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Construction on Whirlwind began around January/February 2004, a few months after I received the game. It was originally
going to be hosted at a freeserver, but I bought my domain in February 2004 and uploaded Whirlwind soon after.
The name? A bit obvious, really. I'm not exactly creative. Anyway:
whirl·wind (hwûrlwnd, wûrl-) n.There's the obvious connection to wind there. And since Talim stars in a fighting game, "destructive force" relates perfectly. And "a tumultous, confused rush" sort of fits my personal fighting style! I never said I was any good at the game.
1. A rapidly rotating, generally vertical column of air, such as a tornado, dust devil, or waterspout.
2. A tumultuous, confused rush.
3. A destructive force or thing.
Whirlwind is going to be "static" from now on, aside from updates on new SC games.
I'd like to leave it as a small and concise tribute :).
Layout
This would be version seven of Whirlwind. It again proves that I abuse gradients way too much! Anyway, it features
a screencap of Talim from the Soul Calibur II opening movie. The cloud
texture came from a now-dead textures site (sadface) and the scratchy-looking textures came from
Feel. Lyrics are, as usual, from
The Shins' "Girl on the Wing."
Past layouts can be found at Castaway.
credits
First off, thanks to IGN and Gamespot for images and
information on the games, and thanks to various FAQs at gamefaqs for some
random tidbits and help when I needed to double check the info that I gathered.
Talim's stories, profile, and the games' prologues came from the official sites, here and here. Weapon and costume pictures came from here and here. Some info on costumes came from here.
Most of the artwork came from Creative Uncut, soulcalibur3.us and Spanish Calibur. The Arcadia poster by Hyung-tae Kim came from the gallery at hyung-taekim.org.
The Tagalog translations came from here.
Thanks to Wikipedia for some insight on tonfa, Typhoon Talim and Chinese dresses :P.
Seiyuu information came from here and here.
All other information was complied from the game itself or the official player's guide.