An emotional piece I did in 2009. I still really like it, so I'm posting it again. There is a lot I will never want to look back on, still to fresh and painful. Hard to grasp... But one day, after some healing, I'll be able to look back on the good memories and the bad.

See this girl with the floppy dog ears? That is -me-. That is ASHI. Ashi is not Ashes or any of my other characters.

Speaking of which I'm going to do a complete character strip of her. I'm going to rip off all the childish things I glued to my fantasy self while first drawing myself and completely re-do her so she matches my current self, up to date, all that. c:

So all her past stories, histories. They are now gone. She doesn't have wings, she isn't some fantastical beast summoner, she doesn't have a loving husband and children. None of it. I don't have that, so she doesn't either. Which gives her as a character a lot of not look back on too. It's painful for both of us... But we'll get over it. In fact, little by little, already have. C: