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Arianet Indra: I Only Want To Remember | Real Life Inspiration + Biography

“I fear I will one day forget the woman I used to be. As each day passes, it becomes harder to distinguish between the innocence I had and the monster I’ve become.”

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Her clothes of choice consist of a black leather corset with a turtlenecked tank top underneath to cover her soft neck from the winter’s winds. She wears fingerless gloves that extend just beyond her elbow, leaving only her forearms exposed to the chill. Her pants are grayed denim which cling to her slender legs and tuck into 2-inch heeled brown leather boots that sit just below her knees. Her hair hangs in long, shaggy black waves with auburn red tips, and long bang obscure her face from too many peering eyes. Her lips are full and lush; her nose is straight and thin; and her eyes, a calming yet seductive amber shade, are her most pronounced features. And her horns, a constant reminder of her devastatingly powerful inherited abilities, stretch behind her head like two new arms, curving to the sky and then reaching to meet their ends, almost forming a crown upon her head. She’s thin but muscular, with the strength in heart and mind to take down an army but with an ever present undertone of regret and in her movements.

Power Colors: a deep lavender & skin tone

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Arianet is actually a name I made up, but the closest existing names are: Ari meaning “lion” or “brave” depending on its origin, and Annette, a French diminutive of Anne/Anna/Hannah, meaning “favor” or “grace.” Indra, in Hindi, means “possessing drops of rain.”

By not only struggling through and surviving the horrors she does but also by rescuing and continually protecting others, she proves herself to be brave again and again. She is humble, never addressing herself for more than she is, and in this way, she is graceful. (In fact, she’s more likely to see the errors in herself before anyone else dares to point them out.) And to match her last name’s meaning, you simply need to look at her rebirth. She dies in water and is reborn in water, and something from that river remains within her. She possess “drops” of this river, but more importantly, these “drops” possess her. 

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On her own, before her death in the river, she was not a demon. Only by joining with Lonan in the river did she gain her abilities and her horns. The amount of time she spent in that river is unknown, but she was in it long enough for the horns to grow to their full length. But with the amount of power Lonan possess (and now Arianet has), the horns could have easily grown in a couple of hours. The reason behind their growth is simple: Arianet’s fragile, frozen, mortal body could not contain all of Lonan’s power, and so it needed a place where it could extend. It chose to grow as bone on the outside of her skull. 

_{{Art Credit} framezer0, martasyrko, DeniseSoden, parentthesisx, CyanideMishka, syda-ginger, parazitell, senju-hime”, BlackScarletLove, and sirbion}

Superb Val! I just love Arianet, it was a pleasure to work on her model for you. I hope to make some artwork for her at some point, unfortunately my PC is dying right now as I’ve mentioned on dA. I must say I love the inspirational pictures, and the fact that you used the horns I added to her model instead of the ram horns you originally envisioned. Makes me really feel like I helped you out by making that model. I am so glad I could do something to inspire at least one part of your amazing character! I hope to see your other characters as XNALara models someday, and if you ever need me to help with the modding or if you just need to spin some ideas around, I just want you to know I’m here!