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Miya's Station of Awakening

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Full title: 'Dive into the Heart' - Miya's Station of Awakening

Okay prepare for a long description... probably :ninja:

Basic Description:
In my opinion this is a work of TRUE ART that I have ever completed! This beauty has taken me since summer to complete, due to lack of working on it and just other things I was doing. But I have redone some aspects on this over so many times its not funny! In all honesty this would be as amazing as it is if it wasn't for the lovely :iconmoepher: and drawing out the line art of all the people in here. I can't remember what inspired me to do this but I think it was seeing the whole 'Dive into the Heart' scene with Roxas in KH2 when I watched the walk through. I eventually want to write said scene for Miya, but I am not sure when it would take place in 'Reaching for the Stars'/'Changing our Stars' time line, still have to decide.

Artist Comments:
Let me just say that Castle *points accusingly* gave me the worst time EVER!! Curse Ansem and his crazy Castle designs!! :shakefist: I redid that part of the Awakening 3 times I think, first two times it was a sunset, but the first was an attempted field of flowers and the second was a much smaller less detailed castle... I didn't like either of those XP it didn't go with the detail of everything else... so being the overcomplicated person I am... I had to find MOAR DETAIL!! *drumroll ensues* [link] I give you the most COMPLICATED CASTLE IN THE WORLD!! and let me tell you... I zoomed in on this pic... and cropped it to get what I wanted. I do like this pic however... it really lays out the whole world and I shall be using this for references later! 8D
Generally the Awakenings (Sora's, Ventus ect) are generally lighter in color theme, but Miya's is a darker tone. Why? well her shadows play a big part in it. As Sora's and Ventus' Awakenings have them with their keyblades I gave Miya her shadows... plus also her color's are darker, even though bright.
Oh and I think I did a good job at giving it a good background to look fairly similar to... [link] as that was my main goal for it to seem as if you were looking down at it in that whole atmosphere, for if you've played the games you know how Sora's and Roxas' and even Ventus' scene's go. Thus I tried to mirror that.

On to the Symbolism... which is how you will understand the layout of this thing... 8D Im so complex with all my hidden meanings!

Awakening Symbolism:
As most of us know the 'Station of Awakening' is an image of the person's heart. It holds a Wheel of the people that person cares about, their home, symbol, colors and then themselves asleep. I used that knowledge and inlaid my own symbolism into Miya's Awakening.

'Loved One's' Pinwheel:
First off this pinwheel consists of Ansem, Zuga, Isa, Zack, Lea, Braig and Ienzo. The seven people Miya cares about the most. The 3 down the middle (Ansem, Ienzo,Zack) are the three people she cares about the most in descending order. Whats interesting is Miya never admits how much her father, Ansem, truly means to her till much later. Ienzo is the center of Miya's world, whom she loves to a great extent and would do anything for. Whats interesting with Zack is that not until after 'Changing our Stars' will Miya truly see how much she loves him. He's a constant figure in her story and they have gone through many things together. Zack loves her very much but he knows Miya still has feelings for Lea. She had close feelings for him when she was 13-16 and that neither he or her were ever able to experience and let grow between them. But I will say... I think my pairing for Miya is leaning towards Zack instead of Lea by the end of the story... *shrug* you never know! well neither do but...whatev XD

Lea and Isa are her closest friends, and Braig and Zuga are almost like her wishful parents.

Radiant Gardens:
I did the castle instead of a garden image of Radiant Gardens because honestly, Miya's whole world is that castle. That is her home and foundation in her life, it holds alot of value to her. Also the backdrop is night because Ansem found her at night in the castle garden, and that is the time when she 'entered' that world.

Miya:
Miya's age is indeterminable accept that its from 13-20, she is wearing her main outfit from her adolescents, because I felt it is trademark Miya. Her nose does not have its stud nor or her lips black because she is suppose to be as innocent in appearance as possible, because in her heart Miya is not the rebel she makes herself to look.

The Shadow's:
This plane connection between Miya and the plane of Shadows as existed since she was born, but she did not learn of it till 12 by accident. With it being connected to her Heartless too can sense her presence strongly and the are drawn to it. The Shadow's in Miya's life is not really a good thing, because they bring her alot of distress. She almost feels like they are part of her less desirable side and she does not like them. They are a negative thing. But she does use them and accept them.

Royal Symbol:
The Royal Symbol is the Heart, Braig, Dilan and Aeleus wear it on their uniform and is the Radiant Garden Symbol. Not only does it represent her home, but her royalness as Radiant Gardens Princess.

I hope you guys like this, I had an awesome time doing it. Do enjoy this lovely piece of work, cause I definitely do!!

Station of Awakening Concept (c) Square Enix
People Line Art & Zuga (c) ~Moepher
Station of Awakening Template (c) ~The-Hybrid-Mobian [link]
Miya and everything else (c) yours truly!

fyi... zuga isn't usually that pale... but lighting effects kinda did that >.>
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AlianaFireheart's avatar
Wow... this is really good. I'm actually working on a Station for my OC now... trying to come up with some ideas. Yours is spectacular, especially in the explanations. ^^