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If my Rachel picture wasn't evidence enough, I am indeed a big Advance Wars fan. And in those games there isn't a character cooler than Hawke. (Well, maybe Eagle, actually, but Hawke's SCOP made for a cooler picture.) Hawke's stern absolute no-nonsense attitude is super cool, and he manages to be a badguy who fights for power but without the insane megalomania part. So few villains realize that it's not worth taking over the world if you destroy it in the process, and he's even got the guts to kill his own commander when he starts spouting such nonsense. Very very cool. And of course, he can unleash black winds on the battlefield that mysteriously damage his enemies and heal his own units, and dark/light powers are always The Coolest.

I'm of an above average happyness level with this picture, I like the look on his generally expressionlessly grim face, and the nearly unleashed Black Storm effect came out pretty good. My only concern is his fist, with the extreme foreshortening of his arm. Advance Wars is a very animation minimal game, so there is no picture of him using Black Storm, just a standard stock picture. This meant that I had to come up with the pose myself. To stay consistent with Hawke's personality, I knew it couldn't be a particularly extreme pose, he's totally the strong but silent and reserved type who never seems to do or say any more than is required. Still, he had to do something more interesting than just stand there or I was dangerously close to re-drawing the stock picture, so I went with the fist idea. The blackness slowly accumulates behind him like a thick fog while he observes the battlefield from afar, then he reaches out an arm, clenches his fist and WHOOSH! the Black Storm overtakes the battlefield, and things get dark and crazy as whatever it does to heal/harm units happens. Did I mention I think and Advance Wars OVA would be really cool? Anyway, back on topic, it was a tougher pose to decide on than you might think, and half the time I think the fist looks cool, half the time I think it looks awkward.

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Steve-the-defender's avatar
his power bar is too long but is too worth when the time comes, "this is the end..." 
not only dammage but Economical dammage, hawke hit us hard on the wallet