Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Seventh Day... the end

The seventh day of the seven days of the wolves. Hate to spoil the song for anyone, but the band that wrote it wasn't actually talking about wolves, they were talking about death- like the seven riders of the apocalypse. So on the seventh day, there are two wolves.
First wolf is Kenshin, the title character of the series, a generally sweet-natured guy, formerly an assassin, and now trying to atone by refusing to kill anyone and helping people.

For his canine form I chose a red wolf- I'm aware that actual red wolves aren't THAT red- but again, I'm warping reality. He's
going to be really short for a wolf, and will often be mistaken for a dog- in the series, he was usually mistaken for a girl but somehow, I don't think that dogs make that mistake. Like Aoshi from the first day, he has a few scars, souvenirs of past fights.
And for the "death" wolf... which gets weirder the longer I think about it... Battousai. Also known as Kenshin. Battousai is sort of a split personality from Kenshin, and was the one that was in control during the war and was more than willing to kill those who crossed him. During the course of the show, when Kenshin gets very angry or those he cares about *coughKaorucough* are in mortal peril, the Battousai persona comes to the forefront, signaled by a switch in eye color to yellow (though in the Jineh episode we saw red) and the use of the word "I" when refering to himself. (Kenshin's other personality, nicknamed Rurouni, uses either "this one" or "sessha" which translates to "this unworthy one").
The Battousai wolf just looks cool to me- he's probably one of my favorites, and I'm sorry to say that he looks cooler than Kenshin. -_-;
As always, the drawings belong to Kay Fedewa, I just recolored them.
Well, here's the end of the the seven days, about a month later. Now what will I do with my free time?