okay!! this character took like fricken forever to come up w/! i've counted the various costumes i've made for shinda, and it's like seven or six, min. shinda started off as a grim reaper sorta thing, w/the sycth and everything. but then i looked at it and was like, hell no. just because there are waay to many stories like that. so i changed her to having a sword, but still having the cloak. and then it went from there. i had many inspirations for the costume. one was her cape, it's like cloud's from kh 1. and her hair is representing the two sides of shinda. (to explain why i keep saying shinda is, is because in my story, when u die, ur genderless, hints why shinda looks kinda girly but has no boobs) not the light and the dark as some might have concluded, but the boyish side, and the girlish side. the wrapped up thing is her sword, which can change into a flute...the sword is hiltless, which is inspired from kuro gane (that also helped me come up w/the costume, even tho the original from that one was modified completely!), (awesome samurai manga!) the red and gold colors are the color's of my dad's fav football team, FSU, so yah... the mask was completely spur of the moment! she originally had a bandanna, then an eyepatch, and then i thought since no one really did NORMAL masks (like non kistune ones) that i wanted to do one for shinda. the mask is crying blood, and it has special abilities. when shinda closes her eye, the mask's eye opens. and wat does it do...hehe u'll find out laters!!! hahaha! and that's all, u'll definitely be seeing more of shinda!! twink out! haseo time took: sketching (since it was on an airplane that i did..): 20 min inking: ten min coloring (done in cgillustator):...about an hour and a half...i'm getting better. ^^ puh leez comment and vote!!!!!!