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„Give the man some space, Tani! Don’t you see he’s still in shock?”

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Another practice sketch. -__- Been hunting down mistakes forever, didn't make a difference.

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With the second wave of reinforcements, a change becomes visible in the Noian army. Suddenly, there’s an influx of glory seekers, who are mostly in it to kill some monsters, loot and earn some quick money and rank. Not their fault, that’s the new strategy to get fresh people. There’s however one especially ruthless group led by a veteran officer named Castor, who rise quickly to infamy, and a lot of younger soldiers looking up to them try to emulate them.

Ates (pronounced: AH-tess) was one of these would-bes. As pretty much a direct result, he had to witness his patrol getting torn apart by a furred nightmare who would later call herself Varash. Otherwise a pretty chill and friendly guy, his psychic condition takes a nosedive after that, and he and the ‘hero’ group become bitter enemies.

His superior (on the right) isn’t very developed yet as a character. Likeable personality and takes interest in the people who make up his troops.

Tani only features briefly in that story arc. In the picture, Ates gives his first report of the incident, and Tani, who was outside waiting to make a complaint about Castor’s group, barges in to add his opinion. Back when he was tasked with leading the operations in Europe, he painstakingly researched the continent and its inhabitants to lessen the N.C.’s home field advantage. He also brought lots of material with him so that the officers could do the same. Ates’ patrol getting decimated by a freaking cat was entirely preventable, because it’s basic knowledge that Lagupards are dangerous. But that’s what you get if you treat a war like a big safari!
Ates is, of course, crushed, but he learns from his mistake and begins to read. He becomes knowledgeable… then fixated, then obsessed with what happened to him.
As the story progresses, he decides that what he needs is a Seer to end the threat. And Castor’s group offers theirs (a lady who's both deadly and pretty deranged). That’s the second time where Tani features, warning him off in a not-so-friendly way, but quickly dismissing him as hopeless when Ates decides to go through with the plan.
But is there really a choice whom to throw your lot in with – the angry, scary, jealous jerk who calls you stupid to your face and who’s so quick to criticize everyone despite his own failings, even if he might have a point that you need to fix yourself up? Or the successful, supportive, popular people that you idolize, that the current commanders agree with, who tell you that it’s not your fault and who are willing to provide you with all the firepower you need?
If you think that a bad ending is pre-programmed, yup. After all, violence and war are not games, and good and evil often depend purely on the standpoint.

Description
„Give the man some space, Tani! Don’t you see he’s still in shock?”

- - -
Another practice sketch. -__- Been hunting down mistakes forever, didn't make a difference.

- - -
With the second wave of reinforcements, a change becomes visible in the Noian army. Suddenly, there’s an influx of glory seekers, who are mostly in it to kill some monsters, loot and earn some quick money and rank. Not their fault, that’s the new strategy to get fresh people. There’s however one especially ruthless group led by a veteran officer named Castor, who rise quickly to infamy, and a lot of younger soldiers looking up to them try to emulate them.

Ates (pronounced: AH-tess) was one of these would-bes. As pretty much a direct result, he had to witness his patrol getting torn apart by a furred nightmare who would later call herself Varash. Otherwise a pretty chill and friendly guy, his psychic condition takes a nosedive after that, and he and the ‘hero’ group become bitter enemies.

His superior (on the right) isn’t very developed yet as a character. Likeable personality and takes interest in the people who make up his troops.

Tani only features briefly in that story arc. In the picture, Ates gives his first report of the incident, and Tani, who was outside waiting to make a complaint about Castor’s group, barges in to add his opinion. Back when he was tasked with leading the operations in Europe, he painstakingly researched the continent and its inhabitants to lessen the N.C.’s home field advantage. He also brought lots of material with him so that the officers could do the same. Ates’ patrol getting decimated by a freaking cat was entirely preventable, because it’s basic knowledge that Lagupards are dangerous. But that’s what you get if you treat a war like a big safari!
Ates is, of course, crushed, but he learns from his mistake and begins to read. He becomes knowledgeable… then fixated, then obsessed with what happened to him.
As the story progresses, he decides that what he needs is a Seer to end the threat. And Castor’s group offers theirs (a lady who's both deadly and pretty deranged). That’s the second time where Tani features, warning him off in a not-so-friendly way, but quickly dismissing him as hopeless when Ates decides to go through with the plan.
But is there really a choice whom to throw your lot in with – the angry, scary, jealous jerk who calls you stupid to your face and who’s so quick to criticize everyone despite his own failings, even if he might have a point that you need to fix yourself up? Or the successful, supportive, popular people that you idolize, that the current commanders agree with, who tell you that it’s not your fault and who are willing to provide you with all the firepower you need?
If you think that a bad ending is pre-programmed, yup. After all, violence and war are not games, and good and evil often depend purely on the standpoint.