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Elemental Tales (previously known as both "Atomic Tales" and "Periodic Table Chemikaze!") is my anime-style chemistry edutainment series.  This series is about personified elements of the periodic table.  They all live in a land called Atomic Acres, where they study together at a prestigious, state-of-the-art chemistry academy boarding school (they built the whole school themselves!).  They go out in the world to explore the world of chemistry all around them, learn about their elemental properties, and experiment with their magical chemical powers.

Here are the kids' bios:

HYDROGEN
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: H
Atomic Number: 1
Atomic Mass: 1.0079
Element Category: Nonmetal
Hydrogen is the confident, strong, spunky, and intelligent leader of all the element kids. She's the leader because hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. She's very social, active, energetic, and outgoing. She helps out everyone with their chemistry experiments and other problems. But she also has a very short fuse...she easily gets angry, and can oftentimes explode into extremely huge anger if provoked enough. She's involved in all sorts of activities, such as processing fossil fuels, producing ammonia (with her friend Nitrogen), atomic hydrogen wielding, and making hydrogen-cooled turbo-generators. She has two younger isotope siblings: Deuterium and Tritium.

Physical Appearance Info:
Hydrogen's eyes are light-purple (lavender) because that's the color of hydrogen in a gas-discharge lamp at low currents. And her hair is mostly purple (because that's the color of hydrogen in its plasma state), and then blended-in pinkish/magenta highlights were added to the ends of her hair (because in a gas-discharge lamp, the color of hydrogen can go from lavender at low currents to pink/magenta at higher currents).

DEUTERIUM (Hydrogen-2)
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a young teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: 2H (read as Hydrogen-2), or D
Atomic Number: 1 (with 1 neutron added)
Element Category: Nonmetal
Deuterium is an isotope of Hydrogen. He is Hydrogen's younger brother, and the middle child of the 3 Hydrogen kids. His nickname is Heavy Hydrogen. He's a tough, punkish kid who's usually calm and stable. But sometimes he can get very angry, and explode into very huge, violent, nuclear fusion H-bomb-level anger (together with his younger sister, Tritium) if provoked enough. One way he likes to relax from stress and anger is to go swimming in the oceans...it's one of his favorite activities to do.

Physical Appearance Info:
Deuterium's hair and eyes are a pinkish-red color because that's the color of ionized deuterium.

TRITIUM (Hydrogen-3)
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a young teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: 3H (read as Hydrogen-3), or T
Atomic Number: 1 (with 2 neutrons added)
Element Category: Nonmetal
Tritium is another isotope of Hydrogen. She is Hydrogen's younger sister, and the youngest child of the 3 Hydrogen kids. Her nickname is Super-Heavy Hydrogen. She's very punkish, agressive, and unstable because she's radioactive. She's usually not that dangerous, but if someone does make her very angry, watch out! She can create a nuclear fusion reaction (together with her older brother Deuterium), and make a devastating H-bomb explosion! Her favorite item is her glowing, tritium-lighted watch...she made it herself! She loves making those kinds of watches. The colorful colors in her hair and clothes are also tritium lights, and can also glow brightly, especially in the dark.

Physical Appearance Info:
The most common tritium-lighting color you see is green...so Tritium's eyes and neck collar are green. But you can make other colors with tritium lighting, too...so I put colorful highlights in her hair, and some multiple colors on her clothes.  All radioactive characters wear an armband with the trefoil radioactive symbol on it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefoil#…

HELIUM
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: He
Atomic Number: 2
Atomic Mass: 4.0026
Element Category: Noble gas
Helium is very sweet, light-hearted, and cute. Her high-pitched, chipmunk-sounding voice makes her even cuter. She's very lightweight, and can float through the air by poofing her dress out into a big parachute. She's very shy, so she rarely socializes with the other element kids. But she will help them out with things if they absolutely need her. Her closest friends are her very colorful balloons--she loves to play with balloons very much. Her large, round hair beads are very cute, colorful, and balloony-looking. Her friends sometimes call her "Balloon Girl." Besides inflating balloons and airships, she also assists with managing MRI scanners in hospitals, and is involved in maintenance of controlled atmospheres, and arc welding.

Physical Appearance Info:
Helium's color scheme is red, light orangish-cream, and purple. The reddish colors are on her because that's the color of Helium when you place it in a high-voltage electric field. The light orangish-cream colors are on her because that's the color of Helium in a gas-discharge tube. And the purple colors are on her because that's the color of Helium in a gas-discharge lamp.

