Inspiration for Talon

Talon was my first character... I've had her general persona for years, ever since I was 7 or 8.... Her whole history, personality, abilities, and everything has been an on-going evolution. I'll try to be as simple and too the point... as this is going to be a LONG ride!! heh ^^ (BTW, this starts out really stupid and I feel really weired telling about it... but I'm telling about it anyway ^^().... I was really little at the time... just keep that in mind..)
Oddly enough, my first basic ideas got started after I played a She-Rah board game. For some reason, I thought the character's pieces looked so cool! I had never seen the show before, but for some reason, my mind went wild. I thought about me meeting the characters and going on adventrues and whatnot... heh, I dreamed there was a magical portal in my closet and it would transport me to where they all were. This 'magic portal' soon comes into play later on...
Other things that were added to the mix that furthur fuled my imagination were, Secret of NIHM, Darkwing Duck, Wolfenstien, DOOM, DOOM 2, Gargoyles, and other little shows and such that I can't recall their names. ^^() I'll go through this peice by peice. First of all, secret of NIHM. I LOVED that movie from the first time I saw it... and was most impacted by the pendent that Mrs. Brisby was given... hense the pendent that Talon wears. The pendent itself went through many evolutions as well. First it started as a pendent with magical properties, then it was something to help bring out the hidden abilities in someone, then it was only to help her shape shift, then it was a protectorate stone that protected it's wearers. Also, the very aspect of how she acquired the pentend changed. First it was given to her by Dayma, then she had to go search for it, then she had to pass tests to acquire it... The final version was based off an old excuse... During the time of when it was supposed to have magical properties, she said it was an heirloom, and that's why she never got rid of it. Well, the final version ended up being just that. It is now an heirloom from her great great great etc. grandfather... the source of genes the give her abilities.... I'm still debating over weither it should be 'charmed' or not.
Now, onto the next... and probably largest and most influential of all my base inspirers, Doom and Doom 2. I had watch my dad play these type of games, since Wolfenstien was first released. I grew up around the computer, and loved to watch my dad play the games. I thought the monsters were esspecially cool ^-^ In fact... that's where I got the idea for Talon's first enemy... The Cyber Demon. He was my favorite of the monsters in Doom, and I based my first villan off of him. In fact, my story had it to where the loss of the leg and arm of the Cyber Demon was due to Talon ^-^ I gave him the trial name of Khan, with the sider guy being his second in command, and of course, the rest of the Doom cast as his army. For a while, he was the main villan... that is until Doom 2....
I couldn't wait to see Doom two, for the mere sake of the what new monsters might be in it... One of them changed the very course of of Talon's story. The Arch Vile. He is probably the most annoying of all the monsters in the game, and also the coolest. ^-^ I quickly melded this into my story... First it started off with 5 Arch Viles being Khan's best warriors.... then one brakeing off to take over Khan after Talon defeated him. Later on, I scaled it down to one, Dameon. And as time had it, I edged my story away from the strong Doom attachment that it had, to something that would stand on it's own. I had also replased Khan's second in comand with Dameon, and then Archon following him.
Now that I've gotten that part covered, on to the next part... Talon's abilities. It started out very basic, with a lot of flashy magical abilities. This soon melded into thing more like Telekanesis, Pyrokanesis, and other such skills. The one thing that stayed and hasn't changed is her hand to hand combat skill, and her preference to daggers and swords.
Her shapeshifting skill was inspired after watching the Ducktales Movie, that's why for a while I had an idea the Talon could only shapeshift if she wore the pendent. Also, during this shapshifting phase, I used to have it where her pendent would change 'form' as well, like maybe there would be a pendent-like pattern around her neck if she were certain types of animals, or it could be some other type of jewlery, but with the same red stone... for example... Truda... *grin* that's right, Truda. ^-^ Talon and Truda were once one in the same... Until personalities, and time 'split' the character in two. (more about it in Truda's inspireation ^-^)
In all honesty, Talon never became a true persona, a character of her own, until I was about 14. I had gotten into writing stories with some of my friends, and the only character I had was Truda. After thinking about it, I wanted to add in the alter ego of myself that had been building and growing in my head for years.... but she had no name. For all those years... she had been called by my name, though, as it grew, she really wasn't 'me' anymore.... So, for now, I gave her a code name... Talon. I wanted to change it, to give her a better name, but after a time, the name stuck. She was now Talon.
After this, it gave way to more improvement of her story, her identity, her future, her children.... Everything. As it went on, I filled in the gaps of her story that weren't filled before hand. Before, I hadden't really needed to worry about it, but now that I was using her as a character in a set of stories, there couldn't be any loose ends. In fact, the first time I wrote with her, some things didn't make sense, or inconsistant.... Those stories you'll probably never seen until it is re-written.... I think we ALL need to re-write because we have all gone through renevations of our characters ^^
Before I end this off, I'd like to go back to topic of shapeshifting. This is probably her signature ability... and the most significant to her life... as well as the start as many of my other characters... Little known fact.. almost all my main female characters at one point in time used to be Talon in one form or another. The reason why this occurs is because I often think about how a series that I've seen or like would be if I threw Talon in it ^^ Because she can shapeshift, she can become the form of whatever the main race is.... She also can gain a specialty form to give her the best of abilities depending on what planet she is on. The characters that all had a connection to Talon in one way or another, are Jenivah, Ryomus, Tama (Sailor Antipode), Tatsumon and the tamer without a name, Truda, Tatsuna, Quella (a character for a RedWall RP that never fell through), a Foon Wars RP character, A DBZ character(the pic is old, and I never scaned it), and the Dragonite/Mewtwo anthro. Now Armaina was also somewhat connected, but I kept on boincing back and forth between myself and Talon, so she was sort of the odd one of the bunch. All of the characters were either due to Talon's specialty form ability, or like in the case of Jenivah, Tatsuna, and the Digimon Tamer character, Talon had no connection to the character I have now, but instead, their 'partners'. Talon used to Pilot Jenivah's Zoid, and was Tatsuna's trainer, so on.
I also have other characters connected to her, that aren't really anywhere, just in my head... heh ^^ Like I've got a character for every era of the Redwall series, as well as a sort of character for Tail Spin, Darkwing Duck, and Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers ^-^. The reason why all the characters I had mentioned before are no longer have any connection at all with Talon, is mostly because I had either wanted to use the new 'character' in an RP, Fan Fic, or becuase the personality strayed so far from Talon's that they eventually broke off.
But even after all this, I'd have to say that Talon is, in all honesty, my extreems... Starting out just like myself, then getting pushed to the limit, on the line of insanity. She is more of my darker half, what I know I could be if pushed too far, or taken to the limit. She has grown almost to be a part of me. Though, this by no means, means that I've got a multi personality problem or anything! lol ^-^ This just means that I'm very aware of my 'darker side' ~_^

But that folks.. in a rather large nutshell, is the history of the creation of Talon! ^-^