My darling-sweetie-pie-honney (you guessed it;
daftmue) drew
my OC Tuomas, hottest Dane on earth for me, pretty unexpectedly, too.
I react very sensitive (in a positive way) to fanart, because it inspires me like WHOA. No wonder, especially Tuomas's story was FILLED with illustrations because Ma-chan loved to draw him and the other guys, but sadly, I haven't only lost her, but her talent as an artist as well. (I still have her pictures on my wall, and owe his post-story outfit still to her, and still think
this is Tuomas in his purest, truest form. The scars, the butterfly-necklace made from wire... With a little service, granted. ;3)
I've been working on their story on and off. Tuomas and his girlfriend-but-not-really Vanessa are pretty much the best characters I've made up, ever. The only painful thing is the "
he looks like Badou from DOGS"-part... Because I swear to god, he's not based on him. I think I liked the eyepatch-idea, but that's about it.
I can remember how I created Tuomas... Their story was a different back then, I wanted to write something about German mythology, inspired by "American Gods" by Gaiman. Tuomas was Loki then, and I needed an eternity to decide not to call him Loki, but Tuomas -- he always kept the shirt with "Loki" printed on it though. (Ironically though, now he's "Tuomas 'Low Key' Valentin", because I think maybe the idea about mythology wasn't
that bad, it just had to be...
better!) Then I felt like I couldn't use him, and told Uly to make him one of his mutants, because he still had "No. 44, Loki" somewhere, dead, in his triology. He was the one who came up with the idea of a drug-addict, a small girl, at his side, who later on became Vanessa... I think I was the one who named her. Uly made him a hitman, using his ability to blow up things, a concept I adopted later on to creakte my "new" Tuomas... No longer "Loki" but then "Sol". That must have been around the time I created these:

My memory is, truth to be spoken, a little vague. Maybe I mix up a few things, but that's basically how I came up with him. He had to be red-haired, he was Loki. They had to be long as well, because I dig long-haired man. He got sulfuric-colored eyes, because he was Loki. He had the gray pants I adored, he had the trenchcoat, he was sitting on rooftops at night, he was a chain smoker, he was addicted to coffee (the one thing ALL my main characters have in common! xD), antisocial, more cynic than HOUSE MD, an asshole through and through, a great, believable character with his principles, with good and bad traits (more bad traits thoufg xD), all that... The eyepatch, well... I dunno why Badou wears it (okay, he's got that scar, but I don't think his backstory is cleared yet)(aaaah need to catch up!), but Tuomas got his eyeball popped out by Ferry when he tried to protect Vanessa... Maybe that one is based on Badou. And with that, he ended up looking like him.
I finished the story, started to hate it pretty soon after (such good characters, such a crappy story! Why can I only create plots for other people!), then my friendship with Ma ended, and Tuomas was just one of my old OCs, alongside so many others... (Angoe, Lomeelinde anyone?)
I would change his looks, I naturally would. I've redone so many of my characters after a while, but as for Tuomas, I wouldn't know... He needs all of this, the red hair, the yellow eyes, the scars around neck, wrists and ankles (new reason needed though! I can't let him be imprisioned on the goddamned seal for forever. D:), okay, so maybe he doesn't need the eyepatch anymore. (It does add drama, tough.) But alltogether, he feels... kind of... unchangeable. I wouldn't want to change the way he dresses (gray jeans, black Convere, black sweater, trenchoat, and post-story the green parka, the necklace Vanessa gave him as a lucky charm...), because it doesn't feel right. If I change any of this, he won't be Tuomas Valentin anymore.
Point of all this is, anyway, that the pic Mue drew reminded me in a very hurtfully way how much I love Tuomas, and that I don't want to give him up... But that I have neither inspiration nor... the need to write. Like, ever. I could quit writing completely and I guess I'm at a point where it wouldn't... bother me anymore.
And that scares me.