So recently I have been accused of character-theft.
The subject is rather old and -I have to say it like that- the most ridiculous I have witnessed in a very long time.

There is a user running around claiming to have bought Fossils characters Tyra and Thorne.

This person is lying in the dirtiest and clumsiest way possible.


So today I saw that said person was not just accusing me, something they had done plenty of times already, but also outright threaten to sue me legally for stealing Tyra Reckks, because he ALLEGEDLY owns the copyright now.

I even got a message on Twitter as well, which made me check his profile and I discovered something interesting.
In JANUARY 2019 they made a shout on Fossils FA profile, saying they bought both Tyra and Thorne. However in APRIL 2019, 3 months later, they tweeted at Fossil that his characters are being stolen.

Are we noticing something here? If they own the characters since January or even earlier, why messaging a dead Twitter account as if this alleged status quo wasn’t even real?


I contacted Fossil personally as early as May 2007 and told him about the image of Delilah in my head and how much it resembles Tyra. His reply was calm and collected and very supportive. He also said that coincidences like this can indeed happen and that he accepts the fact that Delilah exists.
The fact that I made mistakes being the stupid teen that I was is something I never make a secret of, even though that’s not relevant right now.
Even when the shitstorms I was involved in where at their highest level, Fossil told me that Delilah never was the problem, all my other characters rather were due to my lack of skill and style when I was pretty much an artist freshman.

The shitstorm I mentioned happened almost a DECADE ago and when you look at Sora, Venus, Glenda or Janet today, I think it becomes pretty clear that I am being truthful and honest with/ about Delilah, who barely changed her design over the years.

With her appearance I got a purpose in life and “awoke” if you will, everything turned for the better when her image flashed through my head on this day in October 2006. This entity lives in my mind and my heart and the only person who created a character that looks so much like her accepted this on the spot and let me live.
WHY CAN’T YOU???
You WON’T take her from me or take away my right and freedom to depict her the way she is!

With that emotion out of the way, I DID offer this person an explanation way back in October 2018, but they ignored me and never reacted. “Semi-asking” for an explanation now via Twitter, plus taking the inconsistencies with their page shouts and tweets into account doesn’t really help their course. I will not talk to them in any way shape or form. I will not directly address them, name names or point out any links to this, because attention-junkies only want that and nothing BUT that.

They won’t get it from me. Never.


So now, I publicly re-told how Fossil actually reacted to Delilah and what his stance on her was. What I said is what he told me.


~Trias