PAPIA Characters

The name "Papia" is originally from the words "Papia Kristang" and "Papiamentu," the names of portuguese creole languages spoken by the people in the tropical islands, where "Papia" means "language" or "speech." For further details see The creolist Archives.
The name "Papia Kristang" happened to be the heroine's name in my (= K. Onizuka's) original novel "Trio De Debug" (not complete). Papia Kristang in the novel is a strong girl with dark colored skin and honney brond hair. She, together with two other girls (Srana Seyshell and Krio Saotome,) debugs the evil gangs in the 25th century'es digital medieval world. Another Papia is "Papia Saotome" in a digital-game "TimeLight" (not published nor completed but in my=onizuka's brain.)

When we had to give a name to our protein structure analysis system, we selected "Papia." And Papia's first original character image was created for the promotion of Papia system in 1997. Months later, we set up the PAPIA-Cluster. Since the box design of the new cluster system was quite Japanese, "Papia" should be more Japanese than the original one. And also, we needed two different character images, for the cluster system had two doors,
For the painting techniques of character images, see "How to Draw Cute Girl Images using tgif", and if you need more character images, see "Pretty Images Drawn by tgif".

Papia Red
A goddess of proteins. The molecule she holds in the left hand symbolizes a hydrophobic amino residue which prefer to be surrounded by amino residues than by water molecules. Thus, her skin is covered except for her face and hands, and she is surrounded by protein fragments represented by yellow/blue/green ribbons.
She has on Miko costume, the costume of Japanese shrine maidens, but slightly modified. For further details of miko costumes, see http://www.miko.org (Japanese page).

Papia Blue
A goddess of proteins. The molecule she holds in the left hand symbolizes a hydrophilic amino residue which prefer to be exposed to the solvent or surrounded by water molecule, than surrouned by other amino residues. Thus more part of her body is exposed than Papia Red. She has on modified Japanese kimono.