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APH: Mending With The Ties That Bind Color SH 1

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My picture Healing with the Ties that bind is a historical AmeriPan fanart that is trying to represent symbolically the end/post World War 2 era. between America and Japan. The Katana represents Japan’s military and America is holding Kiku’s sword arm still.  Both are wounded and bandaged with the flag representing the damage they did to each other being healed.  The bandages are the American flag because we helped repair Japan after the war (Also it just wouldn’t work the other way around if you think about it.)  There’s also at least one other subtle reference if you catch it..  Also this pic was inspired by color page by the artist of the manga saiyuki if you would like to see the that pic too say so and I’ll post it with the finished version.  Also I took pains to leave their emotions open to interpretation/made them mixed emotions to show at least somewhat the emotional complexity of the situation at the time. 

   If any of you guys are offended then I’m sorry this is just my attempts at doing something a little deeper than my usual.  Or if it’s just because of timing, the background being too dark and work I need to do with my shading on their faces then I will be working on that too.

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