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Why can't Bane be Anthro?
13 years ago
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I've had people ask me this, hell i've had people demand that i make her such. And even if she wasn't a representation of my fractured personality and just another character i will say this. I drew my characters doing out of character things ONCE, and I felt like I had pimped out my children. It felt AWFUL I honestly lost SLEEP over it.
From that day on I promised myself that I would NEVER draw my characters doing something they would never do, or draw them in a context in which they would never appear. So in saying that, if i won't do that for mere characters, why on earth would i do that to something... someONE who is a part of me.
In the beginning when Bane First took shape, she attacked my psychotic Ex, Erik, wanting to rip his heart out for all the mental abuse he caused me. The Action FRIGHTENED me because it was the first time i'd ever felt like I wasn't in controll of my own thoughts. mind you this was neigh on 8 years ago when it happened. I never truely beleived I had this disorder, in fact I denied it for a very long time. It was an act I put on for Erik, that was all, it excused me from certain actions because he did the same, it was a reflex. When I finally ended it, I ended entertaining that i had more than one entity in my head. Bane became a character, or rather, part of a character, in Devia and that was the end of my silly musings that I was crazy.
When the last year with all its ups and downs with my mother, moving out, and loosing friends in the process I was professionally doing allright but my personal life was in shambles, I tried to make new friends, and on some levels suceeded, on others failed miserably. Some people were forgiving, others not so much but thats life. The thing is I broke, i let myself break because I couldn't deal with feeling so alone, I couldn't deal with loosing people in my life who had been such a big part of it, my mother, my friends. Suddenly Gone. It was too much for me to take and the Red wolf whom I had locked away in my head as nothing more than a deadpan snarking character saved my tail again.
The thing with Bane isn't that shes dangerous. Allthough its very easy to mistake her as such the way she tends to be very intolerant of unsolicited affections. She's a protector, she Attacked Erik Because she was protecting me, she could see what i couldn't, LONG before i was willing to accept the fact myself that he was little better than a monster. She's my Inner Desire but one thats become somewhat removed from my own mental capacity because I honestly repressed my ability to be flagrantly selfish, I lived a largely selfless life for well... alot of my life. And SO much so that those inner desires were finally given a voice.
Bane is at times, irrational, emotionally driven, and very very driven in the art of self preservation. She tends to be a voice of innocent wisdom thats hard to argue with, but because she is ID, she's manifested in the way i would see such a thing represented, as an animal, a sentient animal, but still an animal.
I cannot imagine her anthropromorphic, most of the times ive tried to draw her as such she looks like a wolf whose standing on two legs. it looks freaky and unnatural and it doesnt suit her at all. my mind won't let me imagine it properly and I honestly don't want to give myself a headache trying to think of the WHY. Theres litterally a block there when i try.
Bane is still an integral part of me and who i am and I've learned to accept, love, tolerate and cherish her and her presence in my mind. sometimes she's very prominant other times its like she's asleep. But shes a part of me, however and whatever she is. But shes there as HER. and messing up her visual representation may prove for the worse for both of us.
From that day on I promised myself that I would NEVER draw my characters doing something they would never do, or draw them in a context in which they would never appear. So in saying that, if i won't do that for mere characters, why on earth would i do that to something... someONE who is a part of me.
In the beginning when Bane First took shape, she attacked my psychotic Ex, Erik, wanting to rip his heart out for all the mental abuse he caused me. The Action FRIGHTENED me because it was the first time i'd ever felt like I wasn't in controll of my own thoughts. mind you this was neigh on 8 years ago when it happened. I never truely beleived I had this disorder, in fact I denied it for a very long time. It was an act I put on for Erik, that was all, it excused me from certain actions because he did the same, it was a reflex. When I finally ended it, I ended entertaining that i had more than one entity in my head. Bane became a character, or rather, part of a character, in Devia and that was the end of my silly musings that I was crazy.
When the last year with all its ups and downs with my mother, moving out, and loosing friends in the process I was professionally doing allright but my personal life was in shambles, I tried to make new friends, and on some levels suceeded, on others failed miserably. Some people were forgiving, others not so much but thats life. The thing is I broke, i let myself break because I couldn't deal with feeling so alone, I couldn't deal with loosing people in my life who had been such a big part of it, my mother, my friends. Suddenly Gone. It was too much for me to take and the Red wolf whom I had locked away in my head as nothing more than a deadpan snarking character saved my tail again.
The thing with Bane isn't that shes dangerous. Allthough its very easy to mistake her as such the way she tends to be very intolerant of unsolicited affections. She's a protector, she Attacked Erik Because she was protecting me, she could see what i couldn't, LONG before i was willing to accept the fact myself that he was little better than a monster. She's my Inner Desire but one thats become somewhat removed from my own mental capacity because I honestly repressed my ability to be flagrantly selfish, I lived a largely selfless life for well... alot of my life. And SO much so that those inner desires were finally given a voice.
Bane is at times, irrational, emotionally driven, and very very driven in the art of self preservation. She tends to be a voice of innocent wisdom thats hard to argue with, but because she is ID, she's manifested in the way i would see such a thing represented, as an animal, a sentient animal, but still an animal.
I cannot imagine her anthropromorphic, most of the times ive tried to draw her as such she looks like a wolf whose standing on two legs. it looks freaky and unnatural and it doesnt suit her at all. my mind won't let me imagine it properly and I honestly don't want to give myself a headache trying to think of the WHY. Theres litterally a block there when i try.
Bane is still an integral part of me and who i am and I've learned to accept, love, tolerate and cherish her and her presence in my mind. sometimes she's very prominant other times its like she's asleep. But shes a part of me, however and whatever she is. But shes there as HER. and messing up her visual representation may prove for the worse for both of us.
More Bane, by the way. MORE. She is a wonderful character.
and hey, she's a part of you. do what feels right to you =^_\\=
besides, bane as weaponised cute wouldn't be quite the same were she anthro.
.....and on another note ive got baby geese
Id is another matter though. I've drawn mine before, but the contents have turned out too personal to share. But as far as appearance goes, he's a hand-puppet version of Sci, in the Sooty style. Mostly thanks to this fan comic; http://monkeydyne.com/rmcs/dbcomic......tml?rowid=3026
A mere character is one thing. You can often play with them, and myriad variations of them, without real harm, provided you stick to what makes them what they are. In the case of Bane, I'd say you've made a wise move. She's a lot more than a character, and if being "feral" is part of her nature, then it wouldn't be right to change it.