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Published: 2011-04-03 05:17:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 1742; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 15
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Hero's Burden, final. A piece for a contest depicting Samurai Jack, my character Leara, and Aku laughing in the background.Related content
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Awesome pic. I would love to hear the back story to it
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Indeed! I was sooo sad when it got cancelled, and yet tons of crappy shows are still there XD
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Thanks, they are one of my favs as well.
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I had missed this at first. I'm a huge Samurai Jack fan, so yeah.
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I am as well 
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Who WOULDN'T want more Samurai Jack???
Crazy people, obviously
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The people who cancelled the Emmy awarded show, that's who...
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Now I want to draw more Samurai Jack and expand on the little fan fiction story I guess I've created.
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Well Jack needs love that isn't either Aku or mental plant life lol.
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Hmmm. So that he can then end up running her through? Blah
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But he does! He sacrifices his way home to bring her back.
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Ah, yet another one of Those. I could see that
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80 whoa. What's the story behind this? Looks interesting! Loving how close it is to the show's style <333
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Thanks, the point of the contest that it's in is to have one of our own characters and a character from a cartoon or video game interact. So I took my character Leeara and threw her into the Samurai Jack universe.
In this storyline, Leeara is the child of Aku, and has been trained to kill the One Samurai if he was to ever pop up. Aku used his control over her to have her lay waste to rebellious cities, killing thousands, and earning her brainwashed self a name, Nightshade.
After breaking the mind control, Leeara began to rebel againgst Aku, and tried to repent for the horror she had caused. In the very first episode, when Jack is in the bar and get's into the fight, Leeara, robed, intervenes to help him. The bounty hunters recognize her and a fight insues. Because of this encounter, she accompanies Jack to help the dogs and decides to help him in his quest to go home so that her own past can be erased as well as Aku.
They quest around for some time, and Jack begins to have feelings for Leeara, but anytime he merely mentions it, she shys away and tells him to be more concerned with the task at hand. She feels the same way, but she has the idea of the greater good, and erradicating Aku's existance is more important. Also, Jack doesn't realize that by going to the past and killing Aku, he will make Leeara never exist as well.
Jumped by a group of bounty hunter in their sleep, the two are thrown at Aku's feet. Aku, since he doesn't like to pay anyone, ever, decides to kill the bounty hunters instead of paying their price. Jack uses this chance to grab his sword, and Aku laughs at him. By simply uttering Leeara's name, she is back under his control and begins to attack. Jack doesn't want to hurt her and defends the best he can. Leeara takes control of her mind for such a brief amount of time that she is able to grab Jack's sword by the hilt, and plunge it deep within her chest.
It pierces through the part of her that is Aku, which is why her blood is black, and she smiles for the end to her torment. Jack tries frantically to remove the sword, only to have her plunge it deeper. He cries and shouts, and Aku laughs menacingly in the background. Yes, he has lost a child, but he has made his greatest opponent cry! Afterwards, Aku flies away, the building crumbles, and Jack escapes with Leeara in his arms...
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Wow...Such an interesting and beautiful story...
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