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"...I will continue to fight and save innocent lives. The way I've done so before, as a Red Lantern."

Yes yes...quite unexpected for me to draw art for Green Lantern the Animated Series. But I did give hints about me getting into that show. It needed to be done though, the show is so good that it inspired me to create...well, this. It's a tragedy that the show was cancelled only after one season, with such a cliffhanger ending... I'm a huge sci-fi or space fiction/fantasy cartoon/film fan btw, just thought I'd let that out there. Shows like GLTAS, Transformers (Prime and Armada are my favorites), and Star Wars called out to me because of this too.

There are many awesome videos on youtube about GLTAS btw. If you want to see what I gathered up, please send me a note and I will think about sharing it with you.

As for my picture above, which has very high Razaya (aka the best tragic romance on a universal scale in fiction to date) connotations...well let's just say one idea in particular came to mind while drawing and coloring it. This idea will contain SPOILERS, so if you have not watched the show yet, I suggest not reading any further. Especially because one day I might in fact type up a sequel story based around this idea. I wanted to draw Razer with his 'light claws' energy construct, but in a more 'resting' position instead of active one. A manner in which it looks like he's about to strike something or someone with complete raging animosity. Aya was actually added later on as a symbolic way to show how much of an effect she still has on how he is currently, even though she'd prefer he not remain really angry anymore. Which is why she is crying because she wants him to move on and not mourn for her. Let me explain why I created this with Razer still remaining a Red Lantern and not changing into a Blue Lantern...well yet at least.

Red Lantern are beings who become so full of hate and rage after they have faced a great tragedy in their life during a time when they still remained innocent and/or morally sound, but as Red Lanterns they become beings who intend to inflict 'righteous vengeance' onto others they see as evil and deserving. They are not villains...but it's only after they accept the red ring of Rage that they become beings overflowing with hatred and rage that the only thing they seek is revenge and brutality against those who have wronged them. Razer is no exception to the rule, really, because he started out exactly the same. It's how he ends up which will determine how unique he will be. The red lanterns of the GL comics are rampaging beasts you never want to mess with, but the red lanterns in the show are no walk in the park either, as Razer has proved many times.

So, with saying all that, here's how my idea goes...in the form of a lengthy paragraph. What if Razer's rage has not left him totally...because he realized that it would be more useful than what he originally thought? Even though Aya, who may or may not actually be 'dead', would not approve of. Because she would eventually want him to be healed on the inside, with or without her. Even after all the sorrow they went through together. What if he is able to have both Rage and Hope at the same time, both staying strong within him and using his red ring during some circumstances but the blue ring during other ones? I would call that having raging hope. I mean...it's not the first time we have seen a two lantern hybrid (Guy Gardner from the comics, as one great example). Of course at first...Razer would try to reject the blue ring because he does not really see himself as worthy to be a Blue Lantern (with him still holding onto his rage, and he feels to blame for having the universe face an almost certain death indirectly, thus not considering himself an actual 'hero' in his mind because he cannot forgive himself for what almost happened and for who he lost). Even though he would not admit that he is one of the universe's rare exceptions, in that he could use the red ring at times when he is pissed and its energy would not become dormant from the blue ring. On the bad flip side, he would be a very conflicted...alien man especially after what happened to Aya and blaming himself for what happened to her, and the universe too... What will happen to him during the life teaching journeys he would take alone after her unfortunate 'demise' would make him walk on that fine line between justice and brutality. On his journeys, he might further learn the nasty truth behind the extent of which other alien beings would go to get what they want, attaining more power out of inflicting tragedy on others, even on their own kind. Which will further prove to him that Rage is still a very necessary emotion in a universe so chaotic and cold, and it helps him fight against injustice. If there's one major thing he learned during his space traveling days with his two Green Lantern pals...it's that evil and spite will remain so long as tragedy keeps happening. And he would do whatever it took to help the innocent before any further tragedy happened to them. That's why I feel as if he was half holding back his despair and angst from Hal and Kilowog during the finale. He sort of knew these kind of life lessons even before meeting the GLs, who probably thought they were successful with softening him up but would soon be proven wrong once they hear about what he's been doing while on other worlds alone. That he would be doing more than just trying to find Aya again... He himself dealt with a major loss more than once...and knew that justice through the form of vengeance sometimes was necessary to teach victimizers a lesson. Green Lanterns punish criminals by jailing them...but Red Lanterns, like Razer himself, have much more brutal means of punishing evil. Usually fatal means. How far will Razer go to deal justice? Would he step over the moral line and go the route he want before, or decide a more GL way of dealing with things like he has done throughout the show? And will things go so horribly wrong and unfortunate the way which Razer and his crew pals don't expect? Well...it's up to each one of us to view how he will end up how we chose, really.

I understand the show creators had different intentions in mind for Razer's character development during the cancelled season 2 and beyond, but this is all MY take on his story after the season 1 finale. And with saying that...I'd appreciate it if the ideas I have planned would not be used by others, should I chose to reveal them at all.

