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Its Been A While
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while rediscovering my favorite neopet veteran artists, i had the great luck of stumbling across your work again. your characters, music choices, and art had a massive impact on me as a child, just as you did for many, many others.
i think it speaks to your reach and ability that people are still dropping comments here nine years later. its very sad to see all the art tucked away, but hey, i did the same thing! i sincerely hope you are doing well today.
Sometimes I think that Aura was destined to be an inspiration to thousands of people around the world. A large part of the people I see who are professional designers started with neopets and had fatal mantis as their main inspiration, her drawings had an enormous charisma and seemed to have a life of their own.
I would like to know If Aura is fine and living a good life.
I would also very much like to recall her stories, characters and drawings, because unfortunately I also remember very little of their stories, especially because my English was not so good at that time.
I only remember Shacar and that she woke up on the beach one day and had no memory of her past and that she was found and rescued by Akansho. and the Captayn and Serraona who were lovers, but I don't remember anything else besides that, unfortunately.
Aura was an excellent person and amazing artista and had a wonderful musical taste too!
I also wanted a little help to see if anyone remembers the name of the song that played on Kahlidah's page, the magma draik.
Me and my mom used to love that song and have been looking for it for many years.
It seemed an african song with drums and a female singer with a choir of children singing in the background, but I'm not 100% sure about the details because it's been years. any help to find out what song it was will be very welcome! ❤️
But I wanted to lay this here... Somewhere. Perhaps you'll see it one day.
You inspired me to create.
I don't know how old I was, exactly, but I know I saw Shacar at the beauty contest on Neopets and that I wanted to be just like you. I wanted to draw as beautifully as you did. I even made my most common username inspired by yours! (If my DA username is enough to prove that point.)
I'm sorry that thieves, and people generally being toxic made you shy away from neopets, and shy away from Deviantart. It really upsets me that you were pretty much my artistic Idol as a child and that the wrong kinds of fans of your work pulled you from both mediums. Every time I was upset I thought to draw, and improve, because I knew perhaps I would become as great as you were some day.
You even inspired me to role play...! The stories that you seemed to craft with your characters, their ideas made me want to write. I remember a piece you did of Akansho and Shacar flying through the clouds on one of your pages, and Nightwish's song, "Walking in the Air" was playing.
I still love art, and I think I'm pretty good now...
So, I wanted to say thank you. Thank you so, so much, for everything you've done. I really hope you're still out there, creating beautiful artwork, and sculpting wonderful stories.
PS: I wanted to know if someone knows the classical song on Shacar10 homepage, before it was gone ?
PPS: Sorry, my english is bad, my mother tongue is french.
xxx
Nympheira.
that shit was sure a jam/still is