CARBON
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: C
Atomic Number: 6
Atomic Mass: 12.011
Element Category: Nonmetal
Carbon is very nice, friendly, and good at multitasking. She likes to help out as many of her friends as possible. Her favorite color is black. She loves diamonds very much...she loves to make, wear, and collect many kinds of diamonds. Her friends sometimes call her "Diamond Girl." She also loves to draw with graphite pencils. Humorously enough, she likes to draw diamonds a lot...but she draws other things sometimes, too. She explores coal mines and studies the coal in them, and she also studies carbon-based life forms and archaeology (specifically the ages of ancient artifacts). She's also shown some interest in cooking. But unfortunately, she's a terrible cook...she often burns her food.

Physical Appearance Info:
Carbon's hair and some of her clothes are black because many carbon-made things are black (graphite and coal, specifically). Her eyes and shirt are a shiny diamond-y color because diamonds are also made out of carbon. She wears a neck choker with a diamond on it, and a diamond ankle bracelet, too. She also wears a diamond ring (but I forgot to draw the ring on her).

OXYGEN
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: O
Atomic Number: 8
Atomic Mass: 15.999
Element Category: Nonmetal
Oxygen is very strong, smart, and steadfast. He's usually calm and peaceful, busying himself with aerobics, breathing exercises, and other kinds of exercising. But he can get angry, too....in fact, very angry. When he does, he ignites into a huge, bright fireball. His hair flickers to life as red/orange fire, and his eyes turn a fiery red/orange, too. He can even spit out fire, too. He studies the respiratory system, and helps people who have respiratory ailments by making them oxygen-breathing machines and devices (oxygen therapy). He's Hydrogen's boyfriend.

Physical Appearance Info:
His hair and eyes are a pale light-bluish color because that's the color of liquid oxygen.

CALCIUM
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: Ca
Atomic Number: 20
Atomic Mass: 40.078
Element Category: Alkaline earth metal
Calcium is very cutesy, and always grinning. He's very energetic, outgoing, and athletic...he loves to play sports. To keep his young body strong (specifically his bones) and his smile great (his teeth), he always eats and drinks food high in calcium, like milk, almonds, figs, and broccoli. He loves to make milk mustaches, and help people who have osteoporosis. The other element kids sometimes call him "Lime Boy," since "lime" is another name for a calcium-containing inorganic material.

Physical Appearance Info:
Calcium has a lot of grayish colors on him because that's the color of the element calcium. Also, he has a little bit of orange on him because when you burn calcium over a flame, the flame turns an orange-ish color.

GOLD
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: Au
Atomic Number: 79
Atomic Mass: 196.97
Element Category: Transition metal, precious metal, noble metal
Gold is very proud, sassy, and seductive. She's very vain, too, always concerned about her outer appearance, making sure she's as shiny and golden as possible. She expresses her bold attitude with her sassy ebonics voice. She and her other Noble Metal friends are very wealthy. She has a vast collection of valuable gold items, and loves to make gold jewelry and other gold items. She's very intelligent in chemistry, and knows her gold chemistry hands down. She puts her gold atoms to use in many areas such as medicine, industry, electronics, and even food and drink. Most people in the world think she's the most beautiful and valuable element out of all the elements. Her boyfriend is Silver...the two of them are truly inseparable, having been together throughout all of human history.

Physical Appearance Info:
Gold has a golden-yellow color scheme because that's the color of the element gold.

SILVER
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: Ag
Atomic Number: 47
Atomic Mass: 107.87
Element Category: Transition metal, precious metal, noble metal
Silver is a very rich and handsome gentleman. He's very dapper and charming, but also quite vain and egotistical, too. He has a vast collection of valuable silver items, and loves to make many kinds of silver items. The silver spoon is his favorite silver item...it's his symbol of wealth and power. He's highly knowledgeable about silver chemistry, putting his silver atoms to use in many areas such as dentistry, photography and electronics, mirrors and optics, and medicine. He and Gold are a very cute and romantic couple. They have a lot in common, with their wealth and vanity.

Physical Appearance Info:
Silver's colors are shiny silvery-whitish and gray colors, because the color of the element silver is silvery-white.

INDIUM
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: In
Atomic Number: 49
Atomic Mass: 114.82
Element Category: Post-transition metal
Indium is a very kind, sweet, and studious girl. She's very techno-savvy....she loves computers, tablets, and LCD-screen devices, and is very knowledgeable about those things. She's very sensitive, though....she gets sad a lot and cries a loud, distinctive wailing cry. Her favorite color is indigo blue (where her name comes from). Her favorite items are her tablet and LCD digital watch. She's involved in making fusible alloys, solders, electronics, semiconductors, thin films (for liquid crystal displays, also known as LCDs), and a coating for bearings in high-performance aircraft engines.

Physical Appearance Info:
Her color scheme is indigo blue and slivery-gray, because the name "Indium" comes from the color indigo blue (indigo blue is the spectrum line color indium emits, and also indium's flame test color), and the element indium is a silvery-gray color.


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