I have been so excited for it.. your expressions and shading looks so good. you're able to show so much depth even in a monochromatic scheme it's genuinely incredible !!
very happy to see your posts.. I actually cannot access any social media for some reason (terrible service) (I'm currently in a very small city in france) (my international service is terrible) (it won't let me log in for some reason) so ive been checking your profile daily at minimum HAHA
as always.. so lovely. I love your and hope to see/learn more about them soon.
If you can disclose.. how did iyo (I hope that's the right name I'm TERRIBLE with names) get into the assassin business? I find her quite interesting.. obviously both of them LOL
hope to see more art of them soon!! maybe a character analysis.. a psychoanalysis.. #characterstudy..
and perhaps even attack them on artfight.. let's see my motivation LMAO
Isopod!!! It’s so nice to hear from you as always <33!! Thats amazing, it sounds like ur living it up in France rn (minus the connection issues)! I’m doing good too. Lately I’ve been adjusting to my first real job after graduation which is super exciting, but at the same time GOD is it hard to muster up the energy to draw now </3… (An hour commute is no joke). But alas, I’ve always been slow to post so I guess it doesn’t really make that much of a difference in the end.
To be 100% honest with u, one of the biggest reasons why I haven’t really attempted to make a long-term comic for Sumi & Iyo (besides the obvious time and skill issues) is that I’ve been avoiding the difficulties of ironing out their backstories. I think the fact that I initially made these 2 as a joke concept on a spin-the-wheel coupling of common character tropes has caught up to me haha;; I never expected them to be popular enough for it to really matter. I have a pretty fuzzy idea of how they met (which I think I actually included a little of here) but nothing too concrete. Same with their backstories but anyways,
Iyo’s backstory is that she was abandoned at an extremely young age, and was mute from years of severe neglect. Although she has no real memories of her parents or early childhood, she was convinced that she was thrown away for being worthless. She roamed the streets for quite a while, living off scraps and pity. But she then had an encounter with someone who was working for the organization, and ended up being taken in. They fed her, taught her how to speak, and integrated her into the org as an assassin.
From the very start, Iyo had an extremely twisted sense of self-identity. She truly believed that she was worthless, but was still scared to death of abandonment. It was with this encounter that she cemented in her mind that being useful gives her worth. Even if she herself is nothing, if she can become a tool, then even the coldest of people would look her way. She was desperate for someone to see the value in her that she couldn't, to use her and still decide to keep her in the end. And she entrusted her entire self worth into these people. She became extremely devoted and obedient, doing anything for the slightest praise. Ironically, it was this trait that drew them to her in the first place. She wasn't taken in because she had some hidden strength or potential for killing, but for the fact that her sense of self had already been destroyed, all they needed to do was be the one to help rebuild her.
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