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©2008-2009 ~The-Great-Shiniku
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Hey there, this is a character sheet for Shiniku, for when you people will be drawing him. (and you WILL be drawing him.)
Not my best work, just trying to keep it simple, and leave plenty of room for reimagining. No two pictures should look the same..

Notes:
Shiniku is fully capable of wearing different styles of armor, sporting different haircuts, and using different weapons. He prefers two straight longswords, and a plate/chain/bone armor.
His pauldrons are made of bone (or are a bone, depending on what you're doing.
He typically wears a tight black cloth suit under his armor, and ti shows through in places.
He's rarely seen totally shaven, and his hair length varies.
Contrary to popular belief, it's nearly impossible for him to poke himself with his armor. The best he could do with the pauldrons is bump the back of his head, and as far as knees and elbows go, he can't unless they bent backwards. He could touch his knee spikes if crouching/seated but he probably wouldn't.
He doesn't always have to wear the dark star
His hair was previously black, he was severely burned, and even though healed by mystical means elsewear his hair grew in white.
Bags under eyes is a must.
If he crosses his elbows he can use his spikes to achieve a scissor effect.
His boots make his footprints appear like hoof prints

Personality traits:
A bit loony, and maniacal, but never jovial. More of an intense amusement.
He's often seen smiling, but isn't one to joke, and rarely laughs.
He can appear quite solemn as well.
He has a sense of honor and sportsmanship, but he is evil, and he will immediately betray his honor if he sees no other way of ensuring victory.
He is a bit of an egotist though, so he almost always assumes his victory is assured.
He is evil.

Abilities:
Though he wears quite heavy armor, he's speedy and agile.
He's quite the expert at jabbing at someone's heart.
He can regenerate and has a knack for not being able to be killed. He cannot regrow new bones, if he uses a limb he must either recover said limb and sew it up and let it reattach, or make makeshift bones out of whatever's handy and let the muscle and skin grow over that.

Stats:
Height: 5'11" (a bit shorter than you'd expect, but when fully armored he's more than intimidating enough.)
Eye color: Grey
Hair color: White, previously black
Age: undefined, though definitely over the expected lifespan of a human.


Hopefully some of this can help you in your drawings!

EDIT: updated picture and stats, take a look.

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:iconkostmeyer:
Great reference sheet - and the washed out colours suit him really well - for some reason I never had him down as being evil until I saw this picture - what ssort of things does he do? A bit of backstory would also be useful, if it isn't giving too much away.

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Yeah I realized that a lot of people probably didn't know that, so I figured it was a good idea to specify. And I'm having trouble coming up with a summary that doesn't sound completely lame and cliche, but oh well. There isn't much to give away.

Here's a quick few things though:
Shiniku was a general at an early age, and brought many victories to his army. He believes he's possessed and is controlled by a greater good (well, more of a greater bad). He became interested in the arts of necromancy and looked into prolonging his life any way possible, and found no ways to do so without significant loss, until he was given the dark star (his necklace.) Which provides eternal life, and eternal death. He was once a calm, cool individual, but with the star and his posession he's lost that, and became much more maniacal - but remained an intelligent tactician. An opposing army caught his fortress off-guard at some point, and demolished hsi quarters via flaming rock launched by catapult, and he was assumed dead. ABout 50 years later, he comes back, and looks like what you see in the picture, he had apparently been raising another army and honing his skills in secret.

Meh, t'ain't much but there you go. Most of the story takes place after all of that, or this in general, in fact this armor and general look is relatively short-lived in the scope of things, but it's the best one I've worked out.

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:iconkostmeyer:
That sounds really cool - and not cliche at all. Thanks for the background!

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