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Zephyr, the Silent Cyclone

Model #: NG-050804

Codename: Zephyr

Title: Silent Cyclone

Favored Skills:
- Ninja stealth and agility
- Skilled swordsmanship
- Shuriken throwing
- Aerokinesis
- Invisibility
- Explosives expertise

Weapons:
- Gleaming Katana
- Laser-Edged Shuriken
- Explosives

Character Concept

So, Zephyr is another one of the Gizoid ideas that I requested from my friends and family, this one being made for my brother and youngest sibling, Jeryn.

Although, I need to mention, due to another over-a-month delay in finishing these Gizoids, and how close my brother's and my friend Savannah's birthdays are (as I wanted these to be birthday gifts. Yeah, that plan didn't pan out), and the similar theming of the Gizoids, we decided that Zephyr and Corva have a connected story, the two of them being comrades. Also, my brother's birthday is actually after my friend's, but I swapped Zephyr and Corva, simply because since they have a shared story, there's going to be a lot of copying... and Corva has more to her story. So, to save time, I want Corva to go second.

So, for my brother's Gizoid, he simply wanted a ninja, with wind and speed abilities (although I think if you're going to use the wind element, speed or some kind of swiftness is to be expected), a laser katana, invisibility, and being a bomb master. That's quite a few abilities, but simple enough to work with. And really, the design of the Gizoid could work well with the typical design of a ninja.

(And with that note, I wanna mention that the time between asking for the idea, and when I actually began planning for it was quite a long time. So, when I started thinking about this Gizoid, but before I had the time to actually start working on it and gathering references for the drawing, I had forgotten the full idea. All I remembered was the laser katana and wind abilities. So... I thought this was meant to be a samurai Gizoid. But of course, I had saved the original idea on a document, since I was saving this project for later, so I was corrected on this when I actually began work on the project, and reviewed the original request. But a samurai Gizoid also sounds like a good idea, so I'll save the for later.)

I'll admit, one thing I didn't like that much, as I couldn't wrap my head around it, was the name my brother gave the Gizoid. It... didn't sound like a real name, phrase, or even a word, basically sounded weird, and I wasn't a fan. So, I offered a different name, "Zephyr". This means "wind", so it fits with the Gizoid's theme, and makes him sound a lot cooler as a ninja. Even then, I didn't like having to do this, but I just couldn't accept the weird name. Sorry for that, bro.

Speaking of names... Zephyr's title. My very FIRST idea was... "Silent Wind". It would fit with the theme of a ninja's stealth, and Zephyr's wind abilities. But if you couldn't guess, Silent Wind has a double-meaning here. And, uh, while funny, I think it would severely undermine Zephyr's character. So, very quickly, I came up with "Silent Cyclone". It still carries my original intention with the title, doesn't carry the unfortunately double-meaning, and has alliteration that sounds nice!

And again, like with Alder, the Gizoid I made for my friend Caitlin, this Gizoid's model number has Jeryn's birthdate, since it was intended as a birthday gift (even a VERY late one).

I hope you like this, Jeryn!

Zephyr's Design

Zephyr is a Gizoid designed like a ninja, with a dark-blue color to help hide him against the night sky, while also having blue-platinum accents, and deep blue eyes. His face plate is made to look like a lower mask, and he has a dark blue and platinum ring around his head, above his eyes, looking like a headband. He even has a pair of long blue cloth-strips hanging from the back of his head, to complete the headband look.