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• Texture: A piece of crumpled paper I scanned into my computer.

I know it's probably a little late, but here's my entry for the Connections challenge. The character I felt I could relate to most was Yugi from the original Yu-Gi-Oh! series. And I don't mean Yami Yugi/Atem, but the regular Yugi. In high school, I was like Yugi in a lot of ways. I was one of the nerdy kids that everyone else made fun of or picked on. Of course I was taller than Yugi and didn't have the weird hair. The other character featured in the wallpaper is Yugi's friend, Joey. And believe it or not, I actually had a friend in high school who was actually a little like Joey.

For the sake of anonymity, I'm going to call this friend of mine N. In the beginning, N and I didn't really get along all that well. But then one afternoon we bonded over Pokemon on the bus ride home, and he ended up becoming one of my best friends in high school. Another thing that N had in common with Joey was that he was somewhat of a delinquent in the past. There were some people who thought that N was going to be a bad influence on me, but I like to think that I was a good influence on him. Sadly, it's been years since I've been in touch with N. But that's unfortunately something that happens sometimes after high school. People just sort of drift apart and lose touch.

Anyway, the background for the wallpaper ended up being fairly simple to make. I used a cloud filter in Photoshop to make the flame effect. Enjoy.