Happy Birthday Aster!

D.(Kyle Jables), Sartorius Kumar, Aster Phoenix & Serena Kumar from Yugioh GX.
… or if you prefer - D.D., Takuma Saiou, Edo Phoenix, Mizuchi Saiou.

Justa quick little thing I was working on last month around my birthday. Iusually try to draw myself a little something, a birthday present tomyself, each year… and usually it’s a yaoi/hentai pic. #^^# ApparentlyI was feeling a bit different this year.
Yeah… so bring on the cutesy then. O_o*
Iturned 28 this year, and I had to deal with a whole bunch of “I’mlosing my youth” feelings and renewals and updates like my driver’slicense, credit cards, etc. Doesn’t really make you look forward to“that special day”. It made me remember back to being a kid when you’dget so excited about your birthday coming up - party, presents,friends, fun, getting bigger. Man how things change… I was just longingfor that kind of excitement you feel when you turn 8 instead of 28, andsince I live vicariously through characters *every day of my life! 66;*, here came “Happy 8th Birthday Aster!” Yay.
Not really drawn in GX style and all wearing regular clothes. Plus everyone is at an age you don’t see on the show. Aster 8,Sartorius 16, Serena 14, D. 36... All ages approximate of course sincethey don’t give you much to go on. (I’ve heard a couple of times thatwhen Edo is 15 Saiou is supposed to be 17?! What the crap? Even withaging from the alien entity, that is just ridiculous. Doesn’t take anexpert to see there’s been a huge age difference between them since thebeginning. 9_9* ) Obviously this is set before D passed “The Light” onto Sartorius.
I figured these characters could use a littlenormalcy. They’re an odd and unfortunate collection of strays… thepsychic siblings who grew up on the streets abandoned and abused, usedto only having each other to rely on; the boy who had this lovingfather, his only family and the person he cared about more than any other ripped away from him; and the man , forever tormented for that moment of selfish weakness, trying to atone for his sins by caring for the boy he orphaned…
Yeah, they have a very odd dynamic, but I think they make a nice little family unit.
This picture makes me want to draw more of these characters from this missing time in between when Edo and Saiou met and the beginning of Season 2. Scenes to fill in the gaps a bit, along with little everyday life type pics.

Characters © Kazuki Takahashi, NAS, TV TOKYO