#ptsd comic

Guess what, I drew Leona and Bao on the Citizen Sleeper artstyle!

Took me a while to see this ask, sorry!

Well, Leona could have chose to not help her, of course. But considering she lives in a city full of vets abandoned by the government, it's not surprising for her to grow empathy for them and choose to help.

It's a delicate situation. Most vets are physically disabled or at least mentally scarred from the war. A lot of them came back with nothing, and the rest of the town has a pretty split view on veterans, some part seeing them as scarred struggling individuals, and others as arrogant self-entitled heroes supported by the government. Even though there will always be people like Leona to help, there will always be people who overlook the veteran's struggles after returning for the war, seeing them as privileged (which as we can see, it's not true, most vets are disabled and suffer greatly from PTSD).

Jun is definitely not the only vet stealing to survive, and I believe Leona has seen enough to come to a conclusion that there is no point on not helping someone who has nothing to fight for aside from survival. PTSD is a story about overcoming your traumas and your fears and accepting help. I fully believe it wasn't Leona's responsibility to help Jun get back on her feet... But the government failed her, society failed her. Leona just did what felt right to her, even if she didn't owe Jun of anything.

In the end, Leona chose to give her a chance. And probably without that chance, Jun wouldn't had overcome her initial struggles. It's a very brave and kind attitude from Leona.

Leona is EASILY my favorite character!! Of course I love Jun too, but she's the protagonist and we follow her story for most of the time, so it's hard to not love her. But Leona has always captivated me, she's one of the few characters that I found that are perfect but that doesn't strike me as a mary sue.

This might be due to the fact that Leona's kindness is not necessarily seen as a positive thing in a world full of opportunists and liars, and she had to get used to being beaten down for being denied help. She's also realistic for having to go through harsh times too, and finding her way out of the darkness by finding a purpose to help people in need. Her kindness is genuine and not forced, and we can see that she isn't perfect to the point of not minding when someone doesn't want her help. She feels deeply troubled about being misunderstood, or being affronted.

She also doesn't insist on helping, or atleast not compulsively. She tries, and when it doesn't work, she finds other things to do that she believes it's worth her time. Leona is very independent and doesn't seem to like to rely on other people, and also doesn't expect people to always rely on her. Yet, she still gives people a chance, she doesn't want to let others down, and she's always appearing around to atleast show to Jun that she doesn't have to be afraid or hesitant to accept her help.

I must revive the PTSD community

Boom

Leojun time!

Leaned more towards my artstyle on this drawing and to be honest, I'm REALLY proud of this one. Always drew them close to the PTSD artstyle but this is soooo much better~