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I'm doing a series of Chibi commissions and this is the first installment. Stryx is the youngest member of the Archer family and the successor of John Law. He has traveled to other worlds and trained at least some of the next generation of heroes. Angela Snow, AKA Valkyrie, was engineered as the final Nazi supersoldier, a couple generations after their time had passed. Done in colored pencil.

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Angela Snow strummed absent-mindedly at the strings of blonde six-stringed guitar. She had been able to justify the instrument to her tutors and guardians with three years of Classical Guitar lessons, but when she was alone her tastes ran into a narrow and relatively eclectic repertoire of 50's and 60's folk rock. It had been a heavy day, full of meetings with the Director and Fenris' self-important board, and Angela had been working late the night before. The guitar had become a way for her to clear her head after the increasingly difficult balancing act her life had become. Because the truth of it--and Angela realized now that this was always the case, even before the Director returned--was that nobody really cared about Angela Snow. It was Valkyrie they wanted. Valkyrie, the picture-perfect proof case of everything that Fenris had stood for. Valkyrie, who believed so absolutely in the cause that she would kill for it without remorse. And it was Valkyrie they would get.

Angela Snow, on the other hand, was having her doubts.

Angela stiffened and let the guitar fall onto her bed as she jumped to her feet and reached for Gram, drawing it and spinning in one fluid motion. She had not detected the slight rattle of the window frames as they had been pushed open, but the gentle breeze rustling her long golden hair was definitely out of place.

"Heard you were looking for me."

Leveling the sword toward the dark figure, Angela took a step forward. "I don't need to call for help, you know. I could kill you myself."

"Maybe. But you won't."

"Why the !@#$ not?"

Description
I'm doing a series of Chibi commissions and this is the first installment. Stryx is the youngest member of the Archer family and the successor of John Law. He has traveled to other worlds and trained at least some of the next generation of heroes. Angela Snow, AKA Valkyrie, was engineered as the final Nazi supersoldier, a couple generations after their time had passed. Done in colored pencil.

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Angela Snow strummed absent-mindedly at the strings of blonde six-stringed guitar. She had been able to justify the instrument to her tutors and guardians with three years of Classical Guitar lessons, but when she was alone her tastes ran into a narrow and relatively eclectic repertoire of 50's and 60's folk rock. It had been a heavy day, full of meetings with the Director and Fenris' self-important board, and Angela had been working late the night before. The guitar had become a way for her to clear her head after the increasingly difficult balancing act her life had become. Because the truth of it--and Angela realized now that this was always the case, even before the Director returned--was that nobody really cared about Angela Snow. It was Valkyrie they wanted. Valkyrie, the picture-perfect proof case of everything that Fenris had stood for. Valkyrie, who believed so absolutely in the cause that she would kill for it without remorse. And it was Valkyrie they would get.

Angela Snow, on the other hand, was having her doubts.

Angela stiffened and let the guitar fall onto her bed as she jumped to her feet and reached for Gram, drawing it and spinning in one fluid motion. She had not detected the slight rattle of the window frames as they had been pushed open, but the gentle breeze rustling her long golden hair was definitely out of place.

"Heard you were looking for me."

Leveling the sword toward the dark figure, Angela took a step forward. "I don't need to call for help, you know. I could kill you myself."

"Maybe. But you won't."

"Why the !@#$ not?"