Sam's A-Questin'! Shakespeare FTW!

[Samuel Carlin]

Hey there. This is Sam's quest thread. It's nothing fancy, but it's where he'll keep track of his Impossible Missions.

Who is Sam currently questing?

Katharina (Shakespeare cosplay - Katharina of Taming of the Shrew)

 

[Samuel Carlin]

Missions Desired

Edit Category: Moderate/Heavy?
Soquili Species: Wind
Body Build: Warhorse
Gender: Female
Starting Stage: Adult
Concept Origin: My love of Shakespeare
WIP Needed? I love WIPs. <3

~*~ Colors & Markings ~*~
Body: Though I don't necessarily want her striped like Elizabeth's dress, (first picture) I do love the warm gold and rich browny-black of this dress, so, colorists choice in patterning using the colors. She is to be based on Katharina from The Taming of the Shrew, so strong patterns combined with decided elegance would suit her best, I think. There is a twining, scroll-work pattern on one of her gowns that could be worked in somehow, I think. (second picture) There is also a dark teal/spruce in the first picture that could work as a nice accent, either on the body, in the mane/tail, on the wings, or all of the above!

Face: I don't know if it's possible, but a slightly upraised eyebrow would be nice. smile

Mane: I would like tendrils as shown in the third picture, with the mane to be long and full with heavy curls. Not ringlets, not tight curls, but thick, fat, curls. Some portion of it could be pulled back, as in that picture. Colorist's discretion mostly.

Tail: The tail should be similarly long and curling, though a top braided layer to keep it in "check", like an elaborate French braid would be lovely as well.

Hooves/Fetlocks: I do like a bit of fetlock fluff! <3 Hoof color at your discretion.

Reference Image(s): http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xq41hek51qh0yodo1_1280.jpg (dress)
http://topelevenlists.com/files/2011/04/The-Taming-of-the-Shrew-Elizabeth-Taylor.jpg (scrollwork)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JJGOq_nVZfg/TV_OGruqjcI/AAAAAAAADsI/rpaqOS__xZY/s320/9449630_gal.jpg (hair)

~*~ Physical Traits ~*~
Horn(s):
Wings: I'd like heron-esque wings, but if possible, I'd like them half-raised rather than tucked down against her sides, as if she's mantling them slightly. I know that means a custom wing and I'm not sure how feasible that is, but that's my desire. smile Mind: Not feasible at all since Custom Bird and bat wings are mutations, but I can adjust the angle of the templated wings a little to make it less folded looking
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~*~ Accessories & Edits ~*~
Trading Post Items:
Custom Items: Katharina has an ornate circlet she wears, in a couple of different styles. If this can be worked in with my mane suggestions, that would be lovely. Alternately, it could be made larger and draped across her chest. Again, colorist's discretion.
Reference Image(s) for Items: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luu3jcj1rz1qlf1ero1_500.jpg
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz98jsIUtG1qg03pro1_1280.jpg

~*~ Tag Specifics ~*~
Name of horse: Katharina
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Breed: Wind
Temper: Unyielding
Mate:
Tag Background: CC
Tag frame color: CC
Tag feather color(s): CC

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Name of horse: Excalibur
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Male
Temper (one word for horse's personality): Chivalrous
Breed: Cosplay

Description (horn/tail colors/eye color/hair color/hair style etc): Yes, he really is meant to be a cosplay of the legendary sword. To that end, I would like him on the warhorse lines, but with both front legs down, please, and to be a silvery grey/silver in base color.

I would like a bronze crosspiece design across his flank, with twined Celtic dragons. I would like the same sort of dragon design on his neck, a few shades darker than his coat, pewter maybe. From the crosspiece to his back hooves and tail, I would like him to fade from bronze to black. I'd like him to have a horse tail, if possible, in braided style, so bronze strands can be braided in. If he must have the unicorn tail, perhaps bronze patterning or knotwork can be twined around it.

I would like his mane to be long-style #2 and to be primarily white or silver with a slight blue shadow against the poll and toward the ends. I would similarly like his horn to be primarily white, but with silvery blue at the base and a lightening to silver/white at the tip.

His eyes should be deep blue.

His front hooves should be white, the back hooves black, and all edged in gold, as if he's wearing golden shoes.

The end effect should be that he is dark at the back/base/hilt and silvery/silver-blue at the head/tip/point of the sword, if that makes sense.

