THIS ART
IS A SPOILER FOR KHII
Though by the time you read this text, you probably already saw the pic.
Don't read on if you don't wanna know!!

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Growing pains, ne?

This picture is about Riku's transformation into Ansem (aka, Xehanort's Heartless), when he opened himself to the power of darkness again. You could see it as a follow up to my "Riku: self-inflicted" [link] piece. Not very happy here. Trauma happens. Of all the characters in KH, Riku is the one who changed the most, inside as well as outside. He had to face a lot of things about himself, and his friends, experience hardships, but in the end I am happy that he survived to become a stronger (if more somber) person.

Edit: A little more description. Riku's halfway through the process of "changing" into Ansem's physical body, hence the odd hair, and eyes. Later at the end of KHII when Riku returns to his normal self, the blindfold is there when it wasn't on Ansem. I assume it just got, uh, absorbed or something, so I tried to portray that with the blindfold disappearing. I won't argue with Squeenix logics, since we already know their opinion on gravity (FF7 AC, anyone?).

Photoshop CS
Wacom tablet
6 hours