Lexcore

About Lexcore

Lexcore started when I drew the first page during a physics lecture in October 2005. Yay for being distracted! I had a general idea of the mechanic-type thingies and plot of Lexcore [most of which aren't showing in the comic right now] from my miserable attempt at putting together an entry for Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga contest, which starred Larc [insert last name here] as a teenage cheese museum guard chasing after Muri Kathes, a Razel Mime that stole a very valuable cheese sculpture, which she ends up eating in a turkey sandwich halfway through the story, thus making Larc all freaked about his job and prompting him to bust out some spiffy Sentences. Unfortunately, I couldn't pull the story into something good enough for a one-shot that the contest needed, so...several months afterwards, I drew the first page of Lexcore! Whee! I think I was originally planning that story to be the prequel to Lexcore, but ehh. Maybe I'll get into it later with a flashback or something.

At first, I named it MIME - flux! [that was its name when it was on Drunk Duck before they crashed], 'cuz for some reason I had an obsession with flux [if you noticed, I took the deltaFLUXcandela out of the name] and I thought I was going to make Mimes the focus of the story. They're not anymore. Heehee. Anyway, it's now Lexcore!

So...the Lexcore...What is it?

The Lexcore is a sort of...magic system, if you will, that uses different combinations, or Sentences, of symbols "Written" [in the air, on a surface, whatever] with a person's life force to bend the environment. Sentences range from very simple, like shooting fire at people, to very complicated, like holding up an entire city over the ocean. Sentences must have the Subject symbol and a "verb" symbol, but can have different "adjective" symbols following [which are used to make much more complicated Sentences].

Generally, a person must be wearing special gloves in order to Write symbols without hurting himself/herseif/itself...which is why everyone in the comic so far has been wearing gloves.

Um...Mimes?

Mimes are people with Space-manipulation Sentences Written on them. The Sentence allows them to bend space [which generally produces invisible objects, but the stronger ones can make things visible]. Prospective Mimes need to have strong imaginations as well as good physical ability in order to b able to handle the strains that the manipulation Sentence puts on the body [strains more than any other manipulation Sentence]. The Sentence is also highly dangerous if the person does not have proper control over the imagination...I mean, you could stab yourself on accident if you're not careful! D:

Some random trivia

Captain Kathes's name was originally Muri Sun, not Muri Kathes
Before I started on the more solid Rising Stars of Manga attempt, the "magic" [god, I hate that word] system was different and there were no Mimes
In that pre-pre-Lexcore attempt, Larc's name was Wyk [you pronounce it like "wick," as in...a candle wick]
In the pre-Lexcore thing with Larc and the cheese museum, Larc had the night shift and sat around reading comics...and was completely unaware the Kathes was wandering around the museum after hours

About me [because you all really wanted to know...aha]

Hiya! I'm MuriraRK, but Murira works fine. My real name goes something like FMercado, and I guess if you like Frizzle better than Murira, then Frizzle is fine. 'S not my real name, but it's close. ^_~ Umm...I'm currently 20...and I go to the University of California in Irvine [screw UCLA...who needs 'em anyway?!]. Since I'm a Computer Science/Engineering major, during the school year my updates get really spazz-riffic because of schoolwork and sometimes I can't update for weeks and/or months. I try my hardest though. Anyway, that's all I got. Errr...I like pi[e], and fishies are cool [and also good to eat], and DS and Wii games are too addicting...Must...stop...playing Phoenix Wright and...Trauma Center...!