Shiki Nanaya: Eveyone's So Fragile

I love 2D fighting games. And I just got my hands on another title - it's Melty Blood: Actress Again Current Code. Yeah, title's weird, but the games great! I remember the only chance I got to play some of the characters was when I downloaded them for MUGEN. But MUGEN's kinda broken and it's more for the entertainment factor rather than the story and actual gameplay.

Actress Again was great 'cause I got to use new characters - Powerd Ciel, Shiki Ryougi (who I think is really badass), Roa, and that super powered version of Arcueid, Archetype Eart. But I still love Shiki Nanaya among all of them. He's just COOL. He has swag. And his knife skills are just deadly. Love his Last Arc move where he teleports on the opponents head then snaps it.

I've drawn him a number of times before, but his coolness demands that I draw him again. So here, Shiki sitting by a sidewalk with his "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception" activated, contemplating about how easily he could end existences with just a few slashed of his knife. I colored this in Adobe - pretty simple coloring, minimalist style... Wanted to focus on Shiki's eyes and the "lines of death" that he can see with it. And I wanted this to have that feeling of obliviousness, like the people here don't know that they're in the presence of someone who's beyond them...

Btw, I think his "Mystic Eyes" are the best eye powers I've seen in any manga or anime related media. I like it more than Sharingan and Rinnegan and all it's copies. Except for Geass. I like that one too.