In the time of chimpanzees...

In the past weeks I’ve drawn the characters of this one project I couldn’t stop talking about only as children or their youngest version within the story. - So it’s time to change that, since the story spans many, many years and follows those characters through different phases of their lives.

So here I drew NoName or Subject 14 and Subject 11. NoName actually got a name now, though. It’s Maruja, which means “without name/face” in her native language. (Depends on how you pronounce it. “Mar-usha” for “without face” or “Mar-udsha” for “without a name”) In her culture the name of a person is believed to have a strong link to the “inner spirit”, which in turn manifests itself within the structure, the movements and the aging of the face. (Like the face reflects our emotions, our laughter, our sorrows and therefor reflects our soul and ages and gains experience with the soul).
And Maru doesn’t really care how you pronounce it. So you could pretty much spell it backwards and she would still react to it. She’s cool like that.

She has a very strong bond to another former testsubject of the same scientific institution, Subject 11 or by her real name Lamie, and later on they even end up in a relationship with each other. I’m going to explain their quite complex and complicated relationship and how their powers affect it later on. - I just wanted to draw Maru older, about 19/20, and experiment with their different bodytypes. I imagine that Lamie is quite a bit bigger than Maruja and naturally very thin while Maru is shorter and naturally a bit more curvy. I like the dynamics of such differences <3