Meet Zane Rivers!
My Tumblr says that I'm just an artist, but I've been hesitant to post any of my actual art until now.
So I've decided to finally do it, starting with one of my first original characters, Zane Rivers.
Zane was originally made to be a Miraculous OC who I paired with Adrien. I even made a fic for him on Quotev that I haven't updated in over two years because seasons 4 and 5 kinda made me lose some motivation.
He's the son of a famous musician from America, and his family moved to Paris, where Zane meets his new friends in François Dupont, and becomes the superhero, Silver Wolf.
Zane is kind, supportive, calm, and kinda reserved, but he isn't a pushover by any means, and will call people out on their bad behaviour, which especially puts him at odds with the likes of Chloé Bourgeois, the two forming a sort of rivalry because Zane is someone who refuses to just let Chloé walk all over everyone and get away with it. This aspect of him is what allows him to be fast friends with Marinette, Alya, and Nino in particular, who know firsthand how nasty Chloe can actually be, while with Adrien, he makes it his duty to help him realise that he doesn't deserve to have to put up with toxic people in his life, whether that's Chloé or someone else close to Adrien. (ahem, Gabriel)
As Silver Wolf, he takes hero work seriously, but will allow himself time to have fun with what he does, acting as a middle man between Ladybug and Cat Noir. He has the ability to stop time for 20 seconds, which makes tasks like rescuing innocent bystanders less of a hassle.
What makes Zane truly special however is his relationship with the quantum masking aspect of the Miraculouses, which is that he can see through the magic that hides other Miraculous heroes' identities depending on how many similarities there are between their civilian and powered forms, and how much effort is put into hiding their signature features. So Silver immediately figures out Ladybug's identity upon meeting her, while it took him about a day to figure out who Cat Noir was.
Knowing who Cat Noir was is what got Zane to start admiring Adrien, since he gets to see through the mask that Adrien wears, both literally and figuratively, and he is able to love every aspect of him, from his soft kindness, to his silly fun side.
While Zane was originally a Miraculous OC, over the years, I've started seeing him as a sort of all-purpose OC, in that I have a lot of fun putting him in all sorts situations, such as scenarios where he isn't Silver Wolf, and instead wields other Miraculouses, or I put him in AUs where he has the role of Adrien and becomes the Cat Hero, which are especially fun with my friend @gsstories's characters.
And he's not limited to Miraculous. I like putting him in other fandoms such as Sonic the Hedgehog, or Friday Night Funkin', or My Hero Academia to name a few, and seeing how he would fit in.
Zane is near and dear to my heart, and I hope anyone who finds this post would like him too.
