Just a dash of madness

Ta dum! Alright, so I've finished.. Two of four. I didn't colour his little alternate costumes this time around, because I wasn't very fond of them.

I LOVE this character; I love the inbalanced way he stands and the fact that he doesn't understand the way he interacts with the physical world.

He's not technically human anymore, and not technically alive either.. He's got a pulse and needs to eat occasionally so his body doesn't just.. rot and fall off his bones. Though I imagine that would be awesome...

I decided to add some streaks of gray to his hair to help enhance the whole.. 'Crazy' motif.

So, Yukio is awesome. He doesn't really understand the plane of the physical, and walks with this... shuffling gait, like a poorly manned puppet. He has no soul because he removed it years ago and stored it in a little phial he wears around his neck to protect him from his own dark practices. He rarely expresses emotions past anger, confusion, and psychotic happiness. He's mental capacity is much that of a child, and a LOT of things confuse him. He cuts his own hair, but.. he doesn't understand how scissors work, so his hair is very messy and asymetrical. He also stitches closed his own wounds and repairs his own clothes, but lacks the understanding on how to.. well work a needle and thread.

He makes these adorably creepy rag dolls to store peoples souls in when he removes them, because he's awesome like that. Wears SUPER high pants, and his clothes are all very old, and if he looked after them, they would be very nice. As you can see though, it's been many.. many years since Yukio considered changing his clothes. He doesn't UNDERSTAND 8D.

I love Yukio and need an excuse to RP him at some point or another.. Just as a side character though, he needs someone to keep him in check, as he doesn't realize when he's hurting people or doing things that could have disastrous consequences to himself or others...

Suka DOES miraculously manage to return his soul to him (somehow in the panic of almost dying, she releases it by shattering his little glowy phial) and he gets a little more.. Human.

In the ORIGINAL of my story, it was Yukio who fell in love with Suka and vice versa. Yukio went after her to save her when Eli kidnapped her and all that fun stuff, but I couldn't keep it. I couldn't keep it because Suka didn't have the backbone to carry on as she did up until she met Yukio.. It's a shock and a half that she has the guts to save herself by snatching and shattering his phial. So sadly.. Yukio had to take a step down and be a side character, and I had to invent a male lead who could BE there for Suka up until he gets his chance to cameo. He has a role, yes, but his original role was much, much bigger.

Oh right, I moved out. I'm now living with my fellow artists and classmates in a townhouse in Toronto. I'm still upset I didn't get into animation, but the excitement of the courses I'm going to be taking has overshadowed it to the point where I don't get.. TOO upset anymore.

I'm going to go play with my baby and see if the art jam is set to go yet or not!