The story for the second character is now that he is the equivalent of a high priest in some weird cult thing that runs the world, and after having been punished for some blasphemous act, he is tasked with watching over the prison, which happens to be pretty secluded, high above the cloud layer. He also has to wear this, "warrior priest" sort of get up to feel like he is powerful and in charge, when he is actually a frail person ( was thinking space Franciscan monk -ish), because putting on the power suit kind of bleeds his body dry, so his arch is to accept his real self and ultimately find his sense of real purpose and power in the whole blood brother ordeal, instead of in some cult that imprisons his soul and tortures his body. And those guys at the bottom, I'm definitely not going in that direction but I think it was good to explore there a little bit, that guy in the middle though, I just gave up on, it was getting too weird.
I'm diggin the futuristic cult community idea! The fourth and fifth pages down are my favorite. I'm particularly fond of the figure with the cylindrical head-piece, and I think it meets at happy medium between sic-fi suit and formal, almost religious garb. I also really like the internal structure of the suits on the fifth page. The dude on the left looks very elemental, maybe too fantastical- but hey, that could be your world.
ReplyDeleteI like that guy too I think to tell the story more like Thomas said I'm gonna do a lot more with all the robes and everything, maybe make it obvious that some were ripped off as a form of punishment for that something he did wrong. I don't know. I'm working on the prison right now, but I don't know what else I'd need for the project. And yeah I definitely explored a lot of places that I definitely won't go looking back on them, but that why we do it, right?
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