char sheet - Silence

Got a request for this... so, here you go. Most people probably know this guy's bio already, but for the sake of consistency..

Height: 3'7"
Weight: 110 lbs. (plus the barbed wire)
Background info:
Twin brother to Vampiress. He was born blind. Silence and Vampiress' mother did not have the life in her to give her children names before she died. The two are born and grow up in a cage. Vampiress is always fiercely protective of her younger brother (Silence is younger by a few minutes), and refers to him as Little Brother, while Silence knows Vampiress as Sister or "Sissy".
The two are together throughout infancy. When they reach kittenhood, Vampiress is taken away for pit 'conditioning', while Silence is left behind due to his blindness. Vampiress is tortured and trained, then returned to their cage. Confused and traumatized, Vampiress re-enacts what happened to her on Silence. He experiences a confusion of emotions at being physically and sexually abused by his sister, who he has always relied on. Still, unwilling to be separated from his sister, he is forced to keep silent about the abuse.
When Silence is a little older he is wrapped in barbed wire as a cruel joke, then used as target practice for younger furrecats training for the pits. For the most part, his mental development pretty much stops so that he has the intellect roughly of a very young child. When the abuse begins he seems to lose the ability to speak. He only makes noises, like whimpers. He is kept paralyzed in confusion by Vampiress, who hurts and comforts him at the same time. As the only love he has ever known, he never makes an attempt to fight back. Still, he fears and is anguished by Vampiress' sexual abuse.

yup, that's about it. Silence, like Vampiress, is a very symbolic character. The white fur represents innocence, while the barbed wire is the secrets and limitations of living caught in an abusive relationship. Eyes are supposedly the windows to the soul; Silence is drawn without them to show how his soul has been destroyed.

sometimes I wish people would take how they treat other people a little more seriously.....


mechanical pencil + Photoshop 6
character copyrighted to myself.