The Ex

The final character i am reviving for this assignment is a character i drew whilst listening to music one afternoon when i should have been doing homework a couple of years ago. It was an extravagant design and so normally wouldn't fit into a story too easily but i think i have finally found a use for him as the protagonist's ex.

 

Original Design

The design obviously needed to be tweaked a bit as the design was a little over the top and so i got rid of the leaves, blossoms and gender symbols. The character is supposed to be a narcissist who has turned himself into a god like creature with immense power. He also transformed himself into what he thought a god should look like, and is now unrecognisable.

However, i needed more than one design in case i liked the others more and so i experimented a bit, but in the end i still liked the original design more as it looked more godly and arrogant. Here are the few designs i did:

The story behind this character is pretty interesting as it deals with the character trait and mental illness of narcissism.  This guy is a textbook narcissist, caring only for himself, faining interest in relationships, seeing women as trophies, manipulating people who care for him and believing that he is more important than others. He grew to be this way after him and his sisters were neglected by their mother, who was also a narcissist. His father left when he was only a child as he couldn't cope with James' mother. Whereas his sisters banded together and managed to rely on each other, James became more withdrawn and could only rely on himself, believing he was the only one who could love himself.

In his teens he become more extroverted as he received a lot of attention from girls and his confidence grew further. This only added to his arrogance though and he fell deeper into his illness. He got a job as a scientist and attempted to discover the key to immortality and immense power. During this time he dated a series of women, most notably a sultry looking woman, Stella who he would later enlist to help him destroy the world and also the protagonist of the story, Serenity, both of whom fell madly in love with him.After successfully discovering the recipe for the god like powers he sought so much he dumped Serenity and set out to destroy the current world in favour of a new one created in his own image.

Although seemingly happy and content with himself, he suffers from depression like a lot of narcissists. A part of him does want to love these women back and he craves a real, meaningful relationship but his failed attempts only send him deeper into depression and his narcissistic state.

James is proving to be one of the most complex but interesting characters in the story so far, although he deserves all the hate you can throw at him for the things he has done to his friends and girlfriends, he is suffering inside with a condition he doesn't realise he has and a depression that he cannot conquer. It will be interesting to see how this character develops as the assignment goes on.