Mood:
a-okTopic: General
When I said that I was done with all the pictures for awhile... I guess I forgot to take into account that wonderful manic phase I go into when I start being productive (not that I'm bipolar, just... excitable.)
I joke that all my 'art' takes about five minutes and change to throw together, but most of the pics I slam out take several hours to doll up (I just make it look difficult...)
This time five minutes is no exaggeration: the background image was preexitsting already, so all I needed to do was shamelessly jack two images (roses and crumbling walls) from two different websites and throw it all together (the process here is even more slipshod and thieverous than I'm used to, but hey: five minutes is five minutes...)
Hey, ho: Justin Storm behind a superimposed field of roses and buildings. Yee-haw...
I know, I know: more kanji. It's not that I'm a rank Japanophile, and I'm hardly Otaku by any stretch of the imagination (thank God), but I must say that Japanese writing blends so well into artwork that it's more decortage than text, and if said text has another meaning besides lookin' real good on the page, then so be it*.
(*it does, BTW: 正義の暴風雨 ... words to live by, I suppose... if your name is 'Justin Storm'.)
The image is spur-of-the-moment, and otherwise forgettable, but the message behind it might be less ominous than meets the eye: there's a second meaning behind the building 'walls' up there, and the image isn't so much a foretelling of Justin's ultimate capacity for destruction (which is great, indeed), but something else, too.
Of course, once he and his collegues learn the whole spiel about the Bydo's origins (an abandoned experiment from Earth, naturally...) Justin's hatred towards his own species will certainly hit a crest.
But there's a reason that Storm is the 'hero' of the books, and there's a reason that Antithesis is named 'Antithesis': Justin's no cold-blooded killer.
However he is, without a doubt, extraordinarily dangerous.
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Hmm: 'thieverous' isn't really a word, is it? Caught that on my proofread, but I like it so much that I'm keeping it in. So there.
