#negative!balan

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okay yeah I don't think I'll draw this design again anytime soon so...

My design for Negative!Balan. Sad guy. I sometimes call him "Libra" like the zodiac, but also like "Equilibrium". He also has golden bug wings sometimes but I didn't draw that.

little bonus under the cut

the song the text is from doesn't really fit him, but this line does.

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Remember those old anime angel images? Tried making something similar to those with this one. Just for fun, really, I didn't even plan on posting this, I just ran out of better drawings.

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Wrote some lore for Libra!Balan

He was curious. That's what started it all. Curious about how humans live, he wanted to experience it first-hand. And so he did. The weight of human suffering overwhelmed him. Pain, hate, cruelty, all of it was too much. Life is torturous if you aren't born lucky, millions of people go through tons of pain just to make it to the next day. But if humans suffer so much, how do they keep living? Cheap, sweet, intoxicating Dopamine. Short flashes of pleasure, forcing you to forget about the pain. Humans have so many ways of dealing with pain. Alchohol, sex, food, drugs, social media, so many things that made him feel better. His body can handle any poison, and his magic lets him not care about money. So why wouldn't he try it all? This way of life consumed him, he was drowning in pleasure. Yet one thing bothers him. With every passing day, it's harder and harder to feel real Happiness.

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Someone in VK asked if they could draw him, which made me remember how much I actually like him. This drawing specifically is inspired by Lil Texas - Zombie Nation (link), which is a song I generally associate with him.

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