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A picture to celebrate three years since I posted the animation Dance Time 3. If you want to see it, go to the Animations category on my page.

I'm very aware that this post is very early. I think the actual anniversary is around a month from now. But I wanted to get it out of the way before I changed my mind. Let me explain.

This character isn't mine, he belongs to someone else. In fact, that man and I used to be the best of friends. But a myriad of things occurred, and now we are not. The truth is, I ran through a bunch of ideas that I wanted to do for the anniversary. Another animation, a small video game, a comic... I thought about it for months. What those ideas had in common were that they were all meant to reveal the truth of what happened back then. It never sat right with me that all those terrible things occurred, and everyone seemed none the wiser. I wanted to tell everyone what happened to me, what that man did to me. In truth, I really just wanted revenge, and I was planning on using the anniversary to carry it out. But now, as you can see, I'm not doing that. Why the change of heart?

Well. The truth is, while I do vehemently dislike what that man did back then, I'm also rather proud of him at the same time. I told him, many years ago, that if he just applied himself, he'd go places. And I was right. I'm fairly certain that there isn't a person on here that hasn't seen his name at least once. All along, I wanted him to succeed, and it appears that he has. How could I hate on something that I fought for for years on end? Additionally, I still, very much, love the character I drew here. In fact, I love him as much as Ryoma (though not in THAT way geez.) More like, I can draw him thousands of times and I won't get bored. It's such a fascinating, simple design. And I love simple designs. I've actually never drawn him in my style before, so here you go. Just for the anniversary.

What about the truth of what happened back then? Well... the truth is, there's only two people in the world who know. Me, and him. I really hate that dumb trope where a man becomes successful and all of a sudden some dumb harpy comes out of nowhere and accuses him of a million different things, so I've resolved to not say anything about it. I'll leave it up to him to reveal, if he ever wants to. Additionally, I've also decided to forgive him for everything he did. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. Plus, it seemed like every week in church was about "forgiving your enemy" for like three months straight and I can take a hint, okay. Sheesh... yeah, it did take me a while to be willing to forgive though. I forgave him so many times in the past that I got tired of it. I thought, "This time, I definitely will never forgive him." Yeah, well, here we are. Amazing.

With all that said, don't misunderstand me. I have no plans on associating with him ever again. I'm willing to respect the work that he made on an artistic level, but that's about it. It's like Picasso. You can like his paintings without agreeing with the stuff he did to his wives, right? That's about my feelings on the matter.

Here, I'm posting it so I can't change my mind anymore. It's not an easy decision, but I think it's the right one. Uh, yeah. Man, I'm no good at this sappy stuff. Makes me wanna vomit.

Description
A picture to celebrate three years since I posted the animation Dance Time 3. If you want to see it, go to the Animations category on my page.

I'm very aware that this post is very early. I think the actual anniversary is around a month from now. But I wanted to get it out of the way before I changed my mind. Let me explain.

This character isn't mine, he belongs to someone else. In fact, that man and I used to be the best of friends. But a myriad of things occurred, and now we are not. The truth is, I ran through a bunch of ideas that I wanted to do for the anniversary. Another animation, a small video game, a comic... I thought about it for months. What those ideas had in common were that they were all meant to reveal the truth of what happened back then. It never sat right with me that all those terrible things occurred, and everyone seemed none the wiser. I wanted to tell everyone what happened to me, what that man did to me. In truth, I really just wanted revenge, and I was planning on using the anniversary to carry it out. But now, as you can see, I'm not doing that. Why the change of heart?

Well. The truth is, while I do vehemently dislike what that man did back then, I'm also rather proud of him at the same time. I told him, many years ago, that if he just applied himself, he'd go places. And I was right. I'm fairly certain that there isn't a person on here that hasn't seen his name at least once. All along, I wanted him to succeed, and it appears that he has. How could I hate on something that I fought for for years on end? Additionally, I still, very much, love the character I drew here. In fact, I love him as much as Ryoma (though not in THAT way geez.) More like, I can draw him thousands of times and I won't get bored. It's such a fascinating, simple design. And I love simple designs. I've actually never drawn him in my style before, so here you go. Just for the anniversary.

What about the truth of what happened back then? Well... the truth is, there's only two people in the world who know. Me, and him. I really hate that dumb trope where a man becomes successful and all of a sudden some dumb harpy comes out of nowhere and accuses him of a million different things, so I've resolved to not say anything about it. I'll leave it up to him to reveal, if he ever wants to. Additionally, I've also decided to forgive him for everything he did. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. Plus, it seemed like every week in church was about "forgiving your enemy" for like three months straight and I can take a hint, okay. Sheesh... yeah, it did take me a while to be willing to forgive though. I forgave him so many times in the past that I got tired of it. I thought, "This time, I definitely will never forgive him." Yeah, well, here we are. Amazing.

With all that said, don't misunderstand me. I have no plans on associating with him ever again. I'm willing to respect the work that he made on an artistic level, but that's about it. It's like Picasso. You can like his paintings without agreeing with the stuff he did to his wives, right? That's about my feelings on the matter.

Here, I'm posting it so I can't change my mind anymore. It's not an easy decision, but I think it's the right one. Uh, yeah. Man, I'm no good at this sappy stuff. Makes me wanna vomit.