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Invention Stained Glass Final

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I found this older file on my computer and decided to finish it up. So after a few days of on and off work, I finally finished the KH style station of awakening for the character Invention. The symbolism wasn't really explained in the last one, so I'll do it here in this one's description, but I'll have to give a bit more information about Invention before hand.

Invention is not his real name, but more of the moniker that he took on due to his loss of memory, and ability at building whatever he puts his mind to with the use of gears and whatever else he grabs. Whatever caused his loss of memory also left him stranded and alone in a world not his own, with the beings of this land seeing him as a threat. This lead him to try and build a companion rather then to and talk to the locals. After a few years of thievery, laborious experiments, and failed attempts that were repurposed around his home, he created a single humanoid robot.

What he didn't expect, was for the machine to come alive and be sapient and then spread the sapience to two other experiments.

That single robot, dubbed BOR-15 or Boris, fascinated him to the point he created more advanced bodies and transferred his two other experiments into them. These two experiments would later be called Steve and Ed in place of the original labelings they had been given. A few more years passed, and over that time he had upgraded the bodies of the first three, built an additional two mechanical people which he named Alex and Victoria, as well as attempted several times to build a super computer of sorts using a combination of his engineering knowledge, and the local species' technology. After he managed to succeed in the technological endeavor, he was drawn to another problem. Just how had his five machines, who he had come to see as family, even children in some cases, gain complete sapience? Invention began to try and theorize just how a machine could gain complete self-awareness of such a scale; eventually coming to the conclusion that a piece of himself must have been put into each machine, thus giving them near human qualities and strengthening his feelings of being a father to these five robotic companions.

It was after making his fifth companion, however, that Invention began to feel lethargic, weaker, and started to realize he felt less emotion then he should have. His creative drive was also beginning to diminish along with his positive outlook on the world. Invention immediately began to try and find the source of his problems, performing tests on himself through the use of his computer. What he found shook him to his core, and altered his view of his creations even further. His very essence of self was syphoned into the machine's he had made, and was weakened in all but one portion.

Since that discovery, Invention sees the five creations as his children in all but the flesh they lack, and would give his life to defend them.
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Okay, now for the symbolism explanation.

The various geometric patterns seen on the top portion of the image are known as Platonic Solids. Platonic solids are three dimensional objects that each edge, angle, and face are exactly the same. These "perfect" shapes are often depicted to have a tie into the fundamental forces of nature, pieces of the human consciousness, parts of the soul, ect. and total at six shapes. Tetrahedron, Hexahedron (Cube), Octahedron, Decahedron, Dodecahedron, and the Sphere, as the sphere has no sides or angles at all. Each of Invention's "children" are represented by one of the five pieces he had syphoned from him to give them life, so each shape is there in place of his family.

The sixth shape at the top, however, is called the Flower of Life. It is often associated with a complete consciousness, so I found it more fitting then leaving the last one empty, as it would be a good way to show the family as a whole. Obviously, since this man is an inventor and loves machinery, there are lots of gears and a metallic texture to the entire image, along with a copper coloring.
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