These are the ideas that I had for the three merged characters, in these three images there are three different characters and the order that they are in, in the images is how they will be positioned in the final pieces. As the first image shows the first merged character will consist of:
Guts (Berserk)
I am aiming this merged character art towards the more mature market, 18-30 due to the high nature of disturbing themes in these anime/manga, especially in Berserk and Tokyo Ghoul. I don't think a younger audience could comprehend the sexual abuse/violence in Berserk or the heavy violence and physical/mental torture in Tokyo Ghoul or Itachi slaying his family and clan in Naruto. I am also aiming this piece towards Horror/Gore lovers due to the heavy amounts of blood, physical violence plus the use of demons/monsters and ghouls shown through out all three anime/manga.
Guts (Berserk)
- Guts had a troubled past, being found by mercenaries on the road side being held by his dead mother, he then got trained to be a merc and told to fight and kill for money. His mentor also let him be raped for money. Later on he joined the band of the hawks and finally found peace and found a place where he belongs, but the leader of the band of hawks Griffith sold them all out when he sold his soul and got the Band of the hawk killed by demons so he could become a god, but Guts survived.
- Itachi Uchiha was a ninja of the hidden leaf village, he broke all kind of records such as youngest ninja to join the secret service ANBU, he was seen as the shining star in the village until one night he killed the whole Uchiha clan including his own parents, but left his little brother Sasuke alive, after that he joined the essentially terrorist organisation Akatsuki, who were trying to destroy the world. It was discovered after Itachi's death that he killed the Uchiha clan on the order of the hidden leaf village and even when he was banished from the village he worked as a double agent against the Akatsuki.
- Ken was a normal average teenager who was quite intelligent and went to a very prestigious school. One day he went to his favourite book shop and ran into a girl that he'd admired from a far for a very long time, they went out on a date and everything was going well until he walked her home, it turns out she was a ghoul (Ghoul's eat human's for sustenance.) but she didn't get to finish off mauling him as she got killed mid-meal. He was revived by doctors and her organs got placed inside of him to save his life, this turned him into Eye-Patch or the One Eyed Ghoul. He refuses to eat human's for sustenance and inside drinks a special form of coffee that controls the hunger. Later on he gets tortured by a Ghoul named Jason (possibly a reference to Friday the 13th as he wears a similar mask.) and this turns Kaneki's hair white and also sends him a bit psychotic, he breaks out of the torture and kills Jason and then devours him, which is a massive taboo in the Ghoul society, he becomes very powerful and gains a Kakuja (a form of power that a Ghoul can achieve through cannibalism.) and a new name The Centipede.
I am aiming this merged character art towards the more mature market, 18-30 due to the high nature of disturbing themes in these anime/manga, especially in Berserk and Tokyo Ghoul. I don't think a younger audience could comprehend the sexual abuse/violence in Berserk or the heavy violence and physical/mental torture in Tokyo Ghoul or Itachi slaying his family and clan in Naruto. I am also aiming this piece towards Horror/Gore lovers due to the heavy amounts of blood, physical violence plus the use of demons/monsters and ghouls shown through out all three anime/manga.