I was tagged by MurderDuck who asked for Yo-Yo!   Thank you!  

- Post these rules. 
- Unveil 8 random facts about your character. 
- Tag 8 other Deviants and one of their characters.

She's easy to spot in all these - purple hair and a general infestation of black feathers.  She's accompanied by Banshee. 

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I made Yo-Yo when I was in junior high, so some aspects of her are appropriately ridiculous!


* Yo-Yo came out of an egg! She hatched looking about age five or six.  A lot of my reasoning is lost to the wilds of junior high logic, but she was formed from the combination of three people who were involved in some dramatic love triangle and a phoenix that lived near the turmoil was so affected by it, she laid the egg that contained Yo-Yo.  No one involved was sure about the relationships they had, let alone was planning on having a hatched child in their house.  The three people involved were all different species, even.  They were a dragon, a phoenix, and a cat, all taken humanoid form.  Yo-Yo has some green tinges in her skin from the dragon lady, and the glasses from the cat guy.  The phoenix guy I guess made this all even possible?  Though it's his part of her that makes all this feather business possible.

* Yo-Yo's black feathers aren't hers.  Or they didn't start out that way.  Yo-Yo lived in a house with like half a dozen other people, and one of the people was actually masquerading as one of her parents' pets fora long time.  He was a tiny black phoenix named Angkor.  Yo-Yo developed a giant crush on Angkor, who was far older, and she stole a few of his feathers.  One of them let her use it like a magic wand, and she started wearing the others like jewelry.  This was only a little weird, and then the feathers began fusing with her because of her obsession with Angkor, the magical power she inherited from her parents and because the one parent was a phoenix as well, though he wasn't a black one like Angkor (who is actually the only one).  

These are some tiny doodles of the current redesign of Angkor with Yo-Yo.     

This is the last drawing of Angkor done with his old design, and one of the last of Yo-Yo not being super fucked up by all this feather business.  

* Yo-Yo may have actually been somewhat creepily involved with Angkor, making the feather problem even worse.  

* The feathers have been rooting themselves deeper and are taking over her body.  They're growing more like them around the sites where she originally put feathers as a decoration.  They're why her eyes have turned black, and why she's getting all these tiny bits of dark void in her skin. 

* Yo-Yo and Banshee are from different universes.  Banshee can travel across universe and Yo-Yo is stuck in just two or three realms in her own universe on her own.  She and Banshee travel together in a sort of mutually beneficial but incidentally antagonistic relationship.  Yo-Yo's goal - or rather, her feather's goal - is to get Banshee to take a feather and spread them further.  Banshee is disgusted by power that was born from obsession and wants nothing to do with it, but is interested to see how it will progress on Yo-Yo, so she sticks around.  In non-feather-possessed moments, she rather likes Yo-Yo.  

* She has two siblings (2/3 siblings?) who are the natural children of the cat dude and the dragon lady.  She felt they replaced her when they were first born (they're twins), but she's quite protective of them, even when having bad feather time. 

* I used to have a special set of colored pencils I used to color her.  When I designed her, it was with a set of pencils that weren't my then-standard Crayolas, so I felt I could only draw her when I had those specific pencils available.  Her hair color in particular was a big deal.

* I have absolutely no recollection of why I named her Yo-Yo, I only know that after a while it totally sounded like a real name.   This isn't even like a weird nickname, it's just straight up her name.  I have no idea.



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God, I have no idea who to tag, I don't have much of a community of original character people here like I once did!  I'd like more people to talk about original shit with.