I hope you all seriously appreciate the PAIN I put myself through for you people sometimes.
You all remember two years ago, when I did that timeline piece for Nala Navilos? WELL. As I moved into my new apartment last year, I miraculously found the comic where I spawned what would eventually become Destiny Rule. In true-to-form fashion, I wouldn't find the chance to do anything with it until now.
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Dear. LORD. I almost couldn't bring myself to scan in the early Des panels, but yanno, they WERE the reason I did this.
Funny fact now that I think back on it, but much like Nala, Destiny, too, came from a wrestling game! Only in her case, it was with WWF War Zone. See, back then, in CAWs, they listed faces as "Fan Favorites" and heels as "Rule Breakers". Now, I saw the latter term and thought to myself..."SELF!" I said. "That would make a pretty cool finisher name. But I need someone with the last name of Rule to do so." So I made a CAW and named her "Destiny Rule". Dunno why I thought of her first name as such other than that fact that it sounded cool.
As I started making comics, with a particular storyline, I thought of bringing that CAW into it as a one shot character. Continuing into the pre-TRG comic series, I wanted to bring Destiny back, but didn't know how to do so. It was about that time I was introduced to Ryoko, with all her attitude, appeal, and more importantly, powers, and thus reinvented Destiny, who had spent much of the series picking on Nala and pushing her to further her relation with Big Nasty, sometimes joking around with taking him herself since they go back (kinda).
Much like Nala's change in attitude when Kitty was created, I made Destiny a little more of a cooler head (not TOO much, though) when I created Fayte in the Graphic Novel. And after that, I brought her and the rest of the Rogues to you.
Thinking to this, I might actually do similar pieces for Big Nasty and Jorge. Fayte, while she has had many changes in design in her time, doesn't go back as far as the guys, Nala, and Des do, Sapphire is in a similar boat, just with less designs, and Kitty was created visually WITH the online version of TRG. I still have old sketches of her that I made when I was trying to finalize her design, though. More on that later.
Speaking of Fayte, here you can see her latest design I dolled her up with for the new canon. ENJOY
Destiny & Fayte Rule (c) Alan Solivan
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