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Published: 2009-12-31 18:46:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1127; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 36
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Description For my longtime watchers and fans....Remember her?

Okay...ladies and gents, snails and grasshoppers, sloths and otters....this here is my very last drawing of 2009!!! It's been such a great journey over this past year...I feel that I have grown so much in the course of one year, especially considering that I wasn't even adding shading to my drawings earlier this year!

I knew I was coming down to the wire, and I had hit somewhat of a slump in the last few days as of what I wanted to be my last drawing. I though about Sapphira, but she's had enough fun as is this year. I wanted to do one of Nikki, but I attempted two pics and neither were coming out right. Then, for some reason, Simone had crossed my mind.....YEAH!!!!!! I've only drawn Simone like 3 times this year, and all three of those were earlier this year! I've been thinking about the original version which I like very much....I've been wanting to do an updated version of it now that my skills have improved. So that's what I did!!!

For those of you that aren't familiar...the woman in the picture is none other than Simone Rattica aka Project: Genesis. [link] She is a cyborg warrior that is the property of B.E.C.A. (Bionically Enhanced Cyborg Agents). Her mission is to see to the complete annihilation of Cybercom...which she was once a former soldier under their evil programming. Very little is known about Simone, as she doesn't remember much of her life before her cybernetic transformation...in addition to seeing to the destruction of Cybercom, she fights an internal battle of struggling to reconnecting with her humanity and emotions verses her logical programming.

Unfortunately, I fell short on time and I didn't get to color this before the ball drops at midnight (I have to work tonight! ) so all I have is the computer enhanced lines for you! But already, this is 200 times better than the original! While shading, I remember that I posted this unfinished pic of Simone earlier this year and many people said that they liked her in all white. Thinking about the fact that too many of my characters wear predominently black, I decided to try out the lighter look of her body/armor with black trim. Daddy likes!!! I can't wait to throw some color on this one to see it really pop!!!

Hmm....that's a city skyline in the background.....could that be Angel Falls? Sources say.....YES!!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYBODY!!!!!

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Comments: 18

Levia-the-Dragon [2010-01-15 00:35:39 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm, interesting character and connections...

I'm afraid I found the other stories you've posted at this time rather long, mostly because I have to leave for an appointment soon, but also because you tend to group your text together tightly and have a lot of it in the one submission, you might want to consider spreadfing it out...

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Mr-Marcus-81 In reply to Levia-the-Dragon [2010-01-15 05:11:48 +0000 UTC]

Cool...I'll keep that in mind with the spreading out of text.

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Levia-the-Dragon In reply to Mr-Marcus-81 [2010-01-15 07:41:32 +0000 UTC]

Glad I could offer some hopefully usefull commentary.

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Lurker-Below [2010-01-14 16:05:45 +0000 UTC]

Excellent! More heroes!

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Mr-Marcus-81 In reply to Lurker-Below [2010-01-14 19:47:52 +0000 UTC]

Yep! Thanks for more faves!

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whiteknight222 [2010-01-03 17:07:32 +0000 UTC]

Awesome look at that action!

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Mr-Marcus-81 In reply to whiteknight222 [2010-01-03 22:28:26 +0000 UTC]

Thanks man! Simone is definitely action-packed!

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whiteknight222 In reply to Mr-Marcus-81 [2010-01-04 08:10:20 +0000 UTC]

For sure.

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hotrod5 [2010-01-01 03:24:48 +0000 UTC]

Nice redo of Simone, haven't seen her in a while. Big plus on Simone's haircuit, love the short hairstyle. Nice way to end 2009.

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Mr-Marcus-81 In reply to hotrod5 [2010-01-01 19:56:44 +0000 UTC]

Yeah...I feel bad for neglecting her for most of 2009! That's alright though...I hope to work her back into the regular swing of things, plus I plan on using her in Angel Falls and such. And yeah...I just had to go back to her short haircut! Thanks Dwight!

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cmryan58 [2009-12-31 21:12:52 +0000 UTC]

I like the lighter color armor as a change. But what I really find interesting is that, in your comments, you referred to Simone as the property of B.E.C.A. Does B.E.C.A really think of cyborg warriors as property? Of course cyborg warriors would be expensive to operate and maintain. And the Cyborgs don't appear to have to many other employment options. Can't see to many PPO's or HMOs offering support for cyborgs.

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Mr-Marcus-81 In reply to cmryan58 [2010-01-01 22:24:42 +0000 UTC]

Thanks with the lighter color armor...I do have a tendency to color all of my characters in either black or silver.

As for Simone being the property of B.E.C.A. and B.E.C.A. thinking of their cyborg warriors as property, it varies. For Simone's case, over 90% of her body is mechanical...it would be very hard for her to life a "normal" life. When she was first saved by B.E.C.A. years ago from Cybercom, she was a cyborg yet still retained more of her original organic parts. Over the years of combat and battle has led to those organic parts being either destroyed in battle or replaced with more efficient cybernetic parts. Then it was decided that they would make her "Project: Genesis", which entailed giving her a high tech prototypical cyborg body at attempts in creating the perfect soldier. Her "Genesis" body is indeed too expensive to let her have free reign over.

And you're right...being that she's been built for combat, there's not really much else for her to do, as most things that normal humans do are irrelevant and illogical to her. She's pretty much a living weapon at this point...if you remember the old Robocop movies, think of how OCP used to treat him. Simone's struggle is very similar to Robocop's; she's made to be this perfect machine of war, yet there's still a human being underneath all of the metal, circuitry, wires, and such.

As for the other B.E.C.A. agents...it all depends on how extensive their cybernetics are. There are plenty of agents that lead near normal lives...generally those agents have less cybernetic parts or at least they aren't controlled by strict programming. In Simone's case, her programming is rather strict and her actions are more machine-like than human.

Sorry for the long write up, but if you want to know more about Simone's struggle between being a human soul trapped in the body of a machine then check this out [link]

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JonKin [2009-12-31 19:00:26 +0000 UTC]

Ah, she's back..

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Mr-Marcus-81 In reply to JonKin [2010-01-01 19:57:16 +0000 UTC]

Yep yep!!! I feel bad for neglecting her for most of 2009!

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vince3 [2009-12-31 18:54:09 +0000 UTC]

Good, I think your other girls might need help and/or companionship soon........

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Mr-Marcus-81 In reply to vince3 [2010-01-01 22:25:52 +0000 UTC]

Yep...there are so many bad ass Supervillainess troubling Angel Falls that we need all of the help that we can get!

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vince3 In reply to Mr-Marcus-81 [2010-01-01 22:30:19 +0000 UTC]

And it wouldn't hurt if they have a certain Asian Amazon Superheroine to call if they need a really heavy hitter......

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Mr-Marcus-81 In reply to vince3 [2010-01-02 08:18:09 +0000 UTC]

That's always a good backup plan to have if all else fails!

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