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"...I will continue to fight and save innocent lives. The way I've done so before, as a Red Lantern."

Yes yes...quite unexpected for me to draw art for Green Lantern the Animated Series. But I did give hints about me getting into that show. It needed to be done though, the show is so good that it inspired me to create...well, this. It's a tragedy that the show was cancelled only after one season, with such a cliffhanger ending... I'm a huge sci-fi or space fiction/fantasy cartoon/film fan btw, just thought I'd let that out there. Shows like GLTAS, Transformers (Prime and Armada are my favorites), and Star Wars called out to me because of this too.

There are many awesome videos on youtube about GLTAS btw. If you want to see what I gathered up, please send me a note and I will think about sharing it with you.

As for my picture above, which has very high Razaya (aka the best tragic romance on a universal scale in fiction to date) connotations...well let's just say one idea in particular came to mind while drawing and coloring it. This idea will contain SPOILERS, so if you have not watched the show yet, I suggest not reading any further. Especially because one day I might in fact type up a sequel story based around this idea. I wanted to draw Razer with his 'light claws' energy construct, but in a more 'resting' position instead of active one. A manner in which it looks like he's about to strike something or someone with complete raging animosity. Aya was actually added later on as a symbolic way to show how much of an effect she still has on how he is currently, even though she'd prefer he not remain really angry anymore. Which is why she is crying because she wants him to move on and not mourn for her. Let me explain why I created this with Razer still remaining a Red Lantern and not changing into a Blue Lantern...well yet at least.

Red Lantern are beings who become so full of hate and rage after they have faced a great tragedy in their life during a time when they still remained innocent and/or morally sound, but as Red Lanterns they become beings who intend to inflict 'righteous vengeance' onto others they see as evil and deserving. They are not villains...but it's only after they accept the red ring of Rage that they become beings overflowing with hatred and rage that the only thing they seek is revenge and brutality against those who have wronged them. Razer is no exception to the rule, really, because he started out exactly the same. It's how he ends up which will determine how unique he will be. The red lanterns of the GL comics are rampaging beasts you never want to mess with, but the red lanterns in the show are no walk in the park either, as Razer has proved many times.

So, with saying all that, here's how my idea goes...in the form of a lengthy paragraph. What if Razer's rage has not left him totally...because he realized that it would be more useful than what he originally thought? Even though Aya, who may or may not actually be 'dead', would not approve of. Because she would eventually want him to be healed on the inside, with or without her. Even after all the sorrow they went through together. What if he is able to have both Rage and Hope at the same time, both staying strong within him and using his red ring during some circumstances but the blue ring during other ones? I would call that having raging hope. I mean...it's not the first time we have seen a two lantern hybrid (Guy Gardner from the comics, as one great example). Of course at first...Razer would try to reject the blue ring because he does not really see himself as worthy to be a Blue Lantern (with him still holding onto his rage, and he feels to blame for having the universe face an almost certain death indirectly, thus not considering himself an actual 'hero' in his mind because he cannot forgive himself for what almost happened and for who he lost). Even though he would not admit that he is one of the universe's rare exceptions, in that he could use the red ring at times when he is pissed and its energy would not become dormant from the blue ring. On the bad flip side, he would be a very conflicted...alien man especially after what happened to Aya and blaming himself for what happened to her, and the universe too... What will happen to him during the life teaching journeys he would take alone after her unfortunate 'demise' would make him walk on that fine line between justice and brutality. On his journeys, he might further learn the nasty truth behind the extent of which other alien beings would go to get what they want, attaining more power out of inflicting tragedy on others, even on their own kind. Which will further prove to him that Rage is still a very necessary emotion in a universe so chaotic and cold, and it helps him fight against injustice. If there's one major thing he learned during his space traveling days with his two Green Lantern pals...it's that evil and spite will remain so long as tragedy keeps happening. And he would do whatever it took to help the innocent before any further tragedy happened to them. That's why I feel as if he was half holding back his despair and angst from Hal and Kilowog during the finale. He sort of knew these kind of life lessons even before meeting the GLs, who probably thought they were successful with softening him up but would soon be proven wrong once they hear about what he's been doing while on other worlds alone. That he would be doing more than just trying to find Aya again... He himself dealt with a major loss more than once...and knew that justice through the form of vengeance sometimes was necessary to teach victimizers a lesson. Green Lanterns punish criminals by jailing them...but Red Lanterns, like Razer himself, have much more brutal means of punishing evil. Usually fatal means. How far will Razer go to deal justice? Would he step over the moral line and go the route he want before, or decide a more GL way of dealing with things like he has done throughout the show? And will things go so horribly wrong and unfortunate the way which Razer and his crew pals don't expect? Well...it's up to each one of us to view how he will end up how we chose, really.

I understand the show creators had different intentions in mind for Razer's character development during the cancelled season 2 and beyond, but this is all MY take on his story after the season 1 finale. And with saying that...I'd appreciate it if the ideas I have planned would not be used by others, should I chose to reveal them at all.