Reference Image(s): Celtic dragons and knotwork:
http://www.avians.net/paragon/shirts/CelticDragon.jpg
http://h3llb0und.deviantart.com/art/Celtic-Dragon-50581729
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kHm7UlvfkTI/SXjioi092OI/AAAAAAAAAHg/rbZmxtaniiA/s1600-h/CelticDragon.jpg

The sword hilt (as an idea):
http://www.aceros-de-hispania.com/image/gladius/excalibur-sword.jpg (I know that there are cranes on the example, but I still want dragons. smile )

Which stage you want them to start as?(basket,foal,or adult): Adult.
Default accessory color(s)?: No accessories, please.
Premade Tag Number:
Tag frame color: Colorist's choice
Tag feather color: Colorist's choice.
Tag BG (for custom tag): Colorist's choice.
Hair/clothing edits (if any):

Attempts:
1. September '10 - Mindsend  

[Samuel Carlin]

Missions Possible

.:Regular Soquili:.
Colorist wanted: Any
Name of horse: Salve Regina
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Female
Temper: Determined
Breed: Irish Cob
Description: Her eyes should be a rich blue. Main and tail should be steel grey shot through with some silver threading, curly-style mane and long-style tail. See the reference picture for patterning of the body. The color should be a shade or two lighter than the mane/tail, with the base body color a very faint pale or dove grey. I would like her right front hoof to be almost a flesh-beige in color, with the remaining three nearly black.
Reference image(s):
http://www.irishcobsdirect.com/USERIMAGES/joe.jpg (This is the desired coloring. The horse is obviously male. smile )
Which stage you want them to start as?: Adult
Default accessory color(s)?: No accessory on her please.
Tag frame color: Dark grey.
Tag feather color: Silver/white/blue

.:Regular Soquili:.
Colorist wanted: Any
Name of horse: Midas
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Male
Temper: Proud
Breed: Morgan
Description: Midas is a buckskin stallion, with a coat the color of a golden coin and points (mane, tail, ears, muzzle--though this should be a fade to black--hooves and socks) in black. He also has a black dorsal stripe. His eyes should be amber. Long-style mane, braided tail, please.
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Which stage you want them to start as?: Adult
Default accessory color(s)?: Black
Tag frame color: Black
Tag feather color: Golden-brown/black/white

.:Edited Regular Soquili:.
Colorist wanted: Any
Name of horse: Herne
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Male
Temper (one word for horse's personality): Haunted
Breed: Regular
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.:Edited Regular Soquili:.
Colorist wanted: Any
Name of horse: Epona
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Female
Temper (one word for horse's personality): Warm
Breed: Regular
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.:Edited Regular Soquili:.
Colorist wanted:
Name of horse: Othello
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Male
Temper: Possessive
Breed: Shakespearean
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.:Edited Regular Soquili:.
Colorist wanted:
Name of horse: Desdemona
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Female
Temper: Devoted
Breed: Shakespearean
Description (eye color/hair color/hair style etc):
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.:Cerynei Soquili:.
Colorist wanted:
Name of horse: Earnan
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Male
Temper (one word for horse's personality): Jocular
Breed: Spirited?
Description (eye color/hair color/hair style etc): His body should be sable colored, that dark brown/almost black shade of, well, a sable or a mink's coat. It has a decidedly red undercast to it, but it's brown. Very rich and sumptous in color. I would like swirls of color, like tendrils coming up from his hooves to almost the flank on his back leg and to the knee on the front, preferably braided through each other as they climb his legs. I'd like two colors, a sort of warm caramel and a warm ivory, in that tendril design, but the direction/actual pattern is up to the colorist. His eye should be amber, please. And I'd like him to have the forelock of a mane that some of the cerynei have, if possible, but not a full mane. It should be mostly sable, but the tips can be streaked with the warm caramel color again.
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Which stage you want them to start as?(basket,foal,or adult): Adult.
Default accessory color(s)?: Green (if the cerynei have them)
Tag frame color: Dark brown
Tag feather color: Green/tan/white

Funds: 0/650K

.:Edited Regular Soquili:.
Colorist wanted: Any
Name of horse: Fancy
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Male
Temper: Energetic
Breed: Cosplay
Description: See the reference image. Cosplay of the Painted Pony "Fancy Dancer". I would like his tail to be realistic, though, and in the medium style.
Reference image(s):
http://www.paintedponiescollectibles.com/detail/TPP+12247

Which stage you want them to start as?: Adult
Default accessory color(s)?: Not needed.
Tag frame color: Blue
Tag feather color: Red/white
Hair/clothing edits: See the reference image.

Funds: 0/700K

.:Wind Soquili:.
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.:Regular Soquili:.
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.:Edited Regular Soquili:.
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[Samuel Carlin]

Missions only a fool--or Sam--would dare

.:Mer Soquili:.
Colorist wanted: Any
Name of horse: Oscuro
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Male
Temper (one word for horse's personality): Testy
Breed: Oscar
Description (fin colors/eye color/hair color/hair style etc):
Reference image(s): http://www.flower-horn.de/Oscar_Data/Ocellatus.jpg
Which stage you want them to start as?(clamshell,foal,or adult): Adult
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Funds: 0/1 Mil

.:Mer Soquili:.
Colorist wanted: Any
Name of horse: Zhu
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Female
Temper (one word for horse's personality): Fortunate
Breed: Bamboo Shark
Description (fin colors/eye color/hair color/hair style etc):
Reference image(s): http://www.marinecenter.com/media/photos/18F362CF370242088B763ED80A50B75DS.jpg
Which stage you want them to start as?(clamshell,foal,or adult): Adult
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Funds: 0/1 mil

.:Uni Soquili:.
Colorist wanted: Any

.:Flutter Soquili:.
Colorist wanted:
Name of horse: Oberon/Titania
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Male/Female (don't know which one, yet)
Temper:
Breed: Fae
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.:Flutter Soquili:.
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.:Mer Soquili:.
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.:Uni Soquili:.
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[Samuel Carlin]

Missions Impossible (but Sam's still going to try)

.:Angeni Soquili:.
Colorist wanted: Any
Name of horse: El Sueño Real
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Male
Temper: Inspired
Breed:
Theme: Inspiration
Description (wings/eye color/hair color/hair style etc):
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Which stage you want them to start as?(basket,foal,or adult): Adult
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[Samuel Carlin]

Missions Achieved

Completed by Felmino

.:Regular Soquili:.
Colorist wanted: Sabin
Name of horse: Cristobal
Owner: Samuel Carlin
Gender: Male
Temper Extravagant
Breed: Italian Draft
Description (eye color/hair color/hair style etc): Sabin, I would primarily like you to run with the ideas I give you and do your own thing. Colorist's choice, in other words, but for a few pertinent details.

1. I would like him on the draft stallion lines, with all four feet down and leg feathers.
2. I would like his tail short. I'd like a custom mane on him, though. as follows: I would like his forelock to be somewhat shaggy and shadowing his eyes, like the mane on Yayoi's Jarda. I would like the bulk of his mane to be braided, but in a french braid that follows the poll of his neck and ends in a braid hanging off the left, or near, side. Again, if the braid is similar to Jarda's braid, that's great.
3. I would like Cristobal to be a paint of some fashion, using black, cream and burgundy as the colors, at your discretion.
4. I would like him to wear a roman-esque armor drape around his shoulders/across his chest. No cape attached, please.
5. I would like a Mucha (Alphonse Mucha) feel to him. Add flowers, ribbon in his mane or tail, at his feet, on the drape, as you see fit.

Reference image(s): Gallery of Alphonse Mucha posters: http://www.art.com/gallery/id--a10/alphonse-mucha-posters.htm?ui=9C8ED716DA4B41C18A5A627718B7EF41
Bad example of a roman armor drape: http://halloweencos.com/product/0/Adult-Plus-Size-Hercules-Costume-Greek-or-Roman-Costumes/

Which stage you want them to start as? (basket, foal, or adult): Adult
Default accessory color(s)?:N/A
Premade Tag Number: N/A
Tag frame color (for custom tag): CC
Tag feather color (for custom tag): CC
Tag BG (for custom tag): Please find something Mucha-esque to match him.
Hair/clothing edits (if any) See above.  

[Samuel Carlin]

Updated my fundage.  

[Samuel Carlin]

*bumps to knock off the dust*  

[Samuel Carlin]

Added images to Excalibur's quest!  

[Samuel Carlin]

Thank you, Thalea, for donating 26,000 to my quest!  

[Samuel Carlin]

Woo, fail coins! Updated my fundage.  

[Samuel Carlin]

Augh. Bitten by the need for Shakespearean Soquili.  

[Thalea]

Good luck! ^.^