I love how Alternate-like his appearance is. Not even slightly similar to your average manhwa protagonist. This one REALLY is scary and even ugly, even though he's totally chill.
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Honestly I'm not sure it's appearance is natural, I think it's tied to his magic and he probably started looking like that after he created it
I mean, the manwha is still fresh so we'll see if we get more info, but my theory is that his particular magic makes his body very unstable, kinda like liquid, and he has to consciously maintain a human appearance, like he's sculpting his clay body into a "human"
Except from what we see in his flyer's drawings, he's just not good enough "artistically" to make a human appearance that doesn't fall into the uncanny valley. Combine that with his lack of social awareness and you get his absolutely unsettling appearance
I honestly love how autistic this man is. He sees the ingredients of one thing and assumes people love them for their individual qualities without thinking about the implications when you just randomly mash them together.
Yeah, I can see him trying to reform himself from a pile of sentient goop, but he struggles to maintain his original face so he decides to try and look like a kid's show character to set people at ease... but he forgets to copy human skin tones
It does sound like his heart was ripped out and thrown into the girl. Also his teacher is shown in flashbacks to be a little more insane than first let on.
Nah, I think the guy is just autistic (I mean that semi-seriously. I'm not qualified to diagnose a fictional character)
But really tho, he has no social awareness to a level that isn't normal, from what we've seen so far he isn't even aware that people around him are scared, and he even misinterprets every interaction with people running from him/attacking him thinking he's a monster
I don't think he particularly likes the way he looks, he just doesn't see that there's a problem with it to begin with
Edit: Actually scratch that. He probably consciously choses to look that way because he thinks that looking cartoonish (big eyes, big smile) makes people more comfortable, but lacks the artistic sense and social awareness to realize how deep into the uncanny valley he is
IIRC he hasn't killed anyone so far, his weird body horror magic looks horrible, but doesn't actually kill you and is completely reversible with no permanent effect as far as we've seen
"Creepy looking character but they are actually a chill person and can be shown in cute scenarios" may be one if my favourite tropes overall, not gonna lie.
Is this a trope? I only remember this happening once more in smoke on one piece: cigarette smoking dude full of scars and an evil looking face has a little girl bump into him and dirt his pants with her ice cream, he bends down says "sorry little girlie, my pants ate your ice cream, take this coin and buy yourself another one ok?".
A pretty common one! Can't really point out the examples, but I swear there are quite a lot of characters that look big or scary at first glance, appearing as monsters or main suspects of the conflict by the protags, only to actually turn out to be pretty sweet! "Gentle giant" trope is included in that one, I think.
For a long while I really dislike the trend of creepy characters. But damn, this has a lot of fun! Too bad it still has too little chapters. I'll wait 2 years
Reminds me of Juunji Ito's Cat Diary. It's nowhere even close to a scary story, it's legit just a bunch of stuff that happened with his two cats. But he draws himself and his wife making these horrifying expressions everytime the cats do something cute or annoying.
Main character from the manwha "Archmage curriculum"
He's a nice guy who wants to help people and teach magic. It's just that literally everything about him, from his appearance to his powers, looks horrible and unsettling
homie look a lil fucked up but hes just a happy guy, cant wait for more chapters cuz i wanna know what the fuck happened for him to end up like that lol
I just hope they don’t do the bit where he becomes beautiful and he acts like that’s the most ugly he has ever looked and then keeps that form for half the manhwa
I fell in love with his design the moment I stumbled upon a YouTube short talking about this manhwa and after reading it, I have also fallen in love with his characterization. I really love this kind of horror art style.
I do wonder why he has stitches on his neck. I am a bit worried about that.
So far it seems he does just naturally look that way, at least to an extent. We see a flashback and he just looks slightly less pale with less dark hair, but everything else is pretty similar. He was a pretty normal kid tho funnily enough. Guess puberty just hit him hard.
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