This is an illustration of an original character of mine, whom I created in high school for a story I was writing at the time.

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... Stuff about the character (in case anyone cares) -

In the story, which starts out in the early 1930s, the girl pictured here, Kirsten, is a half-Japanese, half-American girl from a thoroughly dysfunctional family.

Her family is made up of her American mother, Susan, and her Japanese father, Isamu. Kirsten, who is named after her maternal grandmother, is the middle child in the family and the only girl. She has an older brother named Hiroyoshi and a younger brother named Tomio.

Early on in the story, the family is living in early 1930's Germany where her father works as a naval attache at the Japanese embassy. Their father wants the two boys to become pilots in the Japanese Navy, so they take up flight training (or pre-training, I guess).

Kirsten being a girl, she gets completely left out of anything like that, but is really fascinated by planes and flying and ends up sneaking down to the air field where her brothers train every afternoon after school, and eventually they get her involved in flying (behind their father's back, of course).


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This picture is *supposed* to show her character in the mid-1930s, around 1936, and at about age 16/17. The dark skin is a tan, by the way.

If anyone feels the need to nitpick, the plane behind her is a Focke-Wulf FW-190D and yes, I'm aware this model wasn't introduced until 1943. But I chose to use it because the reference picture the background was done from was at an angle that worked well for this image.