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Kagemaru: Burning Memories

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I sit in the cell, my home for over fifty years now, and idly trace the flames burned into my skin. Not in, actually, out of. I can still remember the feeling, years ago, when I was first brought here. When Mayuri was still interested in me. Those years were the worst in my life.
Have you ever visited your inner world and seen it burning? The trees around me were in flames, the grass withering into ash, the sky red between black skeleton branches. And the entire time I felt like my soul was burning with it, the agony crawling through my body like a knife drawn slowly. I was alone, for long heartbeats I stood and watched my world burn, and Hebi-sensei was nowhere to be seen.
And then he was around me, wings outstretched to protect me, shield me from the fire. I tried to ask him what was happening, how he was going to save us, but he wouldn't give me answers. He only told me he wasn't the one who could stop the flames, that I had to take charge of my inner world and force it back into calm.
I tried. I couldn't. I wasn't strong enough.
I'm still not strong enough.


The story continues...

I was doing a bunch of real Bleach characters close-up, I figured it was high time for Kagemaru to get back in the limelight. I'm still designing the flames on his neck, as will be obvious as I release more pictures of him, but you get the basics. :) And... another picture with my special graphite pencils. After a horribly failed attempt at Ulquiorra, in which I used too much soft pencil and his skin looked more like Tozen's (and therefore I plan on never posting), I went extra easy on the shading. And those flames really stand out...

No, I'm not critiquing my picture. Don't be silly.

Oh, itsy bit of trivia. This was my last picture of twenty-twelve. I turned off my computer at eleven on December 31, forgetting it was New Year's Eve, and when I was reminded there was little left for me to do but draw. So I drew Kagemaru in the last hour of 2012. He should feel special. :D

Drawn completely traditionally. Should I stop adding that little confirmation on pictures submitted under traditional that haven't been digitally altered? Hmm...
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Burlew's avatar
Aw, poor li'l Kagemaru!
(Now I want to read more about him, too. Gah, you have too many epic characters...)