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Published: 2004-09-16 19:01:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 7237; Favourites: 240; Downloads: 1069
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Every morning, Reno reluctantly falls out of bed and flips through the want ads in the Wall Market Journal, hoping just one day he'll find that perfect job he was born to do. Not many openings for official Quality Control Beer Tester Video Game Junkie, though. Ah well. Off to work it is...I did NOT like Reno's design in Advent Children...well. At first. It's grown on me I guess since then. But I always pictured him scruffy...Irish...wiry. Kind of a punk'd out Ewan McGreggor, not that pretty-boy whateveritis in AC. So here's my version. I hope you like it. Have fun picking out all the references in the picture.
Reno, Turks, Shin-Ra, FFVII © Square-Enix, yo.
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Oh god... thos moogle pajama pants are priceless... 6 months of work and I say it's time well spent! Every detail in this picture is so utterly flawless!! From the shading, the smooth colors.. and to Reno's design. Personally I saw him that way too.. scruffy.. irish. *snickers* ..ah well.. fanservice for AC.. whatchagonnado? Stand-up job, luv! This is most deffinitly a beautifull worthy tribute to everyone's favorite Master of the Drunken Turks Style!
-Seraphim
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Yeah, you know, I'm almost tempted to tell Square to take thier Advent Children and stuff it if they'd just give us MOOGLE JAMMIES. 
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Woah, this turned out awesome! 
Lotsa attention to detail, right down to the silky lining of his sports jacket. Very sweet. Nicely done expression, good hands, good job. It was worth the time spent, I think ^_^
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You know, that corner with the strangled kodama and the power plugs turned out so wonderfully ironic, and it was totally unintentional at first. Reno is almost inconsequential to me compared to that corner of the room. Maybe I'll go back and make it like this huge octopus of plugs coming out of the wall. Eh, I dunno...maybe that'd be overdoing it. Still, strangled kodama, evil power company and Reno's lack of respect for both of them sums up the whole thing. I'm very smitten with my own picture... Then again, I just finished it. That'll probably change in a few months.
/end sap
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*blinks* dude....that...was worth every MONTH you spent painting it!! wow!! the detail is incredible... and your interpretation of reno rocks! yeah, what happened to the duty shirking drunkard of ff7 fame? he's here! the legacy lives on. lol at big evil! proper bo, everytime.
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Just in case you're curious, yes the ad on the back of the paper really does say something:
"Here's a bunch of propoganda and lies we like to make up for ourselves to make us look
better to you, the Little People, whom we love to piss on. You'd like to think you have a
choice, but you really don't. We own all your asses. So come work for our Big Evil
Corporation and kill defenseless animals and babies for a living. You don't have to be
the one to pullthe trigger, but if that's your thing, we have positions open for that as well.
Because at SHIN-RA, we don't care who your parents were. We're ALL Bastards."
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yay!! that slogan just about made my LIFE. pure, pure skill. now you need a tseng one to match! just free up the next six months, ok? lol. i need things to be explained to me... whats the significance of the little toy in the background? it looks like...i dont know... that crazy dude from mortal kombat... *most likely wrong*
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There's no real significance to any of it. It's just Reno sitting in his crappy room, which just happens to be full of crap I like.
That whole corner works together as one big ironic statement. You have the kodama choking on the bonds of consumerism and authority. The tie and the handbook signify the lack of respect Reno has for either the natural world OR authority. Reno is a character with a mind--and agenda--of his own. He works for Shin-ra because he likes the paycheck. If he happens to do the "right thing" it's not because he's necessarily being charitable, he's doing it because it suits him as well. For the most part, he's rather indifferent to the world around him, I think, and to his own health for that matter, as noted by the cigarette clamped between his lips and the clutter in his room.
In short, he's far from noble, but he sure is fun to look at.
Guess there was more significance to that than I originally thought. And no more fanart for some time, sorry. It didn't take me a WHOLE six months to do this picture--I did other stuff in between it--but right now I have stuff to do that will earn me money, and stuff I need to do that I've already been paid for. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to doing a Tseng fanart, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it.
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Ummm....why does it say Sam?
Baidabel @-'-,--
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Um...'cause I couldn't think of anything else at the time? It didn't sit right with me either, so I changed it. It's a little more obscured now and it says "Hell," which is a reference to a seedy biker bar that's been a setting for many RP's.
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That 'Hell' is a lot harder to find too. 'Sam' just stuck out, so I like 'Hell' better.
Baidabel @-'-,--
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You're welcome for taking the pointing out so well.
Baidabel @-'-,--
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Dude! this is unbelievable! and the smart ass caption in the comments...priceless!
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Heh heh, thanks! Hey it takes a jerk to know one and I think I know Reno pretty well.
Dang...I just insulted myself.
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Heh heh , thassokay. I do it all the time. Reno's also really cool, so look at it that way! Not to mention pretty attractive...but w/e. Being female you wouldn't wanna look like him. : P Oh well, sorry, I'm on sugar right now!
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