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Not only is this an entry into my good friend ~MaddeningTruth's contest, but this is also the FINAL Addition to the current DoomWakers cast. I mean, there will be more new ones introduced to you... But they're all characters i've already thought up and designed.
ANYWAY,

The gist of the contest is that you have to create your very own Very own Voodle. Info on what a voodle is can be found here- [link]

However, i wanted to try something a bit different with my voodle, since she is, after all, a DoomWakers character. And in the DoomWakers universe, there isn't really a Dream World, so voodles are a tad different. At the core they are still the same, though.
Now, time for Vee's backstory. Be warned, folks. It's a long one-

There where 2 traveling Jazz musicians, a boy, and a girl. They where brother and sister. Since they where orphans, with no qualifications and no talents other then their music, the only way they survived was traveling from town to town in the United States and playing at the Bars and Clubs. They never really minded, though. So long as they had each other, and their music, that's all that really mattered to them.

Now, the girl DID have one other talent. She was excellent at sowing, and stitching, and she had a Knack for making Plush Toys from but a few basic fabrics. She mad a little extra money out of this if any night they played in a club didn't go so well. One day, she decided to make one for herself. For good luck. She crafted this doll in her appearence, and named her Vee. Tragicly, about a year or two later, the Girl died of an Unknown affliction. This drove the boy deeper into depression, so much to an extent he stopped traveling altogether and stayed in the place for the last years of his life where his sister died- Brooklyn, New York.
He played in a small Jazz Club, and never really worked up a lot of money. He also constantly tried to think of ways to end his life, the greif of living alone begining to take his toll. One fateful night, however, he had an Epithany of sorts- He found the Doll his sister made Burried in one of her old suitcases. He sat down, and wrote a peice of music dedicated to her, and decided to play it that night at the club. He played it at the end of his stint, and it had the crowd at the club begging for an Encore. However, something went horribly wrong with the stage equipment, causing a huge electrical surge that fried everyone in the club at the time just as the Musician finished his song. Nobody at all survived.

The club was abandoned completely, but because the owner of the land and the club was killed as well, the place cannot be demolished. Permission from the land owner was needed, otherwise the demolition was a crime. So instead it became a Tourist Landmark. Part of the reason is that it became haunted. To the point where the Neighbourhood is now deserted as well. Every night, every person that died in the club that night return, along with the musician, to hear his final performance again and again. And from the shadows watches a strange creture. A Being that looks like a life-sized rag-doll...

(You wanna blame anything for insperation, blame this song from Streets of Rage 2 and the EXCELLENT ReMix of it.)
[link] (original)
[link]

Now, to explain a little about Vee herself- Vee, in her voodle form, is technicly a re-incarnation of the girl. I came up with the idea of this because the doll was crafted in the girls likeness, so her soul eventualy found it's way back to the doll when it became a Voodle. The heart, however, is not indicating she is heartless (So no need to sue me for ripping off Be, :iconmaddeningtruth: XD). In the original doll, the girl had placed a stuffed heart inside the doll, in an attempt to give the doll something special. That heart now happens to be Vee's. She sealed it by sowing a heart shape into place.
So, yes, if you havent guessed it by now, Vee's stage in DoomWakers will be said Jazz Club- Complete with an Audiance and her brother, all ghostlylike, in the background. And indeed, the song playing will be the one 'Dedicated to her' as mentioned. Im doing it strictly for Heartwarming reasons, because i want Vee to be a Tragic Character, along with Erin and Madeline. Although to a slightly lesser extent.

Vee is generaly a Loner. Not because of her lifestyle, but because she is monumentaly confused... She remembers being a Human, and she feels a Connection to a memory of another human, but she has no ide awho this person is, or, indeed, who she even was. She is trying to find out these awensers herself, so she preferes to be left alone. However, she is fairly happy, and is a nice person to be around. But more often then not the second you meet her, she Vanishes, still searching for the awensers she seeks. She also feels a strange connection with the abandoned Jazz Club.

I have already composed the song, so i MIGHT see if i can get that up today or tomorow, heh!

THE VOODLE CONCEPT BELONGS TO :iconmaddeningtruth: ~MaddeningTruth
VEE AND THE ART BOTH BELONG TO ME.

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:iconfelousefarnayne:
the character sure looks really well drawn I must say nice work and keep it up ^^

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:iconfizzreply:
wow! good job! ^_^
:iconq-lok:
Oh, for crying out loud! Look what you've done! You've gone and made me draw two more of these things! XD

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Good cheese comes from happy cave spiders; happy cave spiders come from Boatmurdered!

Baby Bluefire says: "I'm laser convince-able!"
:iconjamesprower:
Pfft! XD Well, im glad, in a weird way, i sorta inspired you.

May the best man win in the competition, by the way.

And thanks for the favorite, while im at it!

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Gabe: HOW MANY EPISODES HAVE WE HAD BY THIS POINT, AND I RUN OUT OF BOOZE NOW?! T___T!
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James: *creepy voice* You're all gonna die, you're all gonna die, you're all gonna-
Hikaru: *bitchslaps*
James: OW!! I WAS FOOLING AROUND, IDIOT!
Hikaru: Oh. Shame.
:iconq-lok:
Not in a weird way at all. To the point of almost flat-out plagiarism, actually. And you also reminded me of what my other Voodle project was that I forgot to work on before I left. So thank you. XD

I'm not in it for the contest. If I win, then so be it. If not, then who cares?

Welcome. ^_^

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</ego>

Good cheese comes from happy cave spiders; happy cave spiders come from Boatmurdered!

Baby Bluefire says: "I'm laser convince-able!"
:iconmaddeningtruth:
I love the back story and i love her design. heart wrenching indeed.
:XD: Ripping off Be indeed rofl, i'm not to bothered but i'm glad you mentioned it, but i wasn't xactly the first to come up with the "heartless" idea, but it's a really good thread to run stories on, you'd agree with me right?

Any way all in all, I'm looking forward tojudging this, though i'm gonna have uch ahard time ^^;
And i still need to think of agood prize ^^; ahhh sigh.

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:iconjamesprower:
Hahaha, i like that. XD

Oh, indeed, same here. Just being a good sport, is all.

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Gabe: HOW MANY EPISODES HAVE WE HAD BY THIS POINT, AND I RUN OUT OF BOOZE NOW?! T___T!
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James: *creepy voice* You're all gonna die, you're all gonna die, you're all gonna-
Hikaru: *bitchslaps*
James: OW!! I WAS FOOLING AROUND, IDIOT!
Hikaru: Oh. Shame.
:iconjamesprower:
Welp, thats what i be wantin' To be im plyin', mmmmhmmm.

Oh i know, but i thought the Heart-Patch was kind of a throwback to Be, lol.

Thanks!

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Gabe: HOW MANY EPISODES HAVE WE HAD BY THIS POINT, AND I RUN OUT OF BOOZE NOW?! T___T!
-
James: *creepy voice* You're all gonna die, you're all gonna die, you're all gonna-
Hikaru: *bitchslaps*
James: OW!! I WAS FOOLING AROUND, IDIOT!
Hikaru: Oh. Shame.
:iconjamesprower:
Thanks!

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Gabe: HOW MANY EPISODES HAVE WE HAD BY THIS POINT, AND I RUN OUT OF BOOZE NOW?! T___T!
-
James: *creepy voice* You're all gonna die, you're all gonna die, you're all gonna-
Hikaru: *bitchslaps*
James: OW!! I WAS FOOLING AROUND, IDIOT!
Hikaru: Oh. Shame.

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