For those of those hoping for a story below, there isn’t one. While I may yet write something to accompany this piece, for now, there’s something else I’d like to discuss with this.

So, this is a piece that began with pretty humble origins, that became something much more than I’d planned once posted. I can’t say when the whole thought process started, but I find myself often keen to take advantage of the themed discount Picarto streams that Libra-11 likes to do, and the theme once again returned to android, robots, and cyborgs. I wasn’t sure about continuing what I’d gotten last time, much as Lurdanjo seemed to like my concept on that one, so I mulled over what I could do, and after inquiring on cybernetic prosthetics for the theme, proposed an idea that’s been bouncing around the back of my mind for a while.

There’s been this morbid little thought I’ve had from time to time of how I would react, or what I would do, if I were to suddenly loose my legs. So long as I have my arms, I can write, read, play games, and a lot of other things I enjoy doing. A part of me feels, or at least believes, that I’d be able to adapt to having my legs amputated, once I got over the initial impact of such a dramatic loss. Oh, there’d be issues, like how my room’s in the basement, I’d have to find new employment, and biking would be impossible without the proper prosthetics, but overall, I feel it’s a loss I could overcome and adapt to without great difficulty.

Isaac, being a projection of myself, filled in for me on representing these thoughts, along with the additional contemplation of how would I feel if, after accepting life as an amputee, might I feel were I able to restore the full use of my legs via cybernetics?

The end result is this gorgeous piece here, of Isaac looking down at his newly installed legs, putting them to their first test, and in doing so, properly stand for the first time in months. After accepting the loss of his legs, the prospect of having them effectively fully restored is something he’s not quite sure how to respond to. Could it really be like having his body restored to what it once was? If all goes well, before long, the prosthetics will be skinned over to look organic to the naked eye, and it’ll almost be like his old self again.

What touched me more than how well Libra pulled this off, was the reaction to it from the community. Libra’s own expansion of the mood I asked of this piece was touching, and the way this community responded made me smile. For a fandom seen as little more than a bunch of sexual deviants, so many people appreciated much of what this image represents, in both ways I suppose I intended, and those I did not. Reading how people appreciated the message this conveyed, and those with or who know those with prosthetics expressing their appreciation of the art. That my simple little personal idea that I have no honest personal experience with myself struck the right chords with those who have, means a lot to me. I’m glad that people were warmed by what I asked made and that Libra was able to pull it off so well. For those of you viewing this for the first time, I can hope you can take something away from this as well.

Isaac Evans by me
Art and title by  Libra-11
Original: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/23418312/