huge legs
like an insect rather than floating through space. Leliel had
taken many, many things from Jho. Jho, being a mere peasant, was
obliged not only to accept these realities, but to also
patronize Leliel as his grace and ruler.
Unarguably the most significant thing taken from Jho by Leliel
was Abra, Jho's mentor and childhood friend. Abra and Jho were
both orphaned at a young age, being taken in by the man placed
to maintain their village by Leliel. Jho was meant to be a
warrior and a leader, Abra was meant to be a scholar and a
mechanic. Early on, Jho and Abra formed a strong, mutual bond.
Abra had taken her time to educate Jho, teaching him of the
history of their world. Jho had decided not only to, deep down,
be his own person, but to also remember the compassion and
humility taught to him by Abra. In his perspective, it was a
dire lack of compassion and humility that had caused the fall of
the previous civilization, as well as the blights that plague
the current one of his age. This truth was no more true in Jho's
life than when Leliel decided to take Abra away from him to take
up an occupation in the city. For the first time in his life,
Jho stood up to Leliel, only to have his face slashed and be
restrained. Jho watched as Abra was carried off to an airship.
He watched as the airship was shot down by a newly awakened
kaiju on its way to the city. The kaiju was Nivortis, a pale,
multilimbed creature originally engineered to be a sieging
weapon.
In the chaos that followed, the kaiju was restrained,
disappearing without a trace. In the years that followed, Leliel
would make regular stops to Jho's village, as well as the others
in the former island chains. She was draining nutrients from
each of the mountains, never giving a reason, slowly killing the
villages. All this time, Jho had lost the future that was meant
for him due to his insubordination, instead working at a street
stall to be regularly harassed an intimidated by Leliel. Over
those following years, airships would leave Leliel's city at a
much higher rate, heading in every direction imaginable, as if
in sear of something. Eventually, one of these ships would
return covered in flames, crashing at the periphery of Jho's
village.
As rescue parties came to the crashed aircraft's aid, something
crawled from the wreckage towards Jho's village. It was a
spiked, spider like shape, in furious search of something.
Eventually it came upon Jho, latching onto his back. Jho fell
into unconsciousness, the shape implanting images into his mind.
The images were of the greatest figure in the new age's lore:
Shindaros. Jho realized that he was now the host to the claimed
savior of his age, something that in his mind was in no way,
shape or form meant for him. When he came to, Jho was in a kaiju
graveyard out in the dried up ocean. This was the beginning of a
new chapter not only for Jho, but for mankind. Events would soon
lead him to battle Leliel and her schemes, but things would
extend much farther than that. A new age was beginning for both
kaiju a humanity alike, with a new epic beginning for the
history of the planet.
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Still working on the gameplay, as I still really need to look
into the mechanics of this game.
Here's a pic of Jho I had done at a convention:
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Re: Shindaros, The Apocalyptic Exoskeleton
By: Gfan14 Date: July 27, 2015, 2:43 pm
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U should try to draw the rest of the kaiju by urself, because
it'd be easier to see how its like.
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Re: Shindaros, The Apocalyptic Exoskeleton
By: Komodo Date: July 27, 2015, 5:21 pm
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This was a rough attempt at a full body image using a b&w
version of the first bust a while back. I'm not satisfied with
how it came out, but I've been in a heavy artist's block
recently. Sorry about that, I'd really like to get in touch with
some artists.
That aside, may I ask what your thoughts on the story were?
Sorry about how long it is, I had a lot to divulge. This is all
part of a kaijuverse I'd like to eventually write some scripts
for graphic novels for.
I'd like to make a thread for the kaijuverse in the fan fiction
center, but it looks like no one ever goes there.
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Re: Shindaros, The Apocalyptic Exoskeleton
By: Gfan14 Date: July 27, 2015, 7:42 pm
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neat art, can't wait to see him in BOA!
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Re: Shindaros, The Apocalyptic Exoskeleton
By: Komodo Date: July 30, 2015, 11:20 am
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Got some new WIP art of some of the beasts in this kaijuverse,
including Shindaros!
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On a side note, I imagine the graphic novels for this kaijuverse
having an artstyle a lot like this:
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I'll be editing the first post to feature the WIP art of
Shindaros, which I plan to have updated later.
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Re: Shindaros, The Apocalyptic Exoskeleton
By: Gfan14 Date: July 30, 2015, 12:58 pm
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Where was THAT from?
#Post#: 310--------------------------------------------------
Re: Shindaros, The Apocalyptic Exoskeleton
By: Komodo Date: July 30, 2015, 1:13 pm
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The Dark Horse Ultrman Tiga comics. GREAT art, but TERRIBLE
writing. Only lasted three or four issues. A shame really, would
love to see a kaiju book by the same artist but paired with a
great writer...
Updated the art in the earlier post, which I hope to have a
friend do some collab work on later.
Here is some more art, featuring some other beasts in the
kaijuverse (hoping to have my friend work on this as well):
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Re: Shindaros, The Apocalyptic Exoskeleton
By: Gfan14 Date: July 30, 2015, 1:49 pm
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Wait, Dark Horse? Ultraman? Never heard of that combo before,
and man, why did they do that with the writer!
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Re: Shindaros, The Apocalyptic Exoskeleton
By: Komodo Date: July 31, 2015, 9:57 am
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I'd love to see the interior artist of that Ultra comic on board
for my graphic novels. Story wise, I'd probably work with
several people. I'd love one of those to be Joshua Dysart, who
worked on a recent HellBoy BRPOD spin-off and had proposed to
write a post-apocalyptic Godzilla comic, this is a summary of
his pitch:
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Re: Shindaros, The Apocalyptic Exoskeleton
By: Komodo Date: November 13, 2015, 10:16 am
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Been a LONG time since I've been on the forums, but here's some
awesome new art by jako-m!
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