Soul in Isolation

I'll give you my time to kill
But you'll never never
Break my will
Or I could sink a sleeping pill
And in the morning could be
Sleeping still
But most of you are much too ill
Way beyond a surgeon's skill
In bondage to a dollar bill
What more can you buy?

Oh, when you think on it
We're all
Souls in isolation
Alive in here
I'm alive in here

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Man, I really love to base my images on song titles or lyrics. And I really like the Chameleons and their melancholic rock music. probably not as melancholic as other post-punk groups, but it still fits to my vision of Loui, this goddamn trainwreck of a person. I often draw him manic and gleefully murdering people, but there is also the other side in his mind, the kind of angsty one. I am always a bit afraid that he will end up in extremes, either total emo or total asshole villain. Though I am glad that his character is now a lot more three dimensional after thousand rewrites and new concepts. At the beginning he was really just a stereotypical ‘insane psycho’ mad scientist who murdered just for the lulz. I think his broken, angsty side is a good way to make him sympathetic, even though he is still a serial killer. But he is also the main protagonist and his story became the story of a person who fell down a dark pit and who slowly finds the power and will to get back on the right path. So basically a story about a good guy gone bad and about his rehabilitation (still, he will always find a liking of killing unpleasant people)

Apart from phases of megalomania, urges to rip everyone apart and seeking revenge there are phases of depression and anxiety. Loui has been mentally ill since childhood, but his illness has always been the more harmless part of his personality, contrasted with his sociopathic behaviour. His biggest problem are certainly drugs and not just the ordinary ones you can buy for a dozen from shady underground figures, but synthetic drugs he mostly makes himself. Some of them are experimental, so no one really knows what they’ll do to your body and mind. And then there is also self harm… which I am not glorifying (though I have made fun of it in the past. Let’s say my humour was and is still bad. Though Loui would be the kind of guy laughing at himself too, mostly when he is feeling better and ready to stomp people under his boots).

His mental instability is also his big weak point. In Eternal Romance, the Esper’s (magic users) potential to use magic is connected to their own well being. If you are sick, mentallly or physically, then your magical ability decreases too. For Loui that’s extra shitty, because his phases can become so bad he can’t use any magic at all. And there are many people who like to see him dead and will use this chance… so Loui spends his time during a bad phase in his lab, closed behind many security doors. Hoping that no ‘tosser’ will get in.

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music

The Chameleons – Soul in Isolation


Loui is my Original character and owned by me