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I've wanted to do this ever since I saw 's "Evolution of Vigil" piece [link] and got inspired.

Virtus has not been around for as long as Vigil has, but he has still had far worse fashion disasters in his past incarnations...

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From left to right:

1 - [link] Believe it or not, Virtus was once a Sonic fancharacter persona named Speedslide. And now you know where my dA username came from. The first incarnation of what would eventually become Virtus, back in 2006.

2 - [link] A bit later, I tried reinventing the character with a new name, which was "Crappy". No wait, it was "Crossover"... Which still was crappy.

3 - [link] Another reinvention, another pretty horrible new name.

4 - [link] Still with the same name, but you can probably tell that I grew to hate it pretty quickly.

5 - [link] I finally found something that sounded cool, and I guess I finally found a good letter to put on that chest. He was now renamed Virtue, which I thought was original, yet really hit the home of the character's personality. (Isn't it a bit funny that the fifth redesign was the one where the V-theme came in? Roman numerals and all that...)

6 - [link] ... Good lord, what was I thinking?

7 - [link] ... No, really, what was I thinking!?

8 - [link] It was about here that I decided to rename the character Virtus (Apparently, Marvel Comics already had a character named Virtue, and I wanted my characters to have unique or at the very least not so overused names) and you can notice that this is where I was finally on to something designwise...

9 - And finally, the Virtus we all know and love! Sure, I have tweaked the design a little, removing the hand and foot Vs since then, but overall, still the same design I've been using since 2008.

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Wouldn't it be cool if this became a DA meme? I would love to see more character evolutions like this made by others!

Description
I've wanted to do this ever since I saw 's "Evolution of Vigil" piece [link] and got inspired.

Virtus has not been around for as long as Vigil has, but he has still had far worse fashion disasters in his past incarnations...

===

From left to right:

1 - [link] Believe it or not, Virtus was once a Sonic fancharacter persona named Speedslide. And now you know where my dA username came from. The first incarnation of what would eventually become Virtus, back in 2006.

2 - [link] A bit later, I tried reinventing the character with a new name, which was "Crappy". No wait, it was "Crossover"... Which still was crappy.

3 - [link] Another reinvention, another pretty horrible new name.

4 - [link] Still with the same name, but you can probably tell that I grew to hate it pretty quickly.

5 - [link] I finally found something that sounded cool, and I guess I finally found a good letter to put on that chest. He was now renamed Virtue, which I thought was original, yet really hit the home of the character's personality. (Isn't it a bit funny that the fifth redesign was the one where the V-theme came in? Roman numerals and all that...)

6 - [link] ... Good lord, what was I thinking?

7 - [link] ... No, really, what was I thinking!?

8 - [link] It was about here that I decided to rename the character Virtus (Apparently, Marvel Comics already had a character named Virtue, and I wanted my characters to have unique or at the very least not so overused names) and you can notice that this is where I was finally on to something designwise...

9 - And finally, the Virtus we all know and love! Sure, I have tweaked the design a little, removing the hand and foot Vs since then, but overall, still the same design I've been using since 2008.

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Wouldn't it be cool if this became a DA meme? I would love to see more character evolutions like this made